It's official: Fayyad is gone; replacement head of university that mocked Sbarro massacre?

'Moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, despite being urged not to do so by the United States and the European Union. Abu Mazen has asked Fayyad to head a 'transitional government' until....

Fayyad submitted his letter of resignation to Abbas during a 20-minute meeting in the PA president's office in Ramallah.