"The current wave of US party programs in the Middle East, however, largely follows a multiparty method in which all legally registered parties in a country are invited to participate. Two exceptions are in Lebanon and Palestine where due to US legal restrictions, US party programs do not include Hizbullah and Hamas. Where assistance is offered to an opposition coalition in the region, as with the NDI's work in Yemen, assistance is also offered to the ruling party." What is this article and what does the Carnegie dude want to say? And does the US also offers aid to, say, leftist organizations that are opposed to US political and economic interests? This article contains so many errors, but it does not surprise me that it found a space in the Daily Star.