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| EU Cuts Off Funding for Gaza Electricity | ||
| 2007-08-21 | ||
| Electricity in Gaza on Monday became the latest battleground in the struggle between the coastal strip's Islamic Hamas rulers and their Fatah rivals, who have accused Hamas of pocketing electricity revenues. The losers are hundreds of thousands of Gazans, who have been plunged into darkness as European donors cut off key electricity aid. On Sunday, the European Union stopped paying for fuel to power generators that produce electricity for at least half of Gaza's population of 1.4 million. On Monday, it said the payments would not resume because it had received word that Hamas was "diverting" electricity revenues.
"Hamas is collecting all the electricity fees and never pays the costs of the electricity," said Jawwad Hirzallah, deputy minister of economy. "The Europeans were paying $10 million that Hamas collects from the people and doesn't pay the costs. So the European Union found itself paying the electricity company, while Hamas was pocketing the revenues."
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 3M raises a good point. Where are the cookies? Should he be allowed to have the special? I vote yes. Special cookies for special visitors. |
| Posted by: Thomas Woof 2007-08-21 18:49 |
| #9 Silly me; I would have thought that by now these fools would have figured out that infrastucture is necessary to survive and become productive. But after the greenhouse demo derby and the other various public utility trash-a-thons these asshats have done, why didn't I see the obvious??? perhaps I am the one in need of an application of the Cluebat...... |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2007-08-21 14:08 |
| #8 This also leaves the entire supply of electricity in Gaza under the thumb of the evil zionists... |
| Posted by: mojo 2007-08-21 11:13 |
| #7 BZZZZT! Wrong answer!, but thanks for the failed moral equivalency lesson, MerelyMoronMan |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-08-21 10:54 |
| #6 MerelyMortalMan : what the esteemed and graceful Tw said (see this too, but that's all lies, of course!). Your talking points are straight out of the massive propaganda effort sustained by the Forces of Progress and the arabs over the last few decades : you've bought them line and sinker, congrats. BUT, let me tell you, even if those were true, even if this was what really is happening in those disputed (and not occupied, that's not my dinstinction, but international law's) territories... I wouldn't care, and would support the israelis, even if they were Racist™ oppressors of those poor, wretched innocent brown people... because those poor, wretched innocent brown people define themselves as my ennemies, because the persons who support them here (either the leftist bots or the local version of poor, wretched innocent brown people) define themselves as my ennemies,a nd because in last analysis, Israel is a white, european, western State, and you've got to support your kind (sorry, gr*omgoru!), espcially in those stormy times (post-60's). |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-08-21 10:15 |
| #5 Yes, indeed, MereMortalMan is correct. Just as the Nazi effort reduced the Jewish population of Europe by something like 90% (a reverse decimation -- how clever of them!) and the number of Jews on the planet by one third, so the Israeli effort in the Palestinian territories increased the Palestinian population from 500,000 in 1948 to 4,000,000 today, with another million or so Palestinian expatriots, a ten-fold increase. Truly genocidaires to match the Nazis! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-08-21 10:05 |
| #4 I knew it! Damn Jooos making those Hamas guys steal all that EU money and put their own people in the dark! I knew it! Awwwwww...look what you made us do! |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-08-21 09:19 |
| #3 Europe should treat Palestinians like Israelis. That is, give them mucho money for attacking The Other with impunity. Thank Yaweh no Israelis ever get accused/convicted of embezzlement, nepotism, rape, harassment or other corruptions...not even their leaders. Right. I think this ongoing hammering of the already-weak will work. It certainly did in the Warsaw Ghetto. Sick, hungry, dying Jews just had to be treated that way. Their errant ways forced the Germany Army to a fair fight: tanks against pistols. Same thing per the IDF and Hamas. ItÂ’s only fair that a super-power with nukes goes against an occupied people with no army, borders, access to the outside world, etc. We wonÂ’t go into how Jews used terror to create their racist state. What was the Stern Gang compared to Hamas. Oh. I see. Both targeted civilians. Funny how IsraelÂ’s "most moral soldiers in the world" got their clocks cleaned in Lebanon by Hizbollah. I guess 40 years of shooting kids for throwing stones, humiliating grandfathers in front of their families, making pregnant women give birth at checkpoints, etc. doesn't keep so-called warriors strong, much less right. |
| Posted by: MerelyMortalMan 2007-08-21 09:07 |
| #2 Gaza – Ma'an – Details of financial and administrative corruption in the Palestinian power company in Gaza was revealed by the deputy chair of the Palestinian power authority, Kan'an 'Ubeid, on Monday evening. At a press conference in Gaza City, 'Ubeid said there was evidence of money and grants being embezzled as well as finances provided for projects that never materialized. He called on the European Union to send monitors and auditors from local and international companies to investigate the accusations that money paid in utility bills was ending up in Hamas' coffers. 'Ubeid also called on President Mahmoud Abbas to bring to justice those alleged to have been involved in corruption at the power company. He revealed that a number of suspects have been arrested and have admitted to stealing fuel from the company. He accused the Palestinian minister of information Riyad Al-Maliki of falsely claiming that Hamas took control of the power generating company and its income. "There had been a contract with a local company to supply 430 thousand litres of fuel to run the company's generators, and the grant was stolen by the former general manager of the company, the financial manager in cooperation with the supplying company," 'Ubeid explained. 'Ubeid also a grant of 586,000 US dollars from the European Union appeared to be unaccounted for. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-08-21 08:35 |
| #1 This is beyond obvious. They must have known it was happening. Who got pi$$ed off in Euroland? Or, more likely I think, did someone on the west side of the Atlantic have a little talk with someone on the east side? |
| Posted by: gorb 2007-08-21 04:17 |