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Article: Interview: How Salam Fayyad plans to save the Palestinian dream.(WORLD)(Interview)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- November 2, 2009
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Byline: Ilene R. Prusher Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Ramallah, West Bank -- Palestinian elections are scheduled to be held in less than three months, but the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Salam Fayyad, isn't concerned about running for office.
Rather, he's set his sights on a longer-term platform: establishing a Palestinian state by 2011 - a goal he outlined recently in a clear, well-organized booklet titled "Palestine: Ending the Occupation, Establishing the State."
"All I'm campaigning for is the two-year statehood program," said Dr. Fayyad in an interview Sunday. "The idea is unabashedly that two years ...