From the eye of the storm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1814465,00.html
In Gaza, an apricot tree stands in symbolic defiance of Israel's
shameful retaliation
Sami Abdel-Shafi in Gaza
Friday July 7, 2006
The Guardian
After causing long term damage to civilian life and inflicting mass
punishment on the Gaza Strip, it is perhaps the Israeli leaders who
deserve sympathy, for having to live with the guilt of what they have
done. Gazans will not send a mayday from the eye of the storm. Instead
they will continue to survive and improvise in the intolerable
conditions that they have been subjected to for so long.
This crossed my mind as I paced by an apricot tree I planted about a
year and a half ago, during what I thought was one of the darkest
periods for Gaza, to renew my hope for better times. A shoot then, and
a young tree now, the apricot tree grew in defiance of Gaza's
unfriendly skies, where Israeli airforce planes have replaced the
birds.
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