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Yeah and the Egyptian regime is more interested in providing internet to Gazans than Israel? Actually, I'm curious, how does Gaza get its internet? Any source/

• aidos 12y ago
  The wikipedia page [0] claims that there are 4 ISPs providing internet in Gaza. I believe that in the case of electricity, Israel is obliged to provide power to the region under international law (since they control its borders). [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip
  • smcl 12y ago
    Not to get too political\opinionated but Israel does not have a particularly strong reputation for respecting international laws regarding Palestine (West Bank or Gaza) which makes it even more surprising if they continued to supply power.
    • ars 12y ago
      > which makes it even more surprising if they continued to supply power. You don't understand Israel at all. It would be surprising if they didn't supply power. Israel doesn't hate Gazans, they just want Gazans to stop attacking them. They pulled out of Gaza to give them less of a reason to hate Israel, but that didn't work. Israel has little interest in giving them a country, it is true. But not because they want to deny them a county but because they don't think it will help. After all pulling out of Gaza did not help - in fact it made it worse. Israel doesn't care about the UN because the UN is utterly obsessed with Israel, and essentially they don't consider the UN legitimate in this regard because of that obsession. Most of the world considers the UN a joke for exactly this reason (plus things like allowing known human right abusing countries to chair human rights commissions).
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    • frozenport 12y ago
      Does this change your opinion?
      • JupiterMoon 12y ago
        Didn't Israel bomb the power station in Gaza?
        • Smokey28 12y ago
          Which is now up and running a shocking 46 weeks ahead of schedule. Don't believe everything you read.
          • JupiterMoon 12y ago
            Not sure I follow you logic here. Because something got repaired then it is OK that it was smashed in the first place? Can you clarify?
            • Smokey28 12y ago
              Sure thing. Your assumption that "it was smashed in the first place" is based on a news report, my assumption being that you are not a Gaza power station employee. In a case where something was fixed nearly a year ahead of the reported schedule, in one of the slowest moving industrial zones on Earth, which is more likely: A) A miraculous feat of engineering happened or B) The damage was not as widespread or destructive as initially reported, if even present at all. My "logic" was not a value statement on whether the attack was justified - rather a suggestion that before you go posting certain events as fact, you should realize that not everything published is a definite fact.
• ars 12y ago
  > Actually, I'm curious, how does Gaza get its internet? As I said, it's via Israel. Same with phone service and postal mail.
  • JupiterMoon 12y ago
    Indeed everything enters or leaves via Israel...