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Subject: Bitter Truth
ummati 10.08.14 - 04:10pm
The Gazan gas fields are part of the broader Levant assessment area.
What is now unfolding is the integration of these adjoining gas fields including those belonging to Palestine into the orbit of Israel. (see map below).
It should be noted that the entire Eastern Mediterranean coastline extending from Egypts Sinai to Syria constitutes an area encompassing large gas as well as oil reserves. * +
ummati 10.08.14 - 04:13pm
Who Owns the Gas Fields
The issue of sovereignty over Gazas gas fields is crucial. From a legal standpoint, the gas reserves belong to Palestine.
The death of Yasser Arafat, the election of the Hamas government and the ruin of the Palestinian Authority have enabled Israel to establish de facto control over Gazas offshore gas reserves.
British Gas (BG Group) has been dealing with the Tel Aviv government. In turn, the Hamas government has been bypassed in regards to exploration and development rights over the gas fields.
The election of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in 2001 was a major turning point. Palestines sovereignty over the offshore gas fields was challenged in the Israeli Supreme Court. Sharon stated unequivocally that Israel would never buy gas from Palestine intimating that Gazas offshore gas reserves belong to Israel.
In 2003, Ariel Sharon, vetoed an initial deal, which would allow British Gas to supply Israel with natural gas from Gazas offshore wells. (The Independent, August 19, 2003) * +
ummati 10.08.14 - 04:13pm
The election victory of Hamas in 2006 was conducive to the demise of the Palestinian Authority, which became confined to the West Bank, under the proxy regime of Mahmoud Abbas.
In 2006, British Gas was close to signing a deal to pump the gas to Egypt. (Times, May, 23, 2007). According to reports, British Prime Minister Tony Blair intervened on behalf of Israel with a view to shunting the agreement with Egypt.
The following year, in May 2007, the Israeli Cabinet approved a proposal by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to buy gas from the Palestinian Authority. The proposed contract was for 4 billion, with profits of the order of 2 billion of which one billion was to go the Palestinians.
Tel Aviv, however, had no intention on sharing the revenues with Palestine. An Israeli team of negotiators was set up by the Israeli Cabinet to thrash out a deal with the BG Group, bypassing both the Hamas government and the Palestinian Authority:
Israeli defence authorities want the Palestinians to be paid in goods and services and insist that no money go to the Hamas-controlled Government. (Ibid, emphasis added) * +
ummati 10.08.14 - 04:14pm
The objective was essentially to nullify the contract signed in 1999 between the BG Group and the Palestinian Authority under Yasser Arafat.
Under the proposed 2007 agreement with BG, Palestinian gas from Gazas offshore wells was to be channeled by an undersea pipeline to the Israeli seaport of Ashkelon, thereby transferring control over the sale of the natural gas to Israel.
The deal fell through. The negotiations were suspended:
Mossad Chief Meir Dagan opposed the transaction on security grounds, that the proceeds would fund terror. (Member of Knesset Gilad Erdan, Address to the Knesset on The Intention of Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to Purchase Gas from the Palestinians When Payment Will Serve Hamas, March 1, 2006, quoted in Lt. Gen. (ret.) Moshe Yaalon, Does the Prospective Purchase of British Gas from Gazas Coastal Waters Threaten Israels National Security? Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, October 2007)
Israels intent was to foreclose the possibility that royalties be paid to the Palestinians. In December 2007, The BG Group withdrew from the negotiations with Israel and in January 2008 they closed their office in Israel.(BG website). * +
ummati 10.08.14 - 04:16pm
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1akeel1 11.08.14 - 03:59am
so because of hamas israel is: treating palestinians like they are worth nothingthey control everything that goes in to gazathey blockaded them financialy physically built a wall around them..kicking them out their house'sthen killing children and women and men.. israel out of most countries should be compassionate merciful considering what ever happened to jews b4..theyre practically doing the same thing to palestinians * +
intended 11.08.14 - 06:02am
Please tell me where do you gather your info from . Tell me what percentage of Palestinians are under 20 years of age . What percentage is between 20 to 29 ? . If you get that right you will see one of tje resons so many deceased are people under the age of 20. * +
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