Pour le New York Times la démission du premier ministre Salam Fayyad ouvre la voie à un gouvernement de réconciliation nationale qui pourrait bien rebuter la communauté internationale. Même composé de « technocrates », il n’aurait pas plus de valeur aux yeux d’Israël qu’une direction politique dans laquelle siègerait le Hamas.
The New York Times
A Resignation Means More Uncertainty for the Palestinians
By ISABEL KERSHNER
Published: April 14, 2013
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/world/middleeast/fayyads-resignation-means-uncertainty-for-palestinians.html?pagewanted=all
“JERUSALEM — Salam Fayyad, the internationally respected Palestinian politician and economist, is widely credited for ending the chaos in the West Bank and putting things in order in his six years as prime minister. But his resignation over the weekend, the result of internal power struggles, has left the Palestinian Authority suspended in political ambiguity and confusion.
Analysts said Sunday that by accepting Mr. Fayyad’s resignation, the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, has put himself in a political bind just as the Obama administration has been trying to restart long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
That, many Palestinians say, is because the vacuum created by Mr. Fayyad’s resignation presents an opportunity for renewed reconciliation efforts between Mr. Abbas’s Fatah party and its bitter rival, Hamas, the Islamic militant group that controls Gaza. While healing the rift would be a popular course of action among Palestinians, it could complicate peace efforts and cause some Western donor nations to consider withholding much-needed funds, fearing that they could be used by Hamas. Hamas is classified as a terrorist organization by Israel, the United States and the European Union” (…)