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Source: http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1103/p06s01-wome.html
PA Prime Minister Planning Palestinian State
[Christian Science Monitor] Ilene R. Prusher - Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has set his sights on establishing a Palestinian state by 2011. "The idea is unabashedly that two years down the road, we will have something that will look like a Palestinian state," he said in an interview Sunday. Fayyad's plan was recently analyzed in depth by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs think tank. Senior foreign policy analyst Dan Diker says that the plan is potentially dangerous because it doesn't call for working in tandem with Israel on issues that the Jewish state sees as essential to its security. Diker expressed concern over "a Palestinian state that is 3,000 feet above sea level, which is looking down on Ben-Gurion airport [and] most of Israel's infrastructure."