UNRWA cancels 2013 Gaza Marathon

[oberliner]

05 March 2013
Jerusalem

UNRWA regrets to announce that it has had to cancel the third UNRWA marathon which was to be held on 10 April. This disappointing decision follows discussions with the authorities in Gaza who have insisted that no women should participate.

Registered participants who still wish to come to Gaza are welcome. UNRWA is working on a programme of other events, which will be forwarded to those interested as soon as possible. UNRWA sincerely regrets the inconvenience this causes those who planned to participate in the marathon.

http://www.unrwa.org/etemplate.php?id=1664

[King_David]

1. " authorities in Gaza who have insisted that no women should participate. "

How about Gays?

[King_David]

2. "Registered participants who still wish to come to Gaza are welcome"

As long as they not women ? Gays? Jews?

[King_David]

3. Crickets

[leftynyc]

4. You can't possibly be surprised

that those who whine when Israel sneezes the wrong way would ignore this. It goes completely against their narrative.

[King_David]

5. Very "progressive" of them..

They can't even bring themselves to criticize Hamas for disgusting mysoginism or even homophobic hate for that matter but the Jewish State is always the devil .

[leftynyc]

6. They have no idea

what being a progressive is all about. Defending a group that wont even let women run with men. Blech.

[shira]

7. Yeah, they rip into the IDF's policy WRT women soldiers (best in the world). n/t

[King_David]

8. This Hamas must be a great disappointment

To the "progressives" on this forum .

But it's not part of the agenda to criticize Hamas .

It's not very "progressive " either.

[King_David]

9. Kick