Hi!
I've been watching this Slate page "religiously" since it first started.
The latest interactive essay had me spellbound. Paulo Pellegrin has
produced a wonderful photoessay on the evacuation of the Gaza Strip. I
have many, and contradictory, thoughts about the subject, and I'm sure
many people on this list will have divergent opinions too. In the
Australian media, at least, this event was given a fairly cursory,
almost dismissive treatment, I thought. In 20 photos, the essay give a
much more balanced, and humanistic treatment of the event than I've seen
in thousands of words. PJ is not dead.
A timely item, given recent events.
http://todayspictures.slate.com/20060105/#
Thanks, Derby, this is very impressive work of that photographer... He
seems to have neglected to mention that along with resisting the
soldiers settlers also gave them water (it was very hot time of the
year) and allowed them into their houses to take care of their needs.
The soldiers removing the settlers were indeed unarmed. They had guns
but I don't think they were allowed any bullets... But I may be mistaken.
This story is actually much sadder than it appears... But that belongs
to totally different time and place.
Boris
