"This needs to be big enough to make a real difference and get at the heart of the problem" - US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson [Times Online 20 September 2008] - The Paulson Prognosis
The threat of a world economic meltdown does wonders in helping concentrate the mind on how to resolve the intractable 130 years old conflict between Arabs and Jews over a piece of land once called Palestine that today comprises two sovereign States - Jordan and Israel - and two tiny slivers of land that currently belong to no one - the West Bank and Gaza.