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FEMALE ACTIVISTS MOBILIZED
An Hamas granny may have blown herself to pieces, but, as Associated Press reports, Palestinian feminists still face many years of struggle before liberation is achieved:
A grandmother-turned-suicide bomber, a small army of women marching into a battlefield, thousands of veiled volunteers hitting the streets in an election campaign - the Islamic militant group Hamas is increasingly mobilizing its network of female activists.
Correction to my intro: the grandmother wasn’t blown to pieces. She was mobilized.
Yet the Hamas women, known as the Sisterhood, say such high-profile missions have not changed how the group is run: the men make decisions, the women have a supporting role, at best.
It’s so unfair. Why should men get to kill all the Jews?
But even in the rigidly conservative [ahem—ed] movement, whose manifesto defines women as “manufacturers of men,” some female activists are demanding a say in politics and in Hamas’ military wing, which has carried out scores of deadly attacks against Israelis in recent years.
Say it loud, sisters! Say it explosively loud!
A suicide bombing on Thursday by a 64-year-old grandmother who blew herself up [was “mobilized”—ed] near Israeli soldiers in Gaza was an exception, not the rule, said Abu Obeida, spokesman for Hamas’ military wing. He suggested she was chosen because it would have been more difficult for a man to approach the target.
Mere tokenism. True equality will only come when the Sisterhood lies dead and bleeding all over the Middle East. Also, what’s with the sexism of that 72 virgins deal? (By the way, note the hilariously mild headline on this piece: “Hamas women seek bigger political role”.)
UPDATE. Oh, this is just lovely. LGF reveals that AP’s writer, Diaa Hadid, is Australian—and so hateful of Israelis she can’t stand to look at them:
The intensity of Hadid’s involvement over the last nine months has had a strong impact on her views. When she first arrived in the Middle East, Hadid expressed a desire to make more Israeli friends. Now she has trouble separating the personal from the political.
“I can’t look at Israelis anymore. I can’t separate your average Israeli citizen from the occupation, I don’t want to be friends with them, I don’t want to talk to them,” says Hadid.
Allowing Hadid to report from the Middle East is like allowing a Klansman to report from Alabama in 1963.
UPDATE II. Canada’s National Post on Hamas’s gran-based terror tactics:
The good news is that al-Najar was unsuccessful: She didn’t kill anyone except herself. And we suppose it’s also good news that Hamas is so short of recruits that they must now resort to brainwashed grandmas—much as the Nazis conscripted young boys and old men in the waning days of the Second World War.
The bad news is that—well, the bad news is that there are Muslims on this earth who think Allah wants them to turn grandmothers into walking bombs. It seems the harder Israel and the rest of the world try to give the Palestinians their own country, the harder they try to prove that they don’t deserve one.
Some grandmothers choose life.
Damned Bushitler stealing the elderly’s Social Security checks. Force them to do desperate things.
When will this end?
Posted by SMGalbraith on 2006 11 25 at 01:03 PM • permalinkBut, but, but, if more Palestinian women decide to, er, broaden their horizons, won’t this have an adverse impact on future martyr manufacturing?
Seriously, this is just sick. I propose that we flood Palestine with leaflets pointing out that female martyrs will get 72 male virgins who look just like James Woolcott. That ought to put a stop to this business.
“if more Palestinian women decide to, er, broaden their horizons, won’t this have an adverse impact on future martyr manufacturing?”
She’s already produced 48 grandchildren and is past child-bearing age. Hence, to the Hamas elite” she’s become expendable. Strange how you never see the Palestinian leaders or their families volunteering for this great honor.
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2006 11 25 at 03:22 PM • permalinkvia your mates at LGF: the journo is an Aussie with a few of her own Israel questions…
http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/stories/2002/international/israeljoe.htmlBetween their new brigade of splodyistas, and five year old martyrs in training, there ought to be a change in the “think of the women and children” (not to mention the grannies) branch of bleeding hearts. Hamas has long pointed out that every body in Israel is a soldier or potential soldier, and is therefore fair game. What’s good for the victims is good for the splodydopes.
She was mobilized in many, many different directions at the same time.
Posted by Ernst Blofeld on 2006 11 25 at 03:37 PM • permalinkI think you stopped too soon Tim. A few paragraphs down is this:
Such a day came earlier this month when Hamas gunmen were encircled by Israeli troops in northern Gaza. Hundreds of women, led by Shanti, marched into the battlefield. Dodging Israeli fire, they provided a human shield that enabled some of the trapped gunmen to get away. Two women were killed.
So the women were relying on the “weakness” of the IDF (in trying to avoid civilian casualties) and acting as human shields for gunmen who don’t care about civilian casualties. Asymetric warfare indeed.
Clearly, Fatima Omar Mahmud al-Najar is the Susan B. Anthony/Amelia Earhart/Rosa Parks/Betty Freidan/Gloria Steinam of Hamas.
All Palestinians - nay, everyone, is the better for her.
Thanks to Diaa Hadid for putting this great pioneer into context. Before I read her wire copy, I was convinced that al-Najar was merely a venomous, souless psychopath.
Now, I think she’s a venemous, souless, psychopathic feminist icon.
Thanks, Diaa.
Posted by SoCalJustice on 2006 11 25 at 05:26 PM • permalinkSlightly O/T: Shelly Gare [author: “The Triumph of the Airheads and the Retreat of Commonsense”] talking to “Frazzledy” Fran Kelly on ABC RN Breakfast mentioned that MoDo, while on a visit to promote her book “Are Men Necessary?”, came across as a “cokehead”, although she was a Pulitzer Prize winner ... incongruous to be an airhead and good wordsmith ...?
#12
Well spotted. The link is here and quotes the journo:
“I can’t look at Israelis anymore. I can’t separate your average Israeli citizen from the occupation, I don’t want to be friends with them, I don’t want to talk to them,” says Hadid.
Charles points out “This, of course, means she’s perfectly qualified to write stories about Israel for the Associated Press.”
Sounds like the Palestinians might have a use for Germaine Greer
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 11 25 at 09:38 PM • permalink#27 Dan, I am so glad I don’t have a drink within reach.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 11 25 at 09:45 PM • permalinkFunny, I never heard a word about the exploding Granny on the ABC’s main news broadcast!
You rarely hear anything at all when Palestinians kill themselves or eachother in droves, but there’s much wailing and anguish as well as cold-blooded, opportunistic, fashionable point-scoring, when a wicked Israeli is responsible!
When will Arabs wake up and realise that they’re just fashionable fodder for the shallow chattering classes?Did some more checking on that “Aussie” reprter.
http://ngo-monitor.org/editions/v2n11/v2n11-2.htm
“In addition, Ittijah has joined a number of Palestinian NGOs in rejecting anti-terror clauses in funding agreements, specifically USAID and the Ford Foundation.). In its January 16, 2004 newsletter, Ittijah backed the campaign of the Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network (PNGO), against USAID’s anti-terrorism clause that states that funds will not be used to “provide material support or resources to any individual or entity that advocates, plans, sponsors, engages in, or has engaged in terrorist activity”.
Nope nothing to see here move allong…
http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/stories/2002/international/israeljoe.html“Thanks to the work of Hadid and Ittijah’s contacts inside the West Bank, the media was able to skirt around an Israeli information blackout and gain news of killings taking place within the Jenin refugee camp.”
Ok my crap detector is twitching.
Their own site.
http://www.ittijah.org/about/about01.htmlA cesspool of shite.
In August 2004, Ittijah achieved Special Consultative status from the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, the first Palestinian NGO within Israel to gain consultative status with a United Nations council
Awww how cute the UN loves them.
I think any chance of her reporting in something other than a polemical style can be discounted.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 11 25 at 10:25 PM • permalinkOops sorry, forgot to mention she was media director for this group for a number of years.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 11 25 at 10:32 PM • permalink‘“I can’t look at Israelis anymore. I can’t separate your average Israeli citizen from the occupation, I don’t want to be friends with them, I don’t want to talk to them,” says Hadid.’
Typical of what you would expect from an Associated (with terrorists) Press employee.
It’s Hardly surprising that they’re propagandizing for HAMAS.
Bunch of scumbags.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 11 25 at 10:48 PM • permalinkAnd just three weeks ago Mama Moonbat was in Washington urging Americans to vote for Mercedes-Benz.
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2006 11 25 at 11:42 PM • permalinkI am woman, hear me roar
In pieces too numerous to ignore
And I know too much to go back an’ pretend
no good for breeding anymore
And I’ve been giving birth down on the floor
But no one’s ever gonna want to reproduce with me again
Oh yes I am dumb
But it’s stupidity born of pain
Yes, I’ve paid the price
But look how much I exploded
If I have to, I can kill myself
I can put on a belt (belt)
I am explodable (explodable)
I am a Palestinian womanA suicide belt will no doubt break me
‘cause it only serves to make me
More able to achieve my final goal
And I come back in many more pieces
Not a novice any longer
‘cause you’ve deepened the explosion in my soulI am woman watch me explode
See me ‘sploding toe from toe
As I splode my lovin’ arms across the land
But I’m still an embryo
With a long long way to go
No longer just a walking tentOh yes I am gullible
But stupid is what stupid does
Yes, I’ve paid the price
But look how much I gained
If I have to I can spontaneously combust
I’ve stopped breeding (breeding)
I am expendable (expendable)
I am a Palestinian woman
Oh, I am a Palestinian woman
I am expendable
I am combustibleFADE
I am Palestinian woman
I am combustible
I am no longer breeding
I am expendablePosted by Margos Maid on 2006 11 26 at 01:09 AM • permalink#40,41, the really sad thing is that MM is probably bang on target with that.
We can joke all we like about exploding grannies, but this exposes the moral vacuum that is islamofacism more than anything else
The young can be easily led, but where is the supposed veneration for the elderly and the women. We all know about it, but that her children can celebrate this act saddens me more than anything else.
They truly are Godless in their meaningless existences.
No God has ever demanded a ‘sacrifice’ like this that I can think of.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 11 26 at 05:58 AM • permalink
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I can hardly wait for AP’s piece on Hamas’ gay activists! But I guess I’ll have to wait for that next Saturday. Darn serials.