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Source: http://www.jrep.com/Columnists/Article-2.html
Yes, Prime Minister!
(Jerusalem Report) Ehud Ya'ari - Finance Minister Salam Fayyad, the darling of the State Department and the IMF, has managed to halt Arafat's practice of doing whatever he likes with Palestinian Authority funds. However, Arafat still commands enough alternative resources for his purposes beyond the range of scrutiny of Fayyad's accountants. When Arafat talks about a prime minister, he is thinking of somebody who doesn't have the authority to make policy, but only to carry out instructions. To whom will the prime minister be responsible? To Arafat or to the Palestinian parliament?