In Herzliya, several meters from where the large statue of the visionary of the Jewish state overlooks the coastal highway, Fayyad founded Palestine.

This dissonance between stated goals and actual behavior is at the heart of the difficulties facing the administration’s effort to resolve this conflict, and it must be overcome.

Click to watch Prime Minister Salam Fayyad vow to establish a Palestinian state at the Herzliya Conference or to read some of the press generated by the conference.

Alarming reports, reminiscent of the buildup war in 2008, are emerging from the region. Beginning in March 2008, ATFP repeatedly expressed concern that conditions were on a trajectory towards war.

Palestinian Ministries of Finance and Planning and Administrative Development issue cost estimates and funding status for state and institution building program.

ATFP Senior Fellow Hussein Ibish joins a panel discussing the first year of President Obama's term in office regarding domestic policy, national security, Iraq and Middle East peace.