Posted on 10/12/2023 1:03:19 AM PDT by dennisw
Mario Nawfal
@MarioNawfal 🚨JUST IN - Israeli Minister of Energy: We will not turn on electricity, pump water, or enter any fuel trucks to Gaza until Israeli hostages return from Gaza
Source: Channel 12 ---- (an Israeli TV station, probably)
(Excerpt) Read more at twitter.com ...
Smart chess move by Israelis. Hamas can drag its feet on this, but meanwhile Gaza gets pounded into rubble —— https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1712366030855536943
Should probably also say the hostages need to be returned alive...
The Israeli put this out means that they know many of the hostages have already been raped and killed. They know they aren’t coming back. Hamas returning dead bodies is political problem for them, especially children.
They are playing chess. They don’t want to turn on water and power because they want to force them out, and now it’s Hamas’s fault.
That’s why they didn’t ask for them alive.
Good move...
Gaza is given water, electricity and fuel from Israel. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you.
Also, in a separate action, every last Hamas member must march naked, in handcuffs, to Israel to be tried as war criminals.
Israel could always say the electrical substations were out due to Hamas rocket fire (which probably knocks out the pump stations too.)
Reading the UN reports, one comes to realize the large number of UN operations and buildings in Gaza. Refugees are flocking to them - probably around 200k by now. I’ll bet Hamas has weapons caches in tunnels under every one. Bastards!
Isn’t it crazy to consider Israel provided the fuel for the operations of Hamas to slaughter Israelis?
Hopefully, they will have creative uses for electricity, fuel, and water for any Hamas thug they capture.
The world will see Hamas as being intransigent against this normal and expected request.
It will put enormous pressure on the left to try to justify why the Palestinians must be allowed to keep the hostages indefinitely. The International Red Cross should then be asked to see the hostages to confirm their living conditions. Then the people of Gaza can ask if the hostages are getting better care than they are.
It would all be for show, because we know that the hostages will never be seen alive again.
-PJ
In other words, Israel will not allow its 2 million hostages to survive unless Hamas releases its hundred or so hostages. Easy to see how this has gone on for decades and will continue until the whole area is eventually vaporized.
>> They are playing chess. They don’t want to turn on water and power
My God how the world has descended into total mental deficiency!
DENYING YOUR ENEMIES WATER, ELECTRICITY AND FUEL IS NOT “PLAYING CHESS”, FOR GOD’S SAKE!
It’s simple common sense.
A simple demand, Now they can actually hold fast on until Islamic Hamas returned the hostages, unarmed, if they even can. Israel needs to secure the Gaza border along Egypt to ensure nothing gets in or out. Will the blockade include the UN camp? On those, the UN should simply relocate them out of Gaza.
Gaza residents are not hostage’s, they voted in Hamas in a free election back in 2015, the majority of Gaza residents openly and actively support Hamas’s goals of the annihilation of Israel.
Not Hostage’s, literally enemy combatants, very few of the Gaza population are innocents. It is unfortuanly now required to treat them like the inhuman animals they have been acting like.
I find it hard to pray for them but we must. My prayers now open with Lord give me strength to pray for all peoples in Israel and Palestine.
“In other words, Israel will not allow its 2 million hostages to survive unless Hamas releases its hundred or so hostages.”
Hamas is holding Gazans hostage to Hamas’ theocratic bullsht. The top Hamas people have become very wealthy. I think I read that 2 are billionaires.
Israel just wants to be left alone. If the Gazans behaved themselves, such as not firing rockets into Israel for the last 15 years, Israel would help them in many ways to make their standard of living better.
Go back three generations. Those 2 million hostages’ forefathers just wanted to be left alone. Look what happened to them and their descendants.
A CLEAR message of the IQ & attitudes Israel is dealing with.
The TOP HAMAS officials live in Qatar. NOT in GAZA.
“Go back three generations. Those 2 million hostages’ forefathers just wanted to be left alone. Look what happened to them and their descendants.”
Muhammad and his bloody Jihad armies stormed out of Saudi Arabia to conquer those lands, 650AD onward. The Muslim claim to them is garbage.
Muslim doctrine is that once a land has turned Muslim it cannot revert back/ Osama Bin Laden was pissed that Spain drove them out 6-7 centuries ago, He said this publically. Israel has a similar problem.
Using these methods, Hamas had not only enriched itself as an organization, but also its leaders. In 2014, Dr. Moshe Elad, a Middle East expert from the Western Galilee Academic College, told The Algemeiner that Khaled Mashaal, the then-head of Hamas’ political wing, is a billionaire.
“Global estimates say Mashaal is worth $2.6 billion,” he said — but Arab commentators, with other sources, say he is worth between $2 to 5 billion, “invested in Egyptian banks and Gulf countries, some in real estate projects.”
Next on the list is senior Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, a one-time prime minister of Gaza. “His fortune is estimated at $4 million, and most of his assets in the Strip are registered in the name of his son in law Nabil, and a dozen children of his and other less known Hamas officials,” Elad said.
Corruption in Hamas, Elad added, is not just rampant but open. “What’s unique about Palestinian leaders over the years is the motto, ‘Get rich quick.’ Leaders there have no shame. They take over crucial industries like communications and gasoline as soon as they take the reins.”
Report: Hamas Has Become Rich Through Massive Taxation of Beleaguered Gaza Population
As the sole de facto authority of the Strip, Hamas squeezes tens of millions of dollars a year out of its subjects by various taxes, levies, and tariffs on consumer goods that enter the territory, as well as licensing fees on all manner of vehicles.
One major object of taxation is cigarettes, on which Hamas has placed a customs duty of up to 50%, which alone yields $10 million a month.
On average, Importers are further charged the equivalent of about $15 for every electronic device, $30 for every ton of fruits and vegetables, and up to $90 for importing toys.
In addition, every truck that drives on Salah AlDin Street — the major highway and transportation artery in the Strip — is taxed about $30.
Also heavily taxed are the smuggling tunnels active on the Egypt-Gaza border, in which moving a single suitcase can result in charges of about $90. Furniture imported from Israel requires a payment of over $200.
Hamas also taxes real estate transactions, charging a 17% tax for each one.
The terror organization’s tentacles extend well into the financial sector as well, in particular in regard to foreign aid — mostly from Qatar, which amounts to $300 million a year. Hamas collects taxes from the companies that convert the foreign funds into Israeli shekels, bringing in tens of millions to the terror group.
Hamas itself also controls hundreds of businesses in numerous areas, including real estate, insurance, banking, and the hospitality industry, with cafes, restaurants, and hotels taxed $1,000 per year.
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