Shock: Hamas leader’s nephews served in Israeli army
posted at 3:31 pm on June 2, 2006 by Allahpundit
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Why? Because his sisters are longtime citizens of Israel.
It’s the modern-day version of those stories about Hitler having been part Jewish:
The Daily Telegraph tracked down the Haniyeh sisters, Kholidia, Laila and Sabah, to a town in southern Israel. That they live in Israel is a closely guarded secret and nowhere is it guarded more secretly than Tel Sheva, a town inhabited mainly by Israeli Bedouin on the edge of the Negev desert.
“There is no reason to speak to my wife,” said Salameh Abu Rukayek, 53, who married Kholidia… Blind since birth, Mr Abu Rukayek sat on a thin floor cushion and said he was happy living in Israel. “Our life is normal here and we want it to continue,” he said…
Laila and Sabah are both widows but remain in Tel Sheva, apparently reluctant to give up their Israeli citizenship.
Should the Telegraph have published this? It warms this old cynic’s heart to think of Hamas on the political hot seat:
But it makes my blood run cold to think what awaits the Haniyeh sisters. Did they have to print their names?
Meanwhile, only in Saudi Arabia would there be women who don’t feel oppressed enough. Liberation through chastity belts:
[T]he black veil and the prohibition against women driving are embraced by many women here as a form of protection and an integral part of their religion.
Faiza al-Obaidi, a biology professor, says she thinks the attempts at Western-style female emancipation are part of a religious war being waged by the United States, “an intellectual rather than physical colonization.”…
Samia Adham, a statistics professor seated beside her, also in a veil, added: “This is a choice. We choose to be ruled by Islam. We will make changes, but within our religion and in our own way.”…
This year a Gallup poll in eight predominantly Muslim countries found that only in Saudi Arabia did the majority of women not agree that women should be allowed to hold political office. Last summer, 500 women addressed a letter to Abdullah asking him to save the country from the onslaught of Westernized ideas regarding women and to maintain the ban on women driving and working with men.
Mmmmmm, that’s good brainwashing!
On the other hand, one of the women interviewed for the article connects Bill Clinton to the devil. So, they can’t be all bad.
Update: Portrait of a lady who deprogrammed herself.
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Those girls are in a world of trouble
but I wonder what happens to Hamas’ leader when they find out his blood is corrupted
Defector01 on June 2, 2006 at 3:49 PM
Burqa Burqa! Mohammed Jihad!
inmanjh on June 2, 2006 at 3:51 PM
I remember as a kid, having a neighbor that fought with the US Army in Northern Africa during WWII and how would tell stories about the war. He talked about how lonely a soldier could get in the desert, but never, ever bad enough to spend time with the local Muslim women. Interesting how they feel that if they don’t hide their faces, men just go berserk with lust. Nice fantasy for them anyway.
Hening on June 2, 2006 at 4:42 PM
Hammas on a “political hot seat” is a good thing. Great thing!
I dont know the ‘Telegraph’ well enough to know if they would have ulterior motives, or just leaning way left as most msm’s. Names and the city name could have been kept secret,just as they had to live, in secret. Maybe the publicity will keep them alive? I doubt it, a cover up and a couple lies seems more likely. Spread the word, keep em alive.
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As for the continued Saudi oppression…. that’s what they do.
Keep as many people in total ignorance as possible. It’s so much easier to brainwash the ignorant. Nice catch Allah.
shooter on June 2, 2006 at 4:55 PM
Hmm, women not allowed to drive or work. The liberals are right. Other cultures *are* better than ours.
:)
hadsil on June 3, 2006 at 1:04 AM
Here’s an idea-place economic sanctions on Jordan, forcing the Jordanian government to come and pick up their citizens, Hamas, PA, et al…and incorporate them rather than letting them bother the neighbors. Jordan lost…not big enough…LOST to Israel, and should not be squatting their citizens on Israel’s land as if they owned it. Who do the Jordanians think they are, Mexico?
Doug on June 3, 2006 at 3:37 AM
Shooter – I found this on Wikipedia:
According to a MORI survey conducted in 2004, 61% of Telegraph readers were Conservative Party supporters compared with 31% of the general population.
They lean more to the right than papers like the Guardian. Let us hope the Telegraph’s ulterior motive is to undermine tyrants like these by revealing their hypocrisy. As Ali Sina and others have said, Islam’s weak spot is not the threat of violence (for Islam sanctifies it and invites a challenge on that basis) but its inability to tolerate the slightest criticism or ridicule.
The notion that Arab Muslims would prefer to bide their time in Israel (!) while their blood relative stakes out the “moral high ground” of Islamic jihad as a so-called “Palestinian” is precisely the kind of absurd contradiction that needs to be shown the bright light of day. Bravo, UK Telegraph.
RD on June 3, 2006 at 5:27 PM
RD’s quite right. The Telegraph is a right-leaning paper. And I concur in congratulating them on publishing the story; I just wish they hadn’t given the who and where.
Allahpundit on June 3, 2006 at 5:30 PM
Duly noted & great post :-) Agree there’s something disturbing in a storyline that smacks of deliberate “outing”:
That the rebels have a hidden base is a closely guarded secret and nowhere is it guarded more secretly than the planet Yavin, a system in the Outer Rim…
“Yes, m’Lord… the Daily Telegraph has just revealed the location of the rebel base… you may fire when ready…”
What I don’t know is whether the Telegraph inserted that information gratuitously or if they have a policy (like my home-town paper claims to) that requires it. I’m not an expert on newspaper ethics, but the local paper claims it “can’t” withhold a subject’s identity, age and location unless the subject’s life is in jeopardy AND the paper is willing to admit it.
How does the paper admit these women’s lives are in danger without appearing Islamophobic? To do so implicitly contradicts the hijacked-by-a-few-extremists theme still pushed by Big Media.
What am I forgetting? (And maybe I’m not bothered by it as much as I should be – my heart must be turning into a lump of coal :-) )
RD on June 4, 2006 at 10:10 AM
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