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When James Wolfensohn and Mort Zuckerman raised $14 million to buy the Gush Katif hothouses from Israeli farmers to give to the Palestinians, many people were surprised. "We thought it was a chance to show the Palestinians that there were more benefits from cooperation than confrontation," Zuckerman explained. Zuckerman's New York Daily News reported on September 22 that "a week after they [Palestinians] descended like locusts on the greenhouses... looters continue to pillage what should be a prize asset for a fledgling Palestinian state." In response to this wanton destruction, Zuckerman said, "I'm just sad that they are cutting off...

This Pouter Should Take a PowderTalk about a colossal piece of hypocrisy: World Bank President James Wolfensohn recently gave the thumbs-down to the idea of the World Bank's offering assistance now to post-Saddam Iraq. "At some point that will, I'm sure, happen," opined His Highness. "But, as you know, there is a need first to have a constitution, to have a government, to reestablish Iraq as the Iraqi people would like to have it. Clearly a constitution and an elected government would constitute a recognized government, but what do we do in the meantime? It is a subject that needs...