Thread: Minister: Blackouts from Cancelled Egyptian Gas Deal Should Hit Gaza, Not Israel

Minister of Environmental Protection Gilad Erdan wants to keep Israeli
electric supply at home to avoid summer blackouts, rather than export
the juice to Gaza.

The unintended consequence of the hostile cancellation of Egypt’s natural gas contract with Israel may result in increased blackouts in Gaza. Benjamin Netanyahu’s Environmental Protection Minister Gilad Erdan says Israel should consider cutting its supply of electricity to the Gaza Strip this summer in face of predicted power shortages.

Speaking at the start of Sunday’s cabinet meeting, Erdan said that before he is asked to authorize the use of more pollutants, to meet Israel’s severe fuel shortage and anticipated blackouts this summer, the Gaza Strip—which gets its electricity from the Israel Electric Company—should be taken off the grid.

“Take care of your own needs first,” Erdan told the ministers. “It’s unreasonable that if there’s an electricity shortage, we’ll cut off the supply to Israelis – but not to Gaza, which we left seven years ago and have no responsibility for.”

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/brea...ael/2012/05/14

Right on, minister; right on - I was hopping for it soon after the Egyptian announcement came awhile back. And why not? If Egyptian do not care about brothers Palestinians, why should Israelis?

What a perfect opportunity for the Egyptians to step up, put their money where their mouth is and deal with Gaza directly, completely erasing "the regime occupying Jerusalem", its electrical grid and its payments from Gaza power supply delivery. I wonder if 'Abu Sina' agrees.

Originally Posted by Borat

What a perfect opportunity for the Egyptians to step up, put their money where their mouth is and deal with Gaza directly, completely erasing "the regime occupying Jerusalem", its electrical grid and its payments from Gaza power supply delivery. I wonder if 'Abu Sina' agrees.

I refuse to believe Egyptians will leave their brothers in the dark, especially after Hamas leader assured Egyptians on Egyptian TV, Palestinians are really Egyptians in exile...

Originally Posted by Dutch

I refuse to believe Egyptians will leave their brothers in the dark, especially after Hamas leader assured Egyptians on Egyptian TV, Palestinians are really Egyptians in exile...

Besides, being the world's biggest by far per-capita recipients of foreign aid, the Palestinians I am sure will have no problem paying for their own power needs. Perhaps they will have less money left for Kassams though.

I'm surprised, no islamic bootlicker of this forum rises to condemn Israelis for their inhumane act of taking care of their own citizens first...

Gaza is an open prison. Its inmates and infrastructure are controlled by the neozionist occupiers. These occupiers are required , under the Geneva Conventions, to assist in the well-being of their prisoners. Israel already has a backlog of war crimes charges to answer in relation to its dereliction of this duty. Adding to it will cost neozionism more than the price of fuel.

Solution ? Palestinian Statehood- anathema to neozionism's ass-crawlers.


Here's another of neozionism's ' ministers' saying his piece on behalf of fascist-kind;

Israel's Interior Minister: All African migrants should be jailed




http://www.haaretz.com/news/national...ailed-1.430800

Let's start a fascists' pin-up gallery;

Originally Posted by moon

Gaza is an open prison.

Gaza has an open border with Egypt which prisons (open or not) typically don't have. The Egyptians have a great opportunity now to step up and take care of Gaza's energy needs. Do you think they will? 'Abu Sina' is conspicuously absent in this thread. I wonder why.

He probably can't believe the nonsense in your post. No commercial traffic is permitted between Egypt and Gaza. That may change , post-Mubarak, if and when the unfair ' peace ' deals with Israel are abandoned .

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Egypt_op...sing_with_Gaza

Originally Posted by moon

He probably can't believe the nonsense in your post. No commercial traffic is permitted between Egypt and Gaza. That may change , post-Mubarak, if and when the unfair ' peace ' deals with Israel are abandoned .

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Egypt_op...sing_with_Gaza

Israelis will be all too happy if Egyptians propose the way to directly supply Gaza with electricity. How many chances for this to happen? None.

The new Palestinian State will negotiate its own energy requirements.