The Jews control the media, we’re told, but they can’t manage to stop the international dissemination of “Palestinian” jihad victimhood propaganda.
“We all were lied to – Gaza was a modern developed city before October 7th – opinion,” by Roi Yanovsky, Jerusalem Post, February 5, 2024:
I was recently released from reserve duty in Gaza, after serving 100 days in the IDF. Since the world can’t see firsthand the things I saw there, I feel I have to share.
For years, well before October 7th, we’ve heard about how terrible life is for the poor, oppressed Gazans. How anti-Israel activists and media outlets claim the Gaza Strip can be compared to an open-air prison. This became the standard, accepted narrative about life in Gaza, promulgated by Al Jazeera and international human rights groups. But now, having experienced it myself, I can confidently tell you that we were lied to.
Gaza City was modern and developed
Gaza has been depicted as a backwards, “densely populated” area that’s been under Israeli “siege” for years. There’s no bigger lie than this. Pre-war Gaza was a modern, beautiful, developed city – with large, furnished houses, wide avenues, public areas, a promenade, and parks. It looked much better than any other Arab city “from the river to the sea.” Gaza City reminds me more of Tel Aviv than the awful slums that some people try to make it out to be.
And, of course, Gaza is far from being the “most densely populated area in the world.”
If this is how a city looks after two decades of “siege,” then I want to be sieged. The houses in Gaza were full of goods and food from across the Middle East, the houses had modern furniture, appliances, and pretty much any up-to-date consumer product and electronics you can imagine.
There are also high-end mansions that could easily have been in Los Angeles or Beverly Hills. There was no lack of wealth in Gaza.
I realize now that the optimistic notion that “if only Gazans had the chance for a better life, they would not be fighting Israel,” is irrelevant for Gaza. Many of them had everything a normal person in the West strives for, yet Hamas still executed their October 7th massacre.
The most common thing I saw inside the houses was a map of the State of Israel, with the heading “Map of Palestine.” There is no mention of the internationally recognized borders of Israel, or any Israeli city or kibbutz. The goal of eradicating the only Jewish State was not hidden or played down, it was everywhere….
mike says
about time someone toll the truth
to bad the media & UN will not tell the truth
Mike says
From what I understand, both yes and no. Gaza apparently had some good infrastructure and some pockets of wealth, but it also had an unemployment rate of nearly 50 percent and a poverty rate of roughly 70 percent.
The problem of course, is that the top Hamas leaders embezzled around 45 percent of aid money Gaza received in order to enrich themselves, and misappropriated another 45 percent of it to build terror tunnels and rockets, and to purchase weapons to use to destroy Israel.
So, only about 10 percent of the aid money actually went to the average people of Gaza. As many pundits have pointed out, Gaza could have become as prosperous as Singapore if Hamas had invested that money corrected, and opted for peace and cooperation with Israel (and Egypt as well).
Blougeoisie says
Sounds like an city everywhere.
FYI says
Actual Genocides
The Armenians 1915-1920
by the muslims
African Christians today….
by the muslims
What evil religious cult has an actual GENOCIDE policy?
islam GHARQAD tree hadith Sahih Muslim 2922 which calls for the annihilation of the Jews.Also al walaa wal baraa,islam’s doctrine of HATE.
Who does the world blame?Israel!
That should be islam and the muslims.No wonder commies and lefties are drawn to islam.They are all good at Genocide.
Remember that when you see the two faced leftie keffiyeh wearers shouting “From the river to the sea” which means to Genocide the Jews.
The Pallys,no doubt prompted by Iran and pushed by hamas brought the destruction of Gaza ….on themselves.
Nathaniel Winterson says
Even the news footage of the war impressed me this way. What was in the act of being destroyed was well constructed and beautiful, the infrastructure of an affluent and successful society. Hamas arranged to have all that changed, so to speak, but, it was anything bur depressed before they did that.
FYI says
If you pick a fight with a big guy, when you could have avoided it ,and the big guy comes after you and puts you in hospital,whose fault is it?
1}The Big Guy
2}YOUR fault..why did you pick a fight if it was not necessary?YOU brought all this on yourself.
What would the media today say?The Big Guy is to blame for not respecting his attacker’s cultural norms
FYI says
For the keffiyeh wearing lefties..
Did you know that it is Hamas that calls for Genocide of Jews and islam has a teaching calling for their anihilation.Sahih muslim 2922 Gharqad tree hadith.
They didn’t tell you?Don’t forget to ask them.
“From the river to the sea” means to genocide the Jews.If you agree with that you should replace your keffiyeh with.. a Swastika.You wouldn’t subscribe to that surely?
Do you know that kidnapping children and raping women are WAR CRIMES that hamas commited?No concern for the innocent Jews?Hey-that’s why you take down those posters isn’t it?But they are just kids..show some compassion.I am against the rape of women and think rapists should suffer punishment.Don’t you lefties?Any feminists amongst you?Isn’t rape a terrible crime?No sisterley concern for those poor women?No woman deserves such.Do you know islam PERMITS RAPING captive women.What?The muslims didn’t tell you?
A leftie friend of mine said something funny to me recently “I must look to see where i put that keffiyeh…so i can burn it.”
Rick Olsha says
What was .
AMISRAEL CHAI !!!!