Westerners’ persistent refusal to take the Palestinian president for what he actually is.

The more uneventful it is, the more both will see it as a success.

The journey to nowhere.

Palestinians would be better served by celebrating freedom than by nourishing grievance.

In the West Bank, it’s the ruler who matters, not the institutions.

The Palestinian Authority president can incite his people against Israel and ignore threats to his legitimacy.

Mahmoud Abbas surrounds himself with loyalists while losing his authority.

Hamas believes that the West Bank is ripe for the taking. It might be right.

Forgoing the ICC for the ICJ.

Even ostensibly private organizations may be implicated in pay-for-slay.

Had human-rights groups and the media paid attention, Nizar Banat might still be alive.

Mahmoud Abbas can’t lead Palestinians anywhere.

The regional, American, and Israeli contexts.

“I fired my shots, I threw my bomb, I detonated, detonated, detonated my belts . . .”