Hamas, time to call it quit and call for a new election. It is time to end the Israeli Occupation not to repeat the Fatah legacy

Let me state from the very start that Hamas engagement in suicide bombing within Israel of 67 was not only morally wrong, but was a disaster for Hamas and for the Palestinian people and cause. As a former soldier, I always believe in the rights of the Palestinians in fighting the occupation using military means. However, I never accepted the idea of killing and murdering innocent civilians and never understood let alone believe in the fairy tales of 70 virgins waiting for those who commit simple murder of innocent people.
One year have passed since Hamas won a fair and square elections, perhaps the most open and closely watched elections in any part of the Arab world. Of course, if one is to look into the backgrounds of such election, one can see that the Palestinians voted for Hamas, not because Hamas want to liberate Palestine from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River, but because the people were sick and tired of Fatah, and its long time dominance of Palestinian politics and decision making process. More importantly, the Palestinians by voting Hamas in, where voting Fatah, the corrupt to the core organization out of office. It is an open secret that Fatah not only robbed the country blind but also was fleecing every one and every company, not to mention the collusion of some of its leadership with the Israeli Occupation, let alone entering into business with the Israeli Occupation in building the Wall and Israeli settlements.
Too bad that Fatah colluding with Israel, the US and the EC did not give Hamas a chance to show what they can do and to meet their commitments to clean a corrupt government. Hamas was virtually isolated and boycotted by key countries and by the Palestinian leadership from the very start. As such it is very difficult to make a judgment on Hamas performance as a government. It simply did not have a chance to do any thing. More over, Fatah and its partisan civil service Fatah cronies (reminds me of the days of the late Richard Daley and Chicago) making sure that Hamas got itself in a hole with worries about meeting the payroll for Fatah employees and never have the chance to implement and carry out any of its reforms and clean the government and bring charges against those who simply fleeced the people, let alone end the occupation.
During its first year of office, Hamas have failed at all fronts. It failed at meeting the payroll, failed at keeping law, order and security, and of course failed at ending the occupation and made a mess of the Israeli evacuation from Gaza. However one must not put all of the blames on Fatah and its leadership. Hamas and its leadership should also share the blames. Hamas simply failed to understand the need to reach out to the world and to reach out to the Arab countries, especially King Abdallah of Saudi Arabia and enlist his support for the Arab Peace Plan. Hamas acted as if it is living in a vacuum, with the elected leadership waiving its rights to make decisions for the people, giving such rights to the un-elected leadership in Damascus. Hamas failed to inform the people who elected it to power, and tell them that Khalid Mishal has a veto power over any thing and every thing, and that the voters are beholding to the decisions from Damascus. Hamas never acted like a government.
Hamas leadership proved itself as incompetent as that of Fatah, putting the interest and priorities of people on the back burners while putting its own selfish interest first. So far, Hamas did not come up with an alternative to President Mahmoud Abbas election platform. Meanwhile, Hamas and Fatah by supporting kidnapping and killing of each other and of innocent people proved they are unfit and are incapable of leading the struggle to end the Israeli Occupation. The Palestinian people and especially leading intellectuals and businessmen such as Dr. Mustafa Bargouthi, and Dr. Haider Abdul-Shafi share the responsibility for not mobilizing the people to have an alternative leadership to the old and failed, incompetent and corrupt Fatah and provide an alternative to Hamas which proved it is not yet ready for prime time and certainly does not have the world view needed to gain the support of the Arab and world community to end the Israeli Occupation.
Too bad for the people of Palestine, Hamas and Fatah have moved away from the main mission, which is ending the Israeli Occupation and focusing on their own narrow and selfish interests, while exposing the people and the country to the risk of civil war. It seems that the Palestinian people are unwilling to learn from the past and are incapable to rise up to the occasion. The Palestinian leadership for the last 100 years or so has been nothing but a disgrace, full of selfish interest and incompetent to lead to independence and freedom. Hamas leadership is behaving in the same way as Fatah leadership, of course absence the corruption and fleecing of the people, but never the less as incompetent as Fatah. Those responsible for the killing in Gaza should be brought to trial, but then there was never an independent system of justice and court system. The absence of the rule of law, was supported by the US and Israel and Europe during the days of Arafat, when his preventive security organizations where arresting people left and right and were committing acts of torture, not to mention acts of murder. All this was ok with the US and Israel as long as Arafat was meeting his contractual security commitment to Israel. Khalid Mishal, why are you making the decisions, when you were never elected by any one, and never appeared on the ballot? If the Palestinian people wanted to have a government run from Damascus, they would say so. Mr. Ismail Haniyah, you are a decent man, but you do not have the leadership and the will power to lead and make decisions on your own. As for Fatah it is a lost cause, there is nothing that could be done, not even $500 million from the US could ever fix and repair such an organization. One would think with Arafat death the idea of Arab trusteeship is over, however Hamas proved us wrong. If Damascus is unable to liberate the Golan Heights how can Hamas believe Damascus is able to liberate the Palestinians from the Israeli Occupation?