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grahamhgreen

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9. Adding The Economist link:

Reply to tkmorris (Reply #6)

Thu Dec 24, 2015, 03:37 PM

Dec 2015

A RIG carrying out exploratory drilling is hardly a rare sight in the Middle East; but this is no ordinary place. Israeli flags fly on it, though no other country in the world recognises Israel’s sovereignty over the area. A few miles to the east, jihadist rebel groups are fighting a bloody war. And few people ever expected that significant amounts of oil might lie there at all, under a dormant volcanic field. Welcome to the Golan Heights.

Israeli and American oilmen believe they have discovered a bonanza in this most inconvenient of sites. After three test-drillings, Yuval Bartov, the chief geologist of Genie Oil & Gas, a subsidiary of American-based Genie Energy, says his company thinks it has found an oil reservoir “with the potential of billions of barrels”.

http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21677597-geologists-israel-think-they-have-found-oilin-very-tricky-territory-black-gold

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Syria: Did you know? 1 billion barrels of oil (or more) recently discovered in Golan Heights. [View all] grahamhgreen Dec 2015 OP

Step One: Israel steals land. guillaumeb Dec 2015 #1

+1! 2naSalit Dec 2015 #3

The Israeli cabinet voted to return the Golan to Syria in exchange for a peace agreement oberliner Dec 2015 #4

+2 valerief Dec 2015 #7

Let me know if I get this wrong Peregrine Dec 2015 #11

Nearly all incorrect. guillaumeb Dec 2015 #14

minus one JustABozoOnThisBus Dec 2015 #25

So says Putin's propaganda machine. KamaAina Dec 2015 #2

Economist: grahamhgreen Dec 2015 #10

In the "reality-based world" of which you speak, guillaumeb Dec 2015 #15

Does anything justify Syria not accepting the return of the Golan Heights in exchange for peace? oberliner Dec 2015 #17

When you say peace, are you referring to a peace based solely on guillaumeb Dec 2015 #21

Nope. But I never stipulated that Israel was living in a reality-based world, either. KamaAina Dec 2015 #19

Also true. eom guillaumeb Dec 2015 #22

Sometimes I just wish ... ananda Dec 2015 #5

The sourcing of this is highly suspect tkmorris Dec 2015 #6

What about Daily Mail? valerief Dec 2015 #8

On the map, the site looks to be close to Israel proper KamaAina Dec 2015 #12

Interesting that the map you use does not name guillaumeb Dec 2015 #16

That's the map used in the Daily Mail article linked above oberliner Dec 2015 #18

But the pattern of land and resource theft remains constant. guillaumeb Dec 2015 #20

That area you're referring to is called the West Bank HoneychildMooseMoss Dec 2015 #26

It WAS called Palestine at one time. guillaumeb Dec 2015 #29

Adding The Economist link: grahamhgreen Dec 2015 #9

I hope it comes up dry DFW Dec 2015 #13

K&R Scuba Dec 2015 #23

As other people note, this story is mainly found in Israeli-friendly media. bemildred Dec 2015 #24

All the more reason to commit to boots on the ground in Syria! grahamhgreen Dec 2015 #27

Awesome for Israel Snow Leopard Dec 2015 #28

Matches the natural gas found off Gaza Strip. Octafish Dec 2015 #30