The Talibanization of Gaza continues: Hamas is going to expel girls for not wearing head coverings and full-length robes to school. They’ve also begun to segregate the sexes. No icky boys teaching girls; no icky girls teaching boys. Anyone want to start a pool on when the Mutaween squads hit the streets?
A trip down memory lane: Remember this op-ed in the Times after Hamas took over Gaza? It’s titled “What Hamas Wants.”
We want to get children back to school, get basic services functioning again, and provide long-term economic gains for our people.
Our stated aim when we won the election was to effect reform, end corruption and bring economic prosperity to our people. Our sole focus is Palestinian rights and good governance. We now hope to create a climate of peace and tranquillity within our community that will pave the way for an end to internal strife.
The fox in the UN henhouse: I know you’re going to be shocked to discover that one of the “fact-finders” on the Goldstone Commission published a virulently anti-Israel letter insisting that Israel had no right to self-defense from Hamas rockets. And while I have the UN Watch in my blogroll, I have no hope at all that their letter will ruffle so much as a feather at the UN—your international home of anti-semitism masquerading as anti-Israelism.
Swedish paper double-dog-dares Israel to prove that they’re not harvesting organs: Yes, the Aftonbladet published a second article, this time with even more non-evidence: They went back and asked the Palestinians if they’re really, really, really sure that the IDF stole their son’s organs. Now that’s reporting!
Segregating girls? Making them wear restrictive garb? Keep us posted, Meryl, on the outcry from western feminists about this limitation of the rights of women to choose how they want to live their lives; the condemnations will be popping up on the internet like dandelions after a rainstorm. I assume.
Alex, do you read Phyllis Chesler? She speaks up about this very issue with great courage. And she is a western feminist.
Yabbut she isn’t one of the approved Sisterhood, not part of the club, Chesler not being a leftist before she’s a feminist.
Everywhere else such Sharia has been introduced the people hate it (that includes the Wahhabist entity too). I wish the Gazans joy of their new masters. May their leashes not chafe and choke them too badly. No doubt any unpleasantness and inconveniences (like people being murdered by Hamas, and corruption by Hamas) will be compensated for by Hamas leading them into killing Jews. When the Israelis retaliate and kill them in return, the Gazans can take comfort that such a situation was exactly what they wanted.