The State Department reportedly decided last week to allow Jibril Rajoub, a high-ranking Fatah official, to take part in upcoming meetings with American diplomats in the U.S., despite his history of participation in terror and his ongoing, repeated encouragement of attacks on Israeli civilians. Michael Rubin comments:

If there is to be a resolution to the conflict between the Jewish state and a putative Palestinian one, writes Jonathan Michanie, it won’t start with drawing lines on maps or restrictions on where Jews can build houses, but with the Palestinian Authority (PA) abandoning its official anti-Semitism. The PA can, in this regard, learn much from those Arab nations that have recently made peace with Israel: