Ha'aretz - Article


Uri Benziman lays out the planned future (and some of the road-blocks) of the Palestinian Authority. Well worth a read:

If the plan is followed, the Palestinian Legislative Council (parliament) and the Central Council of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) will meet in Ramallah in the first week of March and elect Salam Fayyad as the first prime minister of the Palestinian Authority. The two bodies will also approve a series of additional appointments: Abu Mazen will be elected vice-president, Mohammed Dahlan will become national security adviser and, the crowning achievement, Yasser Arafat will retain his status as president of the PA, but henceforth with mainly symbolic tasks. Something like Moshe Katzav in Israel. Abu Ala will remain Speaker of the Legislative Council.


That is the Israeli plan, which has the backing of the Quartet (the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations), Egypt and Jordan. The finishing touches were put on the plan this week in London, when the Israeli delegation gave its consent to the convening of the two bodies, provided no one tainted with terrorism participates.[...]