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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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 Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:45 pm Post subject: Feeding Gaza |
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Interesting articles (second probably more than the first).
http://food.theatlantic.com/abroad/eating-under-siege.php
http://food.theatlantic.com/the-food-channel/the-varied-food-of-gaza-2.php
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What I want to tell you about is the kitchen, with women's bright eyes flashing as they roll out the dough, and the herb garden religiously tended, and the delicate meal eaten in the shade of a fig tree. But alas, we are in Gaza, and I can't talk about the kitchen without talking about everything else.
Food and cooking in Gaza have changed radically in the last few years since the whole area has been under siege. The borders of this tiny strip are entirely closed, allowing only humanitarian shipments of basic foods to enter--flour, sugar, salt, oil, pulses--and even these are entering at a rate which, according to the UN, only covers about half of the population's most immediate needs. (And that calculation assumes a totally equal distribution of aid, unlikely in the best of circumstances.)
Other goods enter through the Israeli border in a very limited number of trucks bearing a somewhat surreal selection of "necessities" determined by the Israel Defense Force's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories. One week when I was there, for example, those necessities included persimmons and bananas but excluded almost all other food products. Everything else required to sustain the Gazan population of 1.5 million can only enter through underground tunnels from Egypt, an extraordinarily expensive clandestine trade in which many have died due to the gassing and bombing of the tunnels. |
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Sergio Stefanuto
Joined: 14 May 2009
Location: UK
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| Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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well, two themes immediately present themselves:
(a) The Gazans thanked the Israelis for their unilateral pull-out from Gaza - forcibly removing over 9,000 Israelis - by voting in the explicitly genocidal, Islamist Hamas. Israel pulled out of Gaza hoping for peace. The Arabs prepared their rockets.
(b) The tunnel isn't just used for necessities. It's also used for armaments. The difference between 'necessities' and 'armaments' from a Palestinian perspective is open to speculation, of course......
(in international law, a civilian entity may be fired at if there is a purposeful blurring of civilian/combatant activity) |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 12:57 am Post subject: |
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| those necessities included persimmons and bananas but excluded almost all other food products. |
Don't forget the shipments of chewing gum.
Hamas says Israel dumping aphrodisiac gum on Gaza
Hamas suspects that Israeli intelligence services are supplying its Gaza Strip stronghold with chewing gum that boosts the sex drive in order to "corrupt the young," an official said on Tuesday.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20090714/tod-hamas-says-israel-dumping-aphrodisia-7f81b96.html |
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