Israel's war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip will cost as much as 200 billion shekels ($51 billion), the Calcalist financial newspaper reported on Sunday, citing preliminary Finance Ministry figures https://perma.cc/G9UC-8QE5

Instead of investing such money to finally change their pollution behaviour, by finding a decent solution with Palestine, so both countries could live happy, they prefer to waste that for a stupid war ...
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Congrats. But at the end what do you expect from a country that increased military expenditures 2x compared to other countries ...
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Still interesting how in such pictures we always FORGET TO SHOW HOW MANY ANIMALS DIED!!!
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הצו, שהוצא לבקשת המשרד להגנת הסביבה, אוסר לפרסם פרטים העלולים לזהות את החשודים, ובכלל זה שם כלי השיט, נמלי מוצא ויעד, מטען ונתיב שיט. מדובר בחשש משיבוש חקירה בשל פרסום פרטים על אוניות, שעברו באזור בתקופה שבה נשפך נפט לים

= The order, which was issued at the request of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, prohibits the publication of details that could identify the suspects, including the name of the vessel, ports of origin and destination, cargo and shipping route. This is about the fear of disrupting an investigation due to the publication of details about ships that passed through the area during the period when oil was spilled into the sea

The disaster on 17 February 2021 washed up vast quantities of tar balls from crude oil over 170 km (106 miles) of shoreline, approximately 40% of Israel’s Mediterranean coast. Animals including birds and sea turtles were covered with tar https://perma.cc/Q9QZ-TEAZ

Former Israel-Iran oil company to continue operating in secret https://perma.cc/QF3A-WAP6

7 שנים אחרי אסון זיהום הנפט של קצא"א, שמורת עברונה עדיין לא השתקמה

= 7 years after the Katsa oil pollution disaster (just one of many in Israel! ...), the Evrona reserve still hasn't recovered https://perma.cc/9Q43-8CYC

אחד החשודים הוא מנכ"ל החברה דאז אייל כהן, שפרש בשנת 2016 לאחר 11 שנים בתפקיד. הארבעה האחרים הם שני סמנכ"לים, מהנדס ומנהל הפרויקט. החמישה קיבלו הודעה מהמחלקה להנחיית התובעים מוסמכי היועץ המשפטי לממשלה כי נשקלת העמדתם לדין, בכפוף לשימוע, בחשד לביצוע עבירות סביבתיות בגין אירוע דליפת נפט בהיקף נרחב בשמורת עברונה וזיהום.

= One of the suspects is the company's CEO at the time, Eyal Cohen, who retired in 2016 after 11 years in the position .... Disaster happened in 2014 ... https://perma.cc/NM4W-9UCM accusation in 2021 https://perma.cc/5RQF-GZY4 ... WTF!

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Behind the gas mafia - part 3

In contrast to this energy resources poverty, the oil and fuel infrastructure has been in Palestine since the British mandate era; for instance, the Kirkuk-Haifa pipeline and Haifa refinery plant (Shaoulian-Sopher, 2017, p. 143). After the State of Israel was established, Israel took these facilities and wanted to be energy producers by starting gas and oil explorations in the 1950s.

Israel is located in the Middle East, as an energy-rich region, but it did not participate early in the energy-producing association such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Iran.

Moreover, the Middle East’s conflicts are protracted, energy resources are one of the main issues in these conflicts, and security questions regarding it are not new. For example, although Saudi Arabia has a solid defense doctrine, including the Patriot Air Defense Missile System, Abqaiq- attack in eastern Saudi Arabia was executed by Houthis last September 2019 against the energy-oil fields.

On the Palestinian side, Despite the Oslo agreement that did assure Israeli- Palestinian energy cooperation, but Israel still uses energy supply to the Palestinian as a controlling method. On the contrary, Israel needs them as part of its energy customers. Moreover, Israel benefits from the late development of Palestinian gas fields, and the “no peace” situation still serves Israel's energy position against Palestinians.

Energy transition in Israel happened in the 1980s when it decreased oil dependency and used coal instead. At the dawn of the new century, Israel started to use natural gas in its energy basket, which began gradually by discovering modest natural gas reserves in Palestine-Gaza offshore.

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Early Monday morning, six Greenpeace Israel activists broke into a Noble Energy natural gas facility https://perma.cc/3GGD-7VJ9

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Behind the gas mafia - part 2

Upon this fear of future energy wars, Israel will use the gas revenues and economic benefits for enhancing its capacities and capabilities to secure its energy resources and supply chains. Israel increases and priorities its Weaponization policy, particularly in naval forces depending on the sea importance for future war.

On the other hand, Israeli export weapons have increased since the gas discoveries, associated with enhancing industrial competitiveness and affordable energy prices. This additional wealth and revenues might fund the military capacities.

Israel, after gas discoveries, is more stable on the economic side than before. It traditionally suffered from resource scarcity and depended on importing.

Moreover, Israel benefited in the past from US cover in the last conventional threats in the 1973 war, also the US facilitated the Egyptian Israeli negotiation by getting Israel the energy guarantee after 1975, which was used to meet Israel’s energy security.

The US will maintain Israel's energy security and energy reliability, considered the continuity of their special relations.

After all, under full-scale war or war from multiple directions like what happened in 1973, Israel will not make victory without international interventions that protect this small country with its small capabilities. The US role would approve the external player's importance in securing Israeli energy needs; Israel did not accept to continue in the peace process without this external player role again.

These energy reliability efforts face Militants attacks’ threats like Hamas or Hezbollah and political instabilities in regional countries such as Egypt after the revolution in 2011. In this regard, Israel is motivated to increase its weaponization activities, especially in naval forces that protect its energy assets in water.

On the other hand, it secures energy supply routes, from geopolitical perspectives, may be a threat by Iran.

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Behind the gas mafia - part 1

In a peace context, despite that Israel signed Oslo Accords in 1993 with Palestinians, including a part about energy cooperation, Gaza’s gas field development and the energy relation with Palestinians are still frozen.

However, Israel still uses energy supply as a weapon against the Palestinians in order to control their energy needs.

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So, in other words, the Palestine question is still without an agreed settlement. This relation will not change under current Palestinian capacities that limit their efforts to meet energy independence, which requires a sovereign state and complete control in the ground and borders.

Still, Israel is not interested in a positive peace with Syria, Lebanon, or even Palestinians; Israel realizes its energy interests without cost.

On the threats side, it is clear that Israeli energy security's main threats, based on Eisenkot and Siboni's definition, are not coming from sub-conventional threats of militants like Hamas or Hezbollah.

They can’t control the Israeli energy routes or supply chains in the Mediterranean offshore. They can do limited interruptions in energy supply, like cyber threats or damaging pipelines or networks, but clearly, they will not be vulnerable to energy supply. The maximum action from Hamas or Hezbollah may be to cut off some gas or oil pipelines like what happened in Sinai after Egyptian Revolution in 2011, and Israel will be able to deal with it.

The main threats of energy in Israel are still the conventional threats of states such as Iran. The conventional threats may also happen even by peaceful states like Egypt or Turkey, conditioned by considerable regime changes. This political position may also stop the energy supply chains from or to Israel. Egypt can interrupt energy shipping in the Tiran strait, Suez Canal, or exporting gas in the East Mediterranean, while Turkey can cut-off the BTC supply or Bosporus energy ships.

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Facts behind Israel Part 2

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The last missile attacks were reported in May 2021...

In June 2022, Hezbollah released video footage showing an Israeli drilling platform in its targeting sights. According to the Israeli Navy, three unarmed drones, presumably launched by Hezbollah, were shot down as they approached the drilling platform of the Greek Energean company at the Karish gas field in July 2022.

Currently, though, the situation seems to have deescalated. On 27.10.2022, both Israel and Lebanon agreed to set their dispute aside and permit exploration and extraction at the Karish/Qana gas field.

The fundamental differences between Israel on the one side and Hamas and Hezbollah on the other are likely to outweigh shares in the pro ts from gas production. Even if both are connected in some way to the respective parties now cooperating with Israel on fossil gas exploitation, they will pursue their own agendas aiming for higher stakes than shares in gas extraction.64 Drilling platforms remain potential targets for these groups to threaten Israel. An offshore gas drilling platform can be severely damaged even by an unarmed commercial marine vessel ramming into it.

Specifically, oil and gas exploration and development causes disruption of migratory pathways, degradation of important animal habitats, and oil spills—which can be devastating to the animals and humans who depend on these ecosystems.

Oil and gas operations could release many tons of harmful pollutants into the air and discharge dangerous chemicals into the water, thereby degrading the clean air and water that polar bears, whales, walrus—and humans—depend on for survival.

Excessive ocean noise from oil and gas exploration and drilling could cause injury, confusion, and even death.

AND THIS EXACTLY HAPPENED!!!
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How would offshore oil and gas drilling in the Arctic impact wildlife? https://perma.cc/26S9-PE69