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Israeli Cabinet: Gaza's Arabs are lying to pressure Israel


By Stan Goodenough
April 15, 2008

Hamas lies, distorting the facts; the press spreads those lies without checking the facts, the world swallows the lies without doubting the reports, and Israel is charged with doing those things Hamas accuses it of doing, and is condemned.

The latest version of this deception merry-go-round has the international community jumping all over Israel for its "cruel" and "inhumane" treatment of Gaza's Palestinians, from whom the Jewish state is accused of withholding fuel and other supplies, creating a "humanitarian crisis."

In the latest propaganda pulse out of Gaza, Ynetnews Monday cited unnamed "sources" asserting that the Strip's four universities have been forced to close because the "fuel shortage," due to Israel's clampdown, which now prevents students from traveling to their campuses from different parts of Gaza [a sliver of territory just 24 miles long and seven miles wide - Ed].

Ynetnews said that, according to estimates by the Palestinian Energy and Natural Resource Authority, shortages would soon be felt in other areas of civilian life, including in the hospitals, where the "pending humanitarian crisis" would trigger another explosion of popular rage like the one which purportedly led "desperate" Palestinian Arabs to tear down the border between Gaza and Egypt.

At its weekly meeting Sunday, the Israeli Cabinet heard how, even as it cried to the world about the fuel shortage to Gaza, Hamas last week launched a terrorist attack against the Nahal Oz fuel depot from where gas is supplied to Gaza, killing two Israeli civilians and wounding two others.

There is NO crisis in Gaza, Israel's leaders insist.

Interior Minister Meir Shitreet said "the crisis is artificial; a Hamas lie intended to pressure the international community" into pressuring Israel.

"The State of Israel has permitted the steady and continuous flow of fuel into the Gaza Strip in recent weeks," Israel's Foreign Ministry said in an official statement, which spelled out that 2,200,000 liters of diesel fuel was being transferred weekly through Nahal Oz to the Gaza Strip power plant, and that unlimited quantities of cooking gas were being supplied.

Defiantly, Hamas is mocking Israel, cutting off the hand that has been feeding its people and then crying crocodile tears because the supply has suddenly diminished.

Despite this, in the almost bizarrely humanitarian way in which Israel is fighting its war in Gaza, the head of the Israeli Defense Ministry's Diplomatic-Security Bureau, Maj. Gen. [Res.] Amos Gilad, said Sunday Israel has ways of monitoring the real situation in Gaza and would not allow the situation to reach crisis levels.

And Defense Minister Ehud Barak Monday night ordered the resumption of diesel fuel shipments to the Gaza power station.

Meanwhile electricity supplied by Israel and Egypt has been flowing into Gaza without hindrance, despite the terrorism and incessant Kassam rocket fire.

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