Israel Rejects U.S. Solution on Dispute with Lebanon over Offshore Gas
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Israel rejected a proposal by the U.S. to resolve the dispute with Lebanon over the two countries Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), media reports said on Thursday.
According to the Israeli business newspaper the Globes, sources in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected to comment on the matter “due to its sensitivity.”
Lebanon and Israel are bickering over a maritime zone that consists of about 854 square kilometers and suspected energy reserves there could generate billions of dollars.
The Globes reported the dispute will delay Lebanon's exploration of Block 9, an area that is north of Israel's Alon license, which is likely to contain gas reserves similar in scale to Israel's Tamar gas field.
Lebanese officials recently expressed fear that Israel's discovery of a new offshore gas field near Lebanese territorial waters means the Jewish state could siphon some of Lebanon's crude oil.
Lebanon has been slow to exploit its maritime resources compared with other eastern Mediterranean countries. Israel, Cyprus and Turkey are all much more advanced in drilling for oil and gas.
In March 2010, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated a mean of 1.7 billion barrels of recoverable oil and a mean of 34.5 trillion cubic meters of recoverable gas in the Levant Basin in the eastern Mediterranean, which includes the territorial waters of Lebanon, Israel, Syria and Cyprus.
The U.S. had offered to mediate between the sides in an attempt to reach a solution.
Beirut argues that a maritime map it submitted to the U.N. is in line with an armistice accord drawn up in 1949, an agreement which is not contested by Israel.
31 October 2013, 08:19
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The Jewish God is one of vengeance. The christian God is one of love.
31 October 2013, 09:39
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What you say is true - Jews and Arabs are one and the same. They are both descendents of Abraham - Ibrahim.
31 October 2013, 10:14
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@ phillipo
Actually Jews and Arabs are not the same as proven by genetic studies. The vast majority of Jews in Israel, the Ashkenazi Jews, are not Semitic but of European ancestry from some 8-10 thousand years ago...
31 October 2013, 15:56
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the 2 countries should split the income 50/50 and live in bloody peace.... greed is wat causing all the troubles
31 October 2013, 16:25
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u're right jews are farsis's teacher, they both understand only force, and I can't blame them...
31 October 2013, 08:57
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What is interesting in this story is that
a- nowhere is Lebanon's stance on the US Solution mentioned, as if to say that Lebanon has not even taken any notice of the US mediation, or can one presume that Lebanon also rejects it without specifically saying so.
b- nowhere does it mention just what the US Solution is.
Without these two clarifications, the whole article is useless, and just being used for Israel bashing.
31 October 2013, 10:10
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The article is not useless. It demonstrates the unwillingness of Israel to abide by any process it doesn't like even when it is administered by its staunch ally the USA.
This is why Israel has no friends, only sycophants and hostages. And this is why the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement will succeed, because Israel is an outlaw committing on going crimes against humanity.
31 October 2013, 19:12
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doesnt seem like the US proposed the solution to lebanon. they were probably scheming with israel, proposing to divide lebanon's wealth between the the us and israel but israel told them to shut up, keep sending money and weapons, and not ask for anything because goyims are not worth a jew's fingernails, that includes obomba
31 October 2013, 10:57
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Every time I see an article like this I laugh. All this goes to show that all your so called leaders are totally incompetent in looking after the people. Israel will take what they want, and why?, because they are one, while you are all fragmented. But carry on arguing Lebanon, I don't think you know any way of life, no, I don't think you want any other way of life.
31 October 2013, 12:08
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Israel will take what they want because they have political cover from the US even when they shun US proposals ... just like Palestine.
Can you blame the Apartheid onslaught in Palestine on Lebanon? I think not. Stop blaming the innocent and start blaming the perpetrators.
31 October 2013, 13:41
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israel is an apartheid state that is doomed to failure because it is racist towards non jews and because it is evil towards the palestinians.
31 October 2013, 13:44
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it isn't because it is israel , these things happen even between allies! see france and canada's dispute... the case is in the hands of international court as well!
31 October 2013, 11:29
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lebanese politicians are all unable to meet the BASIC NEEDS of lebanese citizens and people still trust them on the oil file?
poor lebanese.... they deserve the country they live in by shutting up and letting crooks rule the country...
31 October 2013, 12:09
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This has nothing to do with Lebanese politics and everything to do with the ongoing criminality of Zionist Israel.
31 October 2013, 13:04
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@ peace
Lebanon has submitted its claims to the UN as per international law. Israel refuses to acknowledge international law and even shuns its patron the US. How is that Lebanon's fault ???
You are just another sycophant of the Israeli rouge state that defies international law while committing ongoing crimes against humanity ... Must be miserable being you.
31 October 2013, 13:28
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the great thing is that you invent whatever suits you just to say i am an israeli lover...
while all you do is you didn't understand a word i said! LOL
31 October 2013, 13:47
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@ peace
So when a Zionist knocks your teeth down your throat ...
We would say: He should have brushed them more often ...
31 October 2013, 14:14
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i guess mckinl is ready to launch a war against israel to settle this dispute regardless of the damages it would inflict on lebanon...
very smart indeed...
31 October 2013, 13:47
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Peace. i dont see why you complain about lebanon. True our leaders stink, but try to help our country instead of complaining.
True, in lebanon you have to pay for generators, But in Lebanon, at least, if you have to go to an emergency room, you will get treated. Try to get to an emergency room in Canada, you will stay 3 hours waiting for a doctor.
31 October 2013, 14:20
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peace. in canada you stay out for 3 hours IF you have insurance, else, forget it you dont get treated.
in lebanon if you have insurance you get treated promptly and efficiently. else you go on ministry of health account. Apart some very rare cases, this is what happens. Lebanon wins.
In the US, Jeb Bush played with poll results in florida to elect his brother.
In France, Sarkozy paid all the press chiefs to market segolene as a competitor so he can beat her.
In Russia, Tzar Poutine has been for more than a decade. Local nabih berri...
Most politicians stink all over the world.
But Lebanon's real problem is Assad.
Assad did not earmark Cypriot oil to fight Israel. He earmarked Lebanon's oil for that cause. Assadists are our problem. Remember Poland kept suffering until the USSR broke. Let us hope Syria partitions and weakens soon.
31 October 2013, 14:33
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at least in the countries you cite people have their basic needs... water, electricity, infrastructure, good jobs and so on... in lebanon there are no such things...
conclusion: lebanese politicians are crooks and inefficient parasite people...
31 October 2013, 14:44
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no peace. This is where you are wrong. Basic needs are not water and electricity. Basic needs is to have children take care of their parents when they grow old instead of having 30 deaths due to cold from old people. Basic needs is noone sleeping on the street.
Basic needs is children are not kicked out of home at 18.
True our politicians are parasites, as are most countries politicians. But our main problem is not our politicians. It is Assad's regime.
31 October 2013, 13:39
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Roar.
You dont know Lebanon Roar, except by the reports you read. Lebanese are not doomed. They are blessed. Beleive me, I rolled my bones in a number of countries and I tell you, lebanon has a few issues and challenges, but all countries have issues. By comparison, Lebanon is blessed.
As for jews being chosen. Bullshit. They are chosen according to their own book. This is the epitome of self centrism.
And we dont have the same God as Jews. Jesus was born in a jewish family. But his message was diametrically opposed to the message of the jewish God.
31 October 2013, 14:26
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Roar. The bible is comprised of old testament and new testament. I dont beleive in the old testament which was written by jews. Actually the old testament is only there to explain why Jesus had to come to save us: because things stunk before. The message of Jesus is in the new testament. And to me that is christianity.
31 October 2013, 14:39
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old testament: jewish claim they are chosen people
New testament: A jewish court orders killing of Jesus.
Christ says all people are equal. He never said jews are chosen. Besides jews were chosen when compared to pagans. Not when compared to christians.
Jewish religion sucks. sorry if you are a jew.
31 October 2013, 14:47
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Roar i didnt take it personal. It is just a pity that you didnt read my message. You just reacted based on what you think I wrote. Typical Aussie attitude.
31 October 2013, 15:42
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What is interesting with all the messages here -
None of them mention a Lebanese response to the US Mediation
None of them mention the conclusions of the US Mediation.
People are more interested in attacking each other over the validity or otherwise of the Old Testament of the Bible, a book holy to Jews, as well as Christians and Moslems.
People are more interested in attacking each other over the utilities and health services of Lebanon as compared to other countries.
31 October 2013, 15:59
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dont worry, the israeli leadership will steal the oil's revenues just like the lebanese leadership steal their people's wealth....
31 October 2013, 16:15
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philipo, we are not interested in mediation with the israelis. The US are biased anyway. Their congress is bought by the jews. Their president hates the guts of israel but cant do a thing. The whole thing is a charade. This is why we are not discussing it. Israel the racist apartheid state wants to bully us. It bullied us by exporting to us their 500000 pals. now it wants to steal our oil.
31 October 2013, 18:23
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Well, better for the oil and gas to remain in the sea, rather than its money be in the pockets of Nasrallah-Hezbullah-Berri (the American Passport holder, and the thief corrupted of the Lebanese State). Maybe also Joumblat gonna eat from the cheese! So, better for us to have them in the sea! Or Let Israel benefit, unless Iran starts funding the Lebanese Gov't, the State, the Army, no Hezbullah! ;)
31 October 2013, 19:13
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roar: someone is so turned on by you that he wants to be your entiyeh.
22 January 2014, 12:38
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No matter from where the funding comes it will immediately run to the pockets of the thieves who are the Lebanese politicians!!!!. A call for peace
