Now I know why folks like sophisticated reporters for The Guardian and the elegant Christiane Amanpour like Gaza so much. Don’t we all want to be the first to chic restaurants before they are discovered by the hoi polloi? Gaza, as it turns out, is one of the world’s great new dining hotspots. [What's the matter with you? Didn't you read the playbook? The Israelis are making life intolerable in Gaza.-ed You mean the IDF lowered their Zagat points? That's unconscionable!]
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Wow, that’s oppression for you.
If the video didn’t play clearly, this is another taste of ROOTS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJvvkXYD12U&feature=related
Here’s a tid-bit for so-called reporters like Ms. Amanpour, if she hasn’t had her fill at ROOTS. I wonder when, if ever, she and her fellow Israel-bashing “journalists” will report that Israel has Arabs on its Supreme Court and in its elected legislature, the Knesset. I hope your post of this “hot spot” will help dispel the ignorance about “the never-ending misery” in Gaza.
Your tax dollars at work – suckers from America & the US give aid to Palestine so that a bunch of corrupt embezzlers can live it up on your dime, when they’re not busy planning terrorist attacks on infidels.
It’s enough to make one weep. OR, fight like crazy to end the payments to the terrorists by electing people with principles.
Roger –
By “Gaza dining hotspots” do you mean before or after the car bombs parked outside go off?
Roger are you suggesting that the people of Gaza live and eat better than I do here in Houston? Are these the regular folks or the rich bastards we all suffer with where ever we live? How did the Israelis miss this place? Context please.
My wife and I had a late lunch in Gaza in February of 1984. Fish joint on the beach not nearly as fancy as that in the video. Israeli soldiers silhouetted against the sky on every rooftop. We had just finished touring a refugee camp and chatting with the residents and were winding down before returning to civilization.
What I remember is not the food or the service or the ambiance all of which were modest. It was the beautiful beach, every square foot covered with mountains of garbage that made a big impression. It reminded us that these folks who claim they want their own state have no sense of hygiene and live quite comfortably with open sewage and no garbage disposal.
I remarked on the lack of hygiene to my cousin, an officer in the Israeli reserve who was our guide and he suggested I count the number of dresses worn by men who passed us in the street that weren’t shit-stained in back.
The refugee camp, reputed to be among the worst, made an impression, too. The edges of the camp were fringed with large mansions owned by Arab doctors, dentists and lawyers that middle class Americans can only dream of. The locals were growing strawberries shaded by plastic sheeting and irrigated by drip pipes as the Israelis had taught them fora cash crop. Altogether, it was a paradise compared to slums we saw in Haiti and even the Dominican Republic.
Sitting on the floor with my back to the wall and drinking sweet cardamon tea with some thirty Arab men in a communal room, I listened to my Arabic speaking cousin question each abut his family history. Turned out that the arrival of my maternal ancestors in Turkish Palestine during early nineteenth century long predated the arrival of the fathers and grandfathers of those in the room all of whom the UN looks upon as indigenous population.
The Saudis and the UN have spent fortunes creating a false Frankenstein to plague the Jews.
Man all that food looks good.
Perhaps Jungus just too bad the ambience is so toxic and deadly as are its media patrons words are for THEIR TV viewers. I would worry about hygiene as well. David Levai’s comment is true about that. Same for Greece, such an astoundingly beautiful country – but garbage is literally strewn everywhere.
I was hungry.
That was Hamas’s leader in there wasn’t it? Even so, I will bet the powerfully corrupt always eat at the swankiest places. Not a place to wear flip-flops for more reasons than one!