Thursday, February 07, 2008

Reality bites

Travel Brings Surprises -Diaa Hadid

A little travel has gone a long way toward changing perceptions in Gaza.

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."
(AP/Washington Post)

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