Behind the gas mafia - part 2

Upon this fear of future energy wars, Israel will use the gas revenues and economic benefits for enhancing its capacities and capabilities to secure its energy resources and supply chains. Israel increases and priorities its Weaponization policy, particularly in naval forces depending on the sea importance for future war.

On the other hand, Israeli export weapons have increased since the gas discoveries, associated with enhancing industrial competitiveness and affordable energy prices. This additional wealth and revenues might fund the military capacities.

Israel, after gas discoveries, is more stable on the economic side than before. It traditionally suffered from resource scarcity and depended on importing.

Moreover, Israel benefited in the past from US cover in the last conventional threats in the 1973 war, also the US facilitated the Egyptian Israeli negotiation by getting Israel the energy guarantee after 1975, which was used to meet Israel’s energy security.

The US will maintain Israel's energy security and energy reliability, considered the continuity of their special relations.

After all, under full-scale war or war from multiple directions like what happened in 1973, Israel will not make victory without international interventions that protect this small country with its small capabilities. The US role would approve the external player's importance in securing Israeli energy needs; Israel did not accept to continue in the peace process without this external player role again.

These energy reliability efforts face Militants attacks’ threats like Hamas or Hezbollah and political instabilities in regional countries such as Egypt after the revolution in 2011. In this regard, Israel is motivated to increase its weaponization activities, especially in naval forces that protect its energy assets in water.

On the other hand, it secures energy supply routes, from geopolitical perspectives, may be a threat by Iran.

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Behind the gas mafia - part 3

In contrast to this energy resources poverty, the oil and fuel infrastructure has been in Palestine since the British mandate era; for instance, the Kirkuk-Haifa pipeline and Haifa refinery plant (Shaoulian-Sopher, 2017, p. 143). After the State of Israel was established, Israel took these facilities and wanted to be energy producers by starting gas and oil explorations in the 1950s.

Israel is located in the Middle East, as an energy-rich region, but it did not participate early in the energy-producing association such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Iran.

Moreover, the Middle East’s conflicts are protracted, energy resources are one of the main issues in these conflicts, and security questions regarding it are not new. For example, although Saudi Arabia has a solid defense doctrine, including the Patriot Air Defense Missile System, Abqaiq- attack in eastern Saudi Arabia was executed by Houthis last September 2019 against the energy-oil fields.

On the Palestinian side, Despite the Oslo agreement that did assure Israeli- Palestinian energy cooperation, but Israel still uses energy supply to the Palestinian as a controlling method. On the contrary, Israel needs them as part of its energy customers. Moreover, Israel benefits from the late development of Palestinian gas fields, and the “no peace” situation still serves Israel's energy position against Palestinians.

Energy transition in Israel happened in the 1980s when it decreased oil dependency and used coal instead. At the dawn of the new century, Israel started to use natural gas in its energy basket, which began gradually by discovering modest natural gas reserves in Palestine-Gaza offshore.

Greenpeace UK statement on the conflict in Gaza https://perma.cc/3CLN-VFB9

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As the meeting went ahead, Hamas said Israel would have to release all Palestinian prisoners from its jails to secure freedom for the hostages seized by Hamas fighters on October 7 https://perma.cc/NJ8X-ADH6

Thousands of Palestinians are held in 19 prisons in Israel and one inside the occupied West Bank.

Hamas has said it will not release the hostages until Israel ends its bombardment of Gaza, and only then in exchange for the release of 5,000 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, including women and children https://perma.cc/7BX3-GALE

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