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The Great Obstacle to Progress - Palestinian Capabilities
(Newsweek) Fareed Zakaria - The great obstacle to progress in the Middle East is Palestinian capabilities. The big story that no one wants to admit yet is that the Palestinian Authority has collapsed, Gaza has turned into a failed state, and there is no single Palestinian political organization that could create order in the territories and negotiate with Israel. Palestinian dysfunction is now the main limiting factor on any progress in the peace process. Gaza lacks a single authority, a functioning government, and as a result is in a "state of anarchy," in the words of the Christian Science Monitor. This is not the model that people had hoped for.