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[Roudy]

That's pure nonsense, in the previous centuries there was nothing but sand and mud in Israel, the Arabs clans braught almost nothing new to the area, the simply took over it, Mark Twain when visiting the land called it "Etetz Habekka" in his book, "The Land of tears", because there was nothing, there were no actual cities, the immigranted of the first and second Aliya did most of the job.

The terminology of calling the Arabs of Gaza and West Bank "Palestinians" and the Jews of Israel "Zionists" is all but a twist of agendas and politics. If such a thing as a "Palestinian" exist, the Palestinian is the man or woman who sat in the land before it was called "Israel" since 1948. If that is the case, then the Jews who sat in this land before 48 are also "Palestinians". that makes many of todays Israeli Jews "Palestinians" as well. Yet they are not called that. Why?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WXBX2KWkT0]19th Century Palestine - YouTube[/ame]

Sand and mud?

Oh look, the Hezbollah pig boy from Iran is back. Taking a break from sucking Mullahs off?

 

[Roudy]

JStone -

Rather than just repeat the same myths that you must realise yourself are not true - please present evidence.

I have presented evidence of Arabic inhabitation in the Levant dating back 4,000 years. Let's see you establish why that evidence should be disregarded.

btw. You state that the earliest parts of the Hebrew bible date back to 1,000 BCE. Actually, Jewish inhabitation in the area is much, much older. Jews have lived in Jericho and in Jerusalem since at least 1,500 BCE.

You moron, Arab expansionism and Imperialism (which is basically what Islam is) did not begin until 1400 years ago when that terrorist caravan robber named Mohammad and his thug followers began the Arab invasions of peoples and lands.

 

[JStone]

Well, this text dates Akko back to around 3,000 BC. Is that old enough for you?!

"The port city of Akko (also known as Acre) is located on a promontory at the northern end of Haifa Bay. The earliest city was founded during the Bronze Age at Tel Akko (in Arabic Tel el-Fukhar mound of the potsherds), just east of the present-day city. Akko is mentioned in ancient written sources as an important city on the northern coast of the Land of Israel. The wealth of finds, including remains of fortifications uncovered in the excavations at Tel Akko, attest to the long and uninterrupted occupation of the site during biblical times.

The ancient site of Akko was abandoned during the Hellenistic period. A new city named Ptolemais, surrounded by a fortified wall, was built on the site of present-day Akko. The Romans improved and enlarged the natural harbor in the southern part of the city, and constructed a breakwater, thus making it one of the main ports on the eastern Mediterranean coast."

wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Age

Well, thanks for providing proof that it was called "land of Israel" and NOT Palestine, even back then. These fools don't even realize when they post something that blows up their own argument.

There is no archaeological record of any Arab civilization anywhere before the arabic quran written 2000+ years AFTER the Jews established their civilization in Israel.

Harvard University Semitic Museum: The Houses of Ancient Israel The Houses of Ancient Israel § Semitic Museum

In archaeological terms The Houses of Ancient Israel: Domestic, Royal, Divine focuses on the Iron Age (1200-586 B.C.E.). Iron I (1200-1000 B.C.E.) represents the premonarchical period. Iron II (1000-586 B.C.E.) was the time of kings. Uniting the tribal coalitions of Israel and Judah in the tenth century B.C.E., David and Solomon ruled over an expanding realm. After Solomon's death (c. 930 B.C.E.) Israel and Judah separated into two kingdoms.
Israel was led at times by strong kings, Omri and Ahab in the ninth century B.C.E. and Jereboam II in the eighth.

Harvard University Semitic Museum: Jerusalem During The Reign Of King Hezekiah--New Exhibition At The Semitic Museum Re-Creates Numerous Aspects Of Ancient Israel Harvard Gazette: Jerusalem during the reign of King Hezekiah

The Semitic Museum has installed a new exhibition that brings the world of biblical Israel into vivid, three-dimensional reality. "The Houses of Ancient Israel: Domestic, Royal, Divine" immerses the viewer in Israelite daily life around the time of King Hezekiah (8th century B.C.), creating an experiential environment based on the latest archaeological, textual, and historical research.
The centerpiece of the exhibition is a full-scale Israelite house, open on one side, filled with authentic ancient artifacts that show how life was lived by common inhabitants of ancient Jerusalem. Agricultural tools, a cooking area, and a stall occupied by a single, scruffy ram fill the ground floor of the cube-shaped, mud-brick structure, which, thankfully, is not olfactorily authentic. The upper story, reached by a ladder, is devoted to eating and sleeping.

Yale University Press: The Archaeology of Ancient Israel http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=0300059191

In this lavishly illustrated book some of Israel's foremost archaeologists present a thorough, up-to-date, and readily accessible survey of early life in the land of the Bible, from the Neolithic era (eighth millennium B.C.E.) to the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the First Temple in 586 B.C.E. It will be a delightful and informative resource for anyone who has ever wanted to know more about the religious, scientific, or historical background of the region.

PBS Nova ...

In the banks of the Nile in southern Egypt in 1896, British archaeologisit Flinders Petrie unearthed one of the most important discoveries in biblical archaeology known as the Merneptah Stele. Merneptah's stele announces the entrance on the world stage of a People named Israel.

The Merneptah Stele is powerful evidence that a People called the Israelites are living in Canaan over 3000 years ago

Dr. Donald Redford, Egyptologist and archaeologist: The Merneptah Stele is priceless evidence for the presence of an ethnical group called Israel in Canaan.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvg2EZAEw5c]1/13 The Bible's Buried Secrets (NOVA PBS) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Roudy]

Stone -

Why not actually try and debate the topic sensibly?

No one said Palestine had formal boundaries as part of the Ottoman Empire - very few of their Ottoman regions did have formal borders. But it was a region, it was called Palestine, and everyone knew that it extended from the Jordan River in the East to the cities of Akko and Jaffa in the west.

These aren't difficult points to get, surely?

Surely you also know that the term "Palestinian" referred ONLY to Jews. The Arabs started calling themselves by that name as of the 1960's. Until then, if you called an Arab Palestinian he would be offended, and maybe attack you for insinuating that he's a Jew. Now crawl back under that rock you came from, ignoramus.

 

[theliq]

Eminent Middle East Historian Dr. Bernard Lewis, Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, Author, "The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2000 Years," "The Future of the Middle East," "The Shaping of the Modern Middle East," "The End of Modern History in the Middle East," Faith and Power: Religion and Politics in the Middle East"

The adjective Palestinian is comparatively new. This, I need hardly remind you, is a region of ancient civilization and of deep-rooted and often complex identitites. But, Palestine was not one of them. People might identify themselves for various purposes, by religion, by descent, or by allegiance to a particular state or ruler, or, sometimes, locality. But, when they did it locally it was generally either the city and the immediate district or the larger province, so they would have been Jerusalemites or Jaffaites or Syrians, identifying with the larger province of Syria

The constitution or the formation of a political entity called Palestine which eventually gave rise to a nationality called Palestinian were lasting innovations of the British Mandate [1922-1948]

American Library Association

"For more than four decades, Bernard Lewis has been one of the most respected scholars and prolific writers on the history and politics of the Middle East. In this compilation of more than 50 journal articles and essays, he displays the full range of his eloquence, knowledge, and insight regarding this pivotal and volatile region."
Oxford University Press: Search Results

Dr Bernard Lewis was a JEW...say NO more Stoneythere is suchin all your idiotic prose......No you'll have to do much better than that.

 

[JStone]

Eminent Middle East Historian Dr. Bernard Lewis, Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, Author, "The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2000 Years," "The Future of the Middle East," "The Shaping of the Modern Middle East," "The End of Modern History in the Middle East," Faith and Power: Religion and Politics in the Middle East"

The adjective Palestinian is comparatively new. This, I need hardly remind you, is a region of ancient civilization and of deep-rooted and often complex identitites. But, Palestine was not one of them. People might identify themselves for various purposes, by religion, by descent, or by allegiance to a particular state or ruler, or, sometimes, locality. But, when they did it locally it was generally either the city and the immediate district or the larger province, so they would have been Jerusalemites or Jaffaites or Syrians, identifying with the larger province of Syria

The constitution or the formation of a political entity called Palestine which eventually gave rise to a nationality called Palestinian were lasting innovations of the British Mandate [1922-1948]

American Library Association

"For more than four decades, Bernard Lewis has been one of the most respected scholars and prolific writers on the history and politics of the Middle East. In this compilation of more than 50 journal articles and essays, he displays the full range of his eloquence, knowledge, and insight regarding this pivotal and volatile region."
Oxford University Press: Search Results

Dr Bernard Lewis was a JEW...say NO more Stoneythere is suchin all your idiotic prose......No you'll have to do much better than that.:ea_ohoo:

Most scholars are Jewish. Arabs and muslimes are illiterate wife beaters, honor child killers, terrorists and pedophile worshippers

American Library Association

"For more than four decades, Bernard Lewis has been one of the most respected scholars and prolific writers on the history and politics of the Middle East. In this compilation of more than 50 journal articles and essays, he displays the full range of his eloquence, knowledge, and insight regarding this pivotal and volatile region."
Oxford University Press: Search Results

 

[theliq]

Stone -

Why not actually try and debate the topic sensibly?

No one said Palestine had formal boundaries as part of the Ottoman Empire - very few of their Ottoman regions did have formal borders. But it was a region, it was called Palestine, and everyone knew that it extended from the Jordan River in the East to the cities of Akko and Jaffa in the west.

These aren't difficult points to get, surely?

Surely you also know that the term "Palestinian" referred ONLY to Jews. The Arabs started calling themselves by that name as of the 1960's. Until then, if you called an Arab Palestinian he would be offended, and maybe attack you for insinuating that he's a Jew. Now crawl back under that rock you came from, ignoramus.

Roudy,Roudy....as usual your arrogance is only bettered by your total Zionist Ignorance....you think you can fob off Siagon with abuse.......sorry you horrible little Runt but the liq has arrived to shove your pinkie up your sorry Ass.

Come on give me your hand...."that's right bend it around your backside Roudy,now shove it up your Ass.....not your whole fist,ah well if the cap fits I suppose you should wear it"


Now crawl back under your Stoney there's a good Boy.

 

[theliq]

Eminent Middle East Historian Dr. Bernard Lewis, Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, Author, "The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2000 Years," "The Future of the Middle East," "The Shaping of the Modern Middle East," "The End of Modern History in the Middle East," Faith and Power: Religion and Politics in the Middle East"


American Library Association

Dr Bernard Lewis was a JEW...say NO more Stoneythere is suchin all your idiotic prose......No you'll have to do much better than that.:ea_ohoo:

Most scholars are Jewish. Arabs and muslimes are illiterate wife beaters, honor child killers, terrorists and pedophile worshippers

American Library Association

"For more than four decades, Bernard Lewis has been one of the most respected scholars and prolific writers on the history and politics of the Middle East. In this compilation of more than 50 journal articles and essays, he displays the full range of his eloquence, knowledge, and insight regarding this pivotal and volatile region."
Oxford University Press: Search Results

Dr Bernard Lewis was a JEW,say No More Stoney

 

[JStone]

Stone -

Why not actually try and debate the topic sensibly?

No one said Palestine had formal boundaries as part of the Ottoman Empire - very few of their Ottoman regions did have formal borders. But it was a region, it was called Palestine, and everyone knew that it extended from the Jordan River in the East to the cities of Akko and Jaffa in the west.

These aren't difficult points to get, surely?

Surely you also know that the term "Palestinian" referred ONLY to Jews. The Arabs started calling themselves by that name as of the 1960's. Until then, if you called an Arab Palestinian he would be offended, and maybe attack you for insinuating that he's a Jew. Now crawl back under that rock you came from, ignoramus.

Roudy,Roudy....as usual your arrogance is only bettered by your total Zionist Ignorance....you think you can fob off Siagon with abuse.......sorry you horrible little Runt but the liq has arrived to shove your pinkie up your sorry Ass.

Come on give me your hand...."that's right bend it around your backside Roudy,now shove it up your Ass.....not your whole fist,ah well if the cap fits I suppose you should wear it"


Now crawl back under your Stoney there's a good Boy.

Jesus King of Israel was a Zionist. No heaven for you, dumb motherfucker.

John 12:13 They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, “Hosanna! “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! “Blessed is the king of Israel!”

Allah who created Israel as the Jewish Homeland was a Zionist. No paradise for you, dumb motherfucker.

Quran 10:93 We settled the Children of Israel in a beautiful dwelling-place, and provided for them sustenance of the best: it was after knowledge had been granted to them.

 

[Roudy]

Um....you are aware that none of these even remotely back up your claims, right?

Do you see anyone on this thread insisting that Canaanites were Arabs?

No?

Then why mention it?

If anything, Jews would be the closest to the Cannanites. Canaanites and Jews mixed together.

Check mate.

 

[JStone]

Forbidden Love On Gaza Beach

It seems Palestine, too, has taken a more conservative approach towards local tourists and residents going to the beach, walking along Gaza shores and showing public display of affection. Apparently, Hamas police attempted to arrest 26-year-old freelance reporter Asma al-Ghoul walking with a man along the Gaza beach. The group of friends consisted of two women and three men passing time, walking on the northern Gaza shore.

Miss al-Ghoul was picked up by police on charges of indecent clothing and behavior. On the night of the arrest, she was wearing jeans and T-shirt - attire that is considered fairly provocative in Gaza’s conservative society and which could have easily attracted the attention of the plain-clothed Hamas vice police who patrol the beaches. She also swam in pants, fully dressed, with a girlfriend. Al-Ghoul’s male friends were beaten by Hamas police, kept in jail for several hours and asked to sign statements saying they would not violate public moral standards again, she said. The incident came as a surprise, worst yet, as shock to Palestinians who, for the first time were told about the news and apparent new Islamic law imposed by Hamas on the coastal area.

According to local news, this incident was the first time Hamas has openly tried to punish a woman for behaving in a way it views as un-Islamic since seizing power two years ago. The incident follows months of quiet pressure on Gaza’s overwhelmingly conservative 1.4 million residents to abide by its strict religious mores. The Hamas even ordered shop-owners to tear down ads showing silhouettes of women's bodies on display and pull lingerie off the shelves.

Ironically, the Islamic hardliner’s stance comes to fore – a “culture” imported from ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia (where couples/ lovers innocently strolling on the beach or streets risk getting arrested by the religious police or Mutawa), while Gaza’s beaches are promoted to boost local tourism.

Not long ago, after Gaza’s disengagement, Palestinian tourism experts pinned their hopes high on internal or domestic tourism. One way of tapping the numbers on the Strip was to reintroduce Gaza’s beaches to the people of Palestine. Beaches were getting a lot of attention at the time.
Palestine Tourism Forbidden love on Gaza beach - eTurboNews.com

I guess it's safe to assume that if holding hands on the Gaza beach is forbidden then fucking on the Gaza beach is definitely out of the question!

 

[Saigon]

Stone -

Why not actually try and debate the topic sensibly?

No one said Palestine had formal boundaries as part of the Ottoman Empire - very few of their Ottoman regions did have formal borders. But it was a region, it was called Palestine, and everyone knew that it extended from the Jordan River in the East to the cities of Akko and Jaffa in the west.

These aren't difficult points to get, surely?

Surely you also know that the term "Palestinian" referred ONLY to Jews. The Arabs started calling themselves by that name as of the 1960's. Until then, if you called an Arab Palestinian he would be offended, and maybe attack you for insinuating that he's a Jew. Now crawl back under that rock you came from, ignoramus.

what absolute nonsense!

Honestly, I appreciate not everyone can be an expert on this conflict, but the level of understanding you display here is terrifying.

Thanks for reminding me why I don't usually discuss this topic with people who haven't lived in the region.

 

[Saigon]

Stone -

You are spamming the thread. Please don't post the same quotes again and again and again everytime you get angry. Please try and stay on topic, and let's discuss the issues like adults.

 

[JStone]

Eminent Middle East Historian Dr. Bernard Lewis, Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, Author, "The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2000 Years," "The Future of the Middle East," "The Shaping of the Modern Middle East," "The End of Modern History in the Middle East," Faith and Power: Religion and Politics in the Middle East"

At first, the country of which Palestine was a part was felt to be Syria. In Ottoman times, that is, immediately before the coming of the British, Palestine had indeed been a part of a larger Syrian whole from which it was in no way distinguished whether by language, culture, education, administration, political allegiance, or any other significant respect. The dividing line between British-mandated Palestine and French-mandated Syria-Lebanon was an entirely new one and for the people of the area was wholly artificial. It was therefore natural that the nationalist leadership when it first appeared should think in Syrian terms and describe Palestine as southern Syria

For Arabs, the term Palestine was unacceptable. For Muslims it was alien and irrelevant but not abhorrent in the same way as it was to Jews. The main objection for them was that it seemed to assert a separate entity which politically conscious Arabs in Palestine and elsewhere denied. For them there was no such thing as a country called Palestine. The region which the British called Palestine was merely a separated part of a larger whole [of Syria]. For a long time organized and articulate Arab political opinion was virtually unanimous on this point.

With the British conquest in 1917-1918 [After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire] and the subsequent of a mandated territory in the conquered areas, Palestine became the official name of a definite territory. To begin with, this designation was acceptable neither to Jews not ro Arabs. From the Jewish point of view it restored a name associated in the Jewish historic memory with the largely successful Roman attempt to destroy and obliterate the Jewish identity of the land of Israel. It was a name which had never been used in Jewish history or literature, and the very associations of which were hateful. From the outset, Jews living under the Mandate refused to use this name in Hebrew but instead used what had become the common Jewish designation of the country---Eretz Yisrael, the land of Israel. After a long battle, it was agreed that the official designation of the country in Hebrew on postage stamps, coins, etc would be Palestina, transcribed into Hebrew letters but followed by the abbreviation "aleph yod" For Jews, this was a common abbreviation for Eretz Yisrael.

The Palestinian Arabs' basic sense of corporate historic identity was, at different levels, Muslim or Arab or -- for some -- Syrian; it is significant that even by the end of the British Mandate in 1948, after 30 years of separate Palestinian political existence, there were virtually no books in Arabic on the history of Palestine.
Amazon.com: Political Words and Ideas in Islam (9781558764248): Bernard Lewis: Books

 

[Saigon]

Stone

bernard lewis is an excellent historian, and I don't disagree with anything he says in any of those quotes. The problem is that you have not read the books, and do not understand the context.

Your view of history is based entirely on racial hatred, and your interest in facts non-existant. There is a reason racists aren't good historians!

 

[JStone]

Forbidden Love On Gaza Beach

It seems Palestine, too, has taken a more conservative approach towards local tourists and residents going to the beach, walking along Gaza shores and showing public display of affection. Apparently, Hamas police attempted to arrest 26-year-old freelance reporter Asma al-Ghoul walking with a man along the Gaza beach. The group of friends consisted of two women and three men passing time, walking on the northern Gaza shore.

Miss al-Ghoul was picked up by police on charges of indecent clothing and behavior. On the night of the arrest, she was wearing jeans and T-shirt - attire that is considered fairly provocative in Gaza’s conservative society and which could have easily attracted the attention of the plain-clothed Hamas vice police who patrol the beaches. She also swam in pants, fully dressed, with a girlfriend. Al-Ghoul’s male friends were beaten by Hamas police, kept in jail for several hours and asked to sign statements saying they would not violate public moral standards again, she said. The incident came as a surprise, worst yet, as shock to Palestinians who, for the first time were told about the news and apparent new Islamic law imposed by Hamas on the coastal area.

According to local news, this incident was the first time Hamas has openly tried to punish a woman for behaving in a way it views as un-Islamic since seizing power two years ago. The incident follows months of quiet pressure on Gaza’s overwhelmingly conservative 1.4 million residents to abide by its strict religious mores. The Hamas even ordered shop-owners to tear down ads showing silhouettes of women's bodies on display and pull lingerie off the shelves.

Ironically, the Islamic hardliner’s stance comes to fore – a “culture” imported from ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia (where couples/ lovers innocently strolling on the beach or streets risk getting arrested by the religious police or Mutawa), while Gaza’s beaches are promoted to boost local tourism.

Not long ago, after Gaza’s disengagement, Palestinian tourism experts pinned their hopes high on internal or domestic tourism. One way of tapping the numbers on the Strip was to reintroduce Gaza’s beaches to the people of Palestine. Beaches were getting a lot of attention at the time.
Palestine Tourism Forbidden love on Gaza beach - eTurboNews.com

I may want to change my travel plans. How are the beaches in Syria?

 

[theliq]

Um....you are aware that none of these even remotely back up your claims, right?

Do you see anyone on this thread insisting that Canaanites were Arabs?

No?

Then why mention it?

If anything, Jews would be the closest to the Cannanites. Canaanites and Jews mixed together.

Check mate.

Look Mate Etos got you pedo-perves right between the eye.......pedos are FULL OF SHIT

 

[theliq]

Forbidden Love On Gaza Beach

It seems Palestine, too, has taken a more conservative approach towards local tourists and residents going to the beach, walking along Gaza shores and showing public display of affection. Apparently, Hamas police attempted to arrest 26-year-old freelance reporter Asma al-Ghoul walking with a man along the Gaza beach. The group of friends consisted of two women and three men passing time, walking on the northern Gaza shore.

Miss al-Ghoul was picked up by police on charges of indecent clothing and behavior. On the night of the arrest, she was wearing jeans and T-shirt - attire that is considered fairly provocative in Gaza’s conservative society and which could have easily attracted the attention of the plain-clothed Hamas vice police who patrol the beaches. She also swam in pants, fully dressed, with a girlfriend. Al-Ghoul’s male friends were beaten by Hamas police, kept in jail for several hours and asked to sign statements saying they would not violate public moral standards again, she said. The incident came as a surprise, worst yet, as shock to Palestinians who, for the first time were told about the news and apparent new Islamic law imposed by Hamas on the coastal area.

According to local news, this incident was the first time Hamas has openly tried to punish a woman for behaving in a way it views as un-Islamic since seizing power two years ago. The incident follows months of quiet pressure on Gaza’s overwhelmingly conservative 1.4 million residents to abide by its strict religious mores. The Hamas even ordered shop-owners to tear down ads showing silhouettes of women's bodies on display and pull lingerie off the shelves.

Ironically, the Islamic hardliner’s stance comes to fore – a “culture” imported from ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia (where couples/ lovers innocently strolling on the beach or streets risk getting arrested by the religious police or Mutawa), while Gaza’s beaches are promoted to boost local tourism.

Not long ago, after Gaza’s disengagement, Palestinian tourism experts pinned their hopes high on internal or domestic tourism. One way of tapping the numbers on the Strip was to reintroduce Gaza’s beaches to the people of Palestine. Beaches were getting a lot of attention at the time.
Palestine Tourism Forbidden love on Gaza beach - eTurboNews.com

I may want to change my travel plans. How are the beaches in Syria?

You have been Etosited....BACK OFF PED

 

[theliq]

Stone

bernard lewis is an excellent historian, and I don't disagree with anything he says in any of those quotes. The problem is that you have not read the books, and do not understand the context.

Your view of history is based entirely on racial hatred, and your interest in facts non-existant. There is a reason racists aren't good historians!

Etos got him right

 

[JStone]

Forbidden Love On Gaza Beach

It seems Palestine, too, has taken a more conservative approach towards local tourists and residents going to the beach, walking along Gaza shores and showing public display of affection. Apparently, Hamas police attempted to arrest 26-year-old freelance reporter Asma al-Ghoul walking with a man along the Gaza beach. The group of friends consisted of two women and three men passing time, walking on the northern Gaza shore.

Miss al-Ghoul was picked up by police on charges of indecent clothing and behavior. On the night of the arrest, she was wearing jeans and T-shirt - attire that is considered fairly provocative in Gaza’s conservative society and which could have easily attracted the attention of the plain-clothed Hamas vice police who patrol the beaches. She also swam in pants, fully dressed, with a girlfriend. Al-Ghoul’s male friends were beaten by Hamas police, kept in jail for several hours and asked to sign statements saying they would not violate public moral standards again, she said. The incident came as a surprise, worst yet, as shock to Palestinians who, for the first time were told about the news and apparent new Islamic law imposed by Hamas on the coastal area.

According to local news, this incident was the first time Hamas has openly tried to punish a woman for behaving in a way it views as un-Islamic since seizing power two years ago. The incident follows months of quiet pressure on Gaza’s overwhelmingly conservative 1.4 million residents to abide by its strict religious mores. The Hamas even ordered shop-owners to tear down ads showing silhouettes of women's bodies on display and pull lingerie off the shelves.

Ironically, the Islamic hardliner’s stance comes to fore – a “culture” imported from ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia (where couples/ lovers innocently strolling on the beach or streets risk getting arrested by the religious police or Mutawa), while Gaza’s beaches are promoted to boost local tourism.

Not long ago, after Gaza’s disengagement, Palestinian tourism experts pinned their hopes high on internal or domestic tourism. One way of tapping the numbers on the Strip was to reintroduce Gaza’s beaches to the people of Palestine. Beaches were getting a lot of attention at the time.
Palestine Tourism Forbidden love on Gaza beach - eTurboNews.com

If public display of affection on the beach is forbidden, what about beating your wife as per the religion of wife-beating?