Is Gaza's Off Shore Oil the Real Root Cause for Israel's Genocidal Policy?

Is Gaza's Off Shore Oil the Real Root Cause for Israel's Genocidal Policy?

The Answer is in FOLLOW THE PIPELINES by Charlotte Dennett

From the daughter of America’s first master spy in the Middle East, Charlotte Dennett offers a different perspective on the wars raging in Israel, Gaza, and Ukraine based on decades of research into the mysterious death of her father after his top secret mission to Saudi Arabia.

Daniel Dennett was the head of counter-intelligence for the Central Intelligence group (immediate forerunner of the CIA) when he traveled to Saudi Arabia in 1947 to determine the route of the Trans-Arabian pipeline and whether it would terminate in Lebanon or Haifa, Palestine. His plane crashed two weeks after he filed his last report. His daughter, Charlotte, was just six weeks old.

Charlotte has now produced an eye opening book, Follow the Pipelines: Uncovering the Mystery of a Lost Spy and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil . Relying on declassified documents at the National Archives – and after suing the CIA for additional information about her father (who now has a wing of the CIA named after him) -- she reveals that today’s wars in Gaza and Ukraine have been triggered by great power competition to control oil and natural gas.

Israel's former prime Minister Golda Meir once famously said in 1973

“Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses.

He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil.”

Now Israel has up to $500 billion worth of offshore oil and gas, much of it off the coast of Gaza. And Israel is determined to prevent Gazans from controlling and exploiting the Gaza Marine, which is rightfully theirs under international law. And it’s why real Jews and Christians don’t recognize Israel any longer.

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Follow the Pipelines is a skillfully written, emotionally nuanced page turner that digs deep into the root cause for the Arab v Jew nightmare. It’s not based on a true story,,, it is a true story! Written with meticulous devotion to facts, it is one of those books that should be required reading for anyone who struggles to understand how and why these interminable wars persist. The answer to the riddle lies not in old-fashioned, malevolent religious differences to blame that Dennnett brilliantly lays bare, but stubborn greed as to who will ultimately control the vast oil resources that lie off the coast of Gaza. As Dennett demonstrates, the vocabulary of reasons has changed through the years. those who have set peoples against each other in their divide and rule quest to control and profit from the most coveted resources in history: the oil that fuels the world’s militaries and the natural gas that fuels modern industries. Nevertheless, raw greed from unprincipled politicians skillfully use patriotic rhetoric to distract our attention who will be the beneficiary of these vast oil resources.

Israeli military hardliner (and Israel’s Defense Minister from 2013-2016) Moshe Ya’Alon stated before the first Israeli invasion of Gaza in 2009 “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.”

Charlotte Dennett, an attorney, best-selling author and investigative journalist, is described by Time Magazine as “an expert in resource-based politics,” and was included in Marquis’ 2023-24 Who’s Who in America.

. Netanyahu’s Speech at UN: Maps of ‘The Curse’ and ‘The Blessing’

Netanyahu presenting controversial maps at the UN, surprising delegates by omitting Palestine. The “curse” represents the so-called “Axis of Resistance,” while the “blessing” shows what appears to be the route (by red arrow) of the IMEC pipeline connecting India to Saudi Arabia and the port of Haifa. Credit: Global News

Her latest book is replete with a dozen pipeline maps covering World War II to the present, showing how the distribution of fossil fuels via pipelines has resulted in military protection of the pipelines, often leading to war

The war in Israel and Gaza

Her map of “Oil and Gas Fields in the Eastern Mediterranean,” for example, comes with the warning of “a tinderbox ready to explode.”

The explosion is now with us, with the terrifying prospect of turning into a much broader war between nuclear powers set against each other in the Great Game for Oil.

The Palestinians claimed that the oil and gas fields off the Gaza coast, known as Gaza Marine, belonged to them. PLO leader Yasir Arafat claimed, “This is a Gift of God for our people and a strong foundation for a Palestinian state.”

But the Israelis have prevented this from happening, arguing that proceeds (estimated at $1 billion from the Palestinians’ claim on the Gaza Marine) would “not likely trickle down to an impoverished Palestinian people” but would more likely “serve to fund terror attacks against Israel.”

Those words came from Israeli military hardliner (and Israel’s Defense Minister from 2013-2016) Moshe Yaalon, who wrote in 2007 an article for the Jerusalem Center for Public Policy entitled, “Does the Prospective Purchase of British Gas from Gaza Threaten Israel’s National Security?” He couldn’t be more clear:

One year later, Israeli forces launched Operation Cast Lead, pummeling Gaza, killing some 1,400 Palestinians, half of them civilians.

In 2014, Prime Minister Netanyahu launched a second massive invasion of Gaza, Operation Protective Edge, with the aim of uprooting Hamas and ensuring Israeli monopoly over the Gazan gas field. Noted the Guardian, in an article entitled “IDF’s Gaza assault is to Control Palestinian Gas,” resource competition “has increasingly been at the heart of the conflict.” This time 2100 hundred Palestinians were killed, three quarters of them civilians.

Likewise put on hold is IMEC, the India-Middle East Corridor, which was agreed to by India, Israel and the Biden Administration in September, 2023 involving the laying of pipelines from India, under the Arabia Sea, across Saudi Arabia to Haifa, Israel.