{"id":3683,"date":"2017-10-27T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-01-08T19:58:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T17:58:02","slug":"epalestine-huffpost-jump-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2017\/10\/epalestine-huffpost-jump-start\/","title":{"rendered":"HuffPost: Jump-Start Palestine: A Story of Economic Survival (By Sam Bahour and Nisreen Musleh)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\">HuffPost<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong>Jump-Start Palestine: A Story of Economic Survival <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/Jump-Start-Palestine\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/Jump-Start-Palestine\" height=\"228\" src=\"https:\/\/ePalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/NisreenMusleh252BSamBahour-779675-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-3684\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Sam Bahour and Nisreen Musleh<\/p>\n<p>Not a day goes by without one of us being asked if Palestine really has an economy, given that we have been living for five decades under an increasingly well-entrenched Israeli military occupation. The question usually comes from people passing through on a short visit: some are Palestinians living in the diaspora, others are foreigners who come either singly or in groups; and some visitors arrive, under a variety of auspices, to study our reality. More troubling than to hear this question from outsiders is how often we hear it from our recent graduates. To all, our answer is yes \u2013 unequivocally.<\/p>\n<p>READ ON AT:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/Jump-Start-Palestine\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/Jump-Start-Palestine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ARABIC: <a  href=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Jump-Start-Palestine-Al-Ayyam-29-10-2017-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">http:\/\/www.epalestine.com\/Jump-Start-Palestine-Al-Ayyam-29-10-2017.jpg<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>_____________________________________<\/p>\n<p>ePalestine.ps<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Everything about this list:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/lists.riseup.net\/www\/info\/epalestine<\/p>\n<p>To subscribe, send mail to:<\/p>\n<p>epalestine-subscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/p>\n<p>To unsubscribe, send mail to:<\/p>\n<p>epalestine-unsubscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HuffPost Jump-Start Palestine: A Story of Economic Survival By Sam Bahour and Nisreen Musleh Not a day goes by without one of us being asked if Palestine really has an economy, given that we have been living for five decades under an increasingly well-entrenched Israeli military occupation. The question usually comes from people passing through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[942],"tags":[368,369,35,48,40,28,58,370,158,106,371,148],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-3683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sams-writings","tag-economic-resistance","tag-economic-steadfastness","tag-economy","tag-gaza","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-jerusalem","tag-jobs","tag-nisreen-musleh","tag-occupied-territories","tag-sam-bahour","tag-unemployment","tag-west-bank"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9032,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683\/revisions\/9032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3683"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}