Is Palestine an emergent nation-state?  Or are Palestinians content with having their national aspirations reduced entirely to a violent opposition to Israel?

Ha'aretz reports,

The Palestinian minister of the interior and national security, Saeed Seyam of Hamas, announced yesterday the formation of a new armed "operational force" at his ministry that will constitute a police arm directly subordinate to him....

Seyam's announcement provides a counterweight to a series of moves by the office of the presidency headed by PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), who issued a presidential order appointing Rashid Abu Shbak, former chief of preventive security in the Strip, as head of "Internal Security" - a new entity that unites the interior ministry's security agencies, which are ostensibly controled by Hamas but also receive orders directly from Abbas.

The primary security function of a nation-state is the establishment of its monopoly on violence.  But the developing Hamas leadership of the Palestinian Authority appears determined to establish its own militia in competition with a broader security apparatus.  Under the Hamas government, Palestine is shaping up as less an emerging nation-state than a collection of militias, each with their own separate agenda.

For an fledgeling nation-state with a floundering economy, huge public service needs, and drastic shortages of basic provisions like food and medicine, does anyone even care how Palestine has become so rich in militias, guns and bombs?

The death toll is up to eight, so far, from a jointly claimed Islamic Jihad-al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades suicide bomber attack on a falafil stand near the old bus station in Occupied Tel Aviv.

As the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority explains, it is naturally the fault of the Zionist Entity.

Hamas official spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri called the attack "a natural result of the continued Israeli crimes against our people."

"The Israeli occupation bears responsibility for the continuation of its aggression. Our people are in a state of self-defence and they have every right to use all means to defend themselves," he added.

Pretty simple, really.  If the Jews would only return to their previously stateless condition, the world would be a much better place.