Posted on 09/24/2020 2:40:23 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
Analysts say Israeli agreements with Gulf states could lead to huge financial deals
Egypt, Israel, Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority signed the charter of the East Mediterranean Gas Forum (EMGF) in a virtual ceremony hosted by Cairo on Tuesday.
Natural gas exploration and the massive reserves found in the Eastern Mediterranean over the past several years mean that what began as an informal forum of Egypt, Cyprus, Israel and Greece is now a formal intergovernmental organization based in Cairo. Egypt is positioning itself as an energy and exporter hub in the region.
The bloc seeks to promote gas exports at a time when Israel has established new ties with Arab states.
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 sea. France wants to join, and the United States and European Union have requested 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,” Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz says.
Tareq Awwad, an international energy expert based in Israel, told The Media Line that “the future is with gas” as oil reserves dwindle.
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Russia, Turkey, and Iran have really gotten their beds wet over massive gas & oil reserves not within their realms of control.
Prelude to Ezekiel 38/39 perhaps? There’s a lot to plunder there if you read the Scripture on what motivates them.
Maranatha!
So if the Palis start getting some much-needed scratch out of this do they become more or less anti-Israel?
Notice the Palestinians quietly signed on to this.
This type of thing may take place instead of them setting
up formalized relations with Israel.
They’ll just quietly work together on projects more and more.
They don’t want to be left out, but don’t want to formally
bury the hatchet with Israel.
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That is true, there are goodies to be benefited from on this deal.
They’re a welfare state anyways, they know the gig.
Thanks. Yes they do...
the anti-Zionist, anti-mideast-peace dominoes continue to rapidly fall after Trump’s historic UAE/Bahrain/Israel peace agreement!
The fakestinians have been given a couple hundred billion dollars and remain evil savage murderers. Money doesn’t change evil, it only enables evil to kill more innocent people.
It’s pretty amazing!
Watching all of this unfold, prophetic...
that the Palestinians participated is huuuge. Nobel Peace Prize for Trump.
pro-Hamas/Hezbollah/Mualim Brotherhood media - like ***Middle East Monitor - tried to play it down, by reporting the Palestinians didn’t show up for the official virtual signing.
however, note the past tense used in the following.
***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.
“We did not participate in the signing ceremony, in implementation of the Palestinian leadership’s decision to cut contacts with Israel,” an informed Palestinian source told the agency.
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
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