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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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24 May 2005 03:59:14 AM |
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OT: American think-tank looks ahead to Palestine, 2015 |
American think-tank looks ahead to Palestine, 2015
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=640937
This is a vision of the future Arab state as set out by a $2m study by
one of America's most prestigious think-tanks. What's more, the
Palestinians love it, reports Donald Macintyre
24 May 2005
It's a futuristic concept as stunning as it is implausible, under
present conditions. A Palestinian businessman on the way to a meeting
in Cairo steps on to a train at a clean, modern rail station in the
northern West Bank city of Jenin - no longer ravaged by bloody conflict
but peacefully booming with private-sector office and apartment
construction.
The businessman is whisked by fast train to the busy Gaza airport, the
latest Middle Eastern hub, in less than 90 minutes. On the way, he
savours the changing landscape through the train window - the mountains
of Jordan to his left, the Israeli Highway Six and the Mediterranean to
his right. He notes with satisfaction the aqueduct which follows the
path of the railway line and whose construction solved at a stroke the
desperate water shortages that had been faced by his people. He watches
the Western backpackers hiking through an olive grove on one of the new
national park trails that wind through the West Bank farmland and
forest in sight of the track.
Doug Suisman
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/20bb0c4d66d5585f
Palestine
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/4abe030e38abad5c
Gaza
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/17e6ab5557e8693b
West Bank
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/a2eb23e4f5142e02
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