Does foreign aid fuel Palestinian violence?

Middle East Quarterly

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Stotsky, Steven ^a  

^a Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America ^*

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25. Ibid., pp. 429-31.
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