The leaders of Hamastan, who lied in the New York Times op ed pages several times over the last few years, shut down a hip hop concert in the Gaza Strip last night.
The B Boy Gaza group had just started a lively dance set late on Saturday in a crowded auditorium when police from the Islamist Hamas group that rules the Gaza Strip ended the performance with shouts of “the show is over”, witnesses said.
“I told one of the policemen that rap meant respect for all people, but he didn’t seem to be listening. He said it was an immoral dance,” one of the dancers said. Hamas officials said the performance, in a conservative enclave where most musical shows strike a nationalistic note, was shut down only because organizers had not applied for a police permit for the gathering.
They confiscated cameras and tapes, too. But hey, just listen to what the Times so eagerly published three years ago, when Hamas was murdering its way into control of Gaza:
“Palestinians want, on their terms, the same thing Western societies want: self-determination, modernity, access to markets and their own economic power, and freedom for civil society to evolve.â€
You think the Times is going to catch on that they’re constantly getting played by liars who mouth the words that Western liberals want to hear, yet choose the actions that utterly belie those words?
Yeah, me neither.
“Palestinians want, on their terms, the same thing Western societies want: self-determination, modernity, access to markets and their own economic power, and freedom for civil society to evolve.â€
It is possible that some Palestinian Arabs want those things, but I’d bet not too many. What they want is to kill Jews. On the other hand, I am sure that what passes for the leadership of the Palestinian Arabs does not want them to have any of what the Times says they want.