Israel’s Rape of Gaza’s Natural Resources: What the Conflict was Really About

Back in 2000 gas was discovered close to the shore off Gaza. The vast majority of this vital resource lies within the Gaza Marine Area. Israel from the onset decided it wanted the entire field for its own purposes, having decided to change over to natural gas as the main fuel for its power stations and industry.

Two plans were originally drawn up:

• Take the gas by subsea pipeline to El Arish (Egypt) and then by subsea pipeline to Ashkelon (making it look like Egyptian Gas)

• Take the gas directly to Ashekelon.

In December 2007, BG Group withdrew from negotiations with the Government of Israel for the sale of gas from the Gaza Marine field to Israel. In January 2008, BG Group closed its office in Israel and continued to evaluate options for commercialising the gas. In my own opinion I found the share ratio between all parties very unbalanced with Palestine only retaining 10%.


By mid 2008 BG had signed up with Egypt to pipe the entire supply to Egypt and then convert it to LNG for onwards shipment to the US or EU. This was a potential disaster for Israel as they needed the gas desperately to fulfil their supply requirements having decided to convert to natural gas.

The other problem was that the Gaza Strip had, during these discussions, come under the control of Hamas and added even more complications to a possible deal. By June 2008 Israel was now on a war footing with Gaza with a clear intention of removing Hamas from the strip in order to try and get something salvaged from the failed deal. It was during this time that the ex British Minister, Tony Blair became involved and tried to get BG and Israel to come back to the table and open up negotiations. BG responded and again returned to Israel for urgent talks and scrapped the deal with Egypt.

The Israeli Government then decided that the attack of Gaza would now have to be put back on hold as any activity could jeopardise talks between BG, Israel and the PA. Unfortunately yet again the talks failed and BG continued looking into other possibilities. By the end of the year Israel had made up its mind to go into Gaza and remove Hamas and in doing so would be in a good position to get their hands on these vast offshore reserves.

Blast_in_GazaThe attempted take over of the Gaza Strip failed as a direct result of the fortitude and spirit of Hamas and worldwide condemnation. We now have a situation whereby the people of Gaza/Palestine have this incredible offshore wealth but are unable to bring it ashore.
We read about all the financial aid that was promised by so many governments but where is this aid and do they really need it? The answer is simply no as they have all the wealth in the world in their offshore natural gas reserves.
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When the Free Gaza boats sailed to Gaza and went in to break the siege on several occasions, what they saw confirmed the clues we all had. That was Israels reluctance to go ahead with a real peace deal is because of the billions of dollars laying offshore of Gza in Gaza waters.

This news has been confirmed before in some of our posts with detailed plans and documents by BP and the government of Israel. Israels greed and money hungry war mongers will do anything to get their dirty hands on any money, as hey have well showed us in the past, to wit the top government employees, including the former PM being arrested and convicted for theft, lies and other felonious actions. Their felonious actions in Gaza and the West Bank take innocent lives because of this greed.