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by Bassam Tawil • May 17, 2019 at
5:00 am
- To advance his goal,
Ashraf Jabari recently announced the establishment of a new
party that calls for focusing on economic prosperity for
Palestinians. The Reform and Development Party seeks to solve
the economic problems of the Palestinians, particularly high
unemployment, he said. "We have an army of university
graduates who are unemployed. We've reached a situation where
a young [Palestinian] man holding a Master's degree in law has
to work as a street vendor because he can't find work."
- Instead of giving
Jabari a chance to carry out his initiative, Palestinians have
waged a massive smear campaign against him, with many denouncing
him as a "traitor" and "collaborator" with
Israel and Jews. Some Palestinians have even gone as far as
calling for his arrest or execution.
- The upcoming peace
plan, according to various reports, talks about giving the
Palestinians billions of dollars and raising money for them
from wealthy Arab countries. Yet, as Jabari's case makes
clear, the Palestinians are less invested in gaining economic
stability than they are in hating Israel.
- For Palestinians,
the financial aid is a cynical attempt to lure them away from
their struggle against Israel -- and no Palestinian leader has
the stomach to face the threats that Jabari is currently
confronting. So, far from any "deal of the century,"
the Palestinian leaders long ago struck a dirty deal of their
own: they put their stock in Israel-hatred rather than in
their own people.
Ashraf
Jabari, a 45-year-old Palestinian businessman from the West Bank
city of Hebron, recently launched a new economic initiative with
some of his Jewish friends, to advance joint entrepreneurship
between Israelis and Palestinians there. (Image source: iStock)
In most normal societies, a businessman who seeks to
improve the living conditions of his people by boosting the economy
and creating job opportunities for the unemployed -- including a
host of jobless university graduates -- is treated with respect.
The Palestinians, however, do not seem to belong to those
societies.
Ashraf Jabari is a 45-year-old businessman from the
West Bank city of Hebron. A member of a large Palestinian clan in
the city, Jabari believes in economic cooperation and peaceful
coexistence with his Jewish neighbors, including settlers living in
the West Bank.
Earlier this year, Jabari and some of his Jewish
friends launched a new economic initiative to advance joint
entrepreneurship between Israelis and Palestinians there.
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