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Examining the interview with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad.

PA PRIME MINISTER Salam Fayyad sworn in
Photo by: Mohamad Torokman/Reuters
O n January 18, The Jerusalem Post Magazine featured an interview with Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Fayyad, characterized by softball questions that provided him with an opportunity to evade any response that might shine a light on inconvenient topics and expose his actual policies. Instead of challenging the veracity of misleading answers, the interviewer allowed them to pass, depriving readers access to real facts as opposed to the notions that Fayyad wanted to propagate. Here are 20 questions that the interviewer could have asked Fayyad: 1. You define all areas taken by Israel in 1967 as illegally “occupied.” Who occupied this territory between 1948 and 1967? Was it not the Jordanians? Was their occupation legal? Where was the Palestinian Arab state then? 2. You assert that Jerusalem must be your capital. Does your deliberate omission of the phrase “east Jerusalem” mean that you will not be satisfied until all of Jerusalem is under your control? In your position paper, “Ending the Occupation, Establishing the State: Program of the Thirteenth Government – August 2009” you are on record as stating that you define all of Jerusalem as your capital.

Can we presume that this remains your goal today? Please clarify.

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