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　　Businessman Jiryes Karraa, Issas father, is helping with the start-up. He is worried because economic growth in the Palestinian territories is stagnating.

　　If its a bad situation, of course we are afraid because if were not going to full capacity we have to become a little bit down ]downsize], he said.

　　Businessmen say restrictions by the Israeli government on Palestinian imports and exports and access to water and electricity present additional challenges.

　　Normally, Spring Tissue employs 15 people and produces several other products, like tissues and paper towels. But today these lines are idle because raw paper stock, which must be imported, is tied up at an Israeli port.

　　Jabari says both Palestinians and Israelis have an interest in promoting Palestinian enterprise.

　　What we need is to create the peace. We cannot create the peace when these people are very poor. There is no job for them. There is no money for them, no future for them. [So] They are thinking about killing, about bombing, he said.

　　Prosperity is the best weapon against terrorism, he says, but in any case, Palestinian entrepreneurs will survive because they have learned to improvise, and persevere.