'Fayyad is not building a state, he's holding down the fort until the next crisis,' according to Professor Nathan Brown. 'And when that crisis comes, Fayyad's cabinet has no democratic legitimacy or even an organized constituency to fall back on.'
Fayyad, educated in economics in the United States, was hand-picked by the Bush administration and is widely and highly praised as a pragmatic doer. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote last week that his 'Palestinian Revolution' is 'based on building Palestinian capacity and institutions [and] not just resisting Israeli occupation.'"
