Truth is More Depressing Than Fiction

"Guns and bullets...are doing the talking," in Palestine these days, says the BBC. "The Palestinian unity government is something of a fiction," reports the New York Times. On the day when Palestinians were supposed to be commemorating the Israeli theft of their land (as they see it) -- the one way thing that could plausibly unite them -- they were busy killing each other.

In this situation, one shouldn't need a lot of fancy words to convey disgust. Most of the world doesn't really care about the Palestinian nationalist claims to their homeland, or Zionist claims for Greater Israel, or Islamist desires to establish a sharia-based state, or Israeli desires to create a liberal democratic state. They would just like people to stop killing each other. And given that simple requirement, there is no conceivable way to argue that the Palestinians deserve a state of their own. It doesn't even look like they want it.