Internationally, Fatah and Hamas engaging in war crimes against each other punctures a supreme myth of modern politics – Palestinian victimization. Further, as two “Palestines” squabble over control of, say, the United Nations seat granted in 1974 to the Palestine Liberation Organization, they damage a second myth – of a Palestinian state. “The Palestinians have come close to putting, by themselves, the last nail in the coffin of the Palestinian cause,” the foreign minister Saudi Arabia observes, Saud al-Faisal. A Palestinian journalist notes sarcastically, “The two-state solution has finally worked.”
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