The New York Times · 31 October 1999

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A Link That Drives Palestinians Apart

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THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1999 WK • The World A Link That Drives Palestinians Apart Studies in Nablus contends West Bank By WILLIAM A. ORME Jr. wages will inevitably drop if Gaza job-seek- ers can freely relocate.

And with access to porous West Bank borders, Gazan immi- RAMALLAH, West Bank grants will also compete for high-paying N jeans and T-shirts, each carrying a small gym bag, a group of young Gaza construction jobs in Israel. "We all saw what happened to Germany men drew taunts and stares as they after unification," Mr. Awatani said.

"There wandered the streets Friday here evening in a fruitless is often an economic price to be paid for search for work. "They told us we were ruining Ramallah," political goals." That price won't be paid by economists or government planners, howev- said Adham A'jour, 22, taken aback by the er. hostility. "People in the West Bank should

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"A Link That Drives Palestinians Apart," The New York Times, 31 October 1999. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1999-010. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1999-010

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