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June 08, 2008
MENA Investment, amusing posts
First, there is United States Vigorously Backs Palestine Investment Conference, which is so fundamentally risible that I have a hard time thinking anyone would swallow this, were it not for the fact I have a friend working on a fund looking to leverage OPIC. Good fucking lucking, mate, I tell him. Given my understanding of their new bloody rules, even were he to succeed, and I think it not bloody likely, he'd be unable to invest in anyone given their political restrictions.
Never mind the crazy idea that investing in West Bank is even possible in the current situation. But then the same clowns thought Iraq was possible.
Then US behind UK at Entrepreneurial Investments in the Middle East.
Posted by The Lounsbury at June 8, 2008 12:38 AM
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Ziad Asali, founder of the American Task Force on Palestine, said that there is an "incredible shortage" of housing in the Palestinian Territories, where "not a single village or town has been established since 1967.
Gosh. There are just sooo many ways to go with this. It could have been lifted straight from The Onion.
Sadly, this is far from the most risible thing that OPIC has championed. Four or five years ago, they had a big push to get people to invest in Iraqi tourism. The less said about their "The Jihadi-est place on Earth!" advertising campaign, the better.
Posted by: Anonymous at June 11, 2008 12:45 AM
