Middle East, The | Economic Development Can Facilitate Peace Between Israelis and Palestinians

The latest mission impossible embraced by those who would resolve the Middle East conflict is the effort to “democratize” the Palestinian Authority, an organization that has thrived on repression, violence, and aggressive irredentism.

Meanwhile, a far more promising route to peace—the path of economic cooperation and development—is being neglected or given mere lip service. It’s as if the only form of economic life possible for Palestinians, [is] the one that has prevailed in the last ten years—the provision of foreign billions to huge bureaucracies that...

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