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For Muslims In Gaza, End Of Ramadan Marred By Fighting

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By Emily Harris
Members of a Palestinian family break their fast with the iftar meal during the holy month of Ramadan.
ISRAEL--The Muslim holiday, which began Monday, marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan. This year, it also marks three weeks since the current war in Gaza started. Eid al-Fitr is a religious holiday and a family celebration. Relatives offer each other gifts of cash and chocolate. Kids look forward to special cookies and new clothes. But on the first day of what is traditionally a three-day holiday, Israeli jets continued their offensive in Gaza, and Hamas militants continued to launch rockets into Israel — despite a call by the United Nations for both Israel and Hamas to implement a humanitarian cease-fire for "the Eid period and beyond." [link]
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Ernest Disney-Britton said…
As Palestinian groups rally across America in response to the bloodshed, I'm moved by the admonition by a black woman who scolded them saying, "You do not have the right to invoke my people’s struggle for your shoddy purposes." She goes on to list black Zionists from the Civil Rights era: Coretta Scott King, Martin Luther King, Jr., Phillip Randolph, and also Gay-Black Civil Rights hero and Quaker pacifist Bayard Rustin.

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