The Middle East Media Sampler 7/26/2012: Palestinians Can't Afford A State

From DG:

1) Unsustainable

The AP reports World Bank Says Palestinian Economy Unsustainable:

The study's author, John Nasir, said the Palestinian Authority has made steady progress toward establishing a future state, "but the economy is currently not strong enough to support such a state." 

Fatah Follies: Maen Rashid Areikat Pulls An Obama--West Bank Is Economic Success Story!

Ahead of our September 2011 bid for United Nations membership, reports from the U.N., World Bank and the International Monetary Fund confirmed that Palestinians were above the threshold for running state institutions—an achievement that Norway's Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere deemed as "a remarkable international success story."
Maen Rashid Areikat, The Time for a Palestinian State Is Now

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The Private Sector is doing fine.
Obama

Maen Rashid Areikat is the chief representative of the general delegation of the Palestine Liberation Organization to the United States.

Areikat is not an economist.

And boy does it show!

But he does tell a good story, as he did in his performance for The Wall Street Journal in The Time for a Palestinian State Is Now.