Testing completed before at the Afek site hadn’t met expectations and this led the company to seek out other sweet spots in the region. More sample analysis from other wells is also going to be performed by scientists from Afek, along with external international experts.
DIRECT VIOLATION OF THE GENEVA CONVENTION DOESN’T MATTER
Understanding the involvement of the US in the Afek oil exploration in Syria is very important. The occupation of Israel of Golan Heights is a violation of international law, and so Israeli allows granting Afek the right to conduct exploratory tests of what may be a large reservoir of gas that is natural and light oil is also illegal. However, huge oil has the power to drive foreign policy of the empire in the US, and the direct violation of the Geneva Convention isn’t worthy even of a footnote, apart from of course, to the Syrian people.
Head of Genie Oil is Efraim Eitam; he once wanted to expel what he called the cancer of Arabs from Israel. During a memorial service held in 2006, he said that they could not be with all of the Arabs and that they could not give up the land as the past has shown what they have done here. He went on to say that some may be able to stay but only under certain conditions, however, the majority would have to go, he said.
Standing alongside Eitam as investors are Murdoch, Cheney and Rothschild and new members have been appointed to the Strategic Advisory Board.
What has everyone excited is a region of 153 square miles in Golan Heights, which was demarcated by the authorities in Israel as being territory that was exclusive for Afek to undertake exploratory testing. This started in 2015 and ran until early April in 2017.
GOLAN HEIGHTS IS NOTHING BUT A BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY TO BE EXPLOITED
Even when you take away the issue of legality, the drilling of Afek in the region has brought up another concern and this is one that may be more imperative. A big aquifer that supplies the entire region with drinking water is set very close to the stores of fossil fuel. This brings about worries that have been serious enough for the high court in Israel to issue a temporary restraining order. This was back in 2014 but the restraining order was very quickly dismissed.
Of course, this doesn’t seem to bother Rothschild, Murdoch, Cheney or any of the others because Golan Heights to Big Oil means nothing more than just a business opportunity to exploit. Syria has been torn apart mostly due to foreign powers and radical groups looking to protect varied oil interests. Afek has set their sights on the oil and natural gas of Golan Heights, while Turkey, Daesh, Russia and the US, along with many others, and have fought over the geostrategic location of Syria for big oil pipelines, all under cover of civil and religious strife.
Oil exploration is going to benefit the push by Israel that is ongoing in expanding its settlements and occupation, as Big Oil operates under the principle that the encroachment on Syria is perfectly legal. Golan Heights has in the past been referred to by Genie and Afek as Northern Israel.
INTERNATIONAL OUTCRY HASN’T STOPPED AFTER DRILLING
There are many humanitarian and environmental groups who criticize the exploratory drilling of Afek, however, even with an outcry that is growing internationally, ongoing tests haven’t been stopped. Of course, as some of the most powerful and notorious moneyed warmongers are backing the petroleum plans of Afek, violation and outrage of international law isn’t going to matter one bit when it comes to Golan Heights.
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