PARIS, June 13 -- Canada will send another 100 million dollars to Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, money for food, medicine and shelter in two territories where, by the United Nations' own measure, people are starving under bombardment and being pushed off their land at gunpoint. It is a humane gesture. It is also a measure of how far the West will go to ease Palestinian suffering, and how carefully it stops short of confronting the government causing it.

Foreign Minister Anita Anand announced the funding on Friday in Paris, where Western governments had gathered once more to discuss a two-state solution that drifts further out of reach with every settlement Israel builds. The money will flow through United Nations agenci...