Fayyad's excuses

The thing that bothered me the most about Ben Birnbaum's lengthy TNR piece on Salam Fayyad is the fact that there are no countervailing points from anyone official in Israel. As a result, Israel is blamed for most of the problems that have plagued Fayyad's term in office: ANY HOPES OF a swift end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict evaporated in early 2009. In March, two months after the end of