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Bible 'leads to Israeli oil bonanza'
The Guardian ^
| Sunday June 13, 2004
| Conal Urquhart
Posted on 06/12/2004 11:42:16 PM PDT by Nachum
The bible has inspired many to have faith in heavenly joy, but now an Israeli company believes it has helped it find wealth on earth. In an announcement that could shift the power balance in the Middle East, it claims to have discovered a £3 billion oilfield in the centre of Israel. But Tovia Lushkin says his company, Givat Olam, needs £18 million to develop wells and extract the oil.
The find comes as instability in Saudi Arabia and Iraq has forced oil prices to a 15-year high which may yet slow global economic growth.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bible; bonanza; israeli; leads; oil
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posted on
06/12/2004 11:42:16 PM PDT
by
Nachum
To: Nachum
Is this like one of those offers from Nigeria where I just send them $20,000 so their uncle can access papers at the bank for $18,000,000? ;) And then they'll repay me half?
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posted on
06/12/2004 11:45:51 PM PDT
by
Libertina
(Reagan showed us what being a great president was all about. Thank you sir for bringing pride!)
To: Nachum
What are the estimated proven oil reserves? The article doesn't say.
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posted on
06/12/2004 11:45:54 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: goldstategop; Nachum
What are the estimated proven oil reserves? Easy! Until a well is drilled and tested, they are zero.
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posted on
06/12/2004 11:49:03 PM PDT
by
Paleo Conservative
(Do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
To: Nachum
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posted on
06/12/2004 11:54:53 PM PDT
by
FredWolfe
To: Libertina
Is this like one of those offers from Nigeria where I just send them $20,000 so their uncle can access papers at the bank for $18,000,000? ;) And then they'll repay me half?Ut oh, did they say what the uncle's name was?
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posted on
06/13/2004 12:00:31 AM PDT
by
ALASKA
("If they send one of yours to the hospital, you send two of theirs to the morgue.")
To: Mr. Mojo
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posted on
06/13/2004 12:04:09 AM PDT
by
NRA2BFree
(I am a nobody, and nobody is perfect; therefore, I am perfect.)
To: Libertina
You are probably right being skeptical about this, but wouldn't it be fun to see the French (nay, European) reaction if Israel turned into an oil exporting country?
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posted on
06/13/2004 12:05:17 AM PDT
by
ScaniaBoy
(Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
To: Nachum
If so this would only inflame the Middle East further. Afterall the Palis would consider this their wealth being stolen. [Not that they ever would have found this oil if it is there.]
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posted on
06/13/2004 12:11:43 AM PDT
by
JLS
To: Nachum
There's a couple places in Texas that had enormous oil reserves. They called the guys that discovered them crazy while they poked around looking and looking and looking and looking. Yep, they were all crazy until they hit the mother load. I believe some of them were even religious and thought God was leading them.
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posted on
06/13/2004 12:18:03 AM PDT
by
sully777
(Our descendants will be enslaved by political expediency and expenditure)
To: Libertina
You can't trust them Liberians...
Send me the money instead, I'll get to the bottm of it eventually!
LOL!
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posted on
06/13/2004 12:18:22 AM PDT
by
JDoutrider
(In God We Trust...)
To: Libertina; lowbridge
Is this like one of those offers from Nigeria where I just send them $20,000 so their uncle can access papers at the bank for $18,000,000? ;) And then they'll repay me half? Well let's hope not, but if it is I am sure Lowbridge can come up with the Cure
If you haven't seen it yet, it is hilarious!
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posted on
06/13/2004 12:24:00 AM PDT
by
Syncro
To: Nachum
If this is true, I bet the anti-semitic rhetoric currently coming from the EU ceases, as they weasel their way into Israeli oil. Much like the weasels in France, trying to get in on the Iraqi action, now that the hard work has been done by the U.S. and it's coalition.
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posted on
06/13/2004 12:27:35 AM PDT
by
BigSkyFreeper
(John Kerry: An old creep, with gray hair, trying to look like he's 30 years old.)
To: Libertina; All
SORRY!! That's just not true so please don't spread that kind of story.
I heard this prophesy about the oil in 1985 .. and I have been waiting for it to come to pass.
We're in the last of the last days.
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posted on
06/13/2004 12:48:41 AM PDT
by
CyberAnt
(President Bush: a core set of principles from which he will not deviate)
To: Syncro
To: Nachum
I have always believed that oil would be found in Israel, and found in monster quantities!
This would very much be a "God thing". Many of the enemies of Israel have been enabled to do much of their evil due to their oil derived wealth. When Israel starts pumping oil in huge quantities, this wealth will be seriously damaged. God has also promised to abundantly bless Israel in the "latter days", which we are in.
A company I have been following for some time that also it will find oil in Israel in vast amounts is Ness Energy
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posted on
06/13/2004 2:43:43 AM PDT
by
AmericaUnited
(It's time someone says the emperor has no clothes.)
To: AmericaUnited
"that also it will" = "that also says it will"
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posted on
06/13/2004 3:51:15 AM PDT
by
AmericaUnited
(It's time someone says the emperor has no clothes.)
To: Nachum
I don't know all the details about how Israel became an independent country, but weren't all mineral rights relinguished as part of the deal? I don't think Israel has any claim on whatever oil there might be under their land. Maybe the deal was brokered after the 1967 war.
Maybe someone who's more familiar with this can give an explanation.
Thanks,
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posted on
06/13/2004 4:35:42 AM PDT
by
Maria S
("And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm."George W. Bush 1/20/01)
To: ALASKA
If we just send them our credit card number and our pin number from our bank account, the oil will flow?
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posted on
06/13/2004 4:54:16 AM PDT
by
OldFriend
(LOSERS quit when they are tired/WINNERS quit when they have won)
To: AmericaUnited
I wonder (if this is true) if we will stop sending them Welfare?
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posted on
06/13/2004 4:58:44 AM PDT
by
Guillermo
(Simpson, you've got a short in your tail light. It started blinking when you made that turn - Wiggum)
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