With very few fun places to visit, a sky high unemployment, and too many lost dreams and broken promises, the young people of Gaza do not let all that stop them from having a jolly time. Obviously Gaza does not have night clubs, and the folks who want to get their groove on have only one way to do just that, A Gaza Bachelor Party! Since I have special interest in researching dance parties (see 18 Signs of an Arabic Dance Party) and when in Gaza, do as the Gazans do, so I attended a number of those bachelor parties for friends and relatives. I always brought along my tiny HD camera to take some footage. This is a video for a bachelor party in my neighborhood in Beit Lahia taking place in mid October and everybody in town has come to the party. I have always gone to those parties with my nephew Ahmad who seems to know everybody and can get me out of trouble as needed. Hamas does not actually interfere in those parties, they sure do not like them, but the only way to get Hamas to crash a bachelor party is to either hang Fatah banners or play Fatah songs…if you are do so….Hamas police will show up and take care of business. To my surprise, as long as you are not promoting Fatah, your party will go on in peace. Not just that, you can even have people get high in your bachelor party and Hamas won’t care much…just refrain from singing to Arafat and Sameeh Almadhoun
Notice the Palestinian flags in the videos, making bachelor parties a feel of a patriotic event, clearly, Palestinians mating is more dangerous to the Israelis than the rambling Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, dance away! Enjoy the Sausage Fest!
P.S. There are females at the party, they are on the roofs of the nearby buildings.
Related posts:
- The Party Goes On…At Least for Some
- The Gaza Memos: Unity Agreement?
- 18 Signs of an Arabic Dance Party
- Hamas Claims Victory — Protest Votes Win
- Post-Gaza Palestinians Worse Off, but Not Blaming Hamas
Haha! I have to say, those were all pretty amusing to watch!
Love the kid in the white t-shirt at 44 seconds (first video)
Those are some righteous dance moves.
Posted by Aisha | November 15, 2009, 11:57 pmlol @ Enjoy the Sausage Fest! What if you want to dance w/ girls?
So no Fatah stuff and everything is cool. This is interesting Hanitizer, I hope you post as many vids and pics from Gaza as you can.
Posted by eagle007blogger | November 16, 2009, 12:17 amLove the music!! I am glad that Gazans get to enjoy themselves sometimes.
Posted by hanoum | November 16, 2009, 1:55 amDon't want to spoil the party.
But what about boycott?
Posted by Lick Your Wounds | November 16, 2009, 9:23 pmWhat are we boycotting this time?
Posted by Hanitizer | November 16, 2009, 10:31 pmI love the band, but I love any band that plays a "Heesa" and a "Waw"
Posted by Kamilia | November 16, 2009, 10:51 pmLove your humor, Hanitizer. But I guess this article is not the right time or place to mention boycott against Israel. Nor is this blog. Nor is this campus, this city, or this country.
Party on, dude.
Posted by Lick Your Wounds | November 16, 2009, 10:57 pmI think almost all of us on here have been very vocal about our support of the BDS movement. Some of us have been at the forefront of that movement in the US. I don't understand what you're alluding to?
Posted by MohammadKF | November 17, 2009, 9:47 amI am not talking about the fine work you did years ago.
I am talking about today. As millions of Arab bodies pile up (not only in Palestine), the campuses are truly dead. Not even 1 lousy anti-war march, let alone a boycott campaign, is visible ANYWHERE. Incredible.
Occasionally, you see a quick blip for boycott on a Blog, even this Blog, and then it's gone.
Posted by Lick Your Wounds | November 17, 2009, 11:51 amThat's because boycotting is stupid. And nobody wants anti-war marches, this ain't the 60's man, most folks are proud of the military.
Posted by duh | November 17, 2009, 6:18 pmSpeaking of war, Pakistan is kicking the Talibans' ass! Military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told reporters escorted by the army into South Waziristan on Tuesday that the army had captured most of the population centres and disrupted the militants' food supply line.
"The myth has been broken that this was a graveyard for empires and it would be a graveyard for the army," Abbas said.
"Major town and population centres have been secured," he added.
Meanwhile, The Taliban scumbags blew up a girls school in Pakistan's Khyber district. Islamist militants have destroyed hundreds of schools, mostly for girls, in the northwest of the country in recent years.
Why don't you go protest for the Taliban?
Posted by Lick Your Taliban | November 18, 2009, 1:51 amJERUSALEM (AFP) – Israel gave approval on Tuesday for the construction of hundreds of new housing units in annexed Arab east Jerusalem, drawing Western criticism as it drove another stake into troubled Middle East peace efforts.
The interior ministry said it approved the construction of 900 new units in Gilo, one of a dozen Jewish settlements in east Jerusalem, in a move that flew in the face of Palestinian calls — that had had US backing — for a complete freeze on new building ahead of fresh peace talks.
Israel captured east Jerusalem with the rest of the West Bank in the Six Day War of 1967. It later annexed it in a move never recognised by the international community and insists on retaining the whole of the Holy City as its "eternal, indivisible" capital.
Posted by WTF????? | November 17, 2009, 9:22 pmQuestion answered: Boycott seems to be nonexistent on any campus, anywhere in the United States.
Party your way to liberation, H!
Posted by Lick Your Wounds | November 18, 2009, 6:37 amLove the music
Posted by fofo | November 18, 2009, 7:00 pmParty hearty.
And keep on partying!
Posted by Lick Your Wounds | November 18, 2009, 7:15 pmParty on dude! Go get your 72 raisins!
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan parties in the mountains like guerrilla-stars!
Posted by Taliban Party | November 18, 2009, 8:24 pmMIR ALI, Pakistan – Missiles fired from a suspected U.S. drone killed three militants Thursday in Pakistan's lawless tribal area along the Afghan border, intelligence officials said.
Ahmed Noor Wazir, who witnessed the attack, said rescuers pulled three dead bodies and four badly wounded men from the rubble of the house, which was being used by Taliban militants.
Posted by Party On! | November 19, 2009, 5:06 amISLAMIC CHEATER!
Bahraini middle-distance runner Rashid Ramzi was stripped of his 1,500-meter gold medal Wednesday and four other athletes were disqualified because of doping at the games.
Posted by Ramzi | November 18, 2009, 8:30 pmI wasn't aware that Floyd Landis and Marion Jones were also Muslims
Posted by Hanitizer | November 18, 2009, 9:40 pmI thought that was very informative. Thanks for the cool post. I’ll keep an eye on this.
Posted by behind you | May 25, 2010, 12:18 amA few years ago I’d have to pay someone for this inomfrtaion.
Posted by Melly | August 7, 2011, 11:49 am