It is positive, indeed, that the focus at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa, held in Jordan, was on mobilizing to generate $4 billion worth of investments for the occupied Palestinian territories to help fight unemployment by creating much-needed jobs.
Such an approach has the strong support of a large group of Palestinian and Israeli business people, who call themselves Breaking the Impasse, who are committed to peace via economic development and are acting as a lobby to promote it. US Secretary of State John Kerry was quoted as saying that such investment could greatly reduce Palestinian unemployment, from almost 21% to 8%. It would also consolidate the building of the future Palestinian state.