FFS Free Palestine

[Balanbam00]

After the British Mandate ended and Israel declared their state in 1948. Palestinians fled or were expelled. Fleeing into Egypt,Jordan and Lebanon.
After Jordan lost control of the West Bank to Israel in 1967, Palestinian fighters known as fedayeen moved their bases to Jordan and stepped up their attacks on Israel and Israeli-occupied territories.
On 17 September, the Jordanian army surrounded cities with a PLO presence including Amman and Irbid, and began shelling the fedayeen, who had established themselves in Palestinian refugee camps. Later pressure mounted by Arab countries for King Hussein to halt the fighting.

On 13 October he signed an agreement with Arafat to regulate the fedayeen's presence. However, the Jordanian army attacked again in January 1971. The fedayeen were driven out of the cities, one by one, until 2,000 fedayeen surrendered after being surrounded in a forest near Ajloun on 17 July, marking the end of the conflict.

The Black September Organisation was founded after the conflict to carry out reprisals against the Jordanian authorities. The organisation's first attack was the assassination in 1971 of Wasfi Tal, the then Jordanian Prime Minister who had commanded parts of the operation that expelled the fedayeen. The organisation then shifted to attacking Israeli targets, including the highly publicised 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli athletes.(cont)

[Balanbam00]

The PLO would not live up any of the agreements, and came to be seen more and more as a state within a state in Jordan.
Accordingly, their growing power was accompanied by growing arrogance and insolence

''They drove noisily around Amman in jeeps with loaded weapons, like an army of occupation; they extorted financial contributions from individuals, sometimes foreigners, in their homes and in public places; they disregarded routine traffic regulations, failed to register and license their vehicles, and refused to stop at army checkpoints; they boasted about their role of destiny against Israel and belittled the worth of the army. Their very presence in Amman, far from the battlefield, seemed like a challenge to the regime''.
In the summer of 1970, the Jordanian army was on the verge of losing its patience with the fedayeen.

In the September fighting, the PLO lost its main base of operations. Fighters were driven to Southern Lebanon where they regrouped. The enlarged PLO presence in Lebanon and the intensification of fighting on the Israeli–Lebanese border stirred up internal unrest in Lebanon, where the PLO fighters added dramatically to the weight of the Lebanese National Movement, a coalition of Muslims, Arab nationalists and leftists who opposed the rightist, Maronite-dominated government. These developments helped precipitate the Lebanon Civil War, in which the PLO would ultimately be expelled to Tunisia

[Balanbam00]

BT : Do you want to know who these Palestinians are?

Apparently, the Palestinians believe that they have a "right" to free electricity -- even if that leads to the collapse of their own electric company.
Palestinian officials are using the electricity issue to incite not only the international community against Israel, but also their own people.
Many other Palestinians, taking a more direct line of theft, have been stealing electrical power from their company, a crime punishable by fines and/or incarceration in any country that respects law and order. The thieves do so by directly hooking to the power line ("cable hooking") or tampering with electric meters.
On September 22, the IEC ( the Israel Electric Corporation ) announced that it has begun cutting power supply to some Palestinian villages and cities in the West Bank to put pressure on the Palestinians to pay their debt of 1.7 billion shekels (about $483 million). While there has been sporadic payment of some of this debt, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has not forwarded any money to the Israeli company since January 2019.
The Palestinians, in short, are asking the international community to condemn Israel for daring to demand that they pay their debts for the electricity they purchase from the IEC. (cont)

[Balanbam00]

In the eyes of the chairman of the Arab electricity company, his company's failure to pay its debts to Israel is an issue that needs to be brought before the UN. Obviously, Omari did not tell the UN officials he met with about the tens of thousands of Palestinians who have not been paying their bills or who are stealing power from the JDEC.
Omari revealed that "large Palestinian consumers" owed his company 100 million shekels (about $28.6 million). He said that Palestinian consumers' total debts to his company were estimated at 800 million shekels (about $229 million). More than half of the debt belongs to Palestinians living in refugee camps, where consumers have long been stealing electricity and refusing to pay their bills, he said.
Attempts by the JDEC to collect money for unpaid bills in West Bank refugee camps have been met with violence. JDEC employees who entered the camps to collect debts or cut off power to consumers are often threatened and beaten. The Palestinian security forces have done almost nothing to help the company or its employees.
Omari also criticized Palestinian courts for failing to deal with Palestinians who are stealing electricity and refusing to pay their bills. "Some of the Palestinians [in the refugee camps] place private guards near electricity generators to prevent the company employees from cutting the power," he said. "Others block the panels with chains or rocks so that we cannot open them..."

The Arab company's message to Palestinians who are stealing electricity and refusing to pay their bills is: "If you find yourselves without electricity, you should blame only Israel."

Bassam Tawil is a Muslim Arab based on the Middle East.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Just reading between the lines shows the true extent of life under an Occupying Force...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-in-each-glass

[Balanbam00]

Yes BT : this is a sad story about 2 villages on the northern border with Lebanon.
But you mention ''an occupying force''this is happening in the Galilee in Israel.

To occupy something is to fill or use a space, an area, or an amount of time synonym 'take up something'. Israel occupies its ownself?

Well, yes it's sad! These Arabs were asked to leave (1951) and that shortly they would would return. That has not happened !!For sure with this Government of ''Bibi'',a right wing Government, it will not happen.I do not know if other people moved on to that land ( Israelis ??). I have no idea what will be,and what will be in the future ??

Perhaps it certainly does not help with Hezbullah occupying that area over Israels northern border, plus with Hezbullah digging tunnels into Israel ( 5 or 6 have been destroyed)

[Balanbam00]

Lets not forget Hezbullah occupies South Lebanon with at least 160 k rockets.This happened the last time they fired at us.

A Katyusha rocket hits the galilee,( but how much is inside the ground 2 m?)



And its damage !

[Balanbam00]

B T : So rockets are not so bad , in 2 days I think over a month ago, we had 600 rockets Saturday and Sunday.
For example:




how many years is forensic anthropology

[sinkov]

Thank you Balan, for the time and trouble you take to explain patiently, lucidly and at considerable length the reality of the situation. Such a shame your efforts aren't reciprocated.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Thank you Balan, for the time and trouble you take to explain patiently, lucidly and at considerable length the reality of the situation. Such a shame your efforts aren't reciprocated.

Always amazes me when Israeli propaganda is regarded to be more truthful than the message coming from the oppressed, dispossessed Palestinians sinkov.

https://mondoweiss.net/2019/10/israe...YV2K1lmDCLkHSw