pstarr wrote:Jenab wrote:I'm not convinced that a new major deposit of oil or natural gas has been found in or near Israel. I think that geologists have known their scientific profession well enough to have found those deposits long ago, if they really had ever existed. This alleged discovery is, I believe, only a reintroduction of supplies of oil and/or natural gas originally native to Iraq, courtesy of the US-Iraq war and the occupation of Iraq by American forces. Iraq's oil has been diverted to Israel via pipeline. So that Israel isn't accused of stealing other people's vital energy resources, it is creating a charade about a long-overlooked deposit native to Israel. Like it says in the Protocols of Zion: force and make-believe.
So the old jews dug a secret pipeline across Jordan? oy! dats nuts
It isn't a "secret" pipeline. It's merely an under-acknowledged pipeline. It's been around since British Mandate days. It has been maintained, renovated and upgraded over the years.
Israel seeks pipeline for Iraqi oilUS discusses plan to pump fuel to its regional ally and solve energy headache at a stroke(guardian.co.uk | TheObserver)
Plans to build a pipeline to siphon oil from newly conquered Iraq to Israel are being discussed between Washington, Tel Aviv and potential future government figures in Baghdad.
The plan envisages the reconstruction of an old pipeline, inactive since the end of the British mandate in Palestine in 1948, when the flow from Iraq's northern oilfields to Palestine was re-directed to Syria.
Now, its resurrection would transform economic power in the region, bringing revenue to the new US-dominated Iraq, cutting out Syria and solving Israel's energy crisis at a stroke.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/ap ... inians.oilAn old Israel-Iraq oil line ... reopening?By John K. Cooley / April 23, 2003(Christian Science Monitor)
Nothing could be better designed to undermine the coalition's promise that Iraq's oil should benefit its own people than Israel's proclaimed wish to "reopen" a long-unused pipeline from Iraq's Kirkuk oil fields to Israel's Mediterranean port of Haifa.
Israel's National Infrastructure Minister Joseph Paritzky was quoted in a March 31 Ha'aretz article saying that Israeli and Jordanian officials would soon meet to discuss reviving the line. Built by the British in the 1940s, the line crossed west from Iraq through Jordan to British-ruled Palestine (today's Israel). Upon the 1948 birth of Israel and the immediate eruption of war with Iraq, Jordan and other Arab neighbors forced its shutdown and the diversion of Iraqi oil through a branch line to Syria.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0423/p11s01-coop.htmlIn this matter, I would not believe the claims of "spokesmen" and "experts" to the effect that "It was planned, but it was never done," or "Iraq hasn't the equipment to meet optimistic goals for production." It was done, and the equipment is there. If Iraqi oil isn't on the market, then one of the reasons is probably that it is being hoarded in Israel. To cover up Israel's theft (and the US government complicity), Israel is floating a myth about a huge native reserve of oil and natural gas that had eluded discovery until very recently.