Author: Elliott Abrams, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies
July 10, 2012
In his testimony before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Middle East and South Asia, Elliott Abrams argues that "corruption is an insidious destroyer not only of Palestinian public finance but of faith in the entire political system."
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