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Norway: World Will Not Bankroll Palestinian State-Building Forever
(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - "Donors will not be ready to keep funding Palestinian state-building much longer if we are not seeing a political horizon," Norway's Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide told the Jerusalem Post Tuesday. Norway heads the Ad Hoc Liaison Committee, the international donors group. "I think this is important for the Palestinians to know, because if anyone there thought they could sort of just fall back to the comfort of an internationally subsidized state-building endeavor, that may be wrong," he said. "And I think that it is important for some people on the Israeli side...to know that this cannot continue forever." The Norwegian foreign minister stressed that the release of 26 Palestinian terrorists was a "very important and very difficult concession which I know was hard to make." He added: "I also think that the Palestinians must now be ready to make some concessions, first and foremost on contributing a sense of security for the people of Israel."