True to form, Palestinians have begun celebrating and shooting into the air in reaction to PM Sharon's illness. You know - we don't mean to be bitter - but it says something that this is how the Palestinian public reacts to the near-death of the single world leader who finally gave them land for a state (as opposed to, say, all those brave Arab leaders who never deigned to create a Palestinian state during the decades that they controlled the West Bank and Gaza Strip). When you consider how deep the pathology of hatred and resentment must run in Palestinian civil society, it's no wonder that the entire committee running their elections just quit.