As retaliatory rocket fire reigns down on Gaza and the roughly 2 million residents on a small strip of Middle Eastern land brace for a ground assault, another community along a strip of land in Orange County is watching in horror.
Sababa Falafel shop falls just outside the technical borders of Little Arabia in Anaheim. One step into the bustling Garden Grove shop, however, makes it clear the restaurant is a community staple, and they wear their Palestinian pride loud and unapologetic. Sababa is Othman’s family business. He was born in the U.S. but his father was born in the West Bank. He said they still own a home there but found it too difficult to get a permit from the Israeli government to be able to live there.