Very good article…… I always like Shoebat.
The missing link not mentioned in this could be ….. the Israel - Turkey natural gas pipeline. Filter in that proposal and all the pieces start to come together. Revelation lining up?
https://www.opendemocracy.net/arab-awakening/gareth-m-winrow/is-time-running-out-for-proposed-israelturkey-gas-pipeline
In a recent speech in Ankara, introducing the Mediterranean Energy Perspectives – Turkey Report, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz announced that no energy projects with Israel would be pursued until there was permanent peace in the region. The minister noted that Turkey never talked about the economic feasibility of a project without first considering its political feasibility. Ankara had repeatedly condemned Israel for its actions in the renewed conflict in Gaza in the summer of 2014. The latest comments made by the Turkish Energy Minister may lead to the collapse of the proposed Israel-Turkey gas pipeline project linking Israel’s Leviathan gas field with the Turkish port of Ceyhan. Speaking earlier on 4 August, Yildiz had declared that without a ceasefire and stability in the region “the blood of innocent infants and mothers” and not gas would flow through the pipeline.
Hopes and expectations have been raised that the discovery of considerable gas reserves in Cypriot and Israeli offshore fields in the eastern Mediterranean would contribute to peace and stability in the area. Aykan Erdemir, an opposition deputy in the Turkish parliament, has referred to a possible gas pipeline connecting Israeli and also possibly Cypriot fields with Turkey as a “peace pipeline” which would help resolve the Cyprus problem and facilitate Turkey’s entry to the European Union (EU). In practice, it would seem that this optimism is misplaced. Even though an Israel-Turkey gas pipeline would be commercially viable and has the backing of powerful business lobbies, political opposition in Turkey, Israel and also Cyprus appears to be blocking the realisation of the energy project.
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