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쏆 Maysara’s (above) handphone accessory (inset) shows the 쏆 Maysara helping to decorate the room for a Hamas party at the university. The flag she’s holding
portrait of a top Hamas leader assassinated by the Israelis. shows the face of Dr Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, a Hamas co-founder who was killed by the Israelis.
NG TZE YONG by terrorists. the democratically-elected Palestinian raised her voice just a little. I don’t make eye contact when I as deluded individuals senselessly They’re leading what she calls “a
& MOHD ISHAK in But it’s a party all the same. National Authority. Her girls had cut out cute shapes talk to the women here. ending lives, including their own. revolution of the minds”.
Women are scuttling around, The world was stunned. And on and were writing messages on them It’s considered indecent. They are “martyrs” – heroes who “We can’t just have street battles
ISRAEL/PALESTINE speaking in hushed tones as they put television screens everywhere, Hamas with coloured marker pens. But it’s an exciting party for sure. have made the ultimate sacrifice for any more. We need to learn about
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S the school year draws to a up decorations. The men, whom I’m men were seen cheering and “Remember not to eat out today. There’s a buzz in the air: Everyone their cause. And when they do that, other ideologies so we can defeat
close, the Hamas Club in more used to seeing on the 10 o'clock demonstrating. The Hamas Club has prepared food knows that at any time, Israeli jeeps it’s the women, the “daughters, them intellectually.”
university is holding a big party. news demonstrating in the streets, are But when the men were busy at the for you,” read one, beside a drawing of could rumble up and whisk everyone mothers and wives of martyrs”, who To achieve that, Hamas is
There’s going to be free food and loitering awkwardly, arms folded or rallies, the women were going “from a pink flower. off to jail. have to carry on, said Ms Maysara. encouraging its women in universities
gift bags with green Hamas pens. stuffed into pockets. house to house in the villages, sharing I felt a sense of deja vu, as if I was Hamas’s soft, feminine side is one to take up public relations and
The New Paper is invited. “Hey, why aren't you helping the with people Hamas’s message”, says back in my university days. CHILLS DOWN MY SPINE that is at once vulnerable and potent. humanities instead of traditional