Comments on: Eating Out in Gaza http://blog.z-word.com/2010/05/eating-out-in-gaza/ Commentary about Zionism, anti-Zionism, antisemitism and the conflict in the Middle East Wed, 23 May 2012 21:24:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5-RC1.1 By: Steve Kelly http://blog.z-word.com/2010/05/eating-out-in-gaza/#comment-11355 Steve Kelly Fri, 28 May 2010 23:17:56 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1581#comment-11355 This sheds a little more light: <a href="http://gazadispatches.blogspot.com/2010/05/hamas-preparations-for-flotillas.html" rel="nofollow">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</a> 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

]]> By: Ben Cohen http://blog.z-word.com/2010/05/eating-out-in-gaza/#comment-11311 Ben Cohen Wed, 26 May 2010 16:37:44 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1581#comment-11311 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. 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.

]]> By: Reider http://blog.z-word.com/2010/05/eating-out-in-gaza/#comment-11310 Reider Wed, 26 May 2010 16:24:00 +0000 http://blog.z-word.com/?p=1581#comment-11310 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/ 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/

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