The truth about Israel's new war on Gaza – the energy rush

Israel’s war on Gaza has little to do with missiles or rockets fired by Hamas; the fact is Israel is after the vast natural gas reserves in the tiny strip. The zionist thieves want to lay their grubby hands on it. Hamas is seen as an impediment to this grand larceny, hence the brutal war to eliminate the resistance movement.

By CATHERINE SHAKDAM


London, crescent-online.net (July 21) – Israel has deployed its media machine, telling the world that it has “the right to defend itself“ against foreign aggression, arguing that no country should ever be made to tolerate systematic terror. Under international law such narrative holds no legal ground as Israel has been de facto occupying Gaza, rendering null and void the notion of Gaza as a foreign entity; little has been said of Israel’s real motives however.

To quickly settle Israel’s argument that it legally and morally can and should defend itself against any aggression coming from Gaza, it is important to understand that the Gaza strip is not under international law a sovereign state; it is occupied land, therefore Israel cannot declare war on the people of Gaza, rather it owes its people protection.

As explained by Nura Erakat, “Military occupation is a recognized status under international law and since 1967, the international community has designated the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as militarily occupied. As long as the occupation continues, Israel has the right to protect itself and its citizens from attacks by Palestinians who reside in the occupied territories. However, Israel also has a duty to maintain law and order, also known as “normal life,” within territory it occupies. This obligation includes not only ensuring but prioritizing the security and well-being of the occupied population. That responsibility and those duties are enumerated in Occupation Law.”

As for Palestinians in Gaza they do however have an inherent right to resist foreign occupation. Such right is again, protected under international law.

But as the following arguments will attempt to demonstrate all the above, the contradicting narratives, the political manipulations and media campaigns, are but a distraction from far more pragmatic realities and maybe truth – The war on Gaza has little to do with sovereignty, terror, politics or even religion, rather it has everything to do with energy.

If Israel is so keen on levelling Hamas it is essentially because the faction has categorically refused to discuss an energy sharing agreement whereby Israel would have access to Gaza’s gas resources.

Let us all remember that Israel faces an energy crisis of biblical proportion and that Gaza’s untapped and unexploited billions of dollars represent a fortune and a lifeline that Tel Aviv will not let go without a fight, including the killing of countless innocent Palestinians.

As noted by Tascha Shahriari-Parsa, “Operation Protective Edge is the war of a colonial state dedicated to expanding its theft of Palestine’s natural resources … incarcerating and bombing its people in the world’s biggest open air prison, while growing rich at their expense.”

Rather than a bunch of lunatic radicals animated by the savagery of the crusades, Zionists are actually quite a practical bunch. What they seek in Gaza is merely access to Palestine’s underground riches. Whatever happens on the surface is just there to act as a public distraction, a ploy designed for the masses so that Israel could commit grand larceny in perfect impunity under the very nose of the ever pliable world community. Who after all would dare deny the plight of martyr Israel?

To borrow the words of Tascha Shahriari-Parsa when she wrote a report for The Ecologist, “Behind the operation, behind the mass Israeli and US propaganda attempting to justify the massacre, and behind the death of every child in Gaza is a conflict rarely discussed – an imperialist conflict and a contradiction that rests on Israel’s ambitions to appropriate and profit from Gaza’s natural gas resources.”

Palestine’s vast natural resources

Let us go back to 2000 when British Gas (BG) discovered that Gaza sat on an estimated $4 billion worth of natural gas. Needless to say that this discovery came as a shock to Israel, as suddenly Gaza, this little sliver of land which Palestinians have been discarded upon, this purgatory which Zionists imagined to crush Palestinians’ hopes and dreams, became a key geo-strategic priority. Come hail and high waters, Israel would have to gain access to those resources.

Since BG made its first estimation, it was established that Gaza’s gas reserves are far greater than first anticipated. According to Michel Chossudovsky, a Canadian economist and prominent analyst, Gaza is basking in as much wealth as the State of Kuwait.

Rather than live in abject poverty, Gaza should be a vibrant business hub, a brilliant economic success. Instead, it has been withering away under Israel’s blockade, forced to scrap and beg for its daily bread, its people reduced to servitude.

Let us remember that Israel’s maritime blockade coincides with BG’s discovery. Let us remember that it is since 2000 that Israel has denied Palestine access to its territorial waters, thus infringing on international law and de facto putting Gaza under siege; all because Israel wants to pillage Palestine’s resources.

Not convinced yet?

Well, let us refer to an interesting and rather revealing comment made by former Israeli chief of staff Moshe Ya’alon back in 2007 when he laid bare Israel’s true motives. Answering comments in regards to Gaza’s gas riches, he noted, “Proceeds of a Palestinian gas sale to Israel would likely not trickle down to help an impoverished Palestinian public. Rather, based on Israel’s past experience, the proceeds will likely serve to fund further terror attacks against Israel … A gas transaction with the Palestinian Authority will, by definition, involve Hamas. Hamas will either benefit from the royalties or it will sabotage the project and launch attacks against Fatah, the gas installations, Israel – or all three … It is clear that without an overall military operation to uproot Hamas control of Gaza, no drilling work can take place without the consent of the radical Islamic movement.”

What Ya’alon is really saying is that since Hamas will unlikely agree to a deal with Israel, Tel Aviv needs therefore to eliminate Hamas, by declaring its faction a terror organization – even though many would argue that it is a resistance movement, according to international law – for resisting an occupying force does not equate to terrorism.

Israel needs gas now!

So why a war now? To put it bluntly, Israel cannot wait any longer. Plagued by high unemployment and rising inflation, Israel needs to find a viable solution to both its energy crisis and mounting economic difficulties – financing an eternal war can be rather costly.

According to Israel’s own projection, the state will face an aggravated energy crisis by 2020. Earlier this July, Haaretz published a report in which it quoted an excerpt from a report by chief scientists from the Energy and Water Ministry and the Environmental Protection Ministry, explicitly mapping out Israel’s energy crisis. It read “We believe Israel should increase its [domestic] use of natural gas by 2020 and should not export gas. The Natural Gas Authority’s estimates are lacking. There’s a gap of 100 to 150 billion cubic meters between the demand projections that were presented to the committee and the most recent projections. The gas reserves are likely to last even less than 40 years!”

Israel is quite simply running out of time. If recent mass protests in Israel in regards to declining living conditions and social injustice are anything to go by, officials indeed feel a great sense of urgency.

As Israel’s needs increase, so has its determination to by-pass international law, as before Israel’s will, nations should only bow and recoil in awe.

Since whatever Israel cannot negotiate it will obliterate, beginning of course with Hamas, the war on Gaza came as a natural development to Israel’s geo-strategic realities.

Let us remember that the last time Israel marched on Gaza, in 2008, its military deployment also aligned with its contracting of BG to discuss critical negotiations around Gaza’s natural gas. A coincidence? Maybe not.

This new war on Gaza is a colonial war. This new war on Gaza has little to do with self-defence or terror or sovereignty… it has everything to do with Israel’s neo-imperialistic ambitions.

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I couldnt read the article you posted. Its too lengthy. But I got through some of the lines and got a slight idea of what the author has tried to explain.
So many conspiracy theories evolve after every incident that happens to occur especially in the Muslim world. We'v now become too experienced in putting the whole blame on zionists, U.S etc.
The writer has turned a complete blind eye to Gaza history. Role and Ideology of Hamas. The author's opinion of Israel's quest for getting hold of Gaza's gas reserviors or any other material gain is quite inadequate.

a new diamention of Israeli appraoch disclosed

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Brother conspiracy theories are the conspiracy. there are no conspiracy theories only facts. In the last few years the world has seen a lot of zionist conspiracy theories and then told that these are conspiracies! I am not sure whether i was able to convey my meaning as it might be construed as another conspiracy . so why don't you study facts? (a) read fateful triangle by noam chomsky and (b) http://mearsheimer.uchicago.edu/pdfs/IsraelLobby.pdf

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By.. ZAIN CHEEMA
FROM THE SYMPHONY OF WAR TO ABUSIVE PEACE

Conflict formation to conflict resolution has been a long process ever in case of Arab Israel confrontation. A confrontation pertaining to centuries started from 1897 to the current day. Recent war between Hamas and Israel has taken thousands of lives with hundreds breathing their last. war between these states have been dilemma of Arab world which involves the major regional and international actors .This conflict could be defined as an example of historical rivalries, national aspiration, tragedy and terror, jubilation and victory, along with diplomacy and war.
Arabs are suffering at the hands of Jewish diaspora since the start of Jewish movement in all over the world when their most familiar leader TheoderHerzal made them to join hands for Zionist movement which involve a state, where Jews could live in unity .The conflict combined with religious bindings, historical and economic grievances, territorial rivalry and geopolitical impacts. Conflict has been formed due to difference of viewpoints for both states of epochal. For Israelis’ abuse of 11th century at the hands of Christians and Muslim’s afterwards the Nazi’s attitude towards Jews made them to accomplish the idea of a separate homeland in the Palestinian state as they consider the land of their ancestors or their birth homeland.
Anger of Palestinians is due to bloody crusades along with the fall of Ottoman Empire, centuries of domination and European colonialism along with the attitude predominantly forced Muslims to absorb Jewish diaspora during holocaust. Thousands of Muslims have been genocides by the end of the day.
Conflicts have been part of Palestinian land on the very unjust principle of; life of pike is the death of several minnow. Israel with the help of major powers is playing such a role because it would never justified, that in the presence of a society and political entity a group of people come and declare the piece of land as their ancestor’s homeland just on the basis of violence and the support of major political actors.
While the Israel’s concern was more justified on the basis of their surreptitious values. British mandate along with the partition plan of UNO in 1947 came to the fore front which was not accepted by the Arabs, the uprising at both sides changed into bloody conflict when Israel declare its independence in 1948.


Recognition of a new state of Israel by France, Britain, and Soviet Union proved bolt from the blue for the Arab world. Jordon, Syria, and Egypt has invaded the Gaza strip, west bank and the Jordan city violence have prevailed to such an extent that after the war that it arose the refugee’s problem along with the war crimes. Jerusalem has remained emotionally charged issue for both the states in the decades to come.
A new pan Arab ideology started emerging when Arabs were of the view to get independence from France and Britain, strategy came into being when Egyptian’s leader Jmalabdul Nasir nationalized the sues canal in 1956. From here on, the cold war concerns got the height and the American president Eisenhower played the role in the conflict by making Britain to abounding the control of the area.
Cold war was not much in favor of the Palestinian conflict or rather it may not the time of Arabian Peninsula while the European concerns were at peak. once again the riots led to preemptive action that was in the form of 1967 war this war also involved the pressure groups like PLO and Hamas, this led the conflict towards more retaliation at the hands of Israeli’s and the other major powers.
Terrorism started emerging as impudent evil. The case of conflict not remain limited to Arab states only which had lost a larger part of their territory and this made them furious to attack during Israeli’s one of the religious event ,”Yom Kippur”, the holiest day of the Jewish year. After initial Arab military successes, the Israelis managed to push back the attack. The US convinced Israel to withdraw from the territories it had entered. For many Israelis, the 1973 war reinforced the strategic importance of the buffer zones gained in 1967. After the war, Israel retained the territories captured in 1967, but did not keep any additional land. This resulted into demonstrative violent campaigns. The symphony of war destined to be the part of this holy land where the men were butchered on the sacred base.
Peace have been a nightmare for the citizens of both sides .The attempts for the seize fire has been many but it fell a prey to lack of fidelity at the hands of major actors.
Camp David Accords 1979 was the policy for the peace for the land between the president of Egypt and Israel. The Oslo Accords were a set of agreements that began in 1993 when Israel and the PLO signed a Declaration of Principles (DOP). The Oslo Accords were one of the agreements that led to the creation of the Palestinian Authority, which had responsibility for administering the territory under its control.
For Israel its responsibility was to withdraw its military presence from the Gaza Strip and a small area around Jericho. It left Israel the right to defend itself and its citizens, including those in the territories. Israel and the PLO exchanged Letters of Mutual Recognition. For the first time the PLO formally recognized Israel, renounced violence, and publicly expressed acceptance of peaceful coexistence with Israel. After second intifada violent revolts have been started at the hands of Palestinians to ensure peace another effort again has been made in 2003.
The Roadmap for Peace, is a plan for peace that was proposed by the “Quartet:” the United States, Russia, the European Union, and the United Nations. It composed of steps for an independent Palestinian state and a secure Israel. The efforts by Arab League United Nations and by various other non-state or political actors have often been failed but at times it may work.
The peace process in case of the old age conflict has been immingling .This must be ensuring by concentrating upon practical and bilaterally accepted policy patterns, like the proper announcement of the status of Jerusalem along with the justified role of United Nations as the status of an observer state was not enough to solve the issue and other peace promoting institutes of the world must work beyond the influence of major actors. Role of major powers must be just enough. Regional stability could be attained by the tolerated attitude of both states. Arab unity especially after Arab spring is the need of the time and a meaning full role of Arab world leader, Saudi Arabia which is working only for their self-interests must work as real leader by keeping their interests beyond , so that peace in the region may not remain an abuse any more as the days of our time are depicting a picture of.

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Yes, It is true. I am agree with this.