AnotherVoice

Waxahachie, Texas, March 29, 2005 -- Believing what I was raised to hold sacred, that every voice counts, I've bombarded my local paper for years with letters and op-eds (and been active in politics). Yet here in the heart of everyone's favorite "red state," where it's especially important that another voice be heard, no one seemed to be listening. This is my megaphone.

Saturday, August 27, 2005

Déja vu all over again?

On Friday, as reported in the New York Times, there was
. . . a huge Hamas march from Jabaliya refugee camp to Beit Lahiya in the bright sun, to celebrate the supposed victory of Hamas in driving Israel out of Gaza. More than 5,000 people, including a number of young children, marched under green Hamas banners that vowed, "We will continue," carried flags that combined the Palestinian and Hamas standards and wore green Hamas baseball caps stating, "There is no god but God and Muhammad is his prophet."
. . .
On Friday, perhaps 500 [Hamas] men marched with antitank rockets, automatic rifles and submachine guns. The Palestinian Authority has said that militants should not carry guns in the street. Hamas marchers, unusually, did not fire their weapons into the air, even though a van with a loudspeaker played recordings of automatic weapons fire and of explosions that were described as the suicide bombings of martyrs.

New posters showed a Rambo-like masked Hamas fighter stepping on the red-tile roofs of Israeli settlement homes while small, black-clad settlers in side-curls fled in terror.

There were also many women marching, a number of them wearing full covering - swathed in black, including the hands, with slits to see through, and topped by the green Hamas caps. Some carried or led young boys and girls dressed in military uniforms, carrying plastic guns.
. . .
Ayshah Kahlout, 70, a refugee from Ashkelon, sat in the shade watching the men of Hamas march by with their guns. "I feel like ululating," she said. "I'm very happy. This is part of my land." Asked about the little children in uniform, she said, "I wish I could be pregnant again so I could bear more kids to be soldiers."
Marching militants with banners, anti-Jewish posters, uniformed youth brigades, and even a swooning woman wanting to bear children for the Cause. Scary.

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