Israel has been reducing fuel supplies to Gaza for some weeks now – though tightened Israeli sanctions against the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip were supposed to go into effect only a week ago. Gaza is totally dependent on Israeli supplies of fuel – including gas for cooking, gasoline for automobiles, and diesel to operate generators, hospitals, and public utilities. This includes Gaza's main power plant, originally designed to run on natural gas, but now operating on much more expensive diesel fuel. So far, the supply of water to Gaza is the only one of three vital commodities controlled entirely by Israel that has been left untouched. A group of some ten Israeli Human Rights organizations appealed to the Israeli High Court to prevent the fuel and electricity cuts to Gaza. The fuel cuts were authorized, however, and went into effect on 2 December. An Israeli High Court decision is imminent though still pending on whether or not to authorize cuts in the electrical supply to the Gaza Strip – that is, if it can be shown that any negative humanitarian impact can be circumvented. Since a June 2006 Israeli air strike that destroyed, one by one, all the generators operating at the Gaza Power Plant, leaving one of the most densely populated areas on earth totally without electrical power (in retaliation for the cross-border seizure by a militant group of an Israeli soldier who is still being held captive in Gaza), the Israel Electric Company has been supplying some 40% of Gaza’s electricity through eleven feeder lines coming from several locations inside Israel, while Egypt provides 17 MW through Rafah. Unlike Dor Alon, the Israel Electric Company has maintained that it has contractual obligations to continue supplying its commodity to Gaza. (Both Dor Alon and the Israel Electric Company are being paid by the Israeli Ministry of Finance – which takes money from withheld Palestinian taxes and customs duties it has collected, and now retains.) The Gaza Strip has a population of some 1.5 million souls, the majority of whom are refugees from what is now Israel. In 2005, Israel evacuated some 8,000 of its settlers – for whose safety and convenience the entire Palestinian population had been virtually locked down -- and subsequently carried out a unilateral “disengagement” that left Gaza isolated and cut-off, and, as one Israeli human rights organization called it, “one big prison”. http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=45273
As usual, None of this was reported in the mainstream media in Australia or any other western countries..
Same ole, same ole. [Negotiations-->Israel settles more land-->More atrocities on Palestinians][sup]n[/sup]
Be hard to run generators that were bombed out. Be hard to use monies witheld. Be hard to live on land settled by others. Be hard to be independent in a prison
It's called disengagement. Israel for Israelis, the autonomous "Palestinian" territories for "Palestinians." Have the "Palestinians" take care of themselves. The whole concept is foreign to them though. Israel gives them infrastructure, and they destroy it. They're only capable of Jihad. By "them", I mean Hamas and co., of course. The ones who destroyed the infrastructure built and given to them as a gift by Israel, and the ones who take all the aid given to them by the entire world (them being the largest per-capita recepients on earth) and then spend it on more appropriate things. Who needs infrastructure or electricity... Maybe that's why regular Palestinians are resorting to what they have to do to survive. ---- I predict that SpAM will dismiss the entire post with some vague generality in the form of a question. No matter. At least pro-Israel people know deep down inside that they are morally alright. That the problems of the "Palestinians" are of their own making... Spam coming in 3...2...1...
morally right genocide by stealth. Imagine the green and white regions hold approximately the same number of people. (5 million "Israelis", 4 million Palestinians, with another 4 million Palestinians refugees from "Israel") Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
i heard the pakistanis are helping the iranian. maybe they will start with the nearest enemy. its cheaper you know.
And the settlements go on... Israel approves new West Bank settlement And on http://www.euronews.net/index.php?page=info&article=459164&lng=1
Yeah, the sanctions have nothing to do with Israeli expansionism. The cancer they are spreading over the Palestinians is not intended to choke them to death.
Another generality and metaphor. Man, you're good! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Ah yes, let us ignore the general horrific conditions of ALL the Palestinians. Instead let us focus on the few extremists. Whats a few million people without freedom, access to water, food or electricity that is used to control them and living in a giant prison with no way to fight back?
I've been hearing those "negotiations" for a long time. Talk is cheap. Strangely, the expansion continues and those whose homes and villages are being insidiously occupied have no means to defend themselves. Israeli defense consists exclusively of more and more occupation, more oppression, while the situation of the Palestinians grows worse by the day.
Hahahahahahaha har har de har har. giggle giggle heee hee hee http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-12/14/content_7245897.htm
what talks? never heard of amona? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amona he was going to do it, he had the mandate from the israeli public, he was elected for it, but then hezbullah came, and hamas, and iran.....and the palestinians are eating what they cooked.
