The war on Lebanon and the Battle for Oil
* Michel Chossudovsky - Global Research
Adapted from www.comedonchisciotte.org
Is there a relationship between the bombing of Lebanon and the inauguration of the world's largest strategic pipeline, which transports more than one million barrels of oil a day to Western markets?
Virtually unknown, the inauguration of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan ( BTC), which connects the Caspian Sea to the Eastern Mediterranean, took place July 13 at the beginning of the Israeli bombing in Lebanon.
A day before the Israeli air strikes, the main partner and equity of the BTC project, including several heads of state and oil company executives were in attendance at the port of Ceyhan. They were then rushed to an opening reception in Istanbul, sponsored by President Ahmet Necdet Sezer turkish in the luxurious surroundings of the Palace Çýraðan.
Waiting was also the CEO of British Petroleum (BP), Lord Browne , along with senior officials of the governments of Britain, the United States and Israel.
The Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure Israeli Binyamin Ben-Eliezer was present together with a delegation of senior Israeli officials in the oil sector.
The BTC pipeline bypasses the whole territory of the Russian Federation. Traveling along the former Soviet republics of Azerbaijan and Georgia, both of which have become a "protectorate" of the United States, strongly integrated into a military alliance with the U.S. and NATO
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The militarization of the Eastern Mediterranean
The bombing of Lebanon is part of a military road map carefully planned and coordinated. The extension of the war to Syria and Iran has already been covered U.S. war planners and Israelis. The broader military agenda is intimately related to the strategic role of oil and pipelines. And is supported by the Western oil giants which control the pipeline corridors. Ultimately, the war aims to control land on the coastline of the eastern Mediterranean.
In this context, the BTC pipeline, controlled by British Petroleum, has dramatically changed the geopolitics of the Eastern Mediterranean, which is now linked, through an energy corridor to the Caspian Sea basin.
"[The pipeline BTC pipeline] considerably changes the status of the region's countries and cements a new pro-West alliance. Having connected the pipeline to the Mediterranean, Washington has practically set up a new bloc with Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey and Israel "(Komerzant, Moscow, July 14, 2006).
Israel is now part of Anglo-American military axis It serves the interests of Western oil giants in the Middle East and Central Asia.
While the official reports state that the BTC pipeline will "carry oil to Western markets", what is rarely acknowledged is that some of that oil from the Caspian Sea will be directly channeled towards Israel. In this regard, it was thought that an underwater pipeline project would link Ceyhan to the Israeli-turkish Israeli port of Ashkelon and from there through Israel's main oil transport system, the Red Sea.
The objective of Israel is not only to acquire Caspian sea oil for its domestic consumption, but also play a key role in re-export of oil from the Caspian Sea to Asian markets along the waterfront in Eilat on the Red Sea. The strategic implications of this re-routing of Caspian sea oil are far- scope.
E 'planned oil pipeline linking the BTC pipeline Trans-Israel Eilat-Ashkelon , also known as Israel's Tipline, from Ceyhan oil pipeline that goes to the Israeli port of Ashkelon. In April 2006, Israel and Turkey announced plans for underwater pipelines, which would avoid the Lebanese and Syrian territory.
"Turkey and Israel are negotiating the construction of a multi-billion dollar energy and water project that will transport water, electricity, natural gas and oil through pipes to Israel, with the oil to be transported even further, from Israel to the Far East.
The new Turkish-Israeli proposal under discussion would see the transfer of water, electricity, natural gas and oil to Israel via four underwater pipelines.
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The Baku oil can be transported to Ashkelon through this new pipeline and to India and the Far East [along the Red Sea]
"Ceyhan and the Mediterranean port of Ashkelon are situated only 400 km
Water for Israel
This project has also involved a pipeline bringing water to Israel, pumping from the reserves ahead of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Anatolia. This has long been a strategic objective of Israel to the detriment of Syria and Iraq. The agenda of Israel on the water is supported by the military cooperation between Ankara and Tel Aviv.
The rerouting of Central Asian oil
Reverse oil and gas in Central Asia to the Eastern Mediterranean (under Israeli military protection) for re-export to Asia is to undermine the energy market inter-Asian, which is based on the development of direct pipeline corridors linking Central Asia to Russia and to South Asia, China and the Far East.
Ultimately, the project aims to weaken Russia's role Central Asia and China
Meanwhile, Israel has emerged as a powerful new player in the global energy market.
At the same time, Moscow has responded to the Israeli-turkish project to militarize the East Mediterranean coastline with plans to establish a Russian naval base in the Syrian port Tartus:
"Sources in the ministry of Defence revealed that the naval base at Tartus enable Russia to solidify its positions in the Middle East and ensure security of Syria. Moscow intends to deploy an air defense system around the base - to provide air cover to the base and a substantial part of Syrian territory (the S-300PMU-2 will not be passed to the Syrians. Will be provided and maintenance personnel Russian)
(Kommerzant, June 2, 2006 http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=IVA20060728&articleId=2847
Tartus is strategically located
Moreover, Moscow and Damascus have reached an agreement on the modernization of Syrian air defenses and a program to support its ground forces, the modernization of MIG-29 fighters and submarines. ( Kommerzant, June 2, 2006 ). In the context of an escalation in conflict, these developments have wider implications.
War and pipelines
Before the bombing of Lebanon, Israel and Turkey had announced underwater pipeline that avoided
On the other hand, the development of alternative land corridors (for oil and water) through Lebanon and Syria
The implementation of this project requires the militarization of the Eastern Mediterranean coastline, roads, marine and land routes, extending from the port of Ceyhan across Syria and Lebanon to the Lebanese-Israeli border. Is not
This is one of the goals of the secret war in Lebanon? Open a space that allows Israel to control a large territory extending from the Lebanese border through Syria and Turkey.
"The long war"
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the Israeli offensive against Lebanon "will last very long." Meanwhile, the United States have accelerated shipments of arms to Israel.
There are strategic objectives underlying the "Long War" relating to oil and oil pipelines.
The air campaign against Lebanon is inextricably linked to the strategic aims Israeli-American in the broader Middle East, including Syria and Iran. In recent developments, the U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that the main objective of his mission in the Middle East was not urging a ceasefire in Lebanon, but rather to isolate
At this particular moment, the supply of Israeli arsenals with weapons of mass destruction produced in the United States points to an escalation of the war both within and outside Lebanon's borders.
Annex
Shareholders of BTC Co . are: BP (30.1%); AzBTC (25.00%); Chevron (8.90%); Statoil (8.71%), TPAO (6:53%); Eni (5.00%); Total (5.00%), Itochu (3.40%); Inpex (2.50%), ConocoPhillips (2.50%) and Amerada Hess (2.36%). (Source: BP)
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has acted as economic adviser to governments of developing countries and several international organizations including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the African Development Bank, the United Nations African Institute for Economic Development and design (AIEDEP), the fund of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). Chossudovsky is president of the Canadian studies in the Caribbean and Latin America. ب member of a number of research organizations including the Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform (COMER), the geopolitics of the supervisory Drugs (OGD) and the International Council of people's health (IPHC).
Chossudovsky has participated in many international forums on the Balkans, indicating the role of the criminal so-called Kosovo Liberation Army, its ties with the U.S., the German intelligence services and NATO.
Behind the scenes interventions in Bosnia, Chechnya, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Chossudovsky reconstructs a subtle fabric of private interests that aim, in fact, to extend the global market by opening up new economic frontiers to capital and nurturing growth in the U.S. military-industrial complex American.
With meticulous precision, the author warns us about the likely developments in the current U.S. foreign policy, where real acts of war are heralded as humanitarian intervention, military occupation and the killing of civilians and peacekeeping operations become even withdrawal of some civil liberties is seen as an indispensable means to ensure internal security. [War and Globalization, The Truth Behind September 11 and the new American policy, EGA publisher]
Michel Chossudovsky is the author of the international best-seller "The Globalization of Poverty" published in eleven languares.
Chossudovsky collaborated with Le Monde diplomatique, Thirld World Resurgence and Covert Action Quarterly
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