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PA begins to pay back 1B in electric bills owed to Israel
Lior Gutman
Published: 25.12.13, 12:28
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1. civil forfieture
i ,   jerusalem   (12.25.13)
If they cant pay and IEC can't pull the plug, let them empty the swiss bank account, or let IEC take Ramllah as forclosure.
2. The Arabs pay or they go dark
Ron ,   oc us   (12.25.13)
A few days by candel light and the bill get paid. I don't know what is so hard about this. I don't pay the bills and the electricity goes off, simple.
3. End ALL support of Fictional Palestine.
Chaim ,   Israel   (12.28.13)
Israel's government is the ONLY government, in all of human history, to voluntarily support its enemies. End ALL support of evil Fictional Palestine.
4. Dismantling th PA will only make the problem worse
Mark ,   Vancouver, Canada   (12.28.13)
For those who are saying to cut off the PAlestinian Authority and make them go broke don't really understand why politically this isn't the best option. If the Palestinian AUthority, which is financed by Western donor money, goes broke and is dismantled due to not being able to pay bills, guess who is gonna have to govern the PAlesintian Authority areas and will have to foot their bill???? Israel will because it is the soverign in the area. Everything from garabe disposal to sewer lines in Ramallah will have to be paid from Israeli tax payer money. Once the PAlestinian Authority is gone and its foreign sponsorship, Israel and it's tax payers are going to have a big bill to foot, and the international community wont be too sympathetic to Israel with donor money with the attitude that Netanyahu has been giving them lately. For those who think that they can just ship the PAlestinians to Jordan, you and I both know that is just a fantasy and will never happen. Careful what you wish for, it might come true.
5. no government will ever try force the PA to pay their way
zionist forever   (12.29.13)
This is a gesture that won't continue unless we start enforcing it which of course we are unwilling to do out of fear of backlash & international opinion. Israelis pay electric bills at a much higher rate than the PA and if they don't pay they go dark but the PA gets it reduced, they still don't pay and we turn a blind eye. The electric companies make up their losses from the PA by rising prices for Israelis. Best solution is for the countries that annually make big donations to the PA should decide what they want to give and before anything goes to the PA they use some of that money to pay any bills the PA owes Israel from the previous year.
6. # 4 Mark non Jew I presume?
BUILD BABY BUILD ,   United States   (12.29.13)
As the pals are a non exiting stateless terrorists organization, Israel is not bound to pay them zip. Annexation and repatriation is a VERY real possibility and who's going to stop israel should she decide to move all the pals out of Israel? Not you, not obama, not the UN in short nobody. Why? because the pals are now infamous for Terror Kidnappings, assassinations that's why. No state has the obligation to fund any terrorists, period. The pals are even deserted by the Saudi's, Arab Gulf States in lieu if their alliance with Israel leaving the pals in the dark, again. You be careful for what YOU wish for. Israel will crush your thesis like a crepe paper dolly. Not too smart, are you laddy?Definitely a non Jew, in fact, an anti semite. BUILDING ALL OF ISRAEL BABY !! Eat your jealous envious heart ( assuming you have one as you don't have brain ) out you Jew hating loser.
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