Washington 
                to earmark $billion to isolate Hamas 
              Palestinian Information Center 
                July 1, 2003 
                 
               
               
            American national security advisor Condoleezza Rice has revealed 
              that her administration would invest hundreds of millions of dollars 
              in various West Bank and Gaza Strip areas, according to Zionist 
              sources. 
            The sources said that Rice surprised Palestinian Authority finance 
              minister Salam Fayyadh and the director of the Zionist premiers 
              office along with other American officials with that revelation. 
            The sources quoted Rice as saying that the sum might reach one 
              billion dollars to be spent on reconstruction of various infrastructures 
              in the Palestinian areas such as new roads, hospitals, relief and 
              human assistance institutions and others. 
            She said that those institutions would be meant to counterbalance 
              similar organizations financed by the Hamas Movement. 
            The American official said that it was about time for the Palestinians 
              to sense some benefits for the Road-map plan so that they would 
              start fighting Hamas, according to her words. 
            Rice spoke of something like the Marshal Plan (in post-war Europe) 
              to restore infrastructures and to initiate new projects in the Palestinian 
              areas. 
            She stressed that the American administration would not seek any 
              compromise solution with Hamas and would continue in international 
              efforts to isolate the Movement and deprive it of financial resources 
              in cooperation with partners in the Arab, Islamic and 
              European countries. 
            The American administration has completely identified itself with 
              the Zionist demands in wiping out the Palestinian resistance represented 
              in the Hamas Movement. 
              
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