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Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline

Posted by timothy on from the sometimes-a-battery-is-what-you-need dept.

necro81 (917438) writes "Gaza's only power plant (see this profile at IEEE Spectrum — duct tape and bailing wire not included) has been knocked offline following an Israeli strike. Reports vary, but it appears that Israeli tank shells caused a fuel bunker at the plant to explode. Gaza, already short on electricity despite imports from Israel and Egpyt, now faces widening blackouts."

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  1. Re:Radicalization by disposable60 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In fact, aren't there Muslims in the Knesset?
    Show me another country in the region that has a single Jew or Christian in office.

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  2. Re:Radicalization by mi · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Saddam never gassed his own citizens, you probably mean Kurdish insurgents.

    Assad never gassed his own citizens, you probably mean rebels.

    Both strongmen considered their victims to be their citizens and subjects. In the state of rebellion, but citizens nonetheless. Bullshit propaganda much?

    How are they NOT "citizens"?

    How are they citizens?

    Those people have lived within the territorial boundaries their whole lives.

    So? The "boundaries" have Israel on one of the sides — why aren't you claiming them to be citizens of Jordan and Egypt? At least, those two neighbors actually once occupied the entire West Bank and Gaza respectively — for twenty years...

    The Israeli government is being run by far-right reactionaries

    Israeli government has changed many times since the country's establishment — swinging from Left to Right and anything in between. Never once have PLO or Hamas changed their official goal of destroying Israel.

    but that won't make it any less true.

    Nothing your wrote is true — except for the obvious fact, that downmodding will not make it any less so.

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  3. Don't let the facts get in your way by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hamas is intentionally targeting civilians. It has publicly said so and (more importantly) done so for many decades now. They kidnap and murder Israeli civilians. They call for Israel's destruction without room for negotiation. There are plenty of video evidence proving this and on the other hand proving that Israel has aborted important military targets because of the presence of civilians. Hamas has released numerous videos praising their people for acting as human shields. So don't take our word for it. Take *their* word for it.

    Your post simply shows how often international NGOs depend witnesses that later turn out to be Hamas members. NGOs have neither the time, funding or expertise to witness these events first-hand so they rely on Hamas members instead. When a rocket lands on a school and witnesses say it came from Israel, they don't have the necessary expertise to actually reach that conclusion. Hamas' own rockets have landed *inside* Gaza hundreds of times in the past two weeks. Do you honestly think none of these caused Gazan civilian deaths? And yet, the media hasn't reported once of such an event. Funny that, eh?