"Palestine: Moving Forward: Priority Interventions for 2010, issued this week by the Palestinian Authority finance and planning ministries, is a Palestinian state and institution building program that complements the diplomatic process the Obama administration is trying to revive, the American Task Force for Palestine's Hussein Ibish told POLITICO.
"It provides a parallel, complimentary, bottom-up track to the top-down diplomatic process, will bolster leaders and constituencies that want to achieve a peace agreement, and is an alternative source of political momentum when diplomacy is gridlocked," Ibish said.
"It's been endorsed by the Obama administration, the Middle East Quartet, the Arab states, and Israel has not opposed it," he continued. "It is constructive, serious, not in contradiction to any legitimate Israeli interest whatsoever, and has immediate political benefits and in the long-term can change the strategic environment in which peace is being sought." "
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