Destruction in Gaza, a place Palestinians cannot enjoy and cannot escape. (Reuters)
I occasionally devote a blog to cities devastated by war or natural disaster, showing how beautiful the place used to be (and to some extent may still be) as disaster consumes its ancient buildings. In most cases, the allure of places such as Beirut and Lviv, in Ukraine, is often well known by Western publics. Not so with Gaza, controlled by the terror group Hamas. Our mind’s eye – myself included – is taught to believe that Gaza is a hellhole and has been since the Israelis pulled out in 2005 (which is conveniently forgotten) – and of course now it is a hellhole, since bombing by the Israeli IDF has reduced much of it to rubble.
The video linked below is produced by the invaluable Middle East Media Research Institute. It will be an eye opener for most who have the courage to view it. MEMRI is devoted to exposing the lies that appear in most of the Middle Eastern media, which, alas, often includes mainstream Western media outlets, which have drunk the Kool Aid of Palestinian propaganda to the dregs. The propaganda asserts that Gaza is “occupied” by Israel, or that it is some sort of “concentration camp” from which Palestinians cannot escape. None of it is true. Here is the evidence:
I cannot vouch for the architecture on display in pre-war Gaza. But I do believe that there is some sort of mental convergence between those who support modern architecture and those who support Hamas.
