Which would also be the only Palestinian leader to actually worry about the proper governance of his own people. Its about time someone there showed a little statesmanship.

The big problem is that most of the nations and people allegedly supporting the Palestinians don't actually give a damn about how they are actually governed. If it doesn't involve attacking Israel, they could care less what Palestinians do.

Spot on comment.

"all they "achieve" is to entrench this occupation by relieving the occupier from the cost - the otherwise onerous cost - of keeping the state of Palestine under the heel of the IDF."

Would suggest that you expand your Likud-tail to the obvious broader tale, eh?

"he isn't the dude who wants this occupation to continue until Hell Freezes Over."
Oh, but he is! Otherwise he would take up Netanyahu's offer to negotiate a mutually agreed peace which would provide Israel with the security it needs, and the Palestinians with the state they say they want.

Except, all evidence points towards the continuing fact that the Arabs DO NOT want another Arab state, IF it means accepting a secure nation state of the Jewish People at the same time. This has been the core of the conflict from the get go. This will mean a continuation of the conflict and occupation, until it changes. Especially in the context of the current instability and unrest, Israel cannot, and will not take any risks that put its ability to defend itself, by itself, in jeopardy.

"Unless Fayyad's economic reforms are matched by a parallel withering of Israel's military occupation of Palestine then his efforts are the very definition of pointless i.e. all they "achieve" is to entrench this occupation by relieving the occupier from the cost - the otherwise onerous cost - of keeping the state of Palestine under the heel of the IDF."

Maybe you should have read the article first before making such a silly (and canned) remark. Israel doesn't want Fayyad gone, nor do they have any control over his tenure. Its all Abbas here. The occupying Israelis aren't the ones enriching themselves on no-bid contracts, nepotism and embezzling humanitarian aid earmarked for Palestinian infrastructure. That's all Fatah.

Fayyad's efforts will come to naught because his confederates have never shown a desire to actually be accountable to their fellow Palestinians. Palestinian leadership has always been beholden to outside influence like the Arab League and others to the detriment of their own people. They sold out their people long ago to both keep the conflict going and to prevent anything resembling a government representing Palestinians. Both Fatah and Hamas are autocratic in nature and thoroughly corrupt.

More rockets were shot into Israel today. Is that simple enough for your bigot?

Oh, no, he isn't.

It isn't Abbas who wants "negotiations" merely to as a method of providing diplomatic cover for continued colonization of this occupatied territory.

It isn't Abbas who refuses to give up on the notion of Greater Israel.

That would be Netanyahu.

Abbas has no interest in playing in a Punch and Judy Show with Netanyahu, and certainly not when Bibi insists that he is is the only guy who gets to hold a stick.

Abbas wants REAL negotiations i.e. talks whose purpose is *about* how you get those two states up and running, and how to make both those states viable, independent and sovereign.

Netanyahu, I'll note, refuses to accept - heck, he refuses to even *acknowledge* - that this is what those negotiations are actually supposed to be about.

He wants to get together with Abbas to talk about the weather, apparently....

Straw man.

I said what I said i.e. without any prospect of ending this occupation then "Fayyadism" in itself is never going to be enough.

It isn't a matter of "holding back" Fayyad as it is pointing out that his efforts come to nought if the fate intended for the Palestinians is to rot away in bantustans.

And that, my friend, is exactly what Likud has planned for the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

And maybe you should make an attempt to comprehend my post before commenting on it.

"Israel doesn't want Fayyad gone,"

Where did I say that they did?

His reforms server a useful purpose for Israel i.e. the int'l donors who give Fayyad money help pay the cost of this endless Israeli occupation.

"nor do they have any control over his tenure."

And nowhere did I say that they did.

I pointed out merely that his efforts help relieve Israel of a considerable financial burden i.e. his projects help underwrite this endless Israeli occupation.

"The occupying Israelis aren't the ones enriching themselves on no-bid contracts, nepotism and embezzling humanitarian aid earmarked for Palestinian infrastructure."

OK, I'll try this one more time:
1) Israel is the occupying power.
2) Authority therefore rests with the army of occupation.
THEREFORE
3) Providing for the needs of the occupied is an obligation owed by the occupying power
HOWEVER
4) Israel is dodging that obligation by getting the int'l community to underwrite this occupation, even though Israel has no intention - none whatsoever - of ever ending this occupation.

That's the "problem" with Fayyadism i.e. while it makes sense if its end result is The Ending Of This Occupation, but from the Palestinian point of view it is pointless if the only purpose of it is to Underwrite The Cost Of An Endless Occupation.

It really is that simple.

at least one minor correction - many Israelis (the well-connected super rich ones) are definitely enriching themselves at the expense of the Palestinians and indirectly, the donors of the West. Israel controls all commerce in the occupied territories (at least all international commerce) and Israelis make enormous profits by this.

"More rockets were shot into Israel today."

Remind me again: was
(a) Faayad or
(b) Abbas
responsible for those rockets?

"Is that simple enough for your bigot?"

No, I would use the word "perplexing".

As in: it is perplexing to me why you think that topic is in any way relevent to the argument as to wether:
(a) Fayyad or
(b) Abbas
has The Better Plan for convincing the Israelis that this occupation should, you know, end.

Because the way I see it I don't think either of them is ever going to convince Netanyahu to end this occupation.

Greater Israel still beckons him on, you see.....