What the media won’t report about Gaza

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This media disinformation (with pics) came out right around the time of the Flotilla massacre.

http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdis ... 01114.html

* While prominent Western media continue to lead their viewers and readers astray with accounts of a non-existent "mass humanitarian catastrophe" in Gaza, fancy restaurants (video below) and an Olympic-size swimming pool open there

* Most Israeli towns don't have Olympic-size swimming pools

* Many Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza live a middle class (and in some cases an upper class) lifestyle that Western journalists refuse to report on because it doesn't fit with the simplistic story they were sent to write

* If you drop into the Roots Club in Gaza, according to the Lonely Planet guidebook, you can "dine on steak au poivre and chicken cordon bleu" (video, photos below)

* UN-run summer camp for Palestinian children burned to the ground for being "un-Islamic"; UN staff there threatened with murder; UN Security Council fails to react

* It is quite something when the president of a country (Shimon Peres) sees the need to criticize a foreign newspaper, such are the depths that The Guardian sunk to yesterday