In truth, while the Fatah-dominated government had serious corruption problems, the Hamas organization is morally corrupt. It used violence not as a weapon of resistance, although that is what they claimed, but as an immoral tool to block the very peace process that gave legitimacy to the election system that allowed Hamas to rise to "minority control" of the PA.

 

It is so important to understand that the peace process failed not solely because of the difficult hurdles on the Palestinian refugees and the City of Jerusalem that both Israeli and Palestinian negotiators failed to overcome, but because Hamas intentionally used suicide bombings at each and every junction where peace talks were poised to make headway.

Wow.  Which neocon Zionist thug could have come up with that assessment?  Avigdor Lieberman?  John Podhoretz?  Bibi Netanyahu?

Wrong, wrong and wrong.  It is Palestinian-Chicagoan Ray Hanania writing in Yediot Ahronot.  And he continues....

But their real goal is not the imposition of the Hijab on women, but the subjugation of women, Christian Palestinians and secular Muslims by denying them an equal voice in Palestinian society. Hamas terrorists firebombed symbols of secular lifestyle, including restaurants that have served alcohol, nightclubs that have permitted intermingling of young men with women and dancing.

 

Worse, though, Hamas has allowed their armed factions to act outside of the authority of the PA, firing Qassam rockets into Israel not as acts of defensive resistance but as a provocation to create increased conflict that allows their political counterparts to exploit the Palestinians who are then the victims of Israeli retaliation.

 

Hamas cannot claim they are both a resistance movement and the majority leadership of the secular Palestinian Democratic government.

 

They have played both sides not for the sake of achieving Palestinian goals of democratic statehood, but to strengthen their base as an Islamicist power that has exploded into a mini-Hamastan State....  

 

In the battle against religious fanaticism, secular forces always seek to compromise while the religious extremists, driven by faith, cannot compromise on their faith and continue to seek the destruction of the other side.