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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/19/international/middleeast/19notebook.html
Intifada Competes with Soccer Practice in Gaza
(New York Times) James Bennet - When more than 200 black-hooded, black-clad young men of the Popular Resistance Committees gathered to celebrate in Yarmouk Stadium in Gaza on Tuesday, they found themselves dodging the young men of the Palestine Soccer Club, in electric pink or green jerseys. The two groups split the dirt field and ignored each other. When the black-clad men showed off their training by forming rows, each man with his semiautomatic rifle, their commanders grumbled at their ragged display. When one commander barked, "Why are we here?" he was met not with a roared reply but a pregnant silence, as if each man was pondering this timeless existential riddle. Finally the commander shouted, "To celebrate the victory!" Nearby, several of the rockets that the group fires into Israel jabbed out from the bed of a truck.