engineers. >> reporter: and with a 50% unemployment rate in the west bank those i.t. engineers come at a steep discount to the competition. >> in the united states, they'lc probabrge $80 to $120 an hour. >> reporter: what about bangalore? >> india, we're talking about $20 to $25 an hour. in palestine, we can do it from .10 to $15 an ho we can compete with ukraine, you know, we can compete with belarus, with romania, with those countries that are leading this outsourcing business now worldw>>e. eporter: but amro's not pitching the global market just yet.d, insthis palestinian entrepreneur is concentrating on his people's long-hatedra neighbor: . utanks to a program at brandeis university, justde boston, that promotes cross-border iscollaboration among proming young arab and israeli entrepreneurs. >> welcome to microsoft in isr:el. >> repormro is eyeing some of the business that multinational tech firms are sending israel's way. >> a lot of u.s. com have their r&d departments in tel aviv, in haifa. google, microst, intel they're working straight with companies in israel