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Since gay men are also prosecuted by the Islamic extremists in the Hamas government, I guess this ban is aimed at the straight male palestinian hairdressers…But then again, the Islamic sharia law in Gaza requires all women to have their hair completely covered at all times, so what are these guys dressing, anyway?

Hamas bans men from working in women’s hairdressers

The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas has banned men in the Gaza Strip from working in women’s hair salons, vowing to arrest and try offenders

Reprinted from Telegraph.co.uk

“The Palestinian authorities (in Gaza) have decided to ban men from working in women’s beauty parlours following instructions from Interior Minister Fathi Hammad,” said a statement on the website of the Hamas-run police force in Gaza.

“Anyone who breaches this decision will be arrested and tried.”

The announcement is part of a campaign by Hamas to introduce more Islamic customs to the Gaza Strip.

The majority of Gaza residents are conservative Muslims, but Hamas is under growing pressure from radical groups to prove its fundamentalist credentials by imposing harsher edicts.

Women are forbidden from showing their hair in public to men who are not in their family.

Over the last three years, several beauty parlours and hair salons in the Gaza Strip have been the target of explosions and other attacks, which Hamas have blamed on radical Islamist groups who share the ideology of al Qaeda.

Such groups seek to defy Hamas rule in Gaza and criticise its leaders for not implementing strict Islamic law.

This is what the world is calling “Israel’s blockade” of Gaza…Some blockade…Once again, what you see in the media has no connection whatsoever with reality…

IDF Spokesperson & CoGAT Update: Weekly Summary of Humanitarian Aid Transferred into the Gaza Strip

Weekly Summary of Humanitarian Aid Transferred into the Gaza Strip

Reprinted from IMRA

Over the last week, a total of 595 truckloads, consisting of 13, 976 tons of
humanitarian aid were transferred into the Gaza Strip from Israel via the
various crossings. Likewise, ten truckloads of carnations were exported from
Gaza to Europe.

Additionally, 255 medical patients and accompanying individuals from the
Gaza Strip crossed into Israel and the Judea and Samaria region for medical
treatment. 222 staff members of international organizations crossed into the
Gaza Strip.

Essential food and humanitarian aid products, including milk powder, baby
food, rice, cooking oil, flour, hygiene products and medicals supplies
including a CT scanner were among the goods that crossed into Gaza this past
week.

Lastly, 1,216,297 liters of diesel fuel and 992 tons of cooking gas also
crossed into Gaza.

Hmmmm…Maybe Israel ought to be pressuring the United States to open up HER southern border. After all, the Mexicans trying to get in to the U.S. aren’t really trying to blow too many things up, are they? I think that they mostly want to work menial jobs that most Americans don’t want, and take care of their families.

Unlike Israel’s not-so-friendly neighbors to the south (Gaza), who continue to assault Southern Israel with rockets, mortars, missiles and suicide bombers…

What’s good for the goose, eh?


U.S. President Obama

Congressmen press Obama on Gaza blockade

Fifty-four members of Congress send letter to US president urging him to pressure Israel into ending ‘collective punishment of Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip’

Yitzhak Benhorin

WASHINGTON – Fifty-four congressmen sent a letter to US President Barack Obama last week urging him to pressure Israel into alleviating the blockade on the Gaza Strip. The letter’s signatories are from the left of the political spectrum.

The initiators are Congressman Keith Ellison of Minnesota, the only Muslim representative in Congress, and Jim McDermott of Washington, who are both democrats.

The letter reads: “We recognize that the Israeli government has imposed restrictions on Gaza out of a legitimate and keenly felt fear of continued terrorist action by Hamas and other militant groups. This concern must be addressed without resulting in the de facto collective punishment of the Palestinian residents of the Gaza Strip.”

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They implored Obama to demand Israel relieve the residents of the Strip as part of his efforts to achieve peace in the Middle East.

“We ask you to press for immediate relief for the citizens of Gaza as an urgent component of your broader Middle East peace efforts,” the letter said.

The initiative is not slated to develop into legislation in Congress, nor is it expected to make waves beyond receiving a headline in the Minnesota Independent newspaper and support of the Peace Now and J-Street organizations in the US.

The US administration’s current public stance is that the US is committed to the welfare of the residents of the Gaza Strip and that Israel must enable the transfer of humanitarian goods into Gaza.

However, in recent months the US has been satisfied with Israeli mitigations in the area. The Obama administration would like to see more easements, but is understanding towards the Israeli position that until the matter of captive soldier Gilad Shalit Israel resolved, there will be no more easements.

The US opposes the Fatah-Hamas Palestinian unity government and is assisting Egypt in the construction of the underground barrier between Egypt and Gaza, which will block the entrance of vital goods into the Strip.

Israeli opposition leader, Tzipi Livni, went missing in the UK…She was supposed to speak there, but had to disappear to avoid being arrested!!!…And she’s not the only one…Also…Gaza in the aftermath of Operation Cast Lead…Did Israel win the war?…Plus…Special for Channukah…All this and more on “The Marty Roberts Show”…Listen to the show below…

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How to dispose of 5+ Billion dollars quickly and easily…Where is all this money coming from, and where will it certainly end up?…And…Why rebuild Gaza while the missiles and rockets are still raining on southern Israel?…Won’t Israel just have to destroy it all over again to protect her innocent citizens?…Plus…An egalitarian Purim this year?…All this and more on “The Marty Roberts Show”…Listen to the show below…

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Miracles, concealed and revealed…New miracles are being revealed every day, as the story of the war in Gaza is told…Also…Did the Matriarch Rachel appear in Gaza to save Israeli troops?…If so, Who sent her?…What are the Rabbis saying?…Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu speaks…Plus…Man bites dog in Samaria…Killed by your own rocks…All this and more on “The Marty Roberts Show”…Listen to the show below…

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The world is confusing anti-Israel, anti-war protests with good, old-fashioned anti-semitism…It’s clear what is happening around the world…Nothing new under the sun…Learn the sordid details…Also…Who are the Nazis here?…Enough of THIS sick comparison…The exact OPPOSITE is the case!…Plus…The Jews just keep on comin’ on (home to Israel!)…All this and more on “The Marty Roberts Show”…Listen to the show below…

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Are we approaching the end of the war?…What will it look like?…Talk of further military action, talk of ceasefire…Which will it be?…Also…They cry “No place to run, no place to hide left in Gaza”…Just why is that so?…And how about humanitarian aid…Where is IT going?…More…What about that UN school that the Israeli Army shelled?…What was REALLY going on there…Plus…More up-close-and-personal coverage of Israel’s Channukah War against Hamas in Gaza…All this and more on “The Marty Roberts Show”…Listen to the show below…

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More war coverage from Southern Israel…What is it like to be under rocket and missile attack in your home?…And…Is there really a humanitarian crisis in Gaza?…Also…War in Israel vs. war in Gaza…Two different world-views…And WHAT a difference there is!!!…Plus…Was all this REALLY necessary?…All this and more on “The Marty Roberts Show”…Listen to the show below…

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The Lion of Judah awakens…A special extra-large version of the Marty Roberts show…Update on the war against Hamas in Gaza…What can we expect in the future?…Events leading up to the Israeli attack…International and domestic reaction to the war…The Israeli-Arab third column…All this and more on “The Marty Roberts Show”…Listen to the show below…

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