Can the West Bank spring a surprise?

Palestine is a surprisingly attractive prospect – good enough to hold the attention of private and public investors at a conference this year. But Gaza, which must develop pari passu with the West Bank if the Territories are to prosper, is an unstable imponderable. Chris Wright reports.

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SUMMITS COME AND summits go but it was quite something to be at the first Palestine Investment Conference in Bethlehem in May. The investments committed at the event, which Palestine’s prime minister Salam Fayyad put at $1.4 billion, were significant but it was the conference’s very existence that held the real importance: 1,500 delegates, 500 of them from abroad, congregating on the West Bank to talk about investing in it rather than shunning it.

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