sábado, 19 de julio de 2014

Gaza: Israel's $4 billion gas grab - The Ecologist

Gaza: Israel's $4 billion gas grab - The Ecologist:



 Never mind the 'war on terror' rhetoric, writes Nafeez Ahmed. The purpose of Israel's escalating assault on Gaza is to control the Territory's 1.4 trillion cubic feet of gas - and so keep Palestine poor and weak, gain massive export revenues, and avert its own domestic energy crisis.


Israeli tanks massing on the Gaza border ... but do the soldiers know what they're really fighting for? Photo: Amir Farshad Ebrahimi via Flickr.

Israeli tanks massing on the Gaza border ... but do the
soldiers know what they're really fighting for? Photo: Amir Farshad
Ebrahimi via Flickr.
  

 http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2482929/gaza_israels_4_billion_gas_grab.html