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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Darkness falls on Gaza
2008-01-21
The lights went out on the Gaza Strip last night when the only electricity plant in the seaside territory closed down after Israel severed fuel supplies.
Life is tough. It's tougher when you're stoopid. Being vicious doesn't seem to alleviate it.
As the power failed, 1,000 men, women and children held a candlelit procession in Gaza City to protest at the breakdown of their basic services.
If I was the Israeli PM, which I'm not, to the relief of us all, I'd start my response with "Eat me!" and go downhill from there.
Some carried posters calling on the international community to come to their aid, others condemned the state of siege that they are living under. “I appeal to Egypt to break the siege because our children and sick people are dying,” Umm Raed, a 52-year-old housewife, said.
I feel approximately the same amount of sympathy Gazans feel for the inhabitants of Sderot.
Egypt has a border with Gaza, but has mainly shown solidarity with Israel in enforcing an embargo on the Hamas-run territory.
Could be that even the Egyptians realize that if somebody's raining rockets on your territory every day, they're telling you in their own special way that they don't need any assistance from you.
As mobile phone repeaters ran out of power, mobile phones started to lose reception, plunging many areas into silence as well as blackness.
The heart [urp!] burns bleeds.
Unable to end the ceaseless volleys of rockets fired by Gaza hardliners into its southern towns and farms, Israel cut off diesel supplies to the Strip, where 1.5 million Palestinians live, in an attempt to force its Islamist rulers to end the attacks.
It's more fun wearing ski masks and shooting rockets in the general direction of civilian areas than it is to build a functioning society.
Posted by:Fred

#21  Damn electric joo cooties

Eeewwwwwwooo! how icky!
electric joo cooties that's hilarious SteveS LOL.. hard to top that one.. :)
Posted by: RD   2008-01-21 22:05  

#20  I don't get it. If I were a hard-core jew-hating jihadi, I wouldn't want Israeli electricity. Turn it off, I'd say! Don't want no Zionist electrons in *my* Islamic household wiring.

It's the Israelis' jizya.
Posted by: lotp   2008-01-21 21:04  

#19  That's the night the lights went out in Gaza
That's the night that they shot an innocent man
Don't trust your soul to no terrorist Gaza lawyer
Cause the judge in the towns got bloodstains on his hand...
Posted by: Reba Mcentire   2008-01-21 20:37  

#18  I don't get it. If I were a hard-core jew-hating jihadi, I wouldn't want Israeli electricity. Turn it off, I'd say! Don't want no Zionist electrons in *my* Islamic household wiring. Damn electric joo cooties coming in thru the empty outlets. That's why you gotta keep plugs in them at all times.
Posted by: SteveS   2008-01-21 20:34  

#17  Gaza should get no support of any type from Israel; no water, no food, no fuel, no electricity. The crossings should be permanently closed. Let Gaza deal strictly with Egypt, and use a rolling barrage of artillery to pulverize any area that is either overtly or covertly complicit in the rocket attacks. Kill enough of the bastards and they'll eventually get the message. However, if it takes killing all of them to drive the message completely home, so be it. Gaza can be an object lesson for southern Lebanon and Syria.
Posted by: Jomosing Bluetooth8431   2008-01-21 17:42  

#16  #7: If you act like Neanderthals, eventually you will live like Neanderthals.

And star in insurance commercials.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2008-01-21 16:00  

#15  Actually only some of the power is off in Gaza.

It's true that they have only 1 electricity plant but they still import electricity from Israel (which is generated at the Ashkalon plant that the long range Gaza rockets have come close to hitting).

I think the company temporarily closed all the circuits to rebalance the load.
Posted by: mhw   2008-01-21 15:36  

#14  Can we expect (hope for?) the lack of power to cause the Dreaded Sewage Tsunami??
("Watch where you step Abdul, that ain't necessarily a mud puddle.")
Posted by: USN,Ret.   2008-01-21 14:33  

#13  the Gazan's blackness is a little less colorful in the daytime Barbara!

:)
Posted by: RD   2008-01-21 14:21  

#12  And it's different in the day how, exactly, #11 RD?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2008-01-21 13:24  

#11  
Gaza at Night

Posted by: RD   2008-01-21 13:22  

#10  In case you were worried my people, I am having no electricity problems here in Damascus. Just figured I'd pass that on...
Posted by: Khaled Mashal    2008-01-21 13:11  

#9  or Snake Plisskin
Posted by: Frank G   2008-01-21 12:40  

#8  Violent, squalid, senseless, brutal and... dark. Riddick would thrives in that environment.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2008-01-21 12:30  

#7  If you act like Neanderthals, eventually you will live like Neanderthals.
Posted by: Iblis   2008-01-21 12:21  

#6  I guess "cause and effect" isn't a concept taught in those UNRWA schoools.
Why upset the locals. Let them continue to think that this happens for absolutely no reason...
Posted by: tu3031   2008-01-21 10:48  

#5  "Darkness falls on Gaza"

How could they tell?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2008-01-21 10:10  

#4  Gaza is used as a base of operations for multiple groups carrying out warfare against Israel. Gaza is governed by a democratically elected administration that openly and repeatedly calls for Israel to be destroyed and whose founding charter relies on the Protocols of Zion.

It is insane that Israel should provide any food, water or medical assistance to the enemy under any circumstances. Much as the rest of the West pays for the jihad against us through a ludicrous oil giveaway to the "House" of Saud, Israel pays for the enemies on its own doorstep.

The proper response to war is war. Instead we have hand-wringing and appeasement. I love Israel but until they learn the lessons of their own Prophets they deserve exactly what they get. So do the rest of us.
Posted by: Excalibur   2008-01-21 08:54  

#3  I'd start my response with "Eat me!"

You just don't tell things like this to Paleos---unless you've, very, weird sexual fantasies.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2008-01-21 04:57  

#2  since Israel cut off Gaza neither the Saudis nor the Egyptians nor even Iran has offered to help Hamas

eventually they will do so (the legacy of their internal anti Israel propaganda to their own population) but the longer they hold off they better the message sent
Posted by: mhw   2008-01-21 03:52  

#1  The world hasn't seen a good old fashion siege since Leningrad.. About time to see one now.
Enjoy eating your briefcases Gazians.
Posted by: 3dc   2008-01-21 00:12  

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