1.  The investments can be considered cornerstones of an emerging Palestinian economy, which is being built with offshore Palestinian money in anticipation of statehood.

2.  These are cornerstones of an emerging Palestinian economy, being built with offshore Palestinian money in expectation of statehood.

3.  Finance Minister Silvan Shalom proposed in December that the Palestinian money be used for defense purposes in the conflict with the Palestinians.

4.  Police have arrested nine Palestinian money changers and Jewish religious students who together allegedly smuggled more than one billion dollars out of Israel, the authorities said Sunday.