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Will handouts placate people of Middle East?

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By Aaron Rhodes and Jacob Mchangama

The realization that, just as Libya was being suspended from the United Nations Human Rights Council for its humanitarian atrocities, the same body was about to release a report giving the country favorable marks, has led to a hasty retraction.

But in fact, numerous other authoritarian Middle Eastern states have received likewise favorable reports on how they