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February 27, 2004       Share:    

Source: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuestColumns/May20040219.shtml

Mending Fences

(Townhall.com) Clifford D. May - Currently, life on the West Bank is dreadful - poverty is rampant, unemployment is epidemic. It wasn't always that way. Under Israeli rule from 1967 to 1993, the West Bank's economy was among the fastest growing in the world thanks to burgeoning commerce between Israelis and Palestinians. Where there had been not a single institution of higher learning, by the early 1990s there were seven universities in the West Bank. While billions of dollars in foreign aid have poured into PA coffers, employment and income have fallen.

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