So much for peace in the Middle East

Those whose naivette and/or anti-Semitism has deceived them into believing that the poor, picked-on Palestinians have any interest whatsoever in peace today no longer have an excuse.

Al Fatah no longer is the governing party in the Palestinian Authority. Hamas is.

It's kind of hard to make a peaceful settlement with folks who vote decisively for a terrorist organization to be their government-in-waiting. Or to entertain any notion that they're even marginally rational.

ADDENDUM: In the wake of the Hamas victory, analysts have speculated that the ineptitude, inefficiency and corrupton of Al Fatah- rather than stark, raving insanity- may have motivated the Palestinian people to make their fateful choice. Perhaps- but as long as Hamas is running things, the Palestinians will be a pariah people among the nations of the Earth nonetheless.