February 9, 2010 - 1:30pm Palestinian force makes gains in West Bank
February 9, 2010

But the men carrying out this show of force — the result of months of U.S.-sponsored training — are already at the vanguard of Palestinian attempts to lay the groundwork for an independent state.

February 8, 2010 - 2:28pm The Visionary of the Palestinian State
February 8, 2010

Fayyad has been working in modesty but with efficiency and determination, to change the Palestinian Authority and to turn it into a state.

February 5, 2010 - 3:08pm Doesn’t Salam Fayyad deserve more national protection?
February 5, 2010

The government of Salam Fayyad has earned the respect of its people and the trust of its political forces. It has also caused Israel to worry without being able to condemn his efforts.

February 5, 2010 - 2:38pm In Herzliya, I Founded Palestine
February 5, 2010

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

Americans Build a Partnership for Peace, Right Here in America
February 4, 2010

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.

Fayyad at Herzliya Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad at the Herzliya Conference
February 3, 2010

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.

February 2, 2010 - 4:05pm Paving the Way for Palestinian Statehood
February 2, 2010

Ziad Asali: "It is also a tool to make independence and statehood a natural, irreversible outcome. The logic is simple: If you build it, the state will come."

February 2, 2010 - 3:50pm A real plan to build Palestine
February 2, 2010

The PA's proposal to unilaterally build the framework of a Palestinian state is a legal, peaceful response to Israel

February 1, 2010 - 5:37pm Mahmoud Abbas: Israel's West Bank occupation leading to one-state solution
February 1, 2010

"If there is any substance in the response from the Israeli side – for example, if they accept the framework of a two-state solution based on the 1967 borders and an end to occupation, with timelines and mechanisms – then there will be progress."

January 28, 2010 - 3:11pm Palestine must be a secular state
January 28, 2010

Palestinians should buck the regional trend towards religious politics and ensure, from the outset, that Palestine is a firmly and irrevocably secular state.


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