The bloody events of the past week in Gaza have shown just how precarious the Palestinian unity government actually was. COMMENTARY has a wealth of material in its archives dealing with the various crises provoked by the Palestinian leadership (such as it was and is), and the West’s conciliatory responses to it, over the past thirty years. We offer a few of the best for this weekend’s reading.

Israel After Disengagement
Hillel Halkin – October 2005

Wye and the Road to War
Douglas J. Feith – January 1999

Can the Palestinians Make Peace?
Daniel Pipes – April 1990

How the PLO Was Legitimized
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick – July 1989

The Palestinians and the PLO
Bernard Lewis – January 1975

Guerrillas and Terrorists
Walter Laqueur – October 1974

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