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In POLITICO: "The ‘Day After’ Plan for Gaza That Netanyahu Doesn’t Want to Talk About"
11 aug 2025
In an in-depth investigative article for Politico by Bernard Avishai, about the Palestinian business class, MAS DG Raja Khalidi says:
Dealing with all the restrictions has “made Palestinian businesspeople unusually resilient,” Khalidi adds. Competent leaders, emerging from companies having interlocking ownership patterns and directorships, become national figures willy-nilly. “The business community,” he says, “are something like the leaders of the Zionist Histadrut” — the Zionist pioneers’ Labor federation — “in the 1930s and ’40s, wielding economic and incipiently political power, anticipating a future state.”