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Wolves in the Gaza Chicken House

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"It completely shut down in April after it ran out of emergency fuel supplies paid for by Qatar and Turkey.

"While the electricity crisis imposes severe hardships on daily life, it is catastrophic for hospitals, which lack sufficient backup capacity and are already canceling critical surgeries and shutting down entire wings.

"A generator powering an intensive care unit at a children's hospital stopped working three weeks ago because it was overloaded.

"Gaza's health ministry is warning that more than 50 operating rooms that perform around 250 surgeries each day may be closed unless Israel fulfills its obligation to guarantee basic services to the population, including fuel to operate Gaza's power plant."

Israel does not call its military control an "occupation." According to Israel, it is "administering" the lands of Judea and Samaria (aka by the non-Zionist world as the West Bank and Gaza).

As for the electricity, well, to hear Israel tell it, the shortage is not Israel's "fault."

As the wolf told the farmer from inside the noisy chicken house, "there ain't nobody in here but us chickens."

There are wolves in those "administered territories" and they are in total control of the hen house.

Israel hauled out its number-one major media ally in the U.S., the New York Times, to print Israel's version of the hen house "truth."

Under the headline, Challenging Hamas, Palestinian Authority Cuts Electricity Payments for Gaza, the Times blames the chickens for bickering among themselves.

It is not our fault, Israel whines, the Palestinians are doing it to themselves. "Ain't nobody in here but us chickens."

The Times' Isabel Kershner dutifully wrote:

"The Palestinian Authority informed Israel on Thursday that it would no longer pay for the electricity that Israel supplies to the Gaza Strip, in an extraordinary push by the authority to reassert some control after years of rule in Gaza by the militant group Hamas.

"The schism between the Palestinian Authority, which is based in the West Bank and led by President Mahmoud Abbas, and Hamas, which seized full control of Gaza in 2007, has left Palestinians deeply divided and has hurt efforts to reach a peace deal with Israel."

Israel and the Times expect us to believe the Gaza electric grid is turned off and on with the consent of the Fatah wing of the Palestinian government? The wolves expect us to believe such nonsense?

Of course, Israeli spin-masters do not say they condone the power reduction. They blame President Abbas for "using" the reduction for his own political benefit.

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James Wall served as a Contributing Editor of The Christian Century magazine, based in Chicago, Illinois, from 1999 through 2017. From 1972 through 1999, he was editor and publisher of the Christian Century magazine. Many sources have influenced (more...)
 

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