Like a balloon in a blizzard, Gaza's western fence has blown in the wind, thus exposing the true substance and dimensions of what lay beyond, ahead, under and above it.Beyond the fence sprawled Egypt. And while the analogy to the fall of the Berlin Wall begged to be made by the ignorant, let alone the tendentious - no one resorted to it, including the most virulent anti-Israelis.
Why? Wasn't this partition's collapse reminiscent of its alter ego's? Had this wall not caged thousands, and did not the Gazans, like the Berliners in their time, burst through it like children into a school's courtyard upon a long-overdue ringing of the bell? Did the Arabs on both sides of this situation not belong to the same people, speak the same language, profess the same religion and - once enabled to ignore the fence that had risen between them - fall into each other's arms?
Well, they didn't...read more
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