In 2008 Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad invited international investors to the firstever Palestine Investment Conference which was designed to jumpstart the process of integrating Palestine into the global economy. As Fayyad described the conference Palestine is throwing a party and the whole world is invited. In this book Kareem Rabie examines how the conference and Fayyads rhetoric represented a wider shift in economic and political practice in ways that oriented statescale Palestinian politics toward neoliberal globalization rather than a diplomatic twostate solution. Rabie demonstrates that private firms international aid organizations and the Palestinian government in the West Bank focused on largescale private housing development in an effort toward statescale economic stability and market building. This approach reflected the belief that a thriving private economy would lead to a free and functioning Palestinian state. Yet as Rabie contends these investmentbased policies have maintained the status quo of occupation and Palestines subordinate and suspended political and economic relationship with Israel.