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| Tom Gross posted a photo essay about the new ] and the luxury Roots Club restaurant on his web page, alleging that “The manipulative agenda of the BBC and other foreign media agencies,” creates a false picture of conditions in Gaza and is “deliberately misleading global audiences and systematically creating the false impression that people are somehow starving in Gaza, and that it is all Israel’s fault.”<ref name=Lappin/> | Tom Gross posted a photo essay about the new ] and the luxury Roots Club restaurant on his web page, alleging that “The manipulative agenda of the BBC and other foreign media agencies,” creates a false picture of conditions in Gaza and is “deliberately misleading global audiences and systematically creating the false impression that people are somehow starving in Gaza, and that it is all Israel’s fault.”<ref name=Lappin/> | ||
| The Government Press Office was inspired by Gross's dispatch to send an email to journalists reading: |
The Government Press Office was inspired by Gross's dispatch to send an email to journalists reading: "In anticipation of foreign correspondents traveling to Gaza to cover reports of alleged humanitarian difficulties in the Hamas-run territory, and as part of efforts to facilitate the work of journalists in the region, the Government Press Office is pleased to bring to your attention the attached menu and information for the Roots Club and Restaurant in Gaza... We have been told the beef stroganoff and cream of spinach soup are highly recommended."<ref name=Lappin/> | ||
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The Roots Club is a new, upscale restaurant and catering hall in Gaza. Restaurant reviewers expect the restaurant to bring "a new era of hospitality and dining experience" to Gazans.
The "high end" Club is located in "the posh Gaza district" of Rimal. The Club features three different dining venues, the informal, outdoor Green Terrace Café, the Ambassador catering hall, and the elegant, air conditioned Roots Restaurant. One restaurant reviewer described the atmosphere as "vaguely reminiscent of the Anglo-Indian country-clubs of the colonial era."
The restaurant offers an elegant 16 page menu with such upscale dishes as Sole meunière, Baked sea bass with garlic sauce, Deep fried calamari, Veal Scaloppine, Steak au poivre, Chateaubriand steak with Béarnaise sauce, and Fettuccine alfredo. A reviewer called the menu, which features 12 different meat dishes, chicken prepared 13 different ways, and 8 pasta preparations in addition to an array of salads, appetizers, desserts, and 9 kinds of soup served "only in winter," truly staggering.
The restaurant was brought to world attention by British journalist Tom Gross and by the Israeli Government Press Office.
Tom Gross posted a photo essay about the new As-Sadaka Gaza Olympic Swimming Pool and the luxury Roots Club restaurant on his web page, alleging that “The manipulative agenda of the BBC and other foreign media agencies,” creates a false picture of conditions in Gaza and is “deliberately misleading global audiences and systematically creating the false impression that people are somehow starving in Gaza, and that it is all Israel’s fault.”
The Government Press Office was inspired by Gross's dispatch to send an email to journalists reading: "In anticipation of foreign correspondents traveling to Gaza to cover reports of alleged humanitarian difficulties in the Hamas-run territory, and as part of efforts to facilitate the work of journalists in the region, the Government Press Office is pleased to bring to your attention the attached menu and information for the Roots Club and Restaurant in Gaza... We have been told the beef stroganoff and cream of spinach soup are highly recommended."
External links
References
- ^ "Israel's Gaza Blockade Baffles Both Sides," May 28, 2010, CBS News.
- ^ "The ROOTS Club," July 3, 2010, This Week in Palestine.
- "Defying Blockade, Cargo and Passenger Vessels Head for Gaza, Isabel Kershner, May 27, 2010, New York Times.
- Roots Menu.
- ^ "GPO advises foreign journalists on luxurious Gaza restaurant," Yaakov Lappin, 05/27/2010, Jerusalem Post.