No worries, seemed like an interesting incident to report back on. Crazy how all these tribal splits take people in directions you would have thought totally anathema to their stated value systems.

Jackie said: 'I expect that many Palestinian women are Hamas' and 'it has not been my impression that in general Palestinian men are oppressive of Palestinian women' - good points, I haven't got that impression either and you don't tend to see photos of women wearing full burqas in Gaza or Palestine, though there are bound to be some exceptions. I really think the self-styled feminists striking solidarity poses with Muslim women in Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq or other middle eastern or N.African countries (often in countries that the west is attempting to destabilise, for some strange reason) are completely ignorant about those societies and are working from racist media-driven stereotypes of 'islamofascism' which have little or no basis in reality. That makes them useful idiots for the Empire, and most of them have no conception that they might be being played. (Though I'd argue that some like are fully aware of what they're doing and make their public stances out of pure cynicism.)

cheers,
I