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Funding Palestinian Terrorism (2007-01-08) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld terrorfinance.org http://www.terrorfinance.org/the_terror_finance_blog/2007/01/funding_palesti.html A new study documents how the billions of dollars contributed to the Palestinian Authority since the Oslo Accords in September 1993, were used by successive Palestinian regimes to fund a terrorist entity in the Middle East, which threatens the region and destabilizes the world. Ben-Dror Yemini's reports: "The More >> |
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A 'political party' unveiled (2006-08-11) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld Washington Times http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20060810-084245-5230r.htm "Remember, Hezbollah is a political party within Lebanon... The problem is... that they're a political party with a militia that is armed by foreign nations," said President Bush earlier this week. "Political Party"? "Armed Militia"? Hezbollah, which was established in 1982 as a terrorist organization, was finally designated in More >> |
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Hizballah in South America (2006-08-06) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld foxnews.com http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/080606.php |
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Islamist terror twins (2006-07-31) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld Washington Times http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20060730-093556-5289r.htm It took the United States four years after September 11 to develop a useful working definition of the gravest danger to world peace. Last October President Bush finally identified our enemies: "Islamic Radicals... empowered by helpers and enablers... strengthened by front operations who aggressively fund the[m]." Making no More >> |
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Different Shades of the Same Enemy (2006-07-27) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=23535 The U.S. ability to withstand growing international demands to pressure Israel to stop fighting radical Muslims determined to eliminate the Jewish state will effect its own fate. Last October President George W. Bush finally identified our enemies: “Islamic Radicals …empowered by helpers and enablers… strengthened More >> |
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The Mullah-Hamas Axis (2006-03-14) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen FrontPageMagazine.com http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21617 “We are continuing in Khomeini’s path,” HAMAS leader Khaled Mashaal declared on March 1, 2006, while in Iran for another of his many recent visits. Mashaal emphasized that HAMAS is the spiritual offspring of the Ayatollah Khomeini—a surprising reaffirmation that the Muslim Brotherhood's influence extends to More >> |
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The Hamas-Russia Connection (2006-03-10) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21560 Russia’s determination to undermine the U.S. policy in the Middle East may well weaken U.S. power. But opposing punitive sanctions for Iran at the U.N. and endorsing HAMAS is likely to cost Russia dearly. On March 8, 2006, after discussing the Iran crisis with U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Russian Foreign Minister More >> |
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Terror's Missing Link (2006-02-13) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21263 President George W. Bush’s most recent reminder that the U.S. needs to fight the worldwide terrorism of the Islamists, ignored a major target and victim of this terrorism – Israel. In a February 9 speech at the National Guard Memorial Building, in Washington DC, the President noted many of the countries that have been More >> |
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Hamas Will Not Change (2006-02-08) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21175 The way the U.S. is promoting Democracy in the Middle East, it is likely to backfire on the West. President George W. Bush in his State of the Union Address stated: ” Elections are vital, but they are only the beginning. Raising up a democracy requires the rule of law, and protection of minorities, and strong, accountable More >> |
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The UN Gives Hamas a Raise (2006-01-06) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20788 The decision taken at the end of December 2005, by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) to provide a large increase in salaries for its thousands of workers, contributes directly to HAMAS’ coffers. The significant raise takes effect this month. The 7.5 – 21% More >> |
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HAMAS Targets Spain (2006-01-02) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20726 Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos’ efforts earlier this year to remove HAMAS from the European Union’s terrorist list, have done little to change HAMAS’ agenda. It is not only Palestine that children in the West Bank and Gaza are asked to liberate; now they are asked to liberate Seville. The HAMAS More >> |
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Iranian Intentions (2005-12-09) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Paul E. Vallely Washington Times http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20051208-092511-8567r.htm One wonders what will it take for the international community to understand that Iran seriously intends to use its nuclear power to attack the "infidels." Iran's latest move to ban international inspectors is just one more step that the new Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmedinijad, has taken to herald the return of the 12th Imam More >> |
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The PA's New Terror Law (2005-12-06) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20445 The very same day that an Islamic Jihad suicide bomber killed at least five Israelis and wounded more than 40 innocent people in a Netanya shopping mall, the Palestinian daily, al Hayat al Jadida (page 3), reported that Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas, signed a new law to support the families of suicide bombers. A More >> |
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Suing the PA (2005-11-29) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld jpost.com http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?apage=1&cid=1129540651441&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Victims of Palestinian terrorism should take note of Palestinian Authority finance minister Salam Fayad's recent resignation. Fayad is said to be particularly upset because PA Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei arranged that the $350 million being donated to the PA in 2005 is paying to employ 60,000 More >> |
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Another Free Pass to The Palestinians (2005-11-23) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen FrontPageMagazine.com http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20268 The Palestinian Authority has yet to comply with even one agreement they have signed since the Oslo Accord. They have violated the Oslo agreement, Oslo II, and the Road Map. Each agreement required the PA to disarm its terrorists and to empower its “security forces” to protect the safety of Israelis as well as More >> |
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Femail Homicide Bomber Caught in Jordan (2005-11-13) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld with Lorenzo Vidino intelligencesummit.org http://www.intelligencesummit.org/news/RachelEhrenfeld/RE111305.php |
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Creating Hamastan (2005-11-01) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen jpost.com http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?apage=2&cid=1129540651441&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull President George Bush could give his plan for winning the war against Islamic radicalism a major boost if he publicly demanded from the Palestinian Authority that it prohibit Hamas's participation in the upcoming Palestinian election. But judging from how Hamas is dealt with by the US More >> |
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The Nightmare of Hamastan (2005-10-31) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19996 Judging from how Hamas is treated by the U.S. Administration, you would not know that it sits at the heart of the Islamo-Fascist movement, which President George W. Bush concretely defined and condemned three weeks ago. In his press conference last Thursday with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, however, the President More >> |
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Katrina and the War on Terrorism (2005-09-13) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen FrontPageMagazine.com http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19457 The failure of governments to assist the disenfranchised citizens in Egypt, Lebanon, and the Palestinian territories should be a lesson to the U.S. during the fallout from the disastrous hurricane Katrina. The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Gaza, succeeded mainly because they provided the social, More >> |
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In Arafat's Footsteps (2005-05-26) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18202 "Abu Mazen talks about how important it is to stop terrorism, however, he considers all terrorists that have committed atrocities against Israel, as heroes,” said Brig-Gen. Yossi Kupperwasser, Chief Intelligence Analyst for the IDF, yesterday morning. He continued, “He [Abu Mazen] says that terrorism is not good, More >> |
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Arafat's Billions (2004-07-23) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld The New York Sun http://daily.nysun.com/Default/Client.asp?Enter=true&skin=NYSun&Daily= NYS&GZ=T&AW=1090571233562 Ms. Ehrenfeld is the author of "Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It" and is the director of the American Center for Democracy. The news about Yasser Arafat's demise still proves to be premature. As long as the official Palestinian Authority daily Al Hayat Al Jadida calls More >> |
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Iran's Growing Threat (2004-07-23) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications56.htm Recent events have made it clear that the threat posed by Iran should be dealt with sooner rather than later. Today's 9/11 Commission report documents extensive ties between Iran and terrorism, and the mullahs' drive to create a nuclear weapon is well known. In recent days, Iranian officials and clerics have increased the incitement More >> |
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Arafat's Pilfered Profits (2004-07-22) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=14339 The news about Arafat's demise proved yet again to be premature. He is continuing to demonstrate that despite tottering under the failure of the Intifada against the Israelis, the Bush Administration's disgust, the UN envoy Terje Roed-Larsen's reprimand, and even the growing resentment of a large portion of the Palestinian population, More >> |
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Palestinian aid audit (2003-12-13) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20031212-075000-3125r This week, the International donor community has been gathered in Rome to approve another contribution of $1.2 billion to the Palestinian Authority for the 2004 budget. The United States, Japan, the European Union and Norway, are the biggest contributors, joined by the Arab League countries and the International More >> |
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Aid Donors Turn a Blind Eye to Palestinian Terror (2003-12-11) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld The Wall Street Journal Europe http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/ehrenfeld200312100915.asp Donors convening next week in Rome for an international conference on funding the Palestinian Authority's budget are likely to fork over a further $1 billion, ignoring the PA's ongoing use of aid to pay for terrorism. If testimony given to the European Parliament just last month is any guide, supporters of giving aid are More >> |
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EuroCash - What does the Palestinian Authority do with European money? (2003-12-10) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld National Review Online http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/ehrenfeld200312100915.asp When the international donors' conference convenes in Rome next week to consider a new contribution of $1 billion to the Palestinian Authority, it is likely to continue to ignore the PA's ongoing funding of terrorist activities. According to Hannes Swoboda, a member of the European parliament's ad hoc working group on aid to More >> |
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THE CORRUPTION OF THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY (2003-11-19) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld public-integrity.org www.public-integrity.org "War is a dream, peace is a nightmare." This statement was made by the chairman of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Yasser Arafat, on June 6, 2001 in an interview with Radio Palestine. It vividly explains both the Intefada that followed, and the continuing bloodshed in the Middle East. It also illustrates Mr. Arafat's vision for the future of the Palestinian people and More >> |
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Arafat's Seat - Power, money, and terror (2003-11-17) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld National Review Online http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/ehrenfeld200311170858.asp In an interesting coincidence, both CBS and the BBC carried "exposes" earlier this month of Yasser Arafat's use and abuse of the Palestinian Authority's monies. Among the "revelations" were the payments of $50,000 per month as "living expenses" to members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, the terrorist wing of Arafat's Fatah More >> |
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Operation Syria - Hezbollah should be on Powell's (2003-05-02) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld National Review Online http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-ehrenfeld050203.asp When Secretary of State Colin Powell arrives in Syria on Saturday, he will no doubt raise the issue of Hezbollah with Syrian president Bashar al- Assad. The Syrians claim that they have no control over Hezbollah. Besides, Damascus will argue, Hezbollah's terrorist activities are aimed only against Israel, and therefore are More >> |
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Foundation for the Defenseof Democracies (2003-04-11) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld public-integrity.org http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/reforms.pdf |
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Arafat's Wrong Turn (2003-03-05) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld The New York Sun http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications31.htm Yasser Arafat's adherence to the "road map" for peace designed by the Quartet - America, the European Union, the Russian Federation, and the United Nations - on February 14 in London, is as plausible as Saddam Hussein's disarmament. In 1994, when conditions were imposed by the international donor community on the Palestinian More >> |
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The European Union and the Palestinian Authority (2003-02-21) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld EUobserver.com http://www.EUobserver.com/index.phtml?aid=9440&sid=9 "Instead of coming clean, the EU Commission headed by Patten, and the Conference of Presidents thought it was better to sweep the investigation under the carpet." (Photo: Rachel Ehrenfeld)EUOBSERVER / DEBATE - The European Union's inability to join the US in its war on terrorist regimes is nothing new - it has funded, and continues to More >> |
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Why Does The Commission Fear a PA Probe? (2003-01-28) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Sarah Zebaida The Wall Street Journal Europe http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications28.htm Don't Europeans have a right to know how a terrorist spends their money? The European Union has given Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority 540 Million euros since 2000, and the PA has yet to produce a comprehensive account of what it's done with the funds. And yet the European Parliament has still not gathered the signatures More >> |
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EU & the PA Money Trail - What happens to aid money? (2003-01-27) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld & Sarah Zebaida National Review Online http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-ehrenfeld-zebaida012703.asp Time is running out for the European members of parliament to launch a probe into the longstanding claim that the Palestinian Authority has misused European taxpayers' money to finance terrorist attacks. British MEP Charles Tannock initiated a petition six months ago to investigate how 540 million Euros given to the PA More >> |
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EU funds for PA terror (2003-01-24) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Sarah Zebaida World Net Daily http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30653 Time is running out for the European members of Parliament to launch a probe into the longstanding claim that the Palestinian Authority has misused European taxpayers' money to finance terrorist attacks. The British MEP Charles Tannock initiated a petition six months ago to investigate how 540 million euros of aid given to the PA More >> |
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Arafat¹s Legacy - A case study in terror (2002-10-31) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld National Review Online http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-ehrenfeld103102.asp The U.S. approach to curtail money flow to terrorists is inadequate," an Independent Task Force on Terrorist Financing, sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, concluded earlier this month. The verdict came on the heels of Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus's statement: "I'm getting the feeling that we really More >> |
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Paying for Terrorism (2002-10-23) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld online.wsj.com http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1035323843647433831.djm,00.html Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority has systemically diverted funds donated for the development of the Palestinian state to fund terrorism. "Where is the Money Going?" an independent study by the New York- based Center for the Study of Corruption and the Rule of Law, to be released in Brussels today by B'nai Brith Europe, More >> |
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Where Does the Money Go? (2002-10-01) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld public-integrity.org http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/money.doc |
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Arafat¹s Purse: What it funds (2002-09-13) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld National Review Online http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-ehrenfeld091302.asp Palestinians deserve a government that serves their interests and listens to their voices," said President George W. Bush in his address to the U.N. Thursday. But Palestinian reform, thus far, is a case of déjà vu all over again. Arafat is still running the place, and no major changes have occurred in the Palestinian Authority. More >> |
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IRA + PLO =Terror (2002-08-21) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld National Review Online http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-ehrenfeld082102.asp Following the Israeli incursion into Jenin earlier this year, Paul Collinson, a British explosives expert working with the Red Cross, identified hundreds of explosive devices found there and noted that "the pipe bombs I found in Jenin are exact replicas of ones I found in Northern Ireland." The Daily Telegraph quoted a U.S. More >> |
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Has Arafat Secretly Amassed a Fortune? (2002-08-15) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld O'Reilly http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications20.htm This is a partial transcript from The O'Reilly Factor, August 14, 2002. Click here: http://fn.emediamillworks.com/fox/ to order the complete transcript. Watch The O'Reilly Factor weeknights at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET and listen to the Radio Factor! BILL O'REILLY, HOST: In the "Impact" segment tonight, the chief of Israel's More >> |
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Arafat¹s Stash (2002-08-15) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld National Review Online http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-ehrenfeld081502.asp Yesterday's news that Yasser Arafat has a $1.3 billion personal slush fund is no surprise. The information disclosed by Israel's military- intelligence chief emphasized that the stash was not skimmed from aid intended for the Palestinian people (donated by the likes of USAID and the EU), but he refrained from identifying the More >> |
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And a Thief, Too - Yasser Arafat takes what he likes (2002-07-29) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld National Review Online http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications18.htm President Bush's call to change the Palestinian leadership and to bring reform, accountability, and transparency to the Palestinian Authority should focus attention on the financial corruption of Arafat's regime. Before Bush's speech, Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, accurately summed up the situation in the San Jose More >> |
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No Partner: Arafat cannot be negotiated with. (2002-06-11) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld National Review Online http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-ehrenfeld061102.asp Yasser Arafat should not be given "another chance." He already had too many. The strategy of Arafat and the Palestinian Authority entails the continuous manipulation of "peace talks" through deliberate use of terrorism, most recently through a campaign of "homicide bombings" of unprecedented magnitude. Each new chance Arafat More >> |
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Arafat's corruption (2002-04-16) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld WorldNetDaily.com http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27253 We all know that the Palestinians deserve better. But there is no chance until the world confronts a major problem: the immense corruption of Arafat and the Palestinian Authority. Overlooked is the fact that Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza demonstrated against Arafat and his cronies just before the intifada began. And as many now More >> |
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Down and out in Palestine (2001-03-15) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld public-integrity.org http://www.public-integrity.org/articles/publications5.htm Any attempt of the Bush administration to restart the peace process in the Middle East must first recognize why the Palestinian economy is on the brink of collapse. According to surveys by the research center of the Israeli Yad Tabenkin, the West Bank per capita gross domestic product (GDP) before the Oslo accord in 1993 was More >> |
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