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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Palestinian PM Fayyad Hospitalized
2013-04-02
[An Nahar] Paleostinian prime minister Salam Fayyad
...Fayyad's political agenda holds that neither violence nor peaceful negotiations have brought the Paleostinians any closer to an independent state. The alternative to both, violent negotiations, doesn't seem to be working too well, either...
was hospitalized on Monday with stomach pains, but his life was not in any danger, medics in Ramallah said.
Can we pray for sepsis anyway?
Poor PM Fayyad is perhaps the only honest man in the entirety of Palestinian governance. Let's wish him something debilitating enough to require him to retire to his former Austin stomping grounds, where he can talk economics with his old friends and play with his grandchildren.
Fayyad "suffered from a mild infection of the stomach and is being treated with antibiotics," a doctor at the hospital in the West Bank city told Agence La Belle France Presse.

The 61-year-old, a smoker who suffered a heart attack during a private visit to the United States in May 2011, could be kept at the hospital overnight for observation, the source added.

A former bigwig at the International Monetary Fund, Fayyad is an economist who won respect for cleaning up the finances of the Paleostinian Authority and improving security in the West Bank.

He has headed the Paleostinian government since June 2007, after the Islamist Paleostinian movement Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, seized control of the Gazoo Strip.

Rumors have been swirling in the past few days that Fayyad is to be removed from the post following a dispute with the nationalist Fatah movement of Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
Posted by:Fred

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