“As a Palestinian, I would not support Qatar if they said they wanted a two-state solution,” said Mr. Gatshan, 44. “I want my human rights. My rights are to live without any limits or restrictions and without occupiers.”
.. The Trump administration plans to focus on an “outside-in” approach, meaning that Israel would first pursue agreements with Arab countries to help solve the conflict with the Palestinians.
.. Supporters of the outside-in approach say that the merging of interests between Israel and Arab states like Saudi Arabia and Egypt could provide an opening.
.. The divisions among Palestinians also undermine support for their cause. “Even if they wanted to do something, they don’t know who they should support now,” Mr. Hellyer said.
.. On Monday, it announced that Yehya Sinwar, a hard-line member of its military wing, had been chosen as its new Gaza leader.
.. Though Hamas has declared a truce, and largely controls other groups who try to continue fighting, some Israelis say a new war in Gaza is the only way to ultimately achieve peace.
.. Israel “cannot be the only country in the world where children cannot walk down the street without worrying that a missile will fall,” Naftali Bennett, a far-right lawmaker and education minister, said on a visit to the fence dividing Gaza and Israel last week. “Our enemies are investing all their resources in developing ways to kill us.”
“Only with a complete victory,” he said, “can we put an end to this cycle.”
Gaza Dating Site Matches Widows to Men Seeking 2nd (or 3rd) Wife
He was looking for a woman with particular attributes, hopefully a widow of a man killed in the struggle against Israel, without children, between 25 and 30, from southern Gaza. Her requirement was no less important: She was looking for a married man.
.. She is beautiful and a widow of a martyr at the same time,” Mr. Abu Mustafa said, using the word preferred by Palestinians for a killed fighter, often a terrorist to Israelis. She is the second of his two wives.
“When I get wealthy, I will marry the third wife.”
.. Some 1,400 men have been killed in the three wars with Israel since 2008, leaving many widows who would like to remarry. Tradition, however, can make it difficult for them to wed single men.
.. said he did wish to give “dignity” to a widow.
.. more than half the marriage requests involved men seeking a second or third wife (though not yet a fourth).
.. “In most cases the husband’s family pressures the woman to marry the brother in law to control her life and seize any financial aid she receives.”
.. if the widow’s husband is affiliated with a political party, it might intervene and pressure the woman to marry a man from the same group, and she will often agree because she is struggling financially and the group will pay her a salary.
.. “This matchmaking service is positive because it encourages these women to choose the potential husband without fear and pressure in this religious and patriarchal society,” Ms. Owda said.
.. Lina Zein, 25, a single woman from Gaza City, explaining that Wesal felt too transactional in its approach to arranging weddings. “It limits my ambitions in marriage to someone’s income.” .
.. “Polygamy has hit high rates in Gaza over the few past years, seemingly due to an increase in people’s religious inclination, especially after Hamas took power in 2007,”
.. Hamas itself has been trying to encourage marriage by paying the equivalent of $1,500 to any male who memorizes the Quran
.. “We also fight old traditions that say divorced women should not get married.”
.. while Mr. Sheikha is in favor of more options for women in the selection of a spouse, he is not a strong supporter of the choice to remain single. In addition to helping widows and the divorced find husbands, he said he hoped the site would also address “an increase in the number of spinsters in their 20s and 30s. The Arabic proverb says living in the shadow of a man is better than living in the shadow of a wall, which means that having a husband is better than staying unmarried.”
Rebranding Hamas
The Palestinian militant group Hamas dropped its explicit call for Israel’s destruction on Monday, in a bid to overhaul its image as the Trump White House explores reviving Middle East peace efforts. Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, also formally accepted in its revised charter the notion of a Palestinian state in territories Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war. The group didn’t recognize Israel and still expressed an ambition to take over all Israeli territory in the long run. U.S. and Israeli officials said they didn’t see the move as a real shift in the approach of Hamas.
Digital Marketing Ideas for Authors
- Get your own domain name.
- A domain name is a permanent internet address that you own. Examples:
- openpolitics.com (my domain name)
- emtiazzourob.com, or
- emtiazalnahhal.com
- I found your blogspot blog:
- emtiazalnahhal.blogspot.com
- Blogspot is good, but it would be better if your site’s address were independent of blogspot.com
- Having your own domain name allows you to customize the site, and add additional features, or switch to a different hosting provider without having to change the site’s address.
- You can purchase your own domain name for about $10-15/year.
- There are many different companies through which you can purchase a domain.
- I use namecheap.com
- I would recommend gandi.net if your site might be controversial because I think gandi will be more likely to stand up for you if others are trying to censor you.
- Optional: Switch Your Blog to Your Own Domain Name
- Move from emtiazalnahhal.blogspot.com to emtiazalnahhal.com.
- I can help you with the transfer if you like. Talk to me more if you’re interested in this. This would also mean a switch in software from blogspot to wordpress.
- Register for Twitter
- If you don’t already own your username on twitter, I would sign up, if for no other reason than to reserved your name.
- Unlike Facebook, Twitter is public. If you want to get a message out to the public, Twitter can be more effective than Facebook.
- Get Business Cards to hand out at readings
- List the domain name that you purchased in step 1, your twitter name, your email address, and any other info you want, such as phone number.
- Your physical address may change if you move to a different apartment, but your gmail address and domain name can stay the same.
- There are many places to get business cards. I don’t have experience ordering my own cards.
- I’ve heard advertisements for www.vistaprint.com but I don’t know how good they are.
- Get your own Email Lists
- You can collect email addresses from people at readings and put a signup form on your website. As you collect them you can categorize them based on language or interest. You can send some emails to the whole group and others to a subgroup (like English).
- The big advantage to email lists is that you can reach out to people who don’t follow you on Facebook or Twitter when you have a book to sell, or an event to publicize.
- There are many sites that offer group email functionality.
- Constant Contact is a popular site for non-profits
- I recommend MailChip to people starting up because they are free for lists smaller than 2000 people.