by Judith Moriarty
What do we know of Gaza? Basically nothing. The little news that we receive from this area is censored and one-sided. According to Robert Fisk - 'Gaza exists because the Palestinians who lived in Ashkelon and the fields around it were dispossessed from their lands in 1948 when Israel was created. They, their children and grandchildren are among the one and a half Palestinian crammed into the refugees crammed into the cesspool of Gaza. 80% of these people once lived in what is now Israel. Watching the news, you'd think that a bunch of bearded anti-Semitic Islamic lunatics suddenly popped up in the slums of Gaza - a rubbish heap of destitute people of NO origin - and began firing homemade rockets into 'peace- loving, democratic Israel.'
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