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u/gahgeer-is-back · 11 pointsr/IsraelPalestine

> What sorts of things are unique to Gazan culture?

  • the Arabic accent

    Gaza has so many accents which differ between one town and another, and sometimes even between one neighbourhood and another.

    Gazans tend to use an Egyptian annotation at the end of the words e.g. instead of saying Madraseh (school), they say Madrasah, or Hina (here) instead of Hon.

    Gazans (like the Hebronites I think) also snort as an angry reaction to an unbearable situation/story. To say "stop it or else I'll snort for you" usually means my patience has hit the ceiling and there's not much left of it.

  • the food

    Ideally, the good thing about food in Gaza is the influence from the Mediterranean both in flavours as well as seafood/fish: Similar to southern Italy and the coastal north Africa, Gazans love chili/green pepper or food that is cooked with chili.
    Various varieties of seafood/fish dishes dominate the menu as well. The most famous is probably the shrimps in clay pot.

    There are some dishes which are cooked only in Gaza. Two of these are the Romanniyah and Summaggiyah. I really don’t like them but I think their presence on only the Gaza menu is quite interesting.

    More on Gaza food can be found in the Gaza Kitchen book book.

  • Kiting

    Probably needless to say but kites and kiting are the Gaza great pass time, especially in the summer. Wherever you’ll go, if it’s sunny and not raining, you’ll find at least one hand-made kite flying in the air, in the desolate village or even as part of a Guinness record-breaking attempt. I think the nice thing about this is that nobody bothers buying ready-to-fly kites and they are always hand-made. There essentially two types of kites: the gobu3, which is a small kite made from a single sheet of paper and a thread, as shown by the kid in this short film, and the 6abag, which is much bigger and has a dish shape, hence the name.


    >How difficult is it to move in and out of Gaza? Can you just use the Rafa border crossing or can/do you use a tunnel?

    At the moment it's nearly impossible. The Egyptian side is completely close and opened for few days two weeks ago for the first time in four months. The Israeli side is close to all travel except for those with permits. Usually it's much easier for foreigners who are journalists or work in the NGO sector to get in and out. Otherwise it's a complete prison camp experience.



    >What do you think is going to ultimately be the future of Gaza?

    Will reconciliation with the PA occur? Do you foresee Hamas losing power there? What did people in Gaza generally think about Hamas's chances of accomplishing anything good for them with respect to Israel?

    The future of Gaza is really bleak. In its current conditions it is like Hong Kong in population density but nothing else. There are shortages of everything and Gaza is technically a huge-ass refugee camp that without aid would become a major famine.

    I think for any attempt to make Gaza a habitable place, you need to move people out of it. I don’t know where to; the empty parts of the West Bank or wherever but it needs to be done.

    >Will reconciliation with the PA occur?

    I don’t think the two sides have taken a genuine interest in power-sharing. The PA is playing the waiting game while thinking that Hamas will eventually come back and repent.

    Hamas for its part doesn’t really care much. You may ask why? Because for Hamas leaders (like other Muslim Brotherhood members pretty much), to rule Gaza is something that never happened to them. Heck, few years earlier all hamas leaders were in PA prisons being treated like shit. Now they are in charge of the whole Gaza Strip (small as it obviously is). Haniyah travels in a motorcade, and he is the prime minister. This guy was Ahmad Yasin’s secretary, like literally secretary.


    Ruling Gaza also proved useful for the military wing of Hamas. It is now free like never before in terms of doing what it wants to do. The area is small, true, but they can set up training camps, summer schools for kids, run a TV/radio station, run border crossings, run tunnels or even just block the road and do nothing. This is a sea change from where they were before 2007.

    The above two paragraphs are meant to show that Hamas leadership (i.e. its military wing) in Gaza is not in rush to shed its control of the Strip.

    Between these two currents, the Palestinian population is the biggest loser, especially in Gaza. What I hated the most about Gaza was not the war, the shelling, the infighting or people’s general stupidity, but it was the lack of hope.

    In Gaza you can’t do shit. I used to work two jobs and a very decent salary but it was worthless. There was nothing to do with it apart from going to cafe to smoke shisha and watch a football match with friends. In the rare occurrence, a foreign music band would come once in blue moon but that will be it. At some point I decided to start cycling, and it was enjoyable for a while, but then there were the Israeli air strikes on moving cars and I didn’t want to be collateral damage so I stopped even cycling.

    Even when you decide, fuck it, I’m gonna leave this place. The borders are closed and it is a miracle to go out. People lose their jobs abroad, their seats in college because they couldn’t travel or get out. At the end of it you feel that the only outlet of this place is to actually go and become a freedom fighter, a member of some Kataeb, and fight Israel (or as in many cases pretend to) until you either go to an Israel prison or get killed.



    >What did people in Gaza generally think about Hamas's chances of accomplishing anything good for them with respect to Israel?

    Let’s face it. In 2007 and after that, people probably hated Hamas. They came after a bloody fight and were very scary. But the way things stand now is kind of strange. Because the PA and the international donors are simply paying for everything in Gaza: goods, salaries, costs of utilities..etc, while Hamas does the governance and bullying.

    Eventually after few years of this, more than a few will begin to feel that save the month-per-year war with Israel, things are not that horrible actually and it is thanks to Hamas that they are still alive.

    What Hams can bring to the future of the Palestinian people is quite difficult to guess. But I’m not seeing a Hamas that is maturing in terms of their thinking. They are still interested in maintaining their grip on power and have not learned to share-power or concede temporarily. What happened in Egypt after the ouster of President Morsi made this belief even stronger.

    Eventually I hope that Hamas will somehow see how the Muslim Brotherhood is faring in Tunisia and change accordingly. I think they might be susceptible to doing something like that if they obtain recognition from the international community. I sense that their leaders abroad (Mesha’l et al) have already realized that this is the only way forward but their military wing is still not feeling this way.

    (Sorry man that's a lot of writing)