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Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy Leonard J.Hausman said he is extremely optimistic becausethe economic assistance is beginning--in the formof joint business ventures between Arab andIsraeli businesses for the benefit of the WestBank and the Gaza strip...
...Palestinians, many of whom are sophisticated and well educated, have dragged out a painful existence in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with many once prosperous families reduced to poverty; the two areas have a population about a third of Israel's, but their gross domestic product is only 5% as high. More humiliating still, Palestinians have been heavily dependent for such jobs and incomes as they have had on the very Israeli occupiers they have incessantly fought with stones, bricks, bombs and gunfire. Their reverence for education has been wasted in a place that offered them...
...strive to live in peaceful coexistence and mutual dignity and security and achieve a just, lasting and comprehensive peace settlement and historic reconciliation." But they quickly got down to a fairly nitty- gritty discussion of procedures and timetables for Israeli military redeployment and Palestinian self-government, first in the Gaza Strip and the town of Jericho, then in the rest of the West Bank. The outcome of that test run is yet to be decided even in principle. Though both sides foresee an eventual Palestinian state in confederation with Jordan, the P.L.O. wants confederation to be freely chosen...
...instead of playing the lead Arab role he prefers. He might also fear that the Israeli-P.L.O. agreement sets an uncomfortable precedent for his own negotiations to get the Golan Heights back from Israel. The Declaration of Principles foresees a gradual, step-by-step Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and West Bank. Assad seeks a total Israeli pullout from the Golan in return for something he calls "full peace" but has never spelled out. Getting Assad's agreement to a peace treaty will doubtless take arduous negotiations and a much more active U.S. mediating role, but few diplomats...
...Europe and Japan have many other commitments and severe economic troubles of their own. But of all areas of the world, the Middle East is the one where aid could make the biggest difference. Populations are small: 5 million Israelis; 1.8 million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Economies are on a similarly modest scale. Sums that would vanish without effect in Russia could make an enormous difference here. What matters most is not whether foreign economic aid to the Middle East produces the biggest bang for the buck, but whether it brings the most peace...