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Palestine: a conference less ordinary
Australian Financial Review, September 2008
If you find yourself bored by the predictable drudge of conferences, try going to one in Palestine. You will encounter a range of emotions in doing so, but it can be pretty much guaranteed boredom won’t be one of them.
The AFR attended the Palestine Investment Conference in Bethlehem on the West Bank in May, a landmark and important event. It attracted 1500 delegates, 500 of them from overseas, to hear about how Palestine (or more accurately the West Bank – Gaza, the other half of the Palestinian Territories, was and is under a state of complete siege) has a future as a viable economy and an independent state. Some interesting presentations came and went, but the real significance of the conference was its very existence: people turning up on the West Bank to talk about investing in it rather than shunning, bombing or pitying it. Continue…
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