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    <title>“Wiping Gaza Off the Map”: Big Money Agenda. Confiscating
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      class="preview">As outlined by Felicity Arbuthnot with foresight
      10 years ago in a December, 30 2013 article: “Israel is set to
      become a major exporter of gas and some oil"
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                    Prof. Michel Chossudovsky and Felicity Arbuthnot</p>
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                    has launched an invasion (October 7, 2023) of the
                    Gaza Strip.</p>
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                    outlined by Felicity Arbuthnot with foresight 10
                    years ago in a December, 30 2013 article: </p>
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                    <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>“Israel
                        is set to become a major exporter of gas and
                        some oil, “</span><strong>If All Goes to Plan.””</strong></p>
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                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>In
                      the current context,</span><strong> Israel’s “All
                      Goes to Plan”</strong><span> option consists in
                      bypassing Palestine and “</span><strong>Wiping
                      Gaza off the Map,”</strong><span> as well </span><strong>confiscating
                      ALL Gaza’s maritime offshore gas reserves, </strong><span>worth billions
                      of dollars. </span></p>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Felicity
                    Arbuthnot’s 2013 analysis focusses on the:</p>
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                    <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><strong>“The
                        Giant Leviathan natural gas field, in the
                        eastern Mediterranean</strong><span>, discovered
                        in December 2010, widely described [by
                        governments and media] as “off the coast of
                        Israel.”</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>These
                        Levant reserves must be distinguished from</span><a
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                        in 1999 by British Gas</a><span>, which belong
                        to Palestine. Felicity Arbuthnot’s
                        analysis nonetheless confirms that “Part of the
                        Leviathan Gas fields lie in Gazan territorial
                        waters” (See Map Below). </span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>Whilst
                        Israel claims them as her very own treasure
                        trove, only a fraction of the sea’s wealth lies
                        in Israel’s bailiwick as maps. Much is still
                        unexplored, but currently Palestine’s Gaza and
                        the West Bank between them show the greatest
                        discoveries… (</span><strong>Felicity Arbuthnot</strong><span>,
                        2013) </span></p>
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                      Forward to October 2023</strong></h2>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>Netanyahu’s
                      October 2023 declaration of war against 2.3
                      million people of the Gaza Strip is a continuation
                      of its 2008-2009 invasion of Gaza under </span><strong>“Operation
                      Cast Lead.”</strong><span> </span></p>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>The
                      underlying objective is the </span><strong>outright
                      military occupation of Gaza </strong><span>by
                      Israel’s IDF forces and</span><strong> the
                      expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland.</strong></p>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>I
                      should however mention that there are powerful
                      financial interests which stand to benefit from
                      Israel’s criminal undertaking (</span><strong>genocide) </strong><span>directed
                      against Gaza. </span></p>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>The
                      ultimate objective is not only to
                      exclude Palestinians from their homeland,
                      it consists in </span><strong>confiscating the
                      multi-billion dollar Gaza offshore natural gas
                      reserves, </strong><span>namely those pertaining
                      to the BG (BG Group) in 1999,</span><strong> </strong><span>as well the
                      Levant discoveries of 2013. </span></p>
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                      “Secret Bilateral Talks” </strong></h2>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>In
                      2021-22, Egypt and Israel were involved in </span><a
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                      regarding “the extraction of natural gas off the
                      coast of the Gaza Strip. </span></p>
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style="border-left: 4px solid #538cfa; margin: 20px 0; padding: 0;">
                    <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>“Egypt
                        succeeded in persuading Israel to start
                        extracting natural gas off the coast of the Gaza
                        Strip, </span><strong>after several months of
                        secret bilateral talks.</strong></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>This
                        development … comes after years of Israeli
                        objections to extract natural gas off the coast
                        of Gaza </span><strong>on [alleged] security
                        grounds, … </strong></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;">British
                      Gas (BG Group) has also been dealing with the Tel
                      Aviv government.</p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;">What
                      is significant is that the civilian arm of the
                      Hamas Gaza government has been bypassed in regards
                      to exploration and development rights over the gas
                      fields: </p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>The
                      </span><a
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">field</a><span>, which
                        lies about 30 kilometers (19 miles) west of the
                        Gaza coast, was discovered in 2000 by British
                        Gas (currently BG Group) and </span><strong>is
                        estimated to contain more than 1 trillion cubic
                        feet of natural gas</strong><span>. </span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>The
                        official in the Egyptian intelligence service
                        told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity, </span><strong><span>“An
                          Egyptian economic and security delegation
                          discussed with the Israeli side for several
                          months the issue of allowing the extraction of
                          natural gas off the coast of Gaza. …(</span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/c6e7ddeb-4a98-4bde-a386-0f98733b6aa8?j=eyJ1IjoiMTZuazBpIn0.lVX4jtMsAIqRT5k_ustSvDngg7p52TAzq303tQ7hBs4"
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                          moz-do-not-send="true">Al-Monitor,</a><span>
                          October 22, 2022)</span></strong></p>
                  </blockquote>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">A
                    Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Egypt
                    and Israel, which had the rubber-stamp of the
                    Palestinian National Authority (PA):</p>
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style="border-left: 4px solid #538cfa; margin: 20px 0; padding: 0;">
                    <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>“The
                        Egyptian official explained that Israel required
                        the</span><strong><span> start of practical
                          measures to extract gas from the Gaza fields
                          at the beginning of 2024, to ensure its own
                          security. (</span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/c6e7ddeb-4a98-4bde-a386-0f98733b6aa8?j=eyJ1IjoiMTZuazBpIn0.lVX4jtMsAIqRT5k_ustSvDngg7p52TAzq303tQ7hBs4"
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                          moz-do-not-send="true">Al-Monitor,</a><span>
                          October 22, 2022)</span></strong></p>
                  </blockquote>
                  <h2 class="header-with-anchor-widget"
style="-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 1.625em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;"><strong>Netanyahu’s
                      Timeline: “Before the Beginning of 2024”</strong></h2>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">The
                    timeline resulting from these bilateral Israel-Egypt
                    “secret talks” i.e. confiscation of Palestine’s
                    offshore maritime gas reserves is “the beginning of
                    2024”.</p>
                  <h2 class="header-with-anchor-widget"
style="-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 1.625em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;"><strong>United
                      Nations Assessment</strong></h2>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>An
                      important </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/21356c84-1e58-4d5f-ac9f-3d77f5cc5bfa?j=eyJ1IjoiMTZuazBpIn0.lVX4jtMsAIqRT5k_ustSvDngg7p52TAzq303tQ7hBs4"
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                      moz-do-not-send="true">United Nations Conference
                      on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)</a><span> (2019)
                      report describes Palestine’s predicament as
                      follows: </span></p>
                  <blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #538cfa; margin: 20px 0; padding: 0;">
                    <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>Geologists
                        and natural resources economists have confirmed
                        that t</span><strong>he Occupied Palestinian
                        Territory lies above sizeable reservoirs of oil
                        and natural gas wealth, in Area C of the
                        occupied West Bank and the Mediterranean coast
                        off the Gaza Strip.</strong></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>However,
                        occupation </span><strong>continues to prevent
                        Palestinians from developing their energy fields
                        so as to exploit and benefit from such assets.</strong><span>
                        As such, the Palestinian people have been denied
                        the benefits of using this natural resource to
                        finance socioeconomic development and meet their
                        need for energy.</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>The
                        accumulated losses are estimated in the billions
                        of dollars. </span><strong>The longer Israel
                        prevents Palestinians from exploiting their own
                        oil and natural gas reserves, the greater the
                        opportunity costs and the greater the total
                        costs of the occupation borne by Palestinians
                        become.</strong></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>This
                        study identifies and assesses existing and
                        potential Palestinian oil and natural gas
                        reserves that could be exploited for the benefit
                        of the Palestinian people, </span><strong>which
                        Israel is either preventing them from exploiting
                        or is exploiting without due regard for
                        international law. </strong><span>(</span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/21356c84-1e58-4d5f-ac9f-3d77f5cc5bfa?j=eyJ1IjoiMTZuazBpIn0.lVX4jtMsAIqRT5k_ustSvDngg7p52TAzq303tQ7hBs4"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">UNCTAD</a><span>, August
                        2019, emphasis added, download complete report)</span></p>
                  </blockquote>
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style="-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 1.625em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;"><strong>Crimes
                      Against Humanity</strong></h2>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>In
                      the words of Netanyahu who is </span><strong>on
                      record for supporting and financing a faction
                      within Hamas:  </strong></p>
                  <blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #538cfa; margin: 20px 0; padding: 0;">
                    <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>“Anyone
                        who wants to thwart the establishment of a
                        Palestinian state </span><strong>has to support
                        bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas
                        … </strong><span>This is part of our strategy –
                        to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the
                        Palestinians in the West Bank.”</span></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><strong>(Benjamin Netanyahu,
                      </strong><span>statement at a March 2019 meeting
                        of his Likud Party’s Knesset members, </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/f592626b-285d-49a9-b3f9-ae5b25080775?j=eyJ1IjoiMTZuazBpIn0.lVX4jtMsAIqRT5k_ustSvDngg7p52TAzq303tQ7hBs4"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">Haaretz</a><span>,
                        October 9, 2023, emphasis added)</span></p>
                  </blockquote>
                  <blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #538cfa; margin: 20px 0; padding: 0;">
                    <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>“Hamas
                        was treated as a partner to the detriment of the
                        Palestinian Authority to prevent Abbas from
                        moving towards creating a Palestinian State.
                        Hamas was promoted from a terrorist group to an
                        organization with which Israel conducted
                        negotiations through Egypt, </span><strong>and
                        which was allowed to receive suitcases
                        containing millions of dollars from Qatar
                        through the Gaza crossings.”</strong></p>
                    <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><span>(</span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/a049b385-5be5-4f4c-a66d-329828b7a062?j=eyJ1IjoiMTZuazBpIn0.lVX4jtMsAIqRT5k_ustSvDngg7p52TAzq303tQ7hBs4"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">Times of Israel</a><span>,
                        October 8, 2023, emphasis added)</span></p>
                  </blockquote>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Crimes
                    against humanity beyond description by the Netanyahu
                    government against the People of Palestine.</p>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>Crimes
                      also committed against the people of Israel who
                      are the victims of the </span><strong>Hamas
                      “false flag attack”</strong><span> carefully
                      engineered by </span><strong>Mossad-IDF.</strong></p>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">There
                    are deep-seated divisions within Hamas. Our “false
                    flag” analysis pertains to a military-intelligence
                    faction within Hamas which cooperates with Israeli
                    and U.S. intelligence.  See: </p>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><strong><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/d6d3b93f-a2a9-4983-a50c-ef67ade5b581?j=eyJ1IjoiMTZuazBpIn0.lVX4jtMsAIqRT5k_ustSvDngg7p52TAzq303tQ7hBs4"
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                        moz-do-not-send="true">Is the Gaza-Israel
                        Fighting “A False Flag”? They Let it Happen?
                        Their Objective Is “to Wipe Gaza Off the Map”?</a><span>
                      </span></strong><span>By </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/98638729-8b4f-48cc-8826-54e0e0cc84d7?j=eyJ1IjoiMTZuazBpIn0.lVX4jtMsAIqRT5k_ustSvDngg7p52TAzq303tQ7hBs4"
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style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-decoration: underline;"
                      moz-do-not-send="true">Philip Giraldi</a><span>
                      and </span><a
href="https://substack.com/redirect/f36590f9-fe20-4312-937d-548340b2ecdc?j=eyJ1IjoiMTZuazBpIn0.lVX4jtMsAIqRT5k_ustSvDngg7p52TAzq303tQ7hBs4"
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style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); text-decoration: underline;"
                      moz-do-not-send="true">Prof Michel Chossudovsky</a><span>,
                      October 20, 2023</span></p>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><strong>-Michel
                      Chossudovsky</strong><span>,  Global Research,
                      October 21, 2023</span></p>
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                  <h1 class="header-with-anchor-widget"
style="-moz-appearance: optimizelegibility; -moz-osx-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-appearance: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; appearance: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: 'SF Compact Display', -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, 'Apple Color Emoji', 'Segoe UI Emoji', 'Segoe UI Symbol'; font-size: 2em; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.16em; margin: 1em 0 0.625em 0; position: relative;"><strong>Israel
                      Gas-Oil and Trouble in the Levant</strong></h1>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>by
                    </span><strong>Felicity Arbuthnot, Global Research, </strong><span>December
                      13, 2013</span></p>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Israel
                    is set to become a major exporter of gas and some
                    oil, if all goes to plan. The giant Leviathan
                    natural gas field, in the eastern Mediterranean,
                    discovered in December 2010, is widely described as
                    “off the coast of Israel.”</p>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><em> </em><span>At
                      the time the gas field was:</span></p>
                  <blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #538cfa; margin: 20px 0; padding: 0;">
                    <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;">“
                      … the most prominent field ever found in the
                      sub-explored area of the Levantine Basin, which
                      covers about 83,000 square kilometres of the
                      eastern Mediterranean region.” (i)</p>
                  </blockquote>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Coupled
                    with Tamar field, in the same location, discovered
                    in 2009, the prospects are for an energy bonanza for
                    Israel, for Houston, Texas based Noble Energy and
                    partners Delek Drilling, Avner Oil Exploration and
                    Ratio Oil Exploration.</p>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Also
                    involved is Perth, Australia-based Woodside
                    Petroleum, which has signed a memorandum of
                    understanding for a thirty percent stake in the
                    project, in negotiations which have been described
                    as “up and down.”</p>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">There
                    is currently speculation that Woodside might pull
                    out of the deal: “ …since the original plans to
                    refrigerate the gas for export were pursued when
                    relations between Israel and Turkey were strained.
                    That has changed, more recently, which has opened
                    the door for gas to be piped to Turkey.”</p>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">The
                    spoils of the Leviathan field has already expanded
                    from an estimated 16.7 trillion cubic feet (tcf ) of
                    gas to nineteen trillion – and counting:</p>
                  <blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #538cfa; margin: 20px 0; padding: 0;">
                    <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;">”We’ve
                      discovered nearly 40 tcf of gas, and we have
                      roughly 19 tcf of that gas that’s available for
                      export to both regional and extra-regional
                      markets. We see exports reaching 2 billion cubic
                      feet a day in capacity in the next decade. And we
                      continue to explore.”, stated Noble Vice Chairman
                      Keith Elliot (ii) There are also estimated to be
                      possibly six hundred million barrels of oil,
                      according to Michael Economides of
                      energytribune.com (“Eastern Mediterranean Energy –
                      the next Great Game.”)</p>
                  </blockquote>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"> However,
                    even these estimates may prove modest. In
                    their: “Assessment of Undiscovered Oil and Gas
                    Resources of the Levant Basin Province, Eastern
                    Mediterranean”, the US Department of the Interior’s
                    US Geological Survey, wrote in 2010:</p>
                  <blockquote
style="border-left: 4px solid #538cfa; margin: 20px 0; padding: 0;">
                    <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0; margin-left: 20px;"><strong>“We
                        estimated a mean of 1.7 billion barrels of
                        recoverable oil and a mean of 122 trillion cubic
                        feet of recoverable gas in this province using a
                        geology based assessment methodology.”</strong></p>
                  </blockquote>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Nevertheless,
                    Woodside Petroleum, might also be hesitant to become
                    involved in further disputes, since they are already
                    embroiled, with the Australian government, in a
                    protracted one in East Timor relating to the
                    bonanaza of energy and minerals beneath the Timor
                    Sea, which has even led to East Timor accusing
                    Australia “of bugging East Timorese officials during
                    the negotiations over the agreement.”(iii)</p>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Woodside’s
                    conflict in East Timor however, may well pale
                    against what might well erupt over the Leviathan and
                    Tamar fields. The area is not for nothing called the
                    Levantine Basin.</p>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><strong>Whilst
                      Israel claims them as her very own treasure trove,
                      only a fraction of the sea’s wealth lies in
                      Israel’s bailiwick as maps (iv, v, see below)
                      clearly show.</strong></p>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><span>Much
                      is still unexplored, but currently </span><strong>Palestine’s
                      Gaza and the West Bank between them show the
                      greatest discoveries, with anything found in
                      Lebanon and Syria’s territorial waters sure to
                      involve claims from both countries.</strong></p>
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                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">In
                    a pre-emptive move, on Christmas Day, Syria
                    announced a deal with Russia to explore 2,190
                    kilometres (850 Sq. miles) for oil and gas off its
                    Mediterranean coast, to be: “… financed by Russia,
                    and should oil and gas be discovered in commercial
                    quantities, Moscow will recover the exploration
                    costs.”</p>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Syrian
                    Oil Minister, Ali Abbas said during the signing
                    ceremony that the contract covers “25 years, over
                    several phases.”</p>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Syria,
                    increasingly crippled by international sanctions,
                    has seen oil production plummet by ninety percent
                    since the largely Western fermented unrest began in
                    March 2011. Gas production has nearly halved, from
                    thirty million cubic metres a day, to 16.7 cubic
                    metres daily.</p>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">The
                    agreement is reported to have resulted from “months
                    of long negotiations” between the two countries.
                    Russia, as one of the Syrian government’s main
                    backers, looks set to also become a major player in
                    the Levant Basin’s energy wealth. (vi)</p>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Lebanon
                    disputes Israel’s map of the Israeli-Lebanese
                    maritime border, filing their own map and claims
                    with the UN in 2010. Israel claims Lebanon is in the
                    process of granting oil and gas exploration licenses
                    in what Israel claims as its “exclusive economic
                    zone.”</p>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">That
                    the US in the guise of Vice President Joe Biden, as
                    honest broker, acting peace negotiator in the
                    maritime border dispute would be laughable, were it
                    not potential for Israel to attack their neighbour
                    again. In a visit to Israel in March 2010, Biden
                    announced: “There is absolutely no space between the
                    United States and Israel when it comes to Israel’s
                    security- none at all”, also announcing on arrival
                    in Israel:”It’s good to be home.”</p>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Given
                    US decades of  “peace brokering” between Israel and
                    Palestine, this is already a road of pitfalls, one
                    sidedness and duplicity, well traveled. There is
                    trouble ahead.</p>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">Oh,
                    and in demonology, Leviathan is one of the seven
                    princes of Hell.</p>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;"><strong>Notes</strong></p>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">i.
                    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.offshore-technology.com/projects/leviathan-gas-field-levantine-israel/">http://www.offshore-technology.com/projects/leviathan-gas-field-levantine-israel/</a></p>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">ii.
                    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://m.theage.com.au/business/options-widen-for-woodsides-leviathan-partners-20131219-2znu6.html">http://m.theage.com.au/business/options-widen-for-woodsides-leviathan-partners-20131219-2znu6.html</a></p>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">iii.
                    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-04/east-timor-offers-funds-for-onshore">http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-04/east-timor-offers-funds-for-onshore</a>-
                    gas-processing/4933106</p>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">iv.
                    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.offshore-technology.com/projects/leviathan-gas-field-levantine-israel/leviathan-gas-field-levantine-israel1.html">http://www.offshore-technology.com/projects/leviathan-gas-field-levantine-israel/leviathan-gas-field-levantine-israel1.html</a></p>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">v.
                    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Leviathan+gas+project+Israel+map&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=ntC2UvO7IcPE7Ab7rIDYCQ&ved=0CEQQsAQ&biw=1017&bih=598">http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Leviathan+gas+project+Israel+map&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=ntC2UvO7IcPE7Ab7rIDYCQ&ved=0CEQQsAQ&biw=1017&bih=598</a></p>
                  <p
style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; margin: 0 0 20px 0;">vi.
                    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.phantomreport.com/syria-inks-oil-gas-deal-with-russia-firm#more-20238">http://www.phantomreport.com/syria-inks-oil-gas-deal-with-russia-firm#more-20238</a></p>
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