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Sorry for the typo. .. it would really benefit them greatly.” Hopefully that got done without any new typos, smile smile. I’m unidigitizing 🤡
6 posted on 09/24/2020 10:13:42 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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FakeNewsMSM are ignoring this completely:

23 Sept: Reuters: Six states and the Palestinians establish EastMed gas forum
by Ahmed Ismail in Cairo and Ari Rabinovitch in Jerusalem; Writing by Aidan Lewis; Editing by Gareth Jones and Andrew Cawthorne
Six states signed a charter for an Egypt-based energy forum on Tuesday, giving formal status to a group that seeks to promote natural gas exports from the Eastern Mediterranean and that Israel hopes will strengthen ties with Arab neighbors.
Egypt, Israel, Greece, Cyprus, Italy and Jordan established the East Mediterranean Gas Forum (EMGF) as an intergovernmental organization in a virtual ceremony hosted by Cairo.

The group unites regional rivals of Turkey, which has been locked in a bitter dispute with European Union members Greece and Cyprus over gas drilling rights in the region.

The Palestinian Authority is also part of the forum, Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said in a statement.
France has applied to join, with the United States and European Union requesting observer status.

For Israel, the forum “brings regional cooperation with Arab and European countries, the first of its kind in history, with contracts to export (Israeli) gas to Jordan and Egypt worth $30 billion, and that is just the beginning,” added Steinitz.
Egypt began importing Israeli gas at the start of this year, for possible re-export to Europe or Asia...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-energy-idUSKCN26D14D

some pro-Iran/Hamas/Hezbollah/Muslim Brotherhood media are trying to suggest Palestinians didn’t sign, but note the past tense quote “***said Palestine signed the charter separately at a later time):

23 Sept: ***Middle East Monitor: Palestine skips East Mediterranean Gas Forum signing ceremony
Palestine yesterday skipped a virtual ceremony held to sign the charter of the East Mediterranean Gas Forum (EMGF) hosted by Egypt, the WAFA news agency reported...
The source, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, ***said Palestine signed the charter separately at a later time.
“Palestine has not attended the signing ceremony, but as co-founding state, it will not retreat from its membership in any international organisation that asserts the Palestinian people’s national and sovereign rights, most notably the right to develop its national assets and natural resources, such as the offshore Gaza gas field, whose development has been hindered by the Israeli occupation authorities for long years,” he said...
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200923-palestine-skips-east-mediterranean-gas-forum-signing-ceremony/

Wikipedia: ***Middle East Monitor: According to Andrew Gilligan, the Middle East Monitor promotes a strongly pro-Muslim Brotherhood and pro-Hamas viewpoint.
(Leftist) Haaretz reporter Anshel Pfeffer described MEMO as a “conspiracy theory-peddling anti-Israel organisation”...
According to Yiftah Curiel, an employee of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, some of the staff of the Middle East Monitor as well as the similar Middle East Eye are also active in Interpal, which has been designated as a terror-supporting ground in Israel, as well as being on the United States Treasury’s list of specially-designated terrorist organisations...
It has been characterized as a pro-Hamas publication by John Ware of BBC News.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East_Monitor


7 posted on 09/24/2020 10:19:42 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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