A real plan to build Palestine In Print by Hussein Ibish - The Guardian (Opinion) - February 2, 2010 - 1:00am Two weeks ago the Palestinian Authority issued a detailed budget for the state and institution-building programme it adopted last August. The programme calls for Palestinians to unilaterally build the administrative, economic and institutional framework of an independent state in spite of the Israeli occupation and as a peaceful, constructive means of countering it. » Read more