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Unlike the three previous wars on Gaza, the May war, albeit shorter – eliminated many of my childhood and teenage years’ memories. It was more personal than the others. This time, Israel stepped up its aggressiveness by attacking the heart of Gaza City, a place that often escaped the intense bombing. And in the two weeks I stayed there in June, I don’t think there was a single day without the drone noise in the background.

The hole through which six Palestinian prisoners made their escape from Gilboa prison.

The six escapees from Gilboa breached something much more serious than a maximum-security prison — they burrowed into the granular underground of Zionism’s fragile psyche.

The media cannot look at the causes of the 9/11 attacks even 20 years later. But Al Qaeda perpetrated the bombings because the U.S. was an occupying military force in Saudi Arabia. A 1998 declaration of war by Osama bin Laden cites two other issues: the “devastation” of Iraq by U.S. sanctions including the alleged deaths of 1 million Iraqis, and the effort by the U.S. to “fragment” Arab nations and leave them as “paper statelets” so as to insure the survival of Israel.