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at Gaza's Shawwa center with
50 Palestinians from the territo-
ries and six Arab Americans.
They were addressed by both
Planning Minister Nabil Shaath
and Chairman Yassir Arafat.
However, no one jumped in
head-first.
"What Gaza first needs is a
central bank," said Mohammed
Asbarga of MN Steel Construc-
tions Ltd. 'Without it, no one can
borrow money, and I'll have no
guarantee of being paid."
"It's OK to build, but you have
to coordinate building with the
infrastructure," one businessman
said. "The sooner the Palestin-
ian Authority develops a plan for
an infrastructure, the sooner the
buildings will go up. We need a
mechanism for dealing with the
interim period, rules and proce-
dures."
Mr. Darawshe, a nephew of
MK Abdul Wahab Darawshe,
` said the PA will not subject Is-
raeli Arabs to the same restric-
tions as other foreigners,
including other Israelis.
If that looks like discrimina-
tion, Israeli Arabs consider it
more akin to affirmative action
L, after feeling discrimination from
the Jewish majority for so long.
Mr. Darawshe said Gaza be-
came the agreed venue for the
conference partly to discourage
Israeli Jews from coming "at this
stage. We were not invited to the
Casablanca conference," he said.
Whatever backing the Israeli
Arab businessmen receive from
the PA, or possibly from Israel,
will be nothing compared to the
backing the U.S. is willing to give
its citizens.
Fuad Suleiman, CEO of
Sanad Support Technologies in
Maryland, whose grandfather
left Jerusalem for the United
States in 1912, said "our gov-
ernment has put aside $175 mil-
lion to let the U.S. private sector
help the Palestinian private sec-
tor. It gives us guarantees
against political risk."
The biggest problem remains
the PLO's failure to provide
enough accountability to satis
donors. But Mr. Suleiman is sure
the Palestinians could manage
their own economic affairs.
"The largest bank in the Arab
world, the Arab Bank, is Pales-
tinian owned," he said. "The two
biggest auditing firms, Saba in
Lebanon and Talal Abu Ghaza-
leh in Jordan, are Palestinian." ❑
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