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Palestinians Finally Realizing Terrorism Backfires
(Chicago Sun-Times) Daniel Pipes - Growing numbers of Palestinians are wising up to the bitter realities of losing a war. Protracted isolation has led to steep economic decline. Recent PA figures show that 84% of the Palestinian population lives in poverty, as defined by the World Bank - four times the number that did so before the Palestinians stepped up the violence in late 2000.