The problem with normal people sitting in a body of lawmakers alongside Democrats is that Democrats, unbelievably, are equally outraged over a terror attack in Orlando and a banana falling to the floor.

How can you create a productive work environment when half of the room holds that an impatient driver honking his horn and a terrorist merit identical punishment?

I was reminded of this puerile self-defeating manipulation this morning by a Los Angeles Times op-ed, “Israel’s land grab.”

In Jerusalem, the only capital in the world snubbed by foreign governments, the Israeli Knesset faces a similar challenge.

When Israeli lawmakers take an action regarding land, Palestinians rise as one, on cue, and protest vehemently.

Except for universally confused academics and their students who are irreversibly sympathetic, hardly anyone in the West takes Palestinian outbursts seriously.

Cats meow.

Dogs bark.

Palestinians terrorize, kill and kvetch.

This lockstep will resonate with all Americans who even casually follow Washington politics.

All known Palestinian politicians believe Israel illegally occupies every part of the land where Jews live, work, play, breathe.

That this stance wins huge support across the American academic community and their pliable students says more about them that it does about the invisible persuasive powers of Palestinians.

Israel and a variety of American governments have invested nearly seven decades in offering peace plans to the unsatisfiable Palestinians.

Palestinians will not be quieter until every Jew in Israel is murdered or flees the land.

Then the Palestinians will be able return to a favored pastime, killing each other.

Like the Democrats, Palestinians are not interested in solutions.

Both find fighting far more fulfilling.