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The West Bank Rises
[Jerusalem Post] Ephraim Sneh - I attended the Palestinian Investors Convention with over 1,200 business people from the West Bank, Gaza and the Gulf states. On Thursday, the foreign investment deals that were signed passed the $1 billion mark. PA Prime Minister Salaam Fayad initiated the successful convention, which served as a non-violent show of force against Hamas. The West Bank is becoming a place in which investors are prepared to conduct business. Security forces that were deployed in Jenin and Nablus reached Bethlehem to secure the convention. The writer is a former deputy defense minister.