Posted on 05/06/2015 6:11:14 PM PDT by SJackson
TULKARM REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank — Like many Palestinians in this forlorn jumble of concrete buildings, Fakhriya Zeidan labored to recall when she last paid her power bill: maybe in 2001?
“A chicken costs $6. I can’t afford it,” Ms. Zeidan, 59, said defensively as she rattled a bag of vegetables she had just purchased. “You think I can afford electricity?”
Collectively, the 22,000 residents of the Tulkarm camp in the northern West Bank have amassed $15.2 million in unpaid electric bills over at least 10 years, part of a yawning Palestinian power debt of $430 million that is at the core of the latest breakdown in relations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
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Bot a chicken the other day. Wasn't much more than $6.00. I'm not paying my electric bill either. Will let everyone know if it works.
The entitled class are everywhere! Spanning the globe . . .
Just had one of those random epiphanies. The inner-city slums scattered all across this nation are the “Palestines” of our future.
Obviously these people should contact the Clinton Global Crime Initiative, Warren Buffett, Tim Cook, Bill Gates or one of the other rich Progressives that are just dying to give away money.
Lights out.
A “refugee camp” last a few weeks or months. These squatter, and the complicit media, call it a “refugee camp” when it is nothing of the kind. Mot is Israeli land that they are squatting in, and have been occupying for over 60 years.
Good idea. I bet they’d love to lend a helping hand. Maybe not any money, but they’d at least give them some encouraging words to ponder.
2001 until 2015, and the Israelis are the bad guys?
It seems obvious to me that the Arabs on the West Bank need to be kicked out of that territory never to return.
They can’t play ball on any level. Screw ‘em.
Send them packing.
No discussion, nothing.
Pay or do without.
/johnny
I agree. The CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE should be good for SOMETHING!
Maybe she should move to Detroit and get her water for free. But she’d better take some free electricity with her.
They shut me off over minutes. Not years.
/johnny
How much is a Palastinian dollar worth in play money??
Why can’t the mooches just make their own power...the libs tell me a few solar panels will do the trick.
Send these Deadbeat occupants of the Land Of Israel back to some Krapistan where cheating on your bills is perhaps an accepted way of life.
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