[news] Israel, Hamas and the Palestinian Elections

[Mostly Water - mostlywater.org = news.resist.ca]

It was the biggest demonstration in (Bil'in, Occupied Palestine) for a long time. This week, the protest against the Fence was interwoven with Palestinian electioneering...I was happily marching along in the wintry sunshine, holding high the Gush Shalom emblem of the flags of Israel and Palestine side by side. We were approaching the line of armed soldiers that was waiting for us, when I suddenly realized that I was surrounded by the green flags of Hamas...Ordinary Israelis would have been flabbergasted. What, the murderous terrorists marching in line with Israeli peace activists? Israelis marching, talking and joking with the potential suicide bombers?...But it was quite natural. All the Palestinian parties took part in the demonstration, together with the Israeli and international activists. Together they ran away from the clouds of tear gas, broke together through the lines of soldiers, were beaten up together.

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/3848