The US demands that the Palestinian authority disarms Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other resistance groups. At the same time, it itself can´t do the equivalent in Iraq. Instead, it does far, far worser job. Take Haditha. US troops have given whole town over to Musab al-Zarqawi. And the only way the bumbling Yankees are capable of relieving towns of insurgents is to partially destroy them, like they destroyed a third of Fallulah. Where the insurgents are now returning. But still, the fact that they themselves can´t do the job on far greater resources and not having an occupying power on their back doesn´t stop the Yankees of making demands to the Palestinians. Of course, after all, they are "Americans", the second chosen people of god! Or so they themselves believe - even if one would think based on their success in Iraq that that especially US loving god of theirs doesn´t seem as much in love with them as they are with him.