The 'Palestinian' illusion

Jonathan Spyer gets it mostly right in Haaretz - my only bone of contention with him is that his view of Salam Fayyad is far too optimistic for my tastes. Spyer argues that the West is refusing to acknowledge the reality of a divided 'Palestinian people' between Hamas and Fatah. So it's just pretending that the 2006 election never happened. That leads to this: The inability of even mainstream