Hamas' failure to govern could lead to real peace

Hamas has won the recent Palestinian elections and the world is shocked. I can’t figure out why. Islamo-terror-fascists have been preaching hatred of Israel for decades and in no place more than in Palestine. So why are people shocked that the party that hates Israel the most won? Seems to me, if Fata wants to win the government back, all they have to do is be more stridently anti-Israel than Hamas.

But hating is easy, governing is difficult. I have often argued that until the west allows Israel to crush the Palestinians, there’s going to be trouble between them. With their support for a political party that advocates the destruction of their neighbor, the Palestinian people may have unwittingly set the west and the Israelis on that course.

Hamas is sure to find out that blowing up school children on a bus is easy compared to getting the trash picked up. A suicide bomber in a café is a piece of cake compared to getting the buses to run on time. Hamas is good at disrupting things, now they have to make things work. It’s easy to advocate the destruction of Israel to get a few votes. It’ll be difficult to renounce that thought to get the western support required to make Palestine a viable state.

When you’re out of power it’s easy to lob rockets into Israel to destabilize the peace process. When you’re the government, lobbing rockets into your neighbor’s country is considered an act of war. When the neighbor is Israel and you’re an Arab nation, it usually means a swift and decisive a$$whiping.

Nobody was hoping Hamas would win the Palestinian election. Now that they have, they will have to govern, something it seems they are ill equipped to do. When they fail, they will return to form and attack Israel. When they do that, Israel should be allowed and encouraged to administer a crushing and humiliating military action against Hamas that will clear the way for a real peace.