Smile, You are in Gaza ..(1)

1- If you, after three years of studying, found that your university was not credited even though they say it is, Smile you are in Gaza.

2- If your historical dream was just to win a job for six months only on the unemployment UNRWA scheme, Smile you are in Gaza.

3- If you went to the bank to pick up your salary in USD currency, but the cashier told you that you had to take it in local currency (shekel) with mass loss in agio due to the money siege imposed on all banks in Gaza, Smile you are in Gaza.

4- If your humble salary vanished at the end of the second week of the month because you have taken it after the first week, and you are demanded to repay your debtors whom waiting for you at the bank iterance, Smile you are in Gaza.

5- If you decided to run a business for living, and thought about opening a supermarket at your neighborhood, then you found that your neighbor, and your son in law, and your friend had decided the same thing at the same place, Smile you are in Gaza.

6- If you passed by trash container, and found families of tykes and cats feeding and playing around, Smile you are in Gaza.

7- If you faced the fact that more than 50% of young educated youth are deeply thinking of migration, Smile you are in Gaza.

8- If you thought these items are exaggerated, but they are not, Smile you are NOT from Gaza.

It is just a matter of 7000 years only..!

The phrase " It will take 7000 years only" has become a normal expression on the tongue of Gazan people for any unsolved problem. Some say: Gaza needs more than 7000 years to get the hang of all suspended problems, and I guess they're right. The following are examples of some problems that can be solved in only 7000 years as believed:

Once upon a time in a Garden next to the Sea

Don't take this wrong, the garden I mean is just a small place crowded with family members around, few trees are there and their color is close to brown, if they are not dead already..! A little grass, and thanks god it is absolutely green. About 200 children are playing around and that doesn't make life so easy I guess. About 100 hawkers sells nothing but an expired stuff, and if their loud voice made money, they would be rich since years. Young man walking romantically with his fiancée know nothing about the world except what is being whispered. Some guys, like the one in the picture, are hanging around with their digital camera trying to snap the best shots that show them as stars.

From Gaza With Love

Hello,,

It is hard to tell what Gaza means to me. In any elsewhere , people tend to abandon their countries when poverty and fear covers the atmosphere. Yes, Gaza is unstable region, yes, it has the least of ordinary human life, yes, death is roaming above every span of her. Despite that, it attracts me like magnet and let nothing in front of me except drowning in her embrace. The perfect charisma of her remains in souls for good and lets you forget death in exchange of a laughter inside it. The beauty of Gaza like August Whales, traveling far distances in the ocean but, when time comes, return back to the spot they were born in, to die.