Tuesday 24 August 2010

Israeli theft of Lebanese oil and water

Posted on August 24, 2010 by rehmat1|

“We are not obliged to state the limits of our State.” – David Ben Gurion, May 14, 1948, while declaring the end of Palestine and the begining of the Zionist entity.

Last month, the Islamic Resistance Hizbullah warned Zionist entity to quit its plan to steal the huge natural oil and gas reserves discovered under the waters of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, which connects the coasts of Lebanon, Gaza, Cyprus and the Zionist entity. However, as usual, the Zionists claim that like Arab land and water – all other natural resources were promised to them by their Biblical God.

Israeli infrastructure minister Uzi Landau responded by threatening with a new war with Lebanon if Hizbullah tried to stop Israel from stealing the new-found gas discovery: “We will not hesitate to use our force and strength to protect not only the rule of law but the international maritime law”. It was an absurd claim, of course, in light of the utter contempt Israel held for maritime law in the attack (in international waters) on the Turkish relief flotilla and killing nine Turkish aid workers on board.

According to Mexican geo-political expert, Alfredo Jalife-Rahme, based on Israel’s past actions – it is very doubtful that the Zionist entity would share this tens of billions of dollars wealth with its neighors. Instead, it will steal it by siphoning them via sophisticated technology or better seize them by force with the help of the Zionist Occupied Governments in the US, Canada and the EU.

In 2009, the Zionist entity started developing two oil and gas fields, Tamara and Dalit with a combined gas reserves of 6.3 trillion cubic feet, according to US Noble Energy. In June 2010, Canada’s Bontan Corporation announced that its Mira and Sarah prospects, adjacent to the Tamar field in the northern waters, have up to 5.71 trillion cubic feet of natural gas reserves.

When Tamar begins producing it could lower Israel’s energy costs by a $1 billion a year and bring $400 million a year in royalties into government coffers. That suggests a total of about $40 billion in savings and $16 billion in government revenues over the total yield of the field. Those numbers would only rise as Leviathan comes on line.

The Noble Energy Inc. has been drilling for oil in Israeli waters since 1998 and discovered the Mary-B field, where production started in 2004, i.e. four years after the discovery. Its relatively limited production capacity is of approximately 600 million cubic feet per day. The Mary-B is located along Palestinian territorial waters, and is also a shared field. There is another field that was discovered and that is being developed by British Gas in Palestinian waters near the Gaza shore. The field is ready for production, but Israel has refused to allow production and gas delivery directly to Gaza and the power station there, without directing the pipeline to the port of Ashkelon first. In other words, Israel wants to control the quantity of gas supplied to Gaza, to know its volume and subsequently, its financial value. However, these conditions were rejected by the operating company and the Palestinian officials, and no gas is being produced from the Palestinian field.

Zionist interest in the waters of Lebanon goes back as far as the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 when Chaim Wietzman wrote to the British Prime Minister explaining that because of its water requirements, a Jewish homeland in Palestine must include the Litani River.

According to Ronald Bleier The Israeli Jews have been stealing water from Litani River (Lebanon), occupied Golan Heights, Jordan River, the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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