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DSC_0011 6/14/10 Event: After The Gaza Blockade: Can Palestine’s Economy Be Viable?
The Gaza flotilla debacle has refocused world attention on the economic strangulation of at least that shard of Palestine while overshadowing the Obama administration’s persistent effort to restart negotiations to produce a comprehensive peace settlement. Yet Gaza’s current immiseration underscores the larger questions of ensuring Palestinian economic viability and sovereignty when that settlement is achieved. Can the West Bank economy carry its own weight with independence, much less Gaza’s?
The Aix Group, a joint Palestinian-Israeli international economic research project, has been working on the economic underpinnings of a two-state political solution for Israel and Palestine. On Monday, 14 June 2010, two Aix Group principals, Ron Pundak, who is director-general of the Peres Center for Peace in Tel Aviv, and Saeb Bamya, the Group’s Palestinian coordinator and former assistant under secretary for the Palestinian National Economy Ministry, led a luncheon discussion to cover these topics.
DSC_0011 6/14/10 Event: After The Gaza Blockade: Can Palestine’s Economy Be Viable?
The Gaza flotilla debacle has refocused world attention on the economic strangulation of at least that shard of Palestine while overshadowing the Obama administration’s persistent effort to restart negotiations to produce a comprehensive peace settlement. Yet Gaza’s current immiseration underscores the larger questions of ensuring Palestinian economic viability and sovereignty when that settlement is achieved. Can the West Bank economy carry its own weight with independence, much less Gaza’s?
The Aix Group, a joint Palestinian-Israeli international economic research project, has been working on the economic underpinnings of a two-state political solution for Israel and Palestine. On Monday, 14 June 2010, two Aix Group principals, Ron Pundak, who is director-general of the Peres Center for Peace in Tel Aviv, and Saeb Bamya, the Group’s Palestinian coordinator and former assistant under secretary for the Palestinian National Economy Ministry, led a luncheon discussion to cover these topics.