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Bret Stephens in today’s Wall Street Journal:

It’s easy to understand why so many Palestinians would be keen to join the [Hamas] movement: What comparable form of moral and political transcendence can a little Palestinian state offer? But in choosing Hamas and the fantasy of pan-Islamism over secular Palestinian alternatives, they are also choosing to abandon Palestine itself.

My most recent column is also about pro-Palestinian fantasies:

[Pro-Palestinian protesters] have enacted as enablers in perhaps the most self-defeating national liberation movement in history. Instead of insisting that the Palestinians seize the realistic opportunities offered them, they’ve bolstered the rejectionists’ delusions that they can have it all – not just a state of their own, but a return to their old homes in Israel itself; not just a return to Israel, but a “binational” state that means the end of Zionism. Oh, and Hamas? Hold on to your fantasies of chasing the Jews into the sea. We’ll get to that, sooner or later.