It's The Egyptians Who Should Be Running To Gaza!

Elder of Ziyon has a great guest post on Israellycool illustrating that the descriptions of life in Gaza are just so much propaganda. If anything, the situations in Gaza and Egypt are the reverse of what the world--as well as Gazans and Egyptians themselves--have been led to believe. Elder of Ziyon starts with a quote from a two-week old article in the Washington Post (which has since been removed):

Many Gazans who visited Egypt remarked on the discrepancy between their more glamorous image of urban Egypt - derived mostly from movies - and the run-down border region of unpaved streets and small houses they encountered.

A trickle of Egyptians also made it into Gaza. Mohammed, an Egyptian truck driver who rented his truck to Palestinians to ferry goods into Gaza, pointed to cars crowding a nearby street and said: “I thought conditions here would be harder than this. I thought people would be starving.”

Read the whole thing.

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