Tonight the Palestinians shut down the Gaza power plant. Well actually, they had to. It wasn’t like they had a newly-built one and they just shut the current one down. No. Apparently the Israeli’s have restrictions in place which limit the flow of fuel, so now the Palestinians don’t even have electricity.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a fan of the Palestinians. I just think that treating them like prisoners in their own land, restricting their movement to jobs, restricting materials to them, and so on, it’s abhorrent and beneath a “civilised” people like the Israelis. But then again, firing rockets into Israel from Gaza for… err… well actually I don’t know if there is a reason other than “they’re Jews”, is probably a root cause!
The BBC puts it simply enough:
Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Arye Mekel said the border closures were intended to apply pressure to the Palestinian authorities to stop militants in Gaza firing rockets at Israel.
“If they stop the rockets today, everything would go back to normal,” he said.
Yep, I’d say that would probably do it. If I were the Palestinians, I’d do it just so see if the restrictions stop.
I suppose now the Israeli soldiers can use their american-supplied nightvision scopes though…
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