Gaza, pt. 2
Robert Fist, "Why bombing Ashkelon is the most tragic irony":
How easy it is to snap off the history of the Palestinians, to delete the narrative of their tragedy, to avoid a grotesque irony about Gaza which – in any other conflict – journalists would be writing about in their first reports: that the original, legal owners of the Israeli land on which Hamas rockets are detonating live in Gaza.
That is why Gaza exists: because the Palestinians who lived in Ashkelon and the fields around it – Askalaan in Arabic – were dispossessed from their lands in 1948 when Israel was created and ended up on the beaches of Gaza. They – or their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren – are among the one and a half million Palestinian refugees crammed into the cesspool of Gaza, 80 per cent of whose families once lived in what is now Israel. This, historically, is the real story: most of the people of Gaza don't come from Gaza.
1 comments:
I like Fisk, he's a smart man outside of Lebanon (with his love for Harri and such) that and his views on 9/11 being an inside job are kind of sketchy. Anyways, would you know of any good books about Lebanon/ Hizbullah/ the Shi'ites of the South? I have Deeb's book and others on Hizbullah. Is there any other ground breakers that I should know of per chance? (This is in regards to a potential thesis on Hizbullah).
Thanks,
-Rob
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