Article: Risk and opportunity in the Middle East. (Column)

CAN GAZA become the economic equivalent of Singapore for the Middle East? It seems hard to believe after the many cataclysmic events in the Middle East over the last three decades. Nevertheless, the occurrences that have been similarly dramatic at the international level have caused the discarding of many preconceptions about what is possible.

Some of the Middle East and North Africa continues to fit the image that was shaped in the trench warfare between the Arabs and Israelis. Islamic fundamentalist radicals, still intent on pursuing the Palestinian cause--without the Palestinians if necessary--are active in a number of countries, most notably Algeria and the ...

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