The Palestinian prime minister, Salam Fayyad, warned today that a "moment of reckoning" was approaching as Israel and the Palestinian Authority prepare to embark this week on their first direct negotiations for 20 months. Setting out his second-year plans to build the institutions and framework of a Palestinian state - which the US wants complete in 12 months - Fayyad said the talks "can and must" succeed or the chances of a two-state solution to the conflict would fade. [Read the full article]