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Fayyad’s Resignation: It’s Not Just the Occupation

Shlomi Eldar responds to Daoud Kuttab’s article, and notes other reasons for the Palestinian prime minister’s resignation.

Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad speaks during a joint news conference with European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton (unseen) in Brussels March 19, 2013. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir (BELGIUM - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3F6PV
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad speaks during a joint news conference with European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton (unseen) in Brussels, March 19, 2013. — REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

Israel is responsible for the resignation of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. That is what Daoud Kuttab claims in an article in Al-Monitor titled, “Israeli Occupation Brings Down Fayyad.”

“His biggest enemies, as are the enemies of all Palestinians, were the Israeli occupiers whose policies, despite public rhetoric to the opposite, are to perpetuate the occupation indefinitely.”

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