But let’s renew talks, by all means.
Evelyn Gordon also discusses why the Palestinians think their war against Israel is a great success in today’s Jerusalem Post.

But it is time for Israel and the world to face up to what the Palestinians are really saying: that for an overwhelming majority of them, the "achievements" of undermining Israel's economy, security and international support are worth the steep personal and national price they have paid.

And as long as this is so, the idea that a Palestinian state would end the conflict is a pipe dream -- because the Palestinian goal is not a thriving Palestine alongside a thriving Israel, but a dying Israel, even at the price of a dying Palestine alongside it.

Update: Gil has posted a letter by one Palestinian who sees things differently. The heartbroken father of a suicide bomber bitterly challenges the religious leaders who sent his eldest son to die killing.