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Yaser Alwadeya wanders past a field strewn with the remnants of gaily painted ice cream carts, which were shredded by a blizzard of shrapnel. He enters the blackened innards of the Al Ameer factory, which once manufactured Gaza's tastiest ice cream and popsicles. Shaking his head, he says, "I can't figure out why the Israelis thought that Hamas had anything to do with ice cream...
...cream plant, which had been owned by Alwadeya's family for 55 years, was far from the only factory destroyed in Israel's 22-day assault on the Palestinian enclave. All along Gaza's factory row - which produced everything from biscuits to cement to wooden furniture - hardly a single building remains standing. It's as if a tsunami of fire had roared through Gaza's industrial district, leaving in its wake a tide of twisted metal and smashed buildings. (See pictures of Gaza digging...
...danger of keeping the crossings into Gaza closed for political reasons. "This isn't about keeping the people of Gaza alive on a drip of medicine and subsistence aid. That allows extremism to ferment in Gaza," he says. Indeed, with few factories left, there are no jobs, no ice cream and plenty of new recruits for Hamas...
...puppet show for...puppets. But the puppets’ appearances extend beyond that vignette and become a little too creepy. Their presence seems random and not as satisfyingly counterintuitive as the Oratorio’s other reversals—like when Aurélia buys an ice cream cone that’s boiling hot. One of the most interesting parts of the show was the varying responses elicited by each of Aurélia’s feats. One particularly stunning trick inspired both the collective gasp of the audience and the persistent guffawing of solitary...
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