Some analysis has come to show that what is happening there, the threat of actual deaths of Palestinian people from power outage, is nothing more than a hoax put forward by the Palestinians:
“The Israel Electric Corporation supplies 70 percent of Gaza’s power consumption,” said a security source. “In addition, 5 percent of the power consumption is supplied to the Gaza Strip by the Egyptians, and the rest is provided by the Gaza power plant. This means that there cannot be a power outage in the entire Gaza Strip as a result of the failure to transfer crude oil and diesel fuel.”
Israeli Defense Forces sources said that following Gilad Shalit’s (an Israeli soldier) kidnapping, the Israel Air Force did attack targets in the Gaza Strip including the power plant’s transformer, but they asserted that the timing of the reports of a crisis in the Gaza Strip were not accidental. “Despite the strike, there has been no problem with power in Gaza for eight months,” said an IDF officer. “Suddenly, because several dozen trucks with diesel fuel did not enter for half a day on Friday and for half a day on Sunday, so there is no power in all of Gaza? This is a deliberate act by the Hamas government in order to oppose the sanctions decided upon by Barak.”
Another security source emphasized that the Israeli security establishment has intelligence information showing Hamas has enough fuel to drive the cars of the government and to operate generators from their stocks. “(Ehud) Barak instructed a continuation of the closure after being updated with data from Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Maj. Gen. Yosef Mishlav,” said the source. “The whole issue of the candles being lit in the Palestinians’ homes is a deliberate charade staged by Hamas.”
Director of the Political-Security Department in the Defense Ministry Maj. Gen. (res.) Amos Gilad commented on allegations by Gaza residents yesterday morning: “There has been no humanitarian crisis until today. Of course, it is not comfortable to live there. We have a finger on the pulse, and it may not be exact mathematics, but Israel will certainly do everything possible to prevent a humanitarian crisis.”
The Bulletin
And even furthermore:
According to an article dated yesterday from the International Herald Tribune: With international alarm and criticism mounting because of its blockade of Gaza, Defense Minister Ehud Barak of Israel announced Monday that he was lifting some of the restrictions and would allow in a week’s supply of industrial diesel needed to run the local power station, as well as 50 trucks of food and medical supplies Tuesday.
So basically, even though supplies is still getting through and there was not enough damage to truly harm the Palestinian electric infrastructure, Hamas is doing its best at a PR stunt.
Of course, the liberal Media is aiding the assertions of Hamas:
His hopes of survival yesterday depended on there being enough diesel to keep in operation the four generators which were Shifa’s only source of power. His doctor, Kamal al-Geathny, said: “If we lose power, he and six other patients in this unit will die.”
The operative word being
if. Great job, Independent, that is true journalism: not reporting what is actually happening but reporting a possibility which later you note in the article to be a circumstance that will not happen:
Israel’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Aryeh Mekel, said 2.2 million litres of industrial fuel for the power plant, 500,000 litres of diesel for generators and supplies of cooking gas would be allowed in, along with 50 trucks of food and medicine, but the restrictions on petrol would continue.
The Independent
Isn’t it a shame for the liberal media that they have to follow up their sensationalist, yellow journalist openings to articles with
concrete facts?
Can you imagine writing articles for a living that outline the most horrible course of events and then have to slowly admit their own impossibility towards the end? It must require some serious double-think in order to work for the Independent. Donald Macintyre, the writer of this piece, must be on some heavy medication or mind altering substances to be able to write about the impending doom of patients while reporting that Israel is doing its part to make sure that they survive.
“All of these innocent people may soon die because of an unjust embargo… An embargo that actually
isn’t even happening at all in a way that will effect them, but still, they could die.”
There is a serious corruption in the mental patterns of the media when they report articles like this. Normally I do not put much credence into the idea that all media is entirely corrupt and over the top, just reporting news to create sensationalism and more consumption of their articles, but
what else can you call this?
People must look hard for the truth in a day and age when News is of this caliber of reporting.
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