UN to Lebanon: Come back when you’ve got something we can use against Israel: Ban Ki-Moon told Lebanon that the UN’s duties in Lebanon, cf. UNSCR 1701, do not include declaring maritime borders. Let us review the facts: Lebanon didn’t say a word about borders until Israel found the Leviathan natural gas fields off the coast of Israel. Suddenly, the waters 130 kilometers off of Haifa are “Lebanese” waters. Shyeah.
The head of petroleum and natural gas exploration in the National Infrastructures Ministry, Dr. Yaakov Mimran, called the claims “nonsense.”
He said that the latest offshore discoveries in the Leviathan field, as well as the earlier Tamar and Dalit finds, are absolutely within Israeli territory.
Senior Israeli officials said it was Lebanon that set the limits on its own territorial waters after it had given out exploration licenses exactly along these borders. “What are they complaining about now?” asked one official.
“That is how Cyprus acted, which set the border of its exclusive economic zone between countries at a distance of 200 kilometers from Israeli shores and sold the [licenses] for exploration to private entrepreneurs along this line,” said the official.
I’m sure that the UN General Assembly will be happy to declare otherwise.
Yes, but the world will still blame Israel: Mark Regev asked on the BBC how the Palestinians expect to make peace with Israel if they won’t talk to Israel. Don’t worry, though, nobody is going to be silly enough to expect the Palestinians to take responsibility for refusing to sit down and talk with the Israelis. It’s their fault, after all. Settlements, dontchaknow. Rockets landing regularly? Not the Palestinians fault. Terror attacks? Still not their fault. Nope. It’s all Israel, all the time.
I told you. Everything is Israel’s fault: Mubarak told Bibi that threatening Hamas—like, after they launch a bunch of kassams and mortars into Israel—is harmful to the peace process. And regional stability. And probably causes cancer and erectile dysfunction. Really, is there nothing that Israel can do in self-defense that doesn’t harm the peace process?
In order to encourage the Arab countries to make peace, at the very least, Israel should stop sending sharks to the Red Sea, vulture spies to Saudi Arabia, and putting microphones in the teeth of American tourists to Iran.
You might have read that Israelis were warned not to go to the Sinai because of terrorist threats, just like the Jews were told not to go to work at the World Trade Center on 9/11. I hope you all noticed that no Jews were killed by the sharks.