"The occupation was not as bad"

It's killing Alan Johnston and the BBC to report "Gaza's spiral into anarchy." Every other sentence blames Israel for one thing or another. But it is very hard to hide the truth and so the BBC must report:

But there is now a growing appreciation of the depth of the malaise in Palestinian society

Hafiz Barghouti, the editor of the newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadeed, has written: "It appears we are neither prepared to change, nor admit that we have failed in running our own affairs. Everyone is busy calculating how to make the biggest possible gains at the homeland's expense.

"While most Palestinians find it easy to blame the occupation for all our ills, it is a fact that the occupation was not as bad as the lawlessness and corruption that we are now facing."

Oh really? Imagine that.