Posted on 08/13/2014 1:04:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Ziad Abu Halool says he is tired of seeing his neighborhood destroyed. He’s tired of having no running water for 10 days, no electricity for even longer. He’s tired of watching Hamas and other Palestinian militants fire rockets into Israel from his neighborhood — and tired of praying that Israeli retaliation won’t obliterate his house.
So, after more than a month of war and devastation, Abu Halool speaks words that once seemed unthinkable: He says that although he despises Israel, he also blames Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups for his woes.
They have “committed many mistakes,” said Abu Halool, a government employee. “All the Palestinian factions should stop firing rockets. It’s enough. We’ve been suffering.”
As the Palestinian death toll tops 1,900, more and more Gazans are questioning the decisions and strategies of Hamas, the militant Islamist group that tightly controls the Gaza Strip and is known to intimidate — and sometimes harm — those critical of its policies. Most of the disapproval is still beneath the surface, hinted at only in private conversations. But in battered enclaves such as Beit Lahiya, discontent is bubbling up openly, fueled by a sense of helplessness and fatigue.
The criticism does not necessarily reflect a loss of support for Hamas. Most Palestinians, even Hamas’s biggest detractors, say they back the current war against Israel, believing it is the only way to achieve the short-term Palestinian demands of lifting the Israeli and Egyptian economic blockades of Gaza and opening the strip’s border crossings.
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Ziad = Dead Man Walking
Gee, maybe they should have thought of this BEFORE they voted for Hamas.
Too bad. It is an Arab Democracy: One man, one vote, ONCE.
You can't negotiate with this kind of stupid.
He won’t be tired much longer.
Well, I suppose better late than never; although I am having a little trouble having sympathy for them. They had to know what they we getting into when they voted Hamas in office.
Beat me to it. My first thought of this mouse pissing in the direction of the elephant!
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This gazanian fool is only upset because hamas idiots haven’t yet murdered all Jews for him. It would be great for civilization if a 500 pound bomb landed directly on his degenerate cranium.
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