I can't help but think of Amira Hass's article of this past summer. Her words reverberate over and over again in my mind.
The experiment was a success: The Palestinians are killing each other. They are behaving as expected at the end of the extended experiment called "what happens when you imprison 1.3 million human beings in an enclosed space like battery hens.
The average person don't know what to think anymore. They are confused and and exhausted and mostly very, very afraid.
As a friend of my mother put it today, "We don’t know anymore who's right and who’s wrong, and who’s at fault and who isn’t. And we just want it to end."
Given that last quote, I would say the "policy" (heavy sarcasm) is working just exactly the way it was intended to.