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"Unoccupied": A Palestinian Op-Ed on Gaza Today

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posted Monday, 3 October 2005

This is a very interesting op-ed piece in the Washington Post, written by a Palestinian writer.

Here is a piece of it:

The world sees Gaza, I think, the way we saw ourselves a few weeks ago -- "liberated" from the Israelis. But I fear that the world now thinks it can ignore us. Given the passivity of the ruling authority, Gazans need help from outside to save the next generations from poverty and extremism. Without such help, Gaza is still a prison -- it has just become a little more spacious.

"I think we were better off before the Israelis left," said Mohammed, my neighbor. "At least we were termed 'occupied,' but now we are not; we have been left alone in this barren land."

When the Israelis pulled out, I remember thinking that the pullout is just the easy part.  The hard part is what will happen, what is happening, in Gaza after the Israeli presence is gone.  Keep your eye on it, gentle reader.  The importance of the economy can hardly be overstated. 

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