(Jerusalem Post) Editorial - The Palestinian Authority has racked up a steadily mounting debt to the Israel Electric Corporation that already exceeds NIS 700 million and it appears that the authorities in Ramallah are quite content to have average Israelis pick up the PA's tab. The PA's uncontrolled fiscal delinquency cannot be subsidized by Israeli citizens, even if the upshot will be bad press and the usual distortions that Israel faces abroad. It cannot be that Israeli consumers need suffer power shortages, while underwriting the PA's residents. Israel needs to show the PA that it will not inflict pain on its own citizens just to avoid yet another demonization drive overseas.
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