And this whole mess, I'd actually say, is not Israel's fault. Not even for creating the conditions. Things were working reasonably well during the peace process -- if you don't mind the outright kleptocracy of Arafat and his cronies and their rather thuggish approach to maintaining their rule. Which the Palestinians apparently didn't mind enough to get rid of him. Then they let themselves get led into war and violence, and everything descended into chaos as all the infrastructure and society that the Palestinians had built up over the previous decade got destroyed and consumed. This is an illustration of what happens when people decide "oh, this autocrat is okay, he's on our side" -- autocrats die, and they don't leave behind an institutional mechanism of succession. Just barbarism.
(I'll be back to offending the right soon too, don't worry)
