Cheney, Rothschild, and Fox News Murdoch Begin Drilling for Oil in Syria a Violation of Intl LawBy Claire Bernish Prior testing at a separate Afek site did not meet expectations, so the company sought other sweet spots in the area. Analysis of samples from additional wells will be performed by Afek scientists in conjunction with external international experts. To understand U.S. involvement in the quagmire in Syria, Afeks oil exploration is of critical import. Israels 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 Projects 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 soldiers 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 administrations 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, Afeks drilling in the region has stirred another, perhaps more imperative, concern. A large aquifer supplying the entire regions 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 Syrias 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 regions rich petroleum reserves as in the case of Genies 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 nations 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 Afeks exploratory drilling, but despite growing international outcry, have not succeeded in halting ongoing tests. Considering the notoriously powerful, monied warmongers backing Afeks petroleum plans, outrage and violation of international law wouldnt factor one iota in matters concerning the Golan Heights. Claire Bernish writes for TheFreeThoughtProject.com, where this article first appeared. a bigger bunch of Reptilians never existed anywhere on the planet, than this bunch of VOMITS in the picture, and Jacob Rothschild is Obamas Controller. Parasites! Golan recently resurfaced in the news when Israels rightwing prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, told Russias president, Vladimir Putin, that his nation would never return Golan to Syria. In a speech soon after, Netanyahu vowed Israel would hold on to Golan for all eternity. He also admitted for the first time that Israel had made dozens of cross-border attacks on Syria. In fact, its pretty much clear that Israel has been quietly fueling the Syrian conflict by discreet arms and logistics support to so-called moderate Syrian rebels and lobbying for the war in Washington and with the US media. Netanyahu has even said, with a straight face, that Israel cannot return Golan, or even negotiate, until calm returns to Syria and Iraq. Netanyahu is clearly following the grand strategy of the founder of his rightwing Likud Party, Zeev Jabotinsky, a militant Russian Zionist. Jabotinsky asserted that the Arab states were an artificial, fragile mosaic of inimical Arab tribes. Hit them hard enough, claimed Jabotinsky, and they will shatter into small pieces, leaving Israel master of the Levant (central Arab world). The destruction of Iraq and Syria have confirmed Jabotinskys theory. The destruction of Syria as a unitary state offers the expansionist Likud government many opportunities to extend influence into Syria, as was the case in Lebanon during its bloody 1975-1990 civil war. Or even carve off more Syrian territory to protect Israels security. The words of Israels founding father, David Ben-Gurion, still resonate: the state of Israel is a work in progress and its borders should not be fixed or even defined. Notably the borders with Syria and Jordan. Peace. This is really getting absurd, its time for a complete redo. Ah Si' said the blind Mexican. Old good chosen retards. now the truth is .out this is what the attempted overthrow of Syria is about The arrogance of these people is beyond psychopathic. SCUMBAGS. Israels occupation of the Golan Heights region violates international law. Actually thats just an opinion. There is much settled international law going back 100s of years that supports Israels claim to the Golan heights, the West Bank (Judea/Samaria) area, and some portions of southern Lebanon. Yeah just like Russias claim to Crimea which goes back more than 300 years. So tell that to the US if they allow this to happen to Israel without any sanctions. Catchy headline but what evidence do you have they are involved and have some ownership (ie upside) in the project? I have looked but dont see a connection. 