Shati' Tea and Falafel Shop, Gaza

The situation is terrible. The Israelis are inflicting the most casualties, and
bombing the most here on the narrow streets of Shati' and on the area of Shaj'iyya--areas where most of us are refugees from 1948 Israel. This whole attack on Gaza
is like the long history of Israeli attacks on Lebanon. The Israelis have some sort
of theory that they can make the original residents of the Gaza strip, those who have been living on the old Archaeoligical Tells since the Bronze age will somehow resent us new arrivals and clamp down on us. Officially we watch the Israelis talking to the western media saying they are not against the people of Gaza, but only
against Hamas. But Hamas is also the people. When the Israelis say they are against Hamas, but not the people: it is their code word for saying they are not against the original Gazans but only against the pasky Palestinians.