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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

MFA Spokesman on Gaza flotilla

Ships forcing their way into Gaza will do nothing to aid the people there. Existing land crossings are more than capable of meeting their needs...

And an unofficial video:

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Tom Gross reports on just how dishonest the entire narrative is in this must-read: Fancy restaurants and Olympic-size pools: What the media won't report about Gaza

...What they won't tell you about are the fancy new restaurants and swimming pools of Gaza, or about the wind surfing competitions on Gaza beaches, or the Strip's crowded shops and markets. Many Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza live a middle class (and in some cases an upper class) lifestyle that western journalists refuse to report on because it doesn't fit with the simplistic story they were sent to write.

Here, courtesy of the Palestinian Ma'an news agency, is a report on Gaza's new Olympic-sized swimming pool . (Most Israeli towns don't have Olympic-size swimming pools. One wonders how an area that claims to be starved of water and building materials and depends on humanitarian aid builds an Olympic size swimming pool and creates a luxury lifestyle for some while others are forced to live in abject poverty as political pawn refugees?)

If you pop into the Roots Club in Gaza, according to the Lonely Planet guidebook, you can "dine on steak au poivre and chicken cordon bleu".

The restaurant's website in Arabic gives a window into middle class dining and the lifestyle of Hamas officials in Gaza. And here it is in English, for all the journalists, UN types and NGO staff who regularly frequent this and other nice Gaza restaurants (but don't tell their readers about them).

And here is a promotional video of the club restaurant . In case anyone doubts the authenticity of this video, I just called the club in Gaza City and had a nice chat with the manager who proudly confirmed business is booming and many Palestinians and international guests are dining there...

Gross has even more information at his own site.

Listed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: Video: Israeli Response to the Gaza Flotilla, Plus: What the Media Won't Tell You.

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So much to say about this, so little time. Here are a bunch of links. StandWithUs has almost the right response by sending their own counter-flotilla to sea: Counter-flotilla to surprise the Europeans A fleet of privately owned Israeli boats... Read More

2 Comments

The video ad for Gaza's Roots Club is really something. It would fit right in with celeb worship shows like Livin' Large or Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.

No surprise to see the PA's putative PM, the Hamasnik PM Ismael Haniya, down there rubbing shoulders with the glitterati, but is that PA Prez Abu Mazen chowing down with his Hamas pals? Wow! They didn't throw him off a roof!

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