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In West Bank, Hamas Is Hailed for Its Fight Against Israel
(New York Times) Isabel Kershner - In the West Bank, daily life has continued more or less as normal, punctuated by nighttime clashes at friction points between stone-throwing youths and Israeli forces. Hamas is being hailed in the West Bank as the champion of armed resistance. Maher al-Naden, a street cleaner, noted with pride that Hamas had managed to force foreign airlines to cancel flights to Tel Aviv after a rocket from Gaza struck near the airport on Tuesday. "My son, who is 10, is asking how he can join these people." In Ramallah, storeowner Elias Saa said he had sold 300 CDs of Hamas songs since the beginning of the war, with lyrics like "Attack Jews in every piece of the land," the music punctuated by the sound of automatic gunfire. A nearby toy shop said its most popular items were plastic guns and grenades.