...Gaza is starting to look a good candidate. The similarities between it and Manhattan in the first movie and Los Angeles in the sequel are too eerie: Tiny sliver of land, isolated from the rest of the world, deplorable living conditions, populated by too many criminals. It's the most morbid, unfortunate living joke in early 2009.
Defending Hamas is impossible. Defending Israel is complicated -- more complicated, I think, when you're Jewish. Ugh. I don't know. Maybe Obama can be Snake Plissken? As any hope, it wasn't inconceivable in 1981, when "Escape From New York" was made, that by 1988 Manhattan would be a maximum-security prison. Look where it is today. May Gaza one day have the same turnaround.
Update: To be less glib, Thomas Friedman's column from Wednesday, if saddled with a somewhat kitschy framework, is a good analysis.
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