Thursday, July 5, 2007
No joke: Palestinian civil servants say draw Hamas gunfire
Dozens of employees arrived at their offices in Gaza to find entrance doors chained and Hamas's Executive Force threatening to arrest them, witnesses said.
No one was hurt in the incident in the Hamas-controlled territory.
"The (Executive Force) fired into the air first and then when employees did not (leave), they fired on the ground, near women employees," said Finance Ministry worker Mesleh al-Kilani.
"Yes, they fired," many of his colleagues shouted.
Guidelines for the working week by President Mahmoud Abbas's emergency government set Sunday to Thursday as working days with a Friday/Saturday weekend.
But the Hamas-led government, which Abbas dismissed after the Islamist movement seized Gaza in a civil war three weeks ago, has set a Saturday-Wednesday working week...
Because Israel's weekend is Friday-Saturday, Hamas will prove its independence of Israel by adopting a different weekend, even if it flies in the face of usefulness and funcion.
It's not a joke. It is a consistent way of thinking.
The PA, to mark its independence from Israeli rule, uses a different schedule for Daylight Saving Time than Israel.
The absurdity is not restricted to Hamas alone. Egyptian Researcher Dr. Abd Al-Baset Al-Sayyed demands to Abolish Greenwich Mean Time and Replace It with Mecca Time:
http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=1349
" Yes, but we have to work on these things. We must declare this, and we must convene a large conference with them, and tell them that time must be calculated according to Mecca.
Interviewer: What other benefits are there to calculating time according to Mecca?
Abd Al-Baset Al-Sayyid: If you calculate time according to Mecca, those 8.5 minutes... The magnetic field of Earth, for example... What I say is that there are people at the North Pole and the South Pole who cannot come here in multitudes.
Interviewer: Really?
Abd Al-Baset Al-Sayyid: This is because the magnetic force is concentrated there, which affects people's blood and the biological movement of life. It has been proven that if magnetism, anywhere, exceeds 1,000 gauss, which equals one tenth of a tesla, it affects the ability of the hemoglobin in the blood to carry oxygen to the body's tissues, the ability of the blood to carry oxygen to the tissues.
Interviewer: In other words, the ability to live...
Abd Al-Baset Al-Sayyid: Yes, to live... This means is that when you are in Mecca, the ability of the blood to carry oxygen to the tissues is greater than anywhere else in the world."