The recent trip of Israeli Minister for Regional Cooperation, Issawi Freij, to Oslo in an endeavor to drum up donations for a financially floundering Palestinian Authority is just another indication of the hopeless dysfunctionality of the current coalition in Israel, composed not only of factions with divergent, but diametrically opposed political ideologies.

The PA is an economic basket case, which, for three decades, has squandered billions of dollars in international aid—only to end up with a corrupt kleptocracy in the so-called "West Bank" and a tyrannical theocracy in Gaza, both totally dependent on the largess of its alleged oppressor.

A classic case of throwing good money after bad.