As Aeschylus observed nearly 2,500 years ago, “€œIn war, truth is the first casualty.”€ In the Palestinian territories, truth is being occupied by various factions and is in jeopardy of being eliminated altogether. Stroll down the streets of Gaza, and it all becomes evident. While in the United States, a kind of “€œcensorship”€ is taking place as the more serious minded newspapers and magazines are being supplanted by tabloids and bubblegum for the brain, in Gaza, one is by the sheer absence of news”€”even that of the sensationalist variety. Scan our racks, and one finds that major papers like Al Quds, Al Hayat-Al Jadeeda, and Al Ayyam, which are all loyal to Fatah, are missing. This is certainly not the first time newspapers have been surpressed in the occupied territories, though this time Israel is not to blame.