There are surface reasons and more profound ones why Hamas terrorists and their millions of supporters around the world are cheering as secondary Western nations scramble to recognize Palestinian statehood.

But none of them is that recognition will make a Palestinian state more likely. Most United Nations member nations already recognize a Palestinian state, and that has done nothing but spur murderous anti-Israel and anti-Western Islamist violence and pushed the prospect of a real Palestinian state beyond the horizon, perhaps into neverland.