Soaring over a sparkling azure sea, a paraglider whoops with joy next to a beach in Gaza. He is a German diplomat and after a scenic flight he lands to triumphant cheers and gleefully proclaims: 'Everything is possible in Gaza.'Clutching his deflated parachute, Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff – an EU envoy – boasted to a camera that he had performed 'the first Gaza paragliding flight in history', to demonstrate to the world what could be achieved in the troubled enclave. 'What does it tell us? You can fly here,' he announced.That was three months ago. Whether the pro-Palestinian EU diplomat now regrets his political stunt is open to question.
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