Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


1 posted on 12/17/2006 9:10:27 AM PST by Kitten Festival
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies ]


To: Kitten Festival

I suspect the lifetime of such a pipeline would would be about the same as a gnat's half-life. Those who hate Israel would sabotage that pipeline faster than we can say kitty-litter.


2 posted on 12/17/2006 9:18:08 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Victory will never be achieved while defining Conservatism downward, and forsaking it's heritage.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Kitten Festival
"Relatively quietly, and with tantalizingly few details available...
You must be kidding--this passes as professional journalism!? Where is the copy editor?

Please buy this writer Strunk and White's Elements of Style and Harriss, Leiter, and Johnson's The Complete Reporter
3 posted on 12/17/2006 9:19:14 AM PST by sully777 (You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Berosus; Cincinatus' Wife; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; FairOpinion; Fedora; ..

This is really interesting -- the Turks in the 1990s (or perhaps it was even earlier) suggested a "Peace Pipeline" to distribute (and sell) water throughout the Middle East, including Israel, but no one (particularly the Syrians, through whose territory the pipeline would have gone) was interested per se.

The Turks also want to build a water pipeline to the Turkish zone of Cyprus. Water is an abundant resource in Turkey, and it is in short supply in the rapidly overpopulating Arab world, much of which is desert. Israel was interested in an undersea version of the pipeline, to supply water to its agriculturists, and to meet the terms of its 1994 treaty with Jordan.

Anyway, this new pipeline project is actually four pipelines in one -- crude oil, natural gas, water, and electricity (an electrical trunkline inside a pipeline). My view is that Gaza should be included in this, because a steady water supply in Gaza would pull Arabs ("Palestinians") out of the so-called West Bank, provided of course that they could get land of their own.

I expect this project will subsume the pipeline-to-Cyprus plan, such that both are completed. I also think that the Turks will find it difficult to engineer this (the pipelines are to be anchored to the seabed) without Israeli participation. Should be an interesting ten years, eh?


18 posted on 12/18/2006 10:53:45 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Don't bother, I haven't updated my profile since 11/16/06. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

To: Kitten Festival
This pipeline can greatly assist Israel & Turkey in multiple ways.

..this new pipeline project is actually four pipelines in one -- crude oil, natural gas, water, and electricity (an electrical trunkline inside a pipeline)."

Links:

Turkey, Israel to study feasibility of $4 billion energy pipeline

Pipeline project linking Black and Red Seas

Tehran has reduced the supplies of gas to Turkey over a dispute over pricing, but it's no problem.

20 posted on 12/18/2006 11:21:05 PM PST by M. Espinola (Freedom is never free)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson