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It’s Only an Outrage When Israel Cuts Electricity

Once again, Israel‘s talking about cutting electricity to Gaza. And now, Turkey‘s talking about cutting electricity to Syria too. Last time this was an issue, Hamas blacked out Gaza, but Israel was blamed for collectively punishing the…

Pesach Benson
November 27, 2011
12:00 am

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Once again, Israel‘s talking about cutting electricity to Gaza.

And now, Turkey‘s talking about cutting electricity to Syria too.

Last time this was an issue, Hamas blacked out Gaza, but Israel was blamed for collectively punishing the Palestinians.

But I expect that everyone who condemned Israel — such as Jordanian cartoonist Emad Hajjaj, whose poison pen won a 2008 Dishonest Reporting Award — will today praise Turkey’s principled stand against Assad.

I support Turkey’s power cut.

But why is it only an outrage when Israel does this?

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Tags: double standards, electricity, Gaza blockade, Syrian uprising, Turkey

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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