John Kerry has called his plan ‘a new model for development’. Tony Blair has claimed it is unique in history. However, I am afraid that the plan (and the whole development industry in the occupied territories) will remain like teenage sex – everybody claims they are doing it, but most people aren’t, and those that are, are doing it very badly.
Published at Mondoweiss, 31 January, 2014. This article was originally published in The Middle East in London Magazine
Alaa Tartir, Program Director of Al-Shabaka, Engaged Scholar, Global Citizen 