This Isn't The Village You're Looking For

Tom Friedman yesterday suggested that the Palestinians were ready for peace with Israel. He actually thought that the Palestinian village was ready for peace. Hamas begs to differ. They've got a long term plan for Israel that doesn't actually include Israel:

"It can be a temporary solution, for a maximum of 5 to 10 years. But in the end Palestine must return to become Muslim, and in the long term Israel will disappear from the face of the earth."

That sounds suspiciously like genocide - the mass execution and slaughter of civilians because we know that Israel isn't going to go quietly into the night. They don't want accomodation, but an ever increasing slice of Israel to go to them.

Of course, don't expect the UN to raise a stink about this, since all they're good for is strongly worded condemnations and weak resolutions that have absolutely power behind them to stop carnage anywhere.