“As long as there’s no diplomatic process to develop a governing body in the Strip that isn’t Hamas, we’ll have to launch campaigns again and again in other places to dismantle Hamas’s infrastructure. It will be a Sisyphean task.” Israel Defense Forces chief of staff Herzl Hevi, For Netanyahual, Gaza’s ‘day after’ must wait [Washington Post]
“All of these collective shocks that are facing the world calls us also to reprioritise, to look at what we are doing, and how can we actually optimise what we are doing, optimise our plans. If you don’t allow your economy to catch up with your projects, basically what will happen is you will import a lot more. And you will not allow your economy, your private sector to catch up and build their factories, manufacturing facilities, service providers to actually support the projects that we are building.” Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed al-Jadaan, Economic Shocks Spur Saudi To ‘Reprioritise’ Reforms: Official [Barron’s]
