Once hailed by Western pundits as the technocrat-magician who would conjure a Palestinian state into being through irrepressible institutional competence, Salam Fayyad has been unceremoniously sidelined from his job as Palestinian Prime Minister according to a deal announced Tuesday -- a sign of the collapse of the illusions projected onto him, and of the peace [...](http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=globalspin.blogs.time.com&blog=19871253&post=12194&subd=timeglobalspin&ref=&feed=1)
Attribution: MSNBC, Time & Topix.