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Source: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/630950.html
An Arab Arrow at Hamas' Heart
(Ha'aretz) Zvi Bar'el - Palestinian columnist Hassan al-Batal wrote this week in the Ramallah daily Al-Ayyam of Amana Abu al-Husseinim, five of whose children are in the hospital because of an explosion during a victory parade organized by Hamas in Jabalya last week during which a truck filled with explosives blew up. "Amana's tragedy is a result of the practice of all the organizations to recruit children in order to increase the size of their parades, and of the practice of having armed parades," Al-Batal says. Hamas is getting on a lot of people's nerves these days. Former Kuwaiti education minister-turned columnist Dr. Ahmad Al-Rab'i wrote in the London-based daily Al-Sharq al-Awsat: "What is the excuse for these victory parades in Gaza? Why, instead of the Palestinians being happy over the Israeli withdrawal and returning to plant their uprooted orchards, clean their streets, and build public institutions, do they have military parades?" "We ask how long they will shoot those primitive missiles at Israel, which do no more than make a loud boom or at most kill a few civilians? Do they have any military advantage?"