GAZANS WISTFUL FOR ISRAELI "OCCUPATION"

Palestinians Divided Over Future Under Hamas - Donald Macintyre
Asked about the 2006 Palestinian elections, Gaza shopkeeper Khaled Abu Ahmed slipped off his sandal and used it to beat his head several times to demonstrate his remorse for voting Hamas. Before the elections and the subsequent international boycott, he said, he used to make between £1,200 and £1,400 a month. Now, he said, thanks to closures and two years of only sporadic payments to public employees, he is lucky to make £25. "We have been occupied by the Turks, the British, and the Egyptians," he added, his voice rising. "We were occupied by Fatah and now we are occupied by Hamas. And the best of these occupations was by the Jews." (Independent-UK)