Byline: Lally Weymouth

What do you do? How can there be a state of security unless the security is for Palestinians and Israelis alike?

Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak says that Palestinian prime Minister Salam Fayyad is like an American CEO--a man who gets things done. Fayyad, a former World Bank economist with a reputation for probity, first joined the Palestinian Authority as Finance minister, and was appointed prime minister after the Hamas takeover of Gaza in 2007. A future leader of a Palestinian state? He faces several hurdles: he has no popular base and is not a member of the ruling Fatah party. Last week NEWSWEEK's Lally Weymouth spoke with Fayyad in ...