Posted on 05/13/2015 4:41:49 AM PDT by SJackson
BIRZEIT, West Bank — Lina Halsa certainly made a splash at the student rally for the Islamist Hamas movement here at Birzeit University last month. Wearing a sleeveless top, tight jeans, and with her hair in a ponytail, Ms. Halsa’s attire was revealing even by the standards of this liberal, secular campus. But it was downright scandalous according to Hamas norms.
Yet, Ms. Halsa was the very image of Hamas success on the campus, where the Islamist party beat out the more moderate Fatah faction in student elections. A photograph of her waving the faction’s signature green banner rocketed around social media, followed by a video in which she explained that she voted Hamas in part because her clothing “shows how much they are able to embrace other people.”
A headline in the Pan-Arab daily Al Hayat trumpeted: “A Blonde Turns Birzeit Green.”
The April 22 election was about far more than clothing, of course. Student elections are seen as an important benchmark of the Palestinian political mood, particularly since there has been no national balloting since Hamas won the legislative contests in 2006, and president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, is starting the 11th year of what was to be a five-year term. The nod to Hamas was broadly interpreted as another indication of just how unpopular President Abbas and his government have become.
“We lost big,” Saeb Erekat, a top aide to Mr. Abbas, said of Birzeit at a briefing with international journalists. “I cannot give you a simple reason for it, but the Palestinian mood,” he added, “my house feels suffocated.”
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Raise them on low production quality Third Reich propaganda, they turn to terror. This might surprise our administration, who blame Israeli colonialism and lack of jobs, but no one with a brain.
If you think Tuskegee, Oberlin or other lefty colleges are poisoning minds, try to imagine what goes on at West Bank University.
I hear the the mandatory 8 o’clock for incoming freshmen is Rock Throwing 101: Arcs & Targets.
Dumb college students all over the planet...
How do you say "useful idiot" in Arabic?
Poor thing doesn't understand how she will be among the first to be "up against the wall" (or the stoning equivalent, or the "off with their heads" equivalent, or the good old "throw them from the rooftop" maneuver that is so cherished by typical Palestinian "moderates") if/when Hamas takes control.
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