re: #218 Vicious Babushka

When funds are withheld to pay for the utilities you get the headlines ISRAELIS WITHHOLD PALESTINIAN REVENUE like they are totally stealing, not taking money that is owed to them to pay for stuff like gas, electric and water THAT ORDINARY SLOBS LIKE YOU AND ME HAVE TO PAY FOR or it will be turned off.

Oh yeah, on Reuters:

Israel also announced it was withholding Palestinian tax revenues this month worth about $100 million because of a $200 million PA debt to the Israeli Electric Corporation.
Yasser Abed Rabbo, a senior Palestinian official, said confiscation of the funds due the cash-strapped Authority and vital to meeting its payroll, was “piracy and theft”.

Could anyone here get away with not paying their utilities and then crying PIRACY AND THEFT if the power company cut them off?