Volume 38, Number 13 · July 18, 1991

On Gaza Beach

By Ari Shavit, Translated from the Hebrew by Stephen Langfur

The setting is idyllic: a few hundred yards from the quiet Mediterranean shore. At six in the morning, when the fishing boats go out, you feel for a moment that you are back in the Greek Islands of the 1950s. A fresh breeze blows eastward through the guard tower and past the Palestinian prisoners below me.



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