The New Republic
May 2012
A profile of Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian Prime Minister.
On a group of teenage believers raised in settlements on the West Bank:
They say it takes one generation to found a new language. These girls are a new language, believing that they belong to the land on which they were born, and sponsored by the government they despise, which pays for their roads and electricity.
Why has the Palestinian cause failed to produce a Martin Luther King-like leader with a platform based on non-violence?