Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat decried the results of the Israeli elections saying that Israelis chose settlement, annexation and apartheid and that is what won the elections.

Erekat sounds surprised, or shocked. I am not sure why - this is the path we have been on, in the opinion of the Palestinians, ever since the Arabs rejected the Partition Plan in 1947. Why would he think that for 72 years the Israelis would invade and occupy their country and then one day just suddenly reject that?

The Palestinians have been our neighbors and partners in conflict for a long time, but they still don't seem to get us.