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He is also a representative of the hugely wealthy and potentially powerful Palestinian diaspora, a constituency he believes have hundreds of billions of dollars in assets (Bank of Palestine reckons just under $100 billion, much of it in a fiercely loyal half-million-strong population in Chile, which identifies as strongly Palestinian despite the fact that most of them don’t speak Arabic anymore). And, like many, he wants to bring some of it home.
“I cannot bring a Palestinian state, but I can contribute to building an independent economy,” he says, in a stylish office tower in Ramallah.
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