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Source: http://www.timesofisrael.com/memo-to-kerry-its-not-the-economy-stupid/
It's Not the Economy, Stupid
(Times of Israel) David Horovitz - Private investment can certainly flow into the Palestinian territories, but it will only flow after the conditions are created for long-term stability, not as the means to create those conditions. Investment in the West Bank today is necessarily cautious and prudent - as befits the radical instability of the wider region, the potential for chaos extending to the West Bank, and ongoing local crises such as the recent ousting by Abbas of the single most credible figure for would-be West Bank investors, Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. The path to an accord requires compromise and pragmatism. It requires a Palestinian leader like the English-speaking Abbas, who said last year that there would be no third intifada under his leadership and that he had no demands on pre-1967 Israel. It does not require a Palestinian leader like the Arabic-speaking Abbas, who went to the UN last November seeking statehood without the inconvenience of negotiating modalities with Israel, and who told the world that Israel was born in fundamental sin through ethnic cleansing.