Hamas at 22
Tens of thousands of Palestinians packed a Gaza City square yesterday to mark the anniversary and heard Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh pledge, from behind a podium decorated daintily with orange, white and red flowers, that Hamas would never make peace with Israel.
Propagandists for the Palestinian cause are wont to refer to the territory as “an open-air prison for its 1.4 million residents.” In truth, it’s more a working model of what a Hamas-led Palestine would look like.
Granted there is plenty of desperation and misery in Gaza - much of it self-inflicted