Israel threatens to cut off power, water to Gaza
gimmesometruth27
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the israeli government is not playing fair. so because the palestinians want to form a unity government to protect their interests and gain their own state, israel feels it appropriate to cut off power and WATER to gaza??? i can understand cutting off funding, but how can this be allowed to continue? how can the international community continue to allow cutting off things like WATER to happen??
Israel threatens to cut off power, water to Gaza
http://news.yahoo.com/israel-threatens- ... 55744.html
..Israel warned on Saturday that it would cut the supply of water and electricity to the Gaza Strip if rival Palestinian movements Fatah and Hamas form a unity government.
"The foreign ministry is examining the possibility of Israel pulling out of the Gaza Strip in terms of infrastructure," Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon told the daily Yediot Aharonot website.
A unity government deal "would transform the Palestinian Authority into a terrorist authority and would put an end to any hope for a peace agreement" with Israel, said Ayalon, who is also a Knesset deputy from the nationalist Yisrael Beitenu party.
On Friday, Israeli ministers decided to maintain a freeze on the transfer of tens of millions of dollars in tax monies to the Palestinian Authority hours after Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas held top-level talks with Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal at which they announced a new era of "partnership."
The transfer of funds, which make up a large percentage of the authority's monthly budget, was frozen on November 1 as a punitive measure after the Palestinians won full membership of the UN cultural organisation.
"If the Palestinians have signed an agreement over a unity government, it would make a transfer of funds impossible," a senior government official told AFP.
In January, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had already threatened to cut off water and power to Gaza, which has been controlled by Hamas since the Islamist group chased Fatah from the territory in 2008.
Israel, which unilaterally withdrew from Gaza and dismantled Jewish settlements in 2008, continues to supply the territory with water and 70 percent of its electrical power, the rest being supplied by neighbouring Egypt or local power plants.
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Israel threatens to cut off power, water to Gaza
http://news.yahoo.com/israel-threatens- ... 55744.html
..Israel warned on Saturday that it would cut the supply of water and electricity to the Gaza Strip if rival Palestinian movements Fatah and Hamas form a unity government.
"The foreign ministry is examining the possibility of Israel pulling out of the Gaza Strip in terms of infrastructure," Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon told the daily Yediot Aharonot website.
A unity government deal "would transform the Palestinian Authority into a terrorist authority and would put an end to any hope for a peace agreement" with Israel, said Ayalon, who is also a Knesset deputy from the nationalist Yisrael Beitenu party.
On Friday, Israeli ministers decided to maintain a freeze on the transfer of tens of millions of dollars in tax monies to the Palestinian Authority hours after Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas held top-level talks with Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal at which they announced a new era of "partnership."
The transfer of funds, which make up a large percentage of the authority's monthly budget, was frozen on November 1 as a punitive measure after the Palestinians won full membership of the UN cultural organisation.
"If the Palestinians have signed an agreement over a unity government, it would make a transfer of funds impossible," a senior government official told AFP.
In January, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had already threatened to cut off water and power to Gaza, which has been controlled by Hamas since the Islamist group chased Fatah from the territory in 2008.
Israel, which unilaterally withdrew from Gaza and dismantled Jewish settlements in 2008, continues to supply the territory with water and 70 percent of its electrical power, the rest being supplied by neighbouring Egypt or local power plants.
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"You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry." - Lincoln
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
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Palestinian deaths = 1,400 mostly civilians
Israeli deaths = 13, including 4 killed by friendly fire
And we're told by the Israeli leadership that Hamas are the terrorists? :think:
no one becomes president of the USA without unwavering support of israel
I know ....
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
egypt is about to break the treaty with israel.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
if you actually looked at the track record - you would indeed see that israel is the one that lacks credibility ...
According to a leader of the Zionist movement, Vladimir Jabotinsky, "a voluntary agreement between us and the Arabs of Palestine is inconceivable, now or in the forseeable future..."
The Camp David with Egypt accord is seven pages. "Specifiying in simple, lapidary phrases a full Israeli withdrawal and reciprocal Egyptian pledge of peace...Olso II with the Palestinians is more than 300 pages with multiple, chapter length annnexes and appendices and multitude of pettifogging, obscure, ambiguous and mutually contradictory details..." Norman Finkelstein.
Is this a joke?
I'd be very interested to hear how you arrived at the above conclusion. Can you please explain how you came to decide that 'Israel is the more rational thinker of the two'.
As for Israel's treaties with Egypt and Jordan, why don't you elaborate on those too? How did those treaties come about? You make it sound as though Israel proposed some sort of magnanimous offer and that Egypt and Jordan came to their senses and realized the error of their ways. Though this isn't what happened at all. So why don't you go ahead and explain for us all in more detail just what did happen between Egypt, Jordan and Israel?
At the risk of veering away from personal fantasies and towards the facts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkSpf7Zz ... y_received
On the subject of terrorism as it applies to the Israel-Palestine conflict:
Debate Panel on Israel: Norman Finkelstein & Wolf Blitzer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdr5pVNq ... re=related
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/de ... -west-bank
Israel to forcibly remove bedouin communities in settlements push
Relocation of 2,300 people in West Bank to site near Jerusalem rubbish tip would make contiguous Palestinian state impossible
Harriet Sherwood in Khan al-Ahmar
guardian.co.uk, Monday 5 December 2011
Around 20 bedouin communities between Jerusalem and Jericho are to be forcibly relocated from the land on which they have lived for 60 years under an Israeli plan to expand a huge Jewish settlement.
The removal of around 2,300 members of the bedouin Jahalin tribe, two-thirds of whom are children, is due to begin next month. The Israeli authorities plan to relocate the families from the West Bank to a site close to a municipal rubbish dump on the edge of Jerusalem.
The bedouin say the move would expose them to health hazards, deny them access to land to graze their livestock and endanger their traditional lifestyle. They add that the viability of their existing communities has been seriously eroded by the growth of Jewish settlements, the creation of military zones, demolitions of homes and animal pens, and the building of a highway which cuts through their encampments.
"Because of the [military] closures and the settlements, we are living in a jail which gets smaller every year," said Eid Hamis Swelem Jahalin, 46, who was born in the encampment of Khan al-Ahmar, and has lived there almost all his life.
The relocation plan is the first phase of a longer term programme to remove around 27,000 bedouin Arabs from area C, the 62% of the West Bank under Israeli military control.
The communities have not been formally notified of the plan, which was disclosed by Israel's civil administration, the military body governing area C, to a UN agency.
The head of the civil administration visited Khan al-Ahmar three weeks ago to give verbal warning of the impending removal, said Hamis. "He said the land belongs to the government, that we are illegally here. I told him that I lived here before 1967, before you even came to our land."
The tiny communities perched on the bleak rocky hills which roll down towards the Dead Sea endure a harsh existence without electricity, running water, sanitation, paved roads and medical facilities. The bedouin homes are makeshift structures of wood, corrugated iron and tarpaulin.
The nearby Jewish settlements, in contrast, are connected to utilities and services. Ma'ale Adumim, home to almost 40,000 people and which overlooks the Jahalin communities, has 21 schools, 80 kindergartens, a public transport network, libraries, swimming pools and shopping malls.
The area on which the Jahalin live has been designated by Israel for the expansion of Ma'ale Adumim. Many Palestinians see this as part of a strategic plan to close a ring of Jewish settlements that would cut East Jerusalem off from the West Bank. By stretching down to the Jordan valley, an expanded Ma'ale Adumim would also bisect the West Bank, making a contiguous Palestinian state impossible.
"They want to empty the bedouin from the whole area, and they will put settlers in our place, and there will be no Palestinian state," said Hamis. All Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem are illegal under international law.
The Jahalin were originally from the Negev desert, from which they fled or were forced out following the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. Now the extended tribe is scattered across the West Bank. Those threatened with relocation say they rented the land from its Palestinian owners, who live in the nearby village of Anata. But the Israeli authorities say the land now belongs to the state, and their homes, animal pens and small schools are built without permission – which is practically impossible to obtain – and therefore subject to demolition.
All 257 Jahalin families in the five villages straddling the Jerusalem-Dead Sea highway have been issued with demolition orders.
A school serving their young children, built two and a half years ago from old car tyres and mud, is also threatened following pressure from nearby settlers. "Since the beginning they wanted to move us from here, but building the school made it worse," said Hamis, adding that the settlers saw it as a sign of permanence.
The removal plans are not final, according to the civil administration, whose spokesman has been quoted as saying the Israeli authorities are trying to find an acceptable solution for the bedouin whose communities are "illegally located".
The proposed relocation site is already home to around 4,000 Jahalin who were evicted from their encampments in the mid-1990s. According to the UN, the site "does not meet minimum standards in terms of distance from the municipal dumping grounds … previously relocated families report negative consequences, including health concerns, loss of livelihood, deteriorated living conditions, loss of tribal cohesion and erosion of traditional lifestyles."