donderdag 6 januari 2011

Palestijnse economie vaart wel bij werk voorIsraeli's


Ondanks de Palestijnse boycot van alles wat op enige wijze met de nederzettingen te maken heeft, is het aantal Palestijnen dat in de nederzettingen of Israel werkt toegenomen. Daarmee is ook de Palestijnse economie verder gegroeid:
 
Released on Monday, the survey said growth was concentrated in economic activities with largest share in construction with a growth rate of 36 percent, followed by agriculture and fishing, wholesale and retail trade, transport, storage and communications, services, and public administration.

De boycot, indien succesvol gehandhaafd, zal de Palestijnse economie waarschijnlijk meer schaden dan de Israelische. Toch kan ik mij goed voorstellen dat men niet aan de zo gehate nederzettingen wil meebouwen. Als de PA zo graag principieel wil zijn, zal het echter met goede alternatieven moeten komen en dus zelf voor werkgelegenheid zorgen. Tot nu toe lijkt men daar niet veel moeite voor te doen, sterker nog, PA functionarissen werken zelf ook graag samen met Israel als men daar geld mee kan verdienen. Overigens is ook Israel niet erg principieel: diverse bedrijven hebben een code getekend dat zij de Palestijnse boycot van de nederzettingen respecteren en hebben hun werk daar gestaakt, in ruil voor interessante contracten voor de bouw van de nieuwe Palestijnse stad Rawabi.
 
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PA GDP proportional to percentage working for Israelis

 
 
From Ma'an:

Of every 100 Palestinian workers, 11 work in Israel and the settlements compared to 10 in 2009, a new survey from the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics found.

The increase helped push up the Palestinian GDP per capita, in what was counted as a year of growth across the region.

Palestine's Gross Domestic Product increased by about 9 percent during the first three quarters of 2010 compared with the same period of 2009.

Released on Monday, the survey said growth was concentrated in economic activities with largest share in construction with a growth rate of 36 percent, followed by agriculture and fishing, wholesale and retail trade, transport, storage and communications, services, and public administration.

GDP per capita for Palestinian areas increased by 5 percent during the third quarter of 2010 compared with the same quarter of 2009, spurred mostly by an increase of three percent in the number of workers in construction, industry and the service sector.
Which means that since the settlement freeze ended, with Arabs working to build houses in Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, the Palestinian Arab GDP for the fourth quarter should go even higher.

So once again the people who say they want "peace" also want to hurt ordinary Palestinian Arabs trying to raise their families in dignity.

It is also interesting to see that the GDP increase is almost directly proportional - 9-10% - to the increase of workers in Israel and the Israeli towns across the green line. Foreign aid might not be so much a factor - jobs and cooperation with Israel is.

By the way, these statistics include Gaza, where no one works for Israelis, so that means that the percentage of West Bank Arabs who work for Israelis is probably closer to 15%. Boycotting Israel would throw the Palestinian Arab economy into a tailspin, and it would raise the West Bank unemployment rate to about the same as Gaza's is now - from around 17% to around 32%.

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