Dorian Paskowitz brought surfing to Israel in 1956 -- and in 2007 he did the same for the Gaza Strip, bringing a batch of surfboards into the war torn region. Since then, the sport has grown in the shadow of violence.
The road to Gaza City ran between shambling concrete buildings with strings of green Hamas flags fluttering over traffic. On the concrete center divider stood occasional trees and more than one burnt-out hulk of a car. Two months earlier, a massive incursion by Israeli troops, tanks and F-16s had killed at least 900 people. Gaza was a hermetic patch of desert with the torpor of a ghetto, where houses and cars could detonate without warning, anytime Israel chose to respond to Palestinian rockets flying over the border.
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