Israeli airstrike into Gaza kills fighter

[Urbane Guerrilla]

I just blame the kind of Palestinian who can't think of anything better to do about it all than to be at feud with the Jews.

Presumably there are some other Palestinians who are smarter than that, and I wish they'd get busy shooting the other ones. Then the survivors can start making a ton of money trading with the Israelis. Shekels spend as well as dinars...

Was anyone paying attention to that portion of the British Mandate (or the Ottoman empire) before a bunch of Jews moved in and made a success of the place?

The root of the Palestinian problem is that Syria and Jordan won't allow them to be or to live in Syria and Jordan. Instead, these regrettable Middle Eastern Entities require the Palestinians to fester in their current condition.

Peoples have been shoved out of old territories before by the migrations of others; the Palestinians are in no unique case. Here, though, they have been forcibly prevented from resettling in some friendlier place by agencies external both to them and to Israel. That's about all the difference I can find.