No lights in Gaza, Egyptians fail to deliver the oil

[Mediocrates]

No Channuka for them.

Palestine Today reports that "the city of Gaza will sink into darkness within 72 hours" if no fuel is found to run the power plant.

The Energy Authority in Gaza sent out a distress call to the Arab and Muslim countries for urgent intervention to resolve the crisis.

Of course, they can get plenty of fuel - from Israel. It used to be that this was exactly where they received the heavy diesel to run the power plant. But about a year ago they started refusing to use that evil Zionist fuel and instead relied on receiving the fuel from Egypt.

It is nice to see that Hamas is so principled that it will happily make its own people miserable and put them in danger rather than accept fuel from the hated Zionist entity.
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/201...t-of-fuel.html

[farmboy]

Didn't a couple of kids die a short while ago because they refused to get them treated at an advanced Israeli medical facility?
There will be a new deffinition of "stupid" in Wiki soon.

[Mediocrates]

Even the Palestinians say it's the Egyptian's fault.
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=55729

Egypt of course blames the Jews
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/201...hey-blame.html

Reuters gets it wrong and slams the Jews
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/id...20214?irpc=932

From news article:

Israel provides the Mediterranean territory with at least 35 percent of its energy needs, but closed off its own fuel pipeline into the enclave in January 2010.

The truth is that Israel closed this pipeline and built a second pipeline with double the capacity. Hamas refuses to allow it to be used.

But the real problem is that Egypt is running out of fuel. No one cares about it because that's not something they can beat up Jews with.

[Mediocrates]

NGO's of course lie about it.

From news article:

From the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights:

On Tuesday 14 February 2012, the Gaza Strip’s electric power plant announced that it was ceasing operation because it had run out of fuel supplies. This shortfall is a result of the Israeli Occupation Forces’ () continued suspension of delivery of industrial fuel and the simultaneous halt in the supply of fuel from the smuggling tunnels.

The electricity cuts have exacerbated Gaza’s already-deteriorated humanitarian conditions and human rights situation. The Al Mezan Center for Human Rights condemns the Israeli siege on Gaza, which aims to keep the Strip on the edge of humanitarian catastrophe. The electricity cuts have an effect on the supply of food and medicine. Therefore, Al Mezan calls on the international community to ensure the necessary supply of industrial fuel. It also calls on the international community to work without delay for an end to the Israeli siege.

According to Al Mezan’s field investigations, the interruption in the supply of industrial fuel has brought to a halt the operation of the only electrical power plant in Gaza, resulting in an electrical supply lasting only eight out of 24 hours. The plant needs between 350,000 and 400,000 liters of fuel daily. Due to the ongoing shortfall in the amount of fuel provided by the and Israel’s imposition of restrictions and impediments on the entry of fuel, the Gazan government resorts to importation of fuel from Egypt via smuggling tunnels. These supplies help keep the electricity running

This is a lie. It is simply a lie. No more no less.
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/201...anization.html

[farmboy]

It should be noted that before November 2009, the European Union (EU) used
to pay 50 million NIS monthly for the cost of the industrial fuel supplied
from Israel to the Gaza power plant. In November 2009, the EU announced its
suspension of the direct funds used to pay the cost of the industrial fuel.
The EU started to pay those funds to the PNA which in turn pledged to pay
for the cost of the industrial fuel needed for the operation of the power
plant. The Palestinian Energy Authority in Ramallah used funds from its
budget to pay for the cost of the needed industrial fuel while, on its part,
GEDCO transferred the money it collected from power consumers in the Gaza
Strip to the Energy Authority in Ramallah. However, the Energy Authority in
Ramallah reduced the financial coverage for the industrial fuel, claiming
that the money sent by GEDCO was not sufficient to cover the cost of the
industrial fuel needed for Gaza power plant. Over the two past years,
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip suffered power outages between 6 and 12 hours
a day. In April 2004, the Energy Authority in Gaza and the Energy Authority
in Ramallah reached an agreement that GEDCO would transfer $ 4 million to
the Energy Authority in Ramallah to be used to cover the cost of the
industrial power. In January 2011, the Energy Authority in Gaza stopped
importing industrial fuel from Israel, and imported fuel from Egypt through
the funnels as technicians in the Energy Authority managed to utilize the
Egyptian fuel to operate Gaza Power plant.

A Hungarian I once knew had a saying.
"If you work with honey you lick your fingers"
From this link that Medio posted it seems obvious to me that someone has being syphoning more than fuel.

[farmboy]

Hamas Rejects Egypt Offer To Transfer Needed Fuel

Hamas authorities on Saturday rejected an Egyptian proposal to bring in fuel via an Israeli crossing point to reactivate Gaza’s only power plant, which shut down four days ago when diesel supplies were disrupted.

This seems quite strange.
I think there is something fishy going on here
It will all become apparent in a short while so I await with interest.

[Mediocrates]

This seems quite strange.
I think there is something fishy going on here
It will all become apparent in a short while so I await with interest.

http://m.jpost.com/HomePage/FrontPag...96258366&cat=1

From news article:

Hamas authorities on Saturday rejected an Egyptian proposal to bring in fuel via an Israeli crossing point to reactivate Gaza’s only power plant, which shut down four days ago when diesel supplies were disrupted.

“This is unacceptable because of our bitter experience with the Zionist occupation (Israel) and the way it controls the delivery of the shipments,” Ahmed Abu Al-Amreen of Gaza's Hamas-run Energy Authority, told reporters.

Earlier Saturday, Egypt's parliamentary industry and energy committee announced that Cairo had agreed to provide fuel for the Gaza Strip's lone power plant, after fuel shortages and a dispute with smugglers forced the plant's shutdown and caused rolling blackouts.

Abu Al-Amreen said that Hamas proposed bringing the Egyptian fuel via Rafah or direct underground pipelines.

Fuel shortages in Egypt had prompted smugglers to demand prices higher than Gazans were ready to pay, according to Ma'an.

GRAFT. that's what's going on

[Mediocrates]

Oxfam, taking time out of their busy schedule of antisemitism has discovered the Jews are to blame for all of this as well:

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/201...mas-power.html

http://english.pnn.ps/index.php/nati...ly-gaza-update

[farmboy]

Think about it.
This situation would be laughable if certain people didn't treat it so seriously.
Israel knows that the tunnels are there because they bomb them regularly,
The Egyptians just have to know of their existence because how can tons and tons of materials enter into a tunnel without leaving tracks?
Who are they trying to fool and why?
Why are there tunnels anyway? Surely it's less messing around if they just go straight to their destination in one trip.
These are refered to as smuggling tunnels and by deffinition, smuggling is.
1. To import or export without paying lawful customs charges or duties.
2. To bring in or take out illicitly or by stealth.
1) is exempt because there is no law covering these tunnels and 2) becomes invalid because everyone knows of their existence so there is no stealth involved.
If Egypt was bothered they could stop every truck and block off the entrances.
If Israel was bothered it could carpet bomb the whole border and send in dozers to complete the job. As it is they just do a token job after rockets are launched on southern Israel.
It's all aload of bollocks when you think about it so why don't the Egyptians Just send in a few tankers and fill the power plants fuel tanks.
Ouch! there I go again. I forgot about the graft and the opportunity that the arabs get in being able to blame Israel in some oblique way.
Still looking for that icon that means "Shaking head in disgust"

[farmboy]

Egypt Closes Rafah Crossing to Gaza

Gaza media reported that the Egyptian authorities closed the Rafah crossing this morning (Tuesday) without any prior notice, according to Yediot Ahronot news. Director of Gaza crossings authority, Maher Abu Sabha, told reporters that Egypt closed the crossing without any coordination with the Interior Ministry of the Hamas government.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Ne...6#.T0OLMnqvsu5
Underground overground what's the difference? when the crossing is closed do they put up a detour sign?
The Egyptians were supposed to be building a sunken steel wall to stop the tunnels. That issue seems to have gone rather quiet but then who would ask the question? As I suspected it was nothing more than wind and P to quiet world opinion while it could be bothered to watch.