This was published 7 months ago!
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KnightHawk232 — 6 years ago(October 13, 2019 12:02 AM)
This was published 7 months ago!
All this Middle Eastern stuff (after oil)
A local subsidiary of the New York-listed Genie Energy company was given exclusive rights to a 153-square mile radius in the southern part of the Golan Heights. Genie Energy is advised by former Vice President Dick Cheney and its shareholders include Cheney, media mogul Rupert Murdoch and former CIA director James Woolsey.
“This action is mostly political – it’s an attempt to deepen Israeli commitment to the occupied Golan Heights,” late political analyst Yaron Ezraḥi told FT at the time.
“The timing is directly related to the fact that the Syrian government is dealing with violence and chaos and is not free to deal with this problem.”
American oil companies and their lobbyists had for decades believed their interests to be better served by a Syrian-ruled Golan Heights. But the last few years of bloody conflict in Syria, along with a hostile Russian presence on the ground, has given Netanyahu an opportunity to court the oil companies and offer the necessary incentives to secure what appears to be a major diplomatic victory just before elections.
While it can be argued that Netanyahu masterfully identified the material interests driving imperialist American policies in order to shift those interests towards policies that line up with Israeli national interests, the price for all this would of course be that any oil found on the Golan would largely benefit Genie Energy rather than the Israeli people to whom it actually belongs.
This was just a portion
https://visionmag.org/2019/03/25/cheneys-genie-energy-trump-golan-recognition/