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The Presbyterian Foundation’s Transformational Investment program has several projects in Palestine
for Palestinians, including a Life Sciences and Medical Device technology incubator in Nazareth, microfinance to help Palestinian small enterprises (especially women-owned and in agriculture), and most
recently a solar-energy project in Jericho.
http://www.presbyterianfoundation.org/Ways-To-Give/Tranformational-Investing/January-2015-ProjectUpdate.aspx
Debates about divestment within the denomination over the past decade have mistakenly treated divestment
primarily as an economic rather than political strategy and, therefore, treated positive investment as an
alternative to divestment. Both strategies can be pursued simultaneously because they are pursuing
different ends: divestment attempts to bring political attention to the occupation in the hopes of ending it;
investment attempts to build up the Palestinian economy.
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Ecumenical Accompaniment Program (eappi.org) is a 3-month volunteer program of the World
Council of Churches, partnering with PCUSA. Christian Peacemaker Teams (cpt.org) is a global program
with short and long term volunteers in several places of conflict, including Hebron.
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“Fact Sheet”, Military Court Watch. Source: http://www.militarycourtwatch.org/page.php?id=a6r85V
cpyUa4755A52Y2mp3c4v. Accessed on Friday 28 August 2015. See also Our Harsh Logic: Israeli
Soldiers' Testimonies from the Occupied Territories, 2000-2010, by Breaking the Silence
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Reuters, Jan 13, 2015

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