The American negotiators who are planning to play an active role in the indirect talks, and will for the first time sit at the negotiating table if face-to-face talks do take place, have apparently promised the Palestinians that the US will point its finger at the party that dares to derail the negotiations. Such a US declaration (if it declares Israel at fault) would give Palestinians the opportunity to declare the talks a failure and thus move toward a unilateral declaration of statehood in the hope that the world community will recognize such a state.
El primer ministro palestino, Salam Fayyad, ha estado activo en la ejecución de un plan estratégico que se espera conduzca a un Estado palestino de facto dentro de año y medio.