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Israel signs secret deal to transfer natural gas to Lebanon — TV

2022-01-16

[IsraelTimes] In a first, Israel has signed an agreement to supply natural gas to ~~Lebanon~~ Hezbollahstan
...a formerly French, now an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. ...
, Channel 12 news reports.

The network says the deal was brokered by US envoy Amos Hochstein and secretly signed this weekend. It will see Israel transfer gas from the Leviathan field to Jordan, from where it will be sent on to Lebanon by way of Syria.

Everyone gets a cut, but in the end they need Israel’s goodwill as badly as Germany needs Russia’s...

The agreement was approved by the United States and was also coordinated with Russian President Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
, according to the report.

It says the deal was partly designed to provide Lebanon an alternative to Iran
Iran

...The nation is noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence...
as it seeks to recover from a deep economic crisis.

Another Times of Israel article adds:

However, the network said the move will require repairing and extending a gas line that flows from Syria to Lebanon, which could take several years.

Update from the Times of Israel at 2:30 p.m. ET:

Lebanon’s Energy Ministry denies a report by Israel’s Channel 12 news yesterday that said Israel has signed an agreement to indirectly pump natural gas to Lebanon to aid the crisis-hit nation, calling it “completely untrue.”

“The Ministry of Energy and Water confirms that the gas supply agreement that is being worked on between the Lebanese government and the sisterly Egyptian government clearly and explicitly stipulates that the gas should come from Egypt, which owns large quantities of it, and consumes within the same country more than a hundred times what it will provide to Lebanon,” the ministry says in a statement cited by local media.

“What is being circulated about the fact that the gas will be Israeli gas is totally and completely untrue,” it adds.

Posted by:trailing wife

#1 The secret is out.

Posted by: Deacon Blues 2022-01-16 08:28

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