In the world of Palestinian politics, the recent weeks have been a study in contrasts. The international media has trained its focus off the shores of Gaza, where the flotilla fiasco has generated dramatic images of dead civilians and battered Israeli soldiers. The politics of this incident reflect the traditional sturm und drang of the Palestinian national movement: full of grand gestures and transformative ambitions that might result in bloodshed and embarrassment for Israel, but make no substantive contribution to Palestinian liberation. But in Bethlehem, far away from the television cameras and breathless news reports, 2,000 Palestinian financiers also gathered recently at the second Palestine Investment Conference to quietly go about the business of building the economy of a viable Palestinian state. They discussed almost $1 billion in new projects targeting high-growth sectors, including information and communications technology, housing, and tourism. The politics of the conference represent a paradigm shift quietly taking place in the West Bank under the leadership of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, in which Palestinians are increasingly turning to the mundane, workaday tools of governance and development as their principal strategy for ending the occupation. This strategic transformation is the result of a conundrum facing the Palestinian leadership, which has g... >>>
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Darveesh, a/k/a Captain Ayhab
by Darveesh on Thu Jun 17, 2010 03:28 PM PDThow is that paranoia and delusion working for you guys?
Darveesh, a/k/a Captain Ayhab
by Onlyiran on Thu Jun 17, 2010 03:18 PM PDTThat too...When it comes to has f***ed the Palestinians, every thug, murderer, bully and ass**le in the Middle East should take a number. What about the Jordanians, who occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem for twenty years before Israel took it away from them in the 1967 war. Why didn't they allow the establishment of a Palestinian state?
and if I may add- in your face IsRael I
by Darveesh on Thu Jun 17, 2010 03:14 PM PDT"someday Palestinians will have their own
viable state and you dirt bags (IRI) will not be able to use them for
your propaganda. "
re phrase:
someday Palestinians will have their own
viable state and you dirt bags (israel) will not be able to use them for
your target practice.
and if I may add- in your face IRI
by Onlyiran on Thu Jun 17, 2010 02:56 PM PDTsomeday Palestinians will have their own viable state and you dirt bags (IRI) will not be able to use them for your propaganda.