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Still Smiling Through Her Tears, a Decade Later(25:12)
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Anita Tucker in her greenhouse in Gush Katif in 2002. Photo: Facebook
Anita Tucker, a survivor of the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza 10 years ago, joins Eve Harow in-studio to tell the story of the trauma and the yearning.
Tucker had grown 3-foot-long celery in her hothouses in Netzer Hazani in Gush Katif, until being forcibly expelled. She tells Eve about the spirit of that area, which she says still lives among the former residents, even though many of the communities are not yet physically rebuilt. She stresses the need to deal with the ongoing trauma of the “second generation,” and the yearning to return to their incomparable “golden sands.” She also reminisces about her Arab friends in Gaza, who had welcomed the Jews there and marveled in their agricultural success — but who are all probably dead by now at the hands of Hamas.
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