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Article: Turn the Lights On
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- Jerusalem Post
- Article date:
- December 27, 1995
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Dr. Alon Liel
Jerusalem Post
12-27-1995
With Arab-Israeli business relations hardly past their embryonic phase, many are asking whether gand-scale media events like the recent Amman conference might not be counterproductive. Indeed, many businesspeople prefer to shun media coverage and governmental influence in regular circumstances, let alone in a Middle East gradually moving toward peace.
Having participated in both the Amman and Casablanca conferences, I take a different position. The Middle East is not a normal business environment. As recently as 1991 Scud missiles landed on our cities; in the past few months Katyusha rockets have been fired at the north of the country, and ...