Hamas concludes first-ever military training camp for girls

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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — On Aug. 1, Hamas’ women’s wing opened the all-female “First al-Quds Army camp” to prepare academically exceptional girls aged 12-18 for the liberation battle of Palestine.

This camp, which ended Aug. 10, is the first of its kind in the Gaza Strip, as Hamas has never organized a female training camp before. Around 1,000 girls attend the camp, which offered a special curriculum to resist the occupation taught by women affiliated with the Hamas movement. These women enjoy extensive military experience and know how to intellectually mobilize people against the occupation.

Camp director Rajaa al-Halabi told Al-Monitor, “The goal of the First al-Quds Army camp is to prepare girls for self-defense and for future battles against the occupation.”

....Abed told Al-Monitor, “These camps target girls who have a school average of over 95%, the elites of Palestinian female students,” aiming to train role models for other students.

Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/08/gaza-hamas-women-camp-liberation-battle-palestine.html#ixzz3j69smQ5A

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1. Really folks, this is legitimate resistance. Totally legal...

We won't find anti-Zionist, BDS organizations condemning this. I'd be shocked if they didn't deny this as rightwing, neo-fascist Zionist propaganda & hate incitement.

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3. War crimes. And the Israel haters strongly support this. n/t

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4. And you keep saying that they're right wing.

What could be more liberal than equal opportunity for boys and girls?

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5. Well, Hamas is part of the Global Progressive Left...

Here is the Socialist Workers Party theoretician John Molyneux instructing the members in the finer points of reactionary anti-imperialism:

[font color = "red"]"To put the matter as starkly as possible: from the standpoint of Marxism and international socialism an illiterate conservative superstitious Muslim Palestinian peasant who supports Hamas is more progressive than an educated liberal atheist Israeli who supports Zionism (even critically)."

And here is Judith Butler - a professor at Berkeley and one of the most influential academics on the planet – drawing the political conclusions: “Hamas and Hezbollah... are social movements that are progressive, that are on the Left, that are part of a global Left.”

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