WIN FITZPATRICK REPORTS a poll showing that most Palestinians support nonviolent action. Problem is, they support violent action, too, in the same proportion. So if this is progress, it’s not because Palestinians are getting less enthusiastic about violence, but only because they’re willing to at least consider nonviolence to some degree.

Of course, if they’d run a Gandhian campaign they would have won decades ago. But how long would they have to forego bombing bar mitzvahs and seders before that kind of approach would have credibility now?