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Massive natural gas discoveries off the eastern coast of Israel and Palestine is slated to make Tel Aviv a regional energy hub. Whether Israel will be able to translate positive indicators of the largely untapped gas reserves into actual economic and strategic wealth is yet to be seen.
What is certain, however, is that the Middle East is already in the throes of a major geostrategic war, which has the potential of becoming an actual military confrontation.
Unsurprisingly, Israel is at the heart of this growing conflict.

 Wanna get up to speed?

• Libya: Russia & Turkey Work for Permanent Ceasefire in Libya- Haftar Refuses To Sign On

• Khalifa Haftar: Friend of Israel, Not A Force for Good In Libya

Greek Correspondent for The Saker Blog This article’s purpose is to present the situation in Greece, the epicenter of the fall of civilization… You can also check this clarifying text

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the Putin – Erdogan meeting following the Iran-Iraq, US tensions. For Russia, TurkStream is a geopolitical coup, and for Turkey it is an economic success.
Putin and Erdogan also made a move to broker a ceasefire together in Libya, which has been resisted by Haftar forces.

We’ve long talked here about the remake the region (MENA) the one that’s been occurring since 2003 and the invasion of Iraq, but, one can go even further back to the invasion of Afghanistan. Generally when this topic is written about here the ‘03 date is used as the start date of the ‘birth pangs of the new middle east” The Mediterranean Sea, as mentioned, is currently the sea at the center of much conflict and competition. No different from it's past.

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This title is not intended to trivialize the very serious nature of the deadly conflict in Libya; the situation is an ever-escalating humanitarian disaster, and has been since US State and NATO destroyed the country in 2011.

The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the rising tensions in the Mediterranean as Turkey has now overtly entered the Libyan conflict, supporting the GNA-Tripoli government.
Erdogan is laying claim to a large swath of the Mediterranean sea, from Turkey’s south to Libya’s western port, covering Greek and Cypriot maritime territory, and irking France, Israel and Egypt in the process.

Press TV – December 15, 2019 Turkish navy ships have intercepted an Israeli research vessel in Cypriot waters, over which Ankara claims jurisdiction, forcing it to leave the area in a move that could negatively impact an ambitious Israeli project to pipe natural gas to Europe. Quoting unnamed senior Israeli officials, Israel’s channel 13 news […]

This week on the New World Next Week: NIST explains why they won't release their data on WTC7; Greece mandates citizens pay 30 percent of their income electronically; and China announces an unsuccessful pig-monkey hybrid experiment.

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