Lose guns and democracy don't mix. Just like drinking and driving.. Part II

Hamas won the elections not because it offered a way to peace and ending the occupation, but because it was an alternative to a long time corrupt and incompetent Fatah. However, Hamas did try to reach over its head and thought it can offer a way out of the occupation, by having its own simplified way of solving the Arab-Palestinian conflict by continuing the armed resistance when, all knows that the kind of armed resistance they talk about could not liberate a chicken house. Simple minds think simply and Hamas leadership appeared to be “drunk” with their success began to make too many mistakes. Fatah with some help from the US and Israel fell into the trap and all conspired to nullified the election of Hamas by turning the issues from ending the occupation to paying the salaries and finding a way out of the boycott by the US and the European, who were never in favor of a democratically elected Palestinian government in the first place.
Hamas again committing a fatal mistake when it declared from Damascus and not Gaza, its terms and conditions for peace, in fact, it did not have any offers except continuing the armed resistance.
Hamas should have from day one after winning the election declared its “Peace Plan” with Israel and counting on the support of all major and key Arab states should have stated to the world that it accept King Abdullah Arab Peace Plan adopted in Beirut and conditioned its acceptance of Israel on Israel accepting an independent Palestinian state within 67 borders with Jerusalem as the shared capital of the two states and of course asking for a UN peace keeping force to take over the function of the different security forces organized by Arafat and funded by the US, Israel and the EC.
Simply stated Hamas blew it, because and sad to say Hamas leadership have a very simple “world view” and with no sophistication and no real understanding of world politics. Simple minds living in poor and besieged Gaza or living in big prison like Syria could not have any clue of what is going on and for sure perhaps hardly read any reports or finding or study papers by any of the key players. They simply followed the masses and did not rise to the occasion.
More troubling and stupid, is their continued insistence on armed resistance to Israel after Israel left Gaza. Instead of trying to find ways to make Gaza bloom creating jobs and creating economies that can feed the miserable people of Gaza, they succumbed to the notion they have won over Israel and gave way to small squads of illiterate and gun ho thugs who began to fire their stupid and useless “Qassam” rockets. Of course Israel was just waiting for these simple, stupid and arrogant mistakes and started to do what it wanted to do in the first place, destroy Gaza. Now it has good reasons to do so giving the world the impression that these stupid, useless rockets are ballistic missiles.
For sure Hamas was above its head in leading the Palestinians toward solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Fatah proved over some 45 years it is simply unfit and too corrupt and too incompetent and simply unprepared to lead the people to independence let alone managing the affairs of the state. Of course two poor choices put the Palestinians where they are now. Between a “rock and hard stone” with no choices between Hamas and Fatah. Both organizations are unfit for prime time democracy, let alone ending the occupation. Hamas succumbed to intoxication to power and Fatah never accepting defeat and its ability to continue to rob and steal, both have reduced the issue to one of open and armed civil conflict and not one of ending the more pressing issue of the Israeli Occupation. It is too sad that after some 60 years after the first exiles that the Palestinians do not have the visionary leadership to lead the people to independence.