Breaking that evil Israeli blockade of Gaza can leave you with a hefty appetite. Next time you’re confronting Zionism, why not pop in here for some r’n'r?
(Via Tom Gross.)
And no, I’m not minimizing the daily hardships faced by ordinary Gazans - but those who would have us believe that Gaza is a modern day Warsaw Ghetto might want to check these figures. As I’ve said before, if these numbers are fabricated, prove it.
Oh, for goodness’ sake. Every war zone, from Warsaw to Beirut, always had a tiny percentage of people who could eat very well indeed and had access to exquisite black-market goods. I’m pretty sure the boats are trying to relieve the “hardships of ordinary Gazans”, not the beef stroganoff munching types.
This post here puts some clarity into things: http://lisagoldman.net/2010/05/26/move-to-gaza-where-the-living-is-easy/
Reider, to an extent, you have a point - Kim Jong Il starves his people and drinks fine cognac at the same time. The difference is that the North Korean regime is understood to be at the root of its people’s suffering, whereas the Gaza solidarity activists present Hamas as a noble resistance movement, bolstering the false notion that only Israel is responsible for Gaza’s predicament. That’s what Lisa’s post misses.
This sheds a little more light:
Today, I visited the Roots Club for the first time. It was nearly empty (except for five patrons, including me) at 7 p.m. on a weekend night and has not turned a profit in four years