They've decided to start killing their real enemy again

From The New York Times:

MECCA, Saudi Arabia, Feb. 8 — The main rival Palestinian factions agreed late Thursday to form a government of national unity aimed at ending a wave of violence between them and an international boycott.

The agreement, signed here in Islam’s holiest city under Saudi auspices, appeared likely to end, at least for now, weeks of fighting that had ravaged the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Still, it seemed to stop short of meeting the demands of the international community for resuming relations and support for the Palestinian Authority.

The accord, signed by Khaled Meshal of Hamas and Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president and leader of Fatah, its main rival, is the first time that the two parties have agreed to share authority. It sets out principles for a coalition government, like the distribution of ministerial portfolios, but leaves many of the details for later.

Israel and international powers have said that they would lift their boycott of the Palestinian government imposed after the victory by the militant group Hamas a year ago only if it agreed to three conditions: recognize Israel, renounce violence against Israel and abide by previous agreements between Israel and the Palestinians.

The Mecca accord addresses only the last of those and does so rather imprecisely, promising “respect” for previous agreements between the Palestinians and Israel.

To socialists elites like the US Department of State, the Eurocrats in the European Union and other antisemitic loons like former president Jimmy Carter this will seem like good news. To those of us with functioning brains this is anything but.

This agreement between the two murderous terrorist organizations, which are the only kind of government that the Palestinian people will tolerate, will, if it holds, just allow them to stop doing civilization a favor by killing each other and resume killing Jews.

That the government of Israel thinks that the promise of recognition from the Palestinian government has any meaning whatsoever is a telling indictment of just how clueless they are.

The Palestinians will make peace with Israel when Israel has beaten them so badly that they have internalized their defeat. When they look around and see no hope whatsoever and realize that if they don't give up there won't be enough of them left to continue as a "people" they will crawl to the Jews and say, with absolute sincerity, "what must we do for you to stop killing us?"

At that point the war will end and there will be peace. Just as the US achieved peace with the Japanese by fire bombing (and nuclear bombing) their wood and paper cities.

Anything less will keep the low intensity warfare alive and simmering for more decades.