Whither Palestinian youth?

The six insufferably long years of this Bush administration has meant six long years without any serious US brokered effort to bring peace in the conflict between the Palestinians and the Jews. During that time what has occurred? The largely secular Fatah movement once headed by Yasser Arafat has lost ground to the Islamist Hamas movement, the withdrawal of Jewish troops from the Gaza strip has turned it into a nightmare territory not too far distant from that imagined in Escape from New York and the youth of the occupied territories are become more and more radicalised.

A job well done I'd say.