[Wall Street Journal] Charles Levinson - Can rival Palestinian factions meeting in Cairo form a government acceptable to the Western donors they depend on without Prime Minister Salam Fayad? Dislike for Fayad - a member of a small Palestinian party called the Third Way - may be one of the few things both Fatah and Hamas can agree on. But Fayad is the West's most trusted Palestinian partner and a government without him could jeopardize some Western aid. "The feeling is that Fayad is a guarantee for our support and our money," said a Western diplomat in Jerusalem. "Without him it will be a lot harder to persuade our domestic parliaments to give money to the Palestinians."
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