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Hamas Rejects Fayyad for Palestinian Prime Minister
(Washington Post) Joel Greenberg - Since signing a reconciliation accord more than a month ago, the Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas have made only slow progress in carrying it out, and Sunday saw a public disagreement over Fatah's nomination Saturday of Salam Fayyad, a political independent who is the Palestinian Authority premier, as prime minister of a joint government. The candidacy of Fayyad is key to whether a unified Palestinian government will continue to have Western backing. The U.S.-educated economist is respected by foreign donors. "Salam Fayyad is unacceptable, because he has drowned the Palestinian people in billions of dollars of debt and made its economy and political decision-making dependent on foreign donors," said Salah Bardawil, a member of the political bureau of Hamas in Gaza.