Yes.....and at the same time other Arab and Islamic states use the Palestinians as a stick to poke at the Israels with and find it convenient to keep the Pals in abject poverty so they can say to the world " Look what the Israelis have done to the Palestinians!" Meanwhile the Pals are at war with themselves and are consistently their own worse enemy, shooting themselves in the foot at every opportunity. Hardly anyone wants anything to do with them. They are the "untouchables" of the Middle East and are beginning to become a people like the gypsies, living by their wits and on the road endlessly, without a home or a future.

Arab culture loves the stories of the great leaders coming out of the desert to save or create nations and that's what the Palestinians need. A man capable of uniting them and winning a nation for them. I see no such person on the horizon, no Anwar Sadat to go into the home of the enemy and make peace. The only certainty seems to be that much more blood will flow in the streets of the filthy refugee camps that have been home to the Pals for generations now.