AN EXPOSED NERVE
In her book DRINKING THE SEA AT GAZA Amira Hass tries to explain why she ,an Israeli journalist, wanted to live in poor,dangerous and rundown Gaza.
"In the end " she wrote
"my desire to live in Gaza stemmed neither from adventurism nor from insanity, but from that dread of being a bystander from my need to understand , down to the last detail a world that is -to the best of my political and historical comprehension - a profoundly Israeli creation.To me, Gaza embodies the entire saga of the Israeli -Palestinian conflict; it represents the central contradiction of the state of Israel- ademocracy for some,dispossession for others;it is our exposed nerve"