A War for Gas?
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Israel is preparing to connect a disputed Mediterranean gas field to its national gas network.
Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, said in a televised speech that Israeli extraction of gas from Karish was a “red line”
“If Nasrallah wants to try and harm and to complicate this process, he is welcome to do so: the price is Lebanon,” Israel’s defence minister, Benny Gantz, said last week. “I hope for his sake that he won’t do this. We are prepared to defend our interests.”
Whatever happened to those mediation talks with the USA?
Nasrallah said he wanted the US-brokered maritime border talks to succeed.
“We are following up on the negotiations … our eyes and missiles are locked on Karish,” the cleric said. “As long as extraction has not started, there is a chance for solutions.”Israel doesn’t want its greatest ally to broker peace talks, it seems.
Simon Henderson, the director of the Washington Institute’s Gulf and energy policy programme, explains “…it can be argued that they are being provocative by going ahead with this. The Israeli side of things is verging on the undisciplined…”
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