Hizb’Allah has now warned Israel that if it doesn’t cede sea territory to Lebanon they will attack. They even have the backing of the Obama Regime in their border dispute with Israel. This has emboldened their leader, Hassan Nasrallah, to make his war threats.
“I confidently say to all the countries, governments and companies that will submit tenders in order to start oil excavation that Lebanon is capable of protecting these companies and oil and gas installations,” Nasrallah was quoted by Naharnet as saying on Tuesday.
At stake here are trillions of cubic meters of natural gas. Israel made the discoveries in the area in 2009. It was only after that discovery did Hizballah decide to make a big deal about the sea boundary. Another factor in Hizballah’s threats is the insecure nature of the Syrian Regime. With Assad having internal troubles, he needs a foreign crisis to distract from internal issues. Iran needs Syria in order to supply their Lebanese proxies, so conflict is in their interest also. These factors are explaining Hizballah’s belicose.
Tensions are rising in the eastern Mediterranean between Israel and Lebanon, this time over roughly 430 square miles of contested waters that contain considerable underwater gas reserves. Iran, Hezbollah and Syria are all interested in a war with Israel, each for their own reasons. Tehran and Damascus want to save the embattled regime of Bashar Assad, while Hezbollah seeks to protect its top officials from charges that they were involved in the assassination of late Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. A new war in the Middle East would aid all these goals—and be a disaster for the U.S., already embroiled in withdrawals from Afghanistan and Iraq and a military operation in Libya.
Both Israel and Lebanon have trillions of cubic feet of underwater natural gas and can benefit tremendously from these resources. All they need is the goodwill to negotiate a sea-border demarcation agreement. This usually occurs through bilateral negotiations or mutually agreed arbitration—not through U.N. border-dispute mechanisms, as Lebanon is now demanding.
Read the rest: Behind the Israeli-Lebanese Gas Row
The sea border dispute is just the pretext Hizballah is using to serve Iranian-Syrian interest. With the Obama Regime sympathetic to their claims, this may be the best time for Hizballah to start a war. If it does break out, Israel should show no mercy to Hizballah. They must destroy any village that Hizballah controls. Only a brutal use of force by Israel will stop these savages.
Tags: Bashar Assad, Hizballah, Leviathan Gas fields, Tamar Gas field
