By Taylor Luck

AMMAN – Global and regional politics are not yet ripe for a Palestinian state, according to Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, as leadership in Ramallah eyes a less than certain future.

The Palestinian premier, a champion of institution-building as a path to statehood, said the current political conditions within Israel, the Palestinian territories and across the world are not favourable to lead to concrete steps towards a Palestinian state.

“The conditions are not ripe for resumption of a political process capable of delivering an end to the Israeli occupation,” Fayyad said in a lecture delivered at the Amman-based Columbia University Middle East Research Centre on Thursday.

The former International Monetary Fund official said that with the EU preoccupied with the Eurozone crisis, the US nearing presidential elections, and the Arab Spring bringing sweeping change throughout the region, the Palestinian cause has been pushed to the background of policy makers’ concerns.

“The world has moved on and we are alone, effectively.”

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