The Oilman Behind the Curtain - Part 2

Now read this from The Guardian, 2003:

"In 1975, Kissinger signed what forms the basis for the Haifa project: a Memorandum of Understanding whereby the US would guarantee Israel's oil reserves and energy supply in times of crisis.

Kissinger was also master of the American plan in the mid-Eighties - when Saddam Hussein was a key US ally - to run an oil pipeline from Iraq to Aqaba in Jordan, opposite the Israeli port of Eilat.

The plan was promoted by the now Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and the pipeline was to be built by the Bechtel company, which the Bush administration last week awarded a multi-billion dollar contract for the reconstruction of Iraq.

The memorandum has been quietly renewed every five years, with special legislation attached whereby the US stocks a strategic oil reserve for Israel even if it entailed domestic shortages - at a cost of $3 billion in 2002 to US taxpayers.

This bill would be slashed by a new pipeline, which would have the added advantage of giving the US reliable access to Gulf oil other than from Saudi Arabia.

(more to come, if the robot doesn't cut me short)

Sorry Chris, I interrupted your post! Yes the robot will cut you off, because you're only allowed to post twice per 24 hours for each article, up to a maximum of 5 posts per 24 hours total..

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The strategic supply of oil is the absolute underlying reason for all of this, even more than religion. It sounds very obvious of course, but lots of people still talk about silly little details like soldiers being captured and list these as the reasons!

In recent years since the fall of USSR, it has been a major strategic objective of American and European oil companies to secure the supply of oil from the Caspian Sea area to the Mediterranean, where it can be shipped or pipelined to European and Asian markets. The inauguration of the Ceyhan-Tblisi-Baku (BTC) oil pipeline, which links the Caspian sea to the Eastern Mediterranean, took place on the 13th of July (only two weeks ago, and only one day before the Israeli air strikes on Southern Lebanon).

The Americans and Israelis have been preparing for a war with Iran for quite some time and have just been waiting for the right moment to get it rolling. Iran is surrounded by American bases and Israel is rearing to go. Israel is also trying to drag the Europeans into it by encouraging NATO to get involved.

As for Australia, our country has been purchasing tanks and equipment suited to desert warfare (unsuitable for scenarios involving jungle, for example to our North). Note these are not intended to protect the Great Sandy Desert in Central Australia.

Marilyn Shepherd you are a breath of fresh air, this site has been clogged up with nutters who only see the world through "Israeli Eyes" have you noticed the Media always use the Word Israeli when they should be saying Jews, and they say Muslim when speaking about a Australian who is a Muslim. it would be fair to say every Jew in Australia has two passports , I have never met one who does not have a Israeli/Jewish passport, Boaz David. Leigh and 2bob and their other one eyed mates on this thread have been indoctrinated , anyone can see where they get their information to form an opinion, Maralyn if you go to the"Jew Watch site", then go to "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" you will understand the cause of their hipocritical views posted on every thread that opens the window of opportunity for them to continue their vilification of Muslims, they will tell you God has ordered them to build a Temple on the Holy Mount, only insane people could propose this kind of crime against humanity, we have to stop them if we are to avoid world war three, we need to protect the Jerusalem Mosque from the Jewish demolition squad,
mangotreeone

Aka,
It’s ALWAYS been about oil and pipelines.
There are vast reserves in Central Asia that must be piped through the Middle East to meet China’s growing energy needs, otherwise the global price would increase.

Pipelines are notoriously vulnerable to attack and are dependent on sympathetic governments being in power.

The US was in direct partnership with the Taliban to build a pipeline from the Caspian across Afghanistan to Pakistan. It was under way but was stalled when the Taliban refused to accept all the conditions, so there were invasion plans made prior to 911.
These plans were no secret and were in the public domain at the time.

Likewise, after Iran cut off the direct oil supply to Israel in 1979 the Mosul-Haifa pipeline (Iraq to Israel) needed regime change in both Iraq and Syria to be reopened.

Now it seems that certain interests are trying to provoke a (pre-demonised) Syria into entering the conflict and resolving the issue.

Israel’s water problem is also an important factor in modern political events.

Is it a fortunate coincidence that all US Presidents for the last 40 years (except Carter, who stopped the construction of all new nuclear power stations) come from oil states or have direct backgrounds in the oil industry?

Constant meddling in the internal affairs of sovereign nations plus the propping up of oppressive regimes by the West is the prime motive behind terrorism.

The quasi-religious and political aspects to all past and current events in the Middle East are just window dressing to distract from what the real motives are and have been since the beginning of the 20th century.

Life is cheap but oil is important.

EV , I applaud you,,
When I read the scriptures written by people who belong to the top end of town, I have to wonder who invented their God, that tells people to steal land and kill people, the creator of the Universe is not racist, if God had wanted humans to kill we would have claws and fangs, I dont believe for one minute that God gave anyone Ten Commandments. maybe Ten Promises and they were changed by King Solomon to suit the "Grab for land policies of his high priests, if you break a commandment you have to be punished twice, here and now, and in the next life ,if you break a promise you dont have to be punished, when you weigh up all the alternatives, you can see how the commandments have been used as a excuse to murder,crucify, every word/line in the Bible has come from the pen of some rich aristacrat, who in turn had to get approval of the commanders of his freedoms, Kings ,Presidents and Dictators, inventers of the angry racist God should be made to call on this God to come down to earth, to prove they are not lying bastards, I am certain God exists, and that God loves every human being good or bad, that God knows there are many insane people who invented a God, to enslave peoples minds, any investigation into the life of King Solomon will no doubt prove this is the case, he even invented the Devil, we need to think like grown ups not children living in cuckoo land, then maybe we will understand the reason for the creation of Israel and the reason they act like King Solomon did , in his time you were killed if you were a none Jew and failed to do as commanded, the American people have to slave to pay taxes so $32.000.000 can be given to Israel everyday to buy tools to butcher none Jews, is that not how it was in Solomons time, nothing has changed, mangotree

I am glad to be disparaged by one who believes in the apocryphal 'Protocols of the Elders of the Temple of Zion'. This bizarre book was originally prepared by the Tzars secret police, in order to support pogroms, then utilised by such wonderful groups as the Nazi's & the USSR to justify their policy direction. Thank you for distancing me from it.

Tao, Yes, there is a nicer way to describe a group which raises funds for a community which supports Hizbollah? Under current Australian law, any person which raises such funds, without preventing, or even not caring, if those funds are being used in any way to support a Terrorist group have committed a crime, which I believe is imprisonment for life. I am sorry, did you say that you supported them?

Keith, how did Israel start the current cycle of violence?

Qana/Kana the building was struck by the IAF at approximately 12 midnight, then collapsed after a second explosion at around 7 am. The IAF has released pictures of rockets being fired, then the culprits running into this building prior to the strike, which makes the building a legitimate target.

The problem is that it is unlikely that anyone will be able to investigate the cause of the second explosion, which caused the building to collapse, some several hours after the attack, and after the structure was presumably solid enough to stand that everyone went back to sleep. I don't think that the Hizbollah would really like this to be investigated too closely.

Inshallah

2bob