http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archive/2010/01/a-gaza-power-crisis-you-didnt-see-vigils/index.shtml
No, no staged candlelight vigils for this power crisis. Why? Because there are no Israelis to blame, though the power crisis is much worse. This time it's just good old fashioned corruption and, on an even more interesting level, the rot that the Palestinian Arab welfare culture has wrought upon itself.
The very basic outline is this: The European Union pays the fuel bills for the Gaza power plant (welfare...or aid if you prefer), by giving money to the Palestinian Authority which makes the payments.
In November the EU cut off the spigot. The PA was supposed to go out and get more people to pay their bills -- collection is a big problem since most people know that it's all subsidized anyway -- and the Hamas government in the strip was also supposed to up their collection efforts and pay back the PA. Little of this has been happening, although Hamas seems to be collecting money, it's not going anywhere: Blackout in many Gazan regions due to lack of funds
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