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A new style of politics in the West Bank (ASSOCIATED PRESS, 27/04/2010)

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is quietly changing the rules of the Arab-Israeli conflict with a simple credo: Palestinians have to build their state now and cannot wait for an elusive peace deal with Israel.

He is moving ahead with an ambitious plan to get the Palestinians ready for statehood by August 2011 by trying to build it from the ground up: paving roads, reforming the judiciary, planning new cities.

Even if it it is what everyone wants them to do, the illusion of seizing statehood themselves rather than having it handed to them is excellent for their national psyche.

Posted by Orrin Judd at April 27, 2010 5:33 AM