The U.S. Navy, which frequently makes port calls in Haifa, should play a strong role in deterring challenges to Israeli gas development. It can also share with its Israeli counterpart its Persian Gulf-honed expertise in protecting shipping lanes, oil rigs, and pipelines. In mid-October, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro visited the Solitaire, the world's largest pipe-laying ship, which is laying underwater pipelines to carry gas from the Tamar field to Israel. On deck, Shapiro expounded that the U.S. was “extraordinarily proud of the energy cooperation this represents between the United States and Israel…all in the service of stronger Israeli economy, stronger Israeli-American economic relations.” Israel’s gas finds can indeed be a strategic, economic, and political boon for Washington, as long as it does not pass on them.
[NOW,ALSO SEE... FROM SISTER (PENNY) ENERGY WARS - http://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2011/07/israeli-pipeline-to-greece.html Lebanon has claimed it is off their coast. Their claim is quite likely legitimate, this is a subject I covered previously- Massive Natural Gas resources to spark attack by Israel on Lebanon. Which will be required reading if you're to understand the ramifications of this hoped for pipeline to Greece.That being war with Lebanon and/or the removal of the government, for one that will be more compliant.Also, possibly, the removal of the Palestinians, once and for all, from Gaza? Or at the very least a timely agreement with a more compliant government? Perhaps, like the agreement that has recently been worked out between the governing bodies of Gaza and the West Bank?You see some of the natural Gas that Israel claims as their own, just happens to fall off the shores of Gaza. Such a problem. Daunting and exasperating I am sure for the land, resource grabbing nation of Israel. The matter of the Palestinian gas has been covered previously aha ! Palestinian natural gas coveted by Israel
Additional reading -Israel set to export natural gas, but, is it theirs to export ?
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[ED NOTE:Unlike Lebanon, Israel has not signed or ratified the 1982 UN Law of the Sea which is designed to clarify maritime borders between nations; "In cases of dispute, it is usual practice to hand the decision to arbitrators, which are listed by the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea of 1982. Israel isn’t a signatory to the convention .If Israel refuses to define its borders and Lebanon has its defined borders,then technically Israel shouldn't be allowed to usurp,already existing lebanese maritime boundaries...
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