text: A second major breakthrough occurred as the PA, recognizing that it had provided its people with few of the benefits of good governance, concluded that reform was necessary. Today, a visitor traveling in the West Bank sees evidence of progress: a growing economy, a coherent scheme of security, and a leadership that talks seriously about such things as planning, education, and economic development. Palestinians of considerable abilitySalam Fayyad, Ali Jarbawi, and Hazem Attallah, to name a feware at work developing the infrastructure of statehood.