Pakistan, Bangladesh and a Territorially Viable Palestinian State
'The electrified barrier is highly effective. It has made it virtually impossible to escape Gaza, and the result is a sense of imprisonment and suffocation. There are 3,766 people to every square kilometer in the territory. The towns, camps, and houses are hideously overpopulated. To escape the watching eyes of one's family and the pressure of the community at large requires almost superhuman ingenuity. People in Gaza live without windows on the outside. The only crumbs of comfort come from encounter with foreigners passing through - or from dreams peddled by Israeli TV or the satellite channels. The people speak of Gaza as a "rabbit hutch" or a "life-size jail." Most Gazans under twenty have never known anything other than the place where they were born. A test carried out on children and young people from the ages of ten to twenty-four has shown that three out of four people think that the map of Gaza is the map of Palestine. The inability to picture the n...