Hamas growing pains

Hamas is suffering for having won the war. Hamas has to run the place (Gaza) and life there sucks. Hamas is being blamed. The tunnels in the area used for smuggling are not working. Hamas is helping security. They shoot the bad people. Hamas is simply not ready to run a country. The people they rule are looking for bureaucrats to run things.This is one of those old stories. A group is good at revolution, but suck at getting clean water to homes and keeping trashed picked up.

After World War II, the Jews world wide were handed a homeland. Israel was born out of guilt that the Jews were so hated all over the world that they deserved to have a place of their own. A place they can call home. Somewhere where they will not be opressed or spit on, few dirty looks and sneers from round corners.

For a while it worked. Israel was catching hell from the locals, the people who would become Hamas one day. That is, until 1967 and the Six Day War. Israel kicked Egypt's ass in fifteen minutes of effort. Made Egypt look like shit in the process. the whole reason Israel existed had just been torn down and blown up. There was no longer a need to feel sorry for Jews having been slaughtered or Israel in general because they were able to take care of themselves. All the old hatred could come back. Just so long as it was covered in a tarp of politically correct speech.

it is politically incorrect to hate a people or a religion or a thought or something people say. The word 'hate' is politically incorrect. In the name of political correctness, some Muslims wants to outlaw critical speech of Islam. This is a direct assault on the most fundamental part of democracy, being able to bitch about things. This effort is being held in the United Nations.

Hamas is about to find out what it is like when it becomes OK to disagree, complain, criticize someone. Hamas has moved from rebels with a valid cause status to a very poor governing body rife with human rights violations status.

Hamas has many choices.

• Hamas can fall apart and remain a rebel group leaving a vacuum that will be filled by someone even worse.
• Hamas might lumber on as the governing body of Gaza for a while and thumb their nose at the rest of the world and their complaints of poor leadership.
• Hamas might straighten up and make a serious attempt to become a political party. This would require maturity, leadership, control of factions within the 'party'
• Hamas might be kicked out by the next rebel group.

I'm with the first. What other bullets should be on this list?

There is one thing that I'm sure of. When all is said and done regarding Israel and indeed the intire middle east and all decendence of those who were born there or care even a little bit about the subject, people will still hate each other for no good reason.