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Wednesday January 23, 2008
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Let's say your city is blockaded. You get one shopping spree. What do you go for, beyond basic food and necessities? If you are a human being in the 21st century, the answer is clearly, "color TV." Take a look at this photo from the New York Times of Palestinians rushing back into the Gaza Strip after a bulldozed border crossing briefly let them head into Egypt. I noticed three things:
1. The aforementioned color TV. Yes, there appears to be a Toshiba model 20N3, but it's SECAM, which makes sense because the Palestinian TV system is SECAM. I found a reference to it on a Russian repair page - the Russians also use SECAM.
2. Is that guy in the center foreground carrying five HP printer cartridges?
3. Check out the mess of CAT-5 cable on top of the van.
It's often hard to get a picture of day-to-day life in controversial, conflicted areas - especially in places like the Gaza Strip - without bumping into extremist polemics about how everyone's miserably starving and oppressed and presumably sitting around listlessly wasting away, or alternatively, about how they're all murderous fanatics, depending on what you read. I hadn't previously thought of Gaza as a place where you might want a nice new TV and some fresh ink cartridges.
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