Continuing to misunderstand what might work.

So Hammas gets tired of the corrupt tinhorns who claim to be the authorities in Gaza, and summarily removes them from power.

The tinhorns in the west bank, having abandoned their friends in Gaza, start to take the threat personally. For one, they have this governmental problem. They lack a majority in parliament. No problem for a tinhorn: you arrest the opposition politicians.

And the US rushes to the aid of the tinhorns.

I mean, are we not democrats?

No, we're not, and we never were, but the problem with US policy with respect to the Palestinian issue is that we lack the will to hold the Palestinians responsible for their own choices. If they want Hammas, then by God they should have Hammas.

And if Hammas is a threat beyond their own borders, Hammas, and those who elected them, should face the consequences of that threat being suppressed.

To allow the Palestinians to be an "ongoing humanitarian crisis" while they continue to select terrorists as their leaders just doesn't work. It perpetuates the problem.

dw out.