In Gaza, Politics at the End of a Gun
There’s a new sheriff in this town, and he wears a black hat and bushy beard. On nearly every major street corner, men in camouflage pants, black T-shirts and matching caps, and beards of varying thickness stand in small groups cradling Kalashnikov assault rifles. There are 3,000 of them, placed by the Hamas-led Interior Ministry to impose order on the Gaza Strip’s unruly streets. Full Story