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Fancy Restaurants and Olympic-Size Pools in Gaza
(National Post-Canada) Tom Gross - The BBC and other prominent Western media regularly lead their viewers and readers astray with accounts of a non-existent "mass humanitarian catastrophe" in Gaza. What they won't tell you about are the fancy new restaurants and swimming pools of Gaza, or about the wind surfing competitions on Gaza beaches, or the Strip's crowded shops and markets. Many Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza live a middle class (and in some cases an upper class) lifestyle that Western journalists refuse to report on because it doesn't fit the story they were sent to write. Of course there is poverty in Gaza. There is poverty in parts of Israel too. But the way the media systematically create the false impression that people are starving in Gaza, and that it is all Israel's fault, can only serve to increase hatred for the Jewish state.