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undercurrent of religious extremism. EFTA00657247 Palestinians: Efforts to reduce the deficit with financial austerity are landing Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in trouble on the streets of the West Bank, with demonstrations against the Palestinian Authority in various cities in protest over general economi
00657247 Palestinians: Efforts to reduce the deficit with financial austerity are landing Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in trouble on the streets of the West Bank, with demonstrations against the Palestinian Authority in various cities in protest over general economic hardship and rising taxes. Fayyad, a World
reform, economic development and state-building efforts — especially in the West Bank, under the leadership of President Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, which have helped lay the foundations for Palestinian statehood — and endorse the position articulated by the World Bank and the United Nations th
tah is moving slowly: the Hamas leaders here are likely to lose their jobs. The hospital supply crisis is a direct result of tensions with Fatah in the West Bank, which has kept the supplies from being shipped here. Efforts by fringe Islamist groups to challenge Hamas have had little effect. And it has been
t have allowed West Bank business enterprises to flourish and local economies to boom. These successes have facilitated Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's efforts to reconstruct government and local institutions. Perhaps the greatest mark of its success is that, even as the political impasse betwee
ony Blair. But it is perhaps the opinion of Palestinian citizens themselves that is most telling. A community leader in the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank, once a center of conflict, compared the period before 2007, when "the camp was controlled by militias and thugs who partially financed their regi
many tens of thousands of people depend on the Palestinian Authority for their livelihoods. I am able to appreciate all that you and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad have EFTA00686689 accomplished -- establishing Palestinian institutions, growing an economy in impossible conditions, and fostering security in t
d have EFTA00686689 accomplished -- establishing Palestinian institutions, growing an economy in impossible conditions, and fostering security in the West Bank. After all these endeavors, however, you still need to beg the government of Israel to release your money from customs, you still need to beg the
ernment in the next week or two, along with a date for presidential and legislative elections. It was unclear what role the current prime minister, Salam Fayyad, would play in the interim government. Mr. Fayyad is admired abroad for his financial transparency, and is the reason that some countries provide a
nian Authority embraced reconciliation with the Islamist movement Hamas on Monday, agreeing to head a unity government to prepare for elections in the West Bank and Gaza. His move was welcomed cautiously by a broad range of Palestinians who are fed up with the brutal split at the heart of their national mo
tivity, and an undercurrent of religious extremism. Palestinians: Efforts to reduce the deficit with financial austerity are landing Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in trouble on the streets of the West Bank, with demonstrations against the Palestinian Authority in various cities in protest over general economic
xtremism. Palestinians: Efforts to reduce the deficit with financial austerity are landing Prime Minister Salam Fayyad in trouble on the streets of the West Bank, with demonstrations against the Palestinian Authority in various cities in protest over general economic hardship and rising taxes. Fayyad, a Worl
le. The Abbas-Hamas deal jeopardizes important gains in the West Bank of the past four years: the exemplary economic stewardship of Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, who oversaw 9 percent annual growth at a time of global economic recession; and the security cooperation between Israel and the PA, which has led
or threshold he will cross, but only if Abbas is willing to respond publicly in kind. Since Palestinians' major fear is that Israel will hold on to the West Bank, Netanyahu needs to clearly state that this will not be the case. Although Palestinians realize that Israel will not return to the pre-1967 borders
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