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Kerry's 'New Paradigm' to Deal With Terrorism Includes Job-Creation for Palestinians
"[W]e're not going to solve this challenge of terror and of extremism and of people finding an alternative if we're not reaching out to people, talking to them, bringing them to the table and trying to work through major, perceived differences," Secretary of State John Kerry told a gathering in Brussels on Monday."I believe we have to create a new paradigm, frankly, to deal with this." Watch your wallet. Kerry said the new paradigm includes public-private partnerships, and he pointed to new initiative that's just getting under way with Palestinians in the West Bank, where U.S. businesses are being urged to invest in places for the sake of peace, not profit. He mentioned Coca-Cola specifically. Public-private partnerships have worked so well for B.O., after all. And Coke has more of an obligation toward Paleostinians than it does to its stockholders. "And that initiative is fundamentally to bring major corporations to the table who are looking for places to invest where they can make a difference, where it may not be that today the bottom line on a spreadsheet tells them this is the best investment in the world, but where they can also be persuaded that they're investing in the future and in peace, in changing the lives of people, and in opening up doors of opportunity." Kerry said the private sector can provide a job base "that will change the lives of people more rapidly, and hopefully encourage people to buy into the possibilities of this economic transformation. So it's really economic diplomacy, if you will." Posted by: tipper 2013-04-23 |
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