Jamal Abu Roub
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The candidate's name is Jamal Abu Roub, but everyone here calls him Hitler because, well, that is the name he has answered to quite comfortably since he was a teenager. Mr. Roub, 40, is a leader of the militant Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades in this turbulent corner of the West Bank and has spent the past five years leading his ragtag band of gunmen in frequent clashes with the Israeli military. Mr. Roub is a candidate for the Palestinian Parliament and is virtually assured of winning a seat in the next elections. Mr. Roub has been arrested by Israel six times, starting when he was 17 and has been imprisoned for a total of more than seven years. He also has a degree in banking, and reels off the dates of his arrests and releases with a banker's precision. Jamal Abu Roub, he is 40, but everyone calls him Hitler, that is the name he has answered to quite comfortably since he was a teenager. He is a leader of the militant Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades in this turbulent corner of the West Bank, and has spent the past five years leading his ragtag band of gunmen in frequent clashes with the Israeli military. His deeds include hauling a Palestinian suspected of collaborating with Israel and of molesting his own daughters into a town square, where the man was shot to death. When he was questioned that why he carries gun with him, he answered that he carry them for his protection.