engineers. >> reporter: and with a 50% unemployment rate in the west bank those.t. engineers come at a steep discount to the competition. >> in the united states, they'll probably charge $80 to $120 an hour. >> reporter: what about bangalore? >> india, we're talking about $20 to $25 an hour. inmalestine, we can do it f $10 to $15 an hour. we can compete with ukraine, you kn, we can compete with belarus, with romania, with those countries that are leading this outsourci business now worldwide. >> reporter: but amro's not pitchi the global market just yet. instead, this palestinian entrepreneur is concentrating his people's long-hated neighbor: israel. thanks to a program at brandeis university, just outside boston, that promotes cross-border collabation among promising young arab and israeli entrepreurs. >> welcome to microsoft in israel. >> reporter: amro is eyeing some of the business that multinational tech firms are sending isel's way. >> a lot of u.s. companies have their r&d departments in tel aviv, in haifa. google, microsoft, intel they're working straight wi