Cheney, Rothschild, Murdoch & Co. Start Drilling for Oil in Syria

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Afek oil and gas are hoping to soon find out what goodies lie beneath the occupied part of Syria known as the Golan Heights and violate international law in the process.

In May, having finished the flow testing phase, they announced  the beginning of the analysis phase for the Ness-2 drilling site

The task is to identify the contents of the ground wells and what products might come from it, a task Afek said will be carried out by their own scientists as well as “external international experts.”

Afek is an Israeli subsidiary of the New Jersey-based firm Genie Energy Ltd., whose investors include Rupert Murdoch, Dick Cheney, Lord Jacob Rothschild, James Woolsey, along with a number of current and former U.S. politicians.

At the end of 2015 Afek announced that it had found considerable reserves of oil under the Golan.

Claire Bernish explains the U.S. involvement in the Syrian quagmire and how it relates to Afek’s oil exploration in the following article via Activist Post :

Israel’s occupation of the Golan Heights region violates international law — thus, Israeli permits granting Afek the ostensible right to perform exploratory tests of a possible “large reservoir” of natural gas and light oil is also illegal.

But in a world where Big Oil remains powerful enough to drive foreign policy of the U.S. empire, this direct violation of the Geneva Convention might not even be worthy of a footnote — except to the people of Syria.

In fact, as The Free Thought Project’s Justin Gardner previously reported, the unsavory character heading Genie Oil is none other than Efraim “Effie” Eitam, an Israeli military commander and former Knesset member who once called for the expulsion of the “cancer” of Arabs from Israel.

“Expel most of the Judea and Samaria Arabs from here,” Eitam arrogantly asserted during a soldier’s memorial service in 2006. “We cannot be with all these Arabs and we cannot give up the land, because we have already seen what they do there. Some of them may be able to stay under certain conditions, but most of them will have to go.”

In addition to the eyebrow-raising cabal of Eitam, Murdoch, Cheney, and Rothschild, Genie Oil and Gas appointed new members to its Strategic Advisory Board last September, including:

Dr. Lawrence Summers, 71st Secretary of the Treasury under President Clinton and Director of the National Economic Council under Pres. Obama; former Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu, who is credited with helping pass the U.S.-Israel Energy Cooperation Bill while she chaired the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources; former governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, who became an energy insider after serving as the Clinton administration’s Energy Secretary; and former Director of Central Intelligence, R. James Woolsey, who co-founded the U.S. Energy Security Council

At stake is a 153 square-mile region in the Golan Heights, demarcated by Israeli authorities as exclusive territory for Afek to perform exploratory testing, which began in 2015, through early April 2017.

However, even beyond the not-at-all-minor issue of legality, Afek’s drilling in the region has stirred another, perhaps more imperative, concern. A large aquifer supplying the entire region’s drinking water is positioned uncomfortably close to the stores of fossil fuel — raising contamination concerns sufficiently serious that an Israeli high court issued a temporary restraining order in 2014, though it was quickly dismissed.

But none of this bothers Murdoch, Cheney, Rothschild, and the others, as the Golan Heights to Big Oil represents little more than an exploitative business opportunity.

Syria, in fact, has been systematically torn apart primarily because foreign powers and radical groups seek to protect their varied oil interests.

While the Afek ilk set their sights on Golan Heights oil and natural gas, Turkey, the U.S., Russia, Daesh, and a spate of others have been fighting over Syria’s geostrategic location for major oil pipelines under the cover of religious and civil strife.

“[W]e may want to look beyond the convenient explanations of religion and ideology and focus on the more complex rationales of history and oil, which mostly point the finger of blame for terrorism back at the champions of militarism, imperialism and petroleum here on our own shores,” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., intoned in an April editorial for Ecowatch.

As Kennedy astutely noted, U.S. interventionism in the Middle East, and particularly Syria, has little to do with fighting terrorism and far more to do with the region’s rich petroleum reserves  — as in the case of Genie’s magnates. And such insistent international meddling at the behest of corporate oil interests so destabilized the entire region, it led to the formation of Daesh (ISIS) and similar radical groups.

Of course, oil exploration certainly benefits the ongoing push by Israel to expand its occupation and settlements, since U.S.-backed Big Oil operates under the premise the manufactured nation’s encroachment on Syrian territory is perfectly legal. Often, as is the case with Afek and Genie, the Golan Heights is dismissively referred to as “Northern Israel.”

Environmental and humanitarian groups vocally criticize Afek’s exploratory drilling, but despite growing international outcry, have not succeeded in halting ongoing tests.

Considering the notoriously powerful, monied warmongers backing Afek’s petroleum plans, outrage and violation of international law wouldn’t factor one iota in matters concerning the Golan Heights.

The Israeli Prime Minister recently said that Tel Aviv would never withdraw from the Golan Heights, an area captured from Syria in 1967.

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23 Comments

  1. Get them President Putin.. The main perpetrators-Murdoch- Cheney-bush-nut-in-ya-hoo As we seem not to have any honorable men in the top brass in the u s.

  2. Get them President Putin.. The main perpetrators-Murdoch- Cheney-bush-nut-in-ya-hoo As we seem not to have any honorable men in the top brass in the u s.

  3. Cheney, Rothschild, Murdoch & Co should have been locked up a longtime ago to stop them doing harm to humanity.

  4. Cheney, Rothschild, Murdoch & Co should have been locked up a longtime ago to stop them doing harm to humanity.

    • I agree they are all the best of the Zionist tribe.  I am at an surprised state because, all my readings over many years have come to fusion of the greed hate disintegration of most good citizens in the world,  The poor and the ones who trust.  It is not just a matter of racism, this keeps people distracted, and media entertainment keeps them laughing and enjoying.  So most folk miss a lot of real happenings going on around the globe. Thanks are being able to finally say, there is no US government it is a business a Corporation in itself with its board members being who they are.  

  5. Greed and more greed 
    Love to see these people left with the bare nessities for three months they would not be so greedy then ! 

  6. Guess why Israel will never give back the Golan Heights?  It would be strategic suicide for them to do so.  Those seemingly greedy Israelis willingly gave back the Sinai and much more land in order to have peace. They don’t want perpetual war. Problem is many Arab nations have no tolerance for the Israeli presence in the middle east, and their noble solution is the utter destruction of Israel, and/or genocide of the entire Jewish race. Mental giants in the west are too stupid to see that the Islamic intolerance of Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, atheists, gays, and other brands of Islam is what drives most of the conflicts in the world at this point. The U.S. is awash in a glut of oil and doesn’t need more foreign sources for our needs.  That is not to say that this would not be a profitable investment for any oil company. The idea that other countries are desperate to acquire Syria to put pipelines across it is idiocy. All you have to do is look at the map of Syria and it’s adjacent countries. Saudis don’t need it, Jordan has other sources of energy and Israel is not gonna put a pipeline there. The League of Nations, the United Nations, history, logic, and the Bible all support a Jewish presence in the Land of Israel. If the Arab nations had accepted it, the middle east would have one less thing to go to war over.

    • Yes Toast, it would be now I stand under why they have kept pushing back the Palestinians.  Now they are calling this Northern Israel.  Wow!  I paid and still pay for my misdeeds, and they will to in due time.  Dorcas 

  7. Many more senators are also part of this new Genie Oil Company. This is one of the reasons none of them say nothing about stopping the war with Syria. They have oil investments in the Golan Heights. They know this land belongs to Syria. This is the main reason they want to kill Assad. The oil found there is massive in amount. Israel has been killing all of the occupants of the Golan Hts. for years. They have no intentions of giving up the oil. But main stream media never covers this story. Again, this is all about the Rothchild Zionists. And it makes it perfectly clear who Dick Cheney and Ruport Murdock are aligned with.

    • Yea Pin, I always wondered why US never said anything about the awful war over there, it seems the hidden agenda was not to directly get involved, so throw off the hidden plans and not make US look greedy.

  8. Had the Golan Heights belonged to Syria, we would have seen large numbers of Syrians killed. Good on Israel! It is keeping real peace there as lives are being spared. Something that cant be said of the rest of the muslim world. 

    As regards to whom the Golan Heights belong to; since, it was Syria that attacked Israel and lost, it belongs to Israel. Please concern yourself with real tragedies caused by ISIS, caused by sunnis verse shiites, Kurds vs. Muslim Turks, Alevis, and so on. 

  9. The Devil is directing the US Policy and the President, the Elite the Rothschild, the Illuminati’s, we as Americans think we have a Government based on Christian values, we believe in the bible and Christmas like most countries in Europe and around the world, we got ” In God we trust” on our money, but none of our leaders ever turned the other cheek. Every president promises something before he takes office to get elected, then he gets in office and does what the Elite tell him to do. Do you really think George W was so intelligent to plan and mobilize our military and the coalition to invade Iraq? the guy could not make one sentence in English, yet he did all that as a commander in-chief, killed hundreds of thousands of Afghani’s and Iraqi’s, Militants and innocent civilians, and lost tens of thousands of our brave young men and women, created 2 failed states and gave Obama the relay stick to continue on to Libya, then Syria, Libya is a failed state. The US says it is fighting ISIS, when ISIS was created from Al Qaeda, had few members you can count on your fingers, one Rambo could have finished them off in 2 days, but the more the US bombs them, the bigger their number gets, and the more powerful their American weapons become. When Putin answered the internationally legal request from Assad the Syrian president, and Russia sent it’s Air Force to his aid and started pounding the hell out of ISIS, we Started to complain and make propaganda about Russia and the Syrian Gov. are bombing the opposition groups and wanted to call Al Nusra terrorists a moderate groups. For Syria and its people, any group carries weapon against the Government is a terrorist. And Al Nusra Front were the ones who carried out the Chemical attack on civilians in Syria and Obama was going to use that as ASSAD crossed the red line, and we can do him in like we did Saddam Hussein of Iraq, but the International monitoring team were there and saw who did it, false flag did not work, every body knew the US was trying to frame Assad, for that the US made Russia and Syria stronger, now the US has two choices, either let Syria finish off ISIS, and bring Peace and all Syrian refugees back to their homes, or continue on with the aggression, confront Russia, China, Iran and few others in a World War Three, and good by Earth.            

  10. In 1967, when the Golan was lost by Syria, international law allowed for the incorporation of land controlled after being attacked. Land lost was the consequence of illegally attacking/trying to conquer your neighbor. THIS was the accepted rule throughout history.

    The opposite, taking land as a result of an aggressive attack against your neighbor was THEN illegal. But After the Palestinians and Arab League took control of the UN and their NGO’s, everything was reversed when used in association with Israel.

    This was so the Arabs can keep trying to destroy Israel in unprovoked wars, even after loosing their lands, over and over and over.

    Only antisemites accept the new declaration of rewarding the nefarious attempts of attack, by returning the outlaws their property. – Which is the same as returning planes, boats, and cars lost by drug smugglers when they got ‘defeated’ by law enforcement.

  11. The Golan was part of the Ottoman Empire for 600 years, before that it was under the control of different powers. Some Arab, Most not. The Golan in ancient times was under Judean control. It was only under Syrian control for about 19 years. It has been part of Israel for 57 years. There’s nothing illegal about Israel drilling for Oil there.

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