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Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/20/wpal120.xml
Tony Blair's Plan for Palestinian Jobs
[Telegraph-UK] Tim Butcher - Tony Blair has given the "green light" to initiatives designed to create thousands of jobs for Palestinians in his first major policy announcement as special envoy to the Middle East. In reality, the creation of two industrial zones in the West Bank, one at Jericho and the other near Hebron, were going ahead without the involvement of Blair's new committee, fully funded by Japan and Turkey. Industrial zones have been tried before several times. Millions of dollars in private investment were attracted to two zones in Gaza, but today the one at Erez lies in ruins and the other at Karni has been mothballed after local investors made huge losses.