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2006-07-02 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Gaza power cuts endanger patients: doctors

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Posted by Steve White 2006-07-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Darwin's law catches up with innocents as well as the guilty....no different than the Nigerian islamic polio victims in 10 years or so

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-07-02 00:10|| 2006-07-02 00:10|| Front Page Top

#2 And the kittens, gotta save the kittens

Posted by Captain America 2006-07-02 00:57|| 2006-07-02 00:57|| Front Page Top

#3 You want 7th century, you get 7th century.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-07-02 02:18|| 2006-07-02 02:18|| Front Page Top

#4 No big deal, allan will save them! It's just that so far they're not Pious enough, and haven't submitted well enough to the Great-Dictator-In-The-Sky.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-07-02 02:23|| 2006-07-02 02:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe that famous Paleo solidarity should come into play - like the people with private generators donating their fuel reserves to the hospital?

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2006-07-02 05:56|| 2006-07-02 05:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Good one, Scooter!

Ok, maybe if there is an international TV crew around to film the event, along with the obligatory "Jews are killing our children!" speech ^TM. Otherwise, fuggedaboutit.

Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-07-02 09:25|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2006-07-02 09:25|| Front Page Top

#7 Something very fishy here, the hospital is relying on a GASOLINE generator, that implies that the generator is NOT a standard emergency backup generator that hospitals have as standard equipment, those are almost always run either off the natural gas mains, or are diesel, (Or both for backup) and are huge, with automatic transfer switches, built-in/wired-in permanently on standby.
The reason is that Gasoline is both much more dangerous to store and use than either Diesel or Nat Gas, and the hospitals try to eliminate dangerous Gasoline fumes.
Second reason is that it's too easy to siphon off Gasoline for your car, so they eliminate the temptation. (Over there it's a near certainty the tanks would be empty from theft, not so with Diesel)

I suspect that either the "Emergency Generator" is a trailer-towed version hauled in because there's no onsite, or there is no emergency generator and the story's a fake to propagandize against the "Evil Joos" killing "Innocent Victims."
I don't buy it, the whole story smells like the docks at low tide. Too many inconsistencies here.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-07-02 11:05|| 2006-07-02 11:05|| Front Page Top

#8 "...Those who destroyed the power plant will be responsible,
No, those who elected a terrorist organization that had no interest in peace will be responsible. Israel left Gaza and Gaza took that opportunity to waste every viable option it had. RIP.

Posted by Darrell 2006-07-02 12:26|| 2006-07-02 12:26|| Front Page Top

#9 Good point, Jim, and I had missed that. My hospital uses NG backup, and that's on top of the fact that the university already has its own electricity/heating plant just for the campus.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2006-07-02 12:27|| 2006-07-02 12:27|| Front Page Top

#10 Israel provides a little less than 50% of the PA's electricity, and that hasn't been cut off. Lots of Palestinians are not sitting in the dark yet.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-07-02 18:03|| 2006-07-02 18:03|| Front Page Top

#11 These people are too stupid - they will never become adults. Perpetual children require adult supervision. Israel needs to re-occupy the land, and either rule with "an iron fist in a velvet glove", or take the gloves off and crush the nutters into the sand permanently. There can never be a "peaceful, paleostain" state, because they have no concept of "live and let live". Therefore, they need to either be crushed, or ruled over until they learn to grow up (about 2 1/2 eternities should do it).

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-07-02 18:04|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-07-02 18:04|| Front Page Top

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