Why did Fayyad resign?
ATFP World Press Roundup Article from Bitterlemons by Avi Issacharoff - March 16, 2009 - 12:00am A few days after Salam Fayyad's surprising announcement of his resignation, the Palestinian prime minister convened senior journalists in his office in Ramallah. For three and a half hours he laid out his "credo" regarding the peace process with Israel and explained his decision to resign by the end of March. A single motif stood out in all of Fayyad's remarks: pessimism. |