“The Palestinian private sector not looking for donation, it’s looking for real business partners.”

—  Yasser Elshantaf

In a speech given on 25 June 2009 , at the 12th German-Arab Business Forum in Berlin http://www.ghorfa.de/fileadmin/Souq/combined/souq_2009_03_de.pdf.

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