Some more things that Hamas is good at

Lauren Booth empathizing with

Gaza's hungry masses

Arnold/Frimet Roth
This Ongoing War: A Blog
22 August '10

Yesterday we wrote about one thing that Hamas is really good at. Readers of this blog know we make no secret about belonging to the camp that holds that Hamas is extremely bad at a long list of things. (We have our reasons.) The Hamas leadership is among the ugliest to have ever ground its foot on the heads of the people it pretends to lead.

Now, today, there are small signs of a public pushing back by some of those Palestinian Arab Gazans. How much of a push-back remains to be seen.

Homeless Gazans seize Hamas government building
By Nidal al-Mughrabi
Fri Aug 20, 2010 10:25am GMT

GAZA (Reuters) - Forty families whose houses were destroyed in conflict with Israel took over a building belonging to Gaza's Hamas rulers this week in a sign of dissatisfaction with the Islamist movement's failure to provide shelter. Angered by living in tents for two winters and now baking in the midst of an intense heat wave, the squatters took over the unfinished apartment house and have already resisted one police effort to evict them.

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