Energean Power FPSO – Credit: Energean (via Israel’s Energy Ministry)
Lebanon and Israel are about to reach an agreement on the demarcation of their naval borders, a Lebanese official told the Sputnik news agency on August 20.
“We are very close to reaching an agreement on the demarcation of the maritime border with Israel, and we were informed that the answer, which the American mediator, Amos Hochstein, will bring from the Israeli side, in response to the Lebanese proposal, is positive,” the unnamed official said.
The official added that Hochstien will arrive in the Lebanese capital, Beirut soon, stressing that the fate of the maritime dispute with Israel will be sealed in September.
The Lebanese-Israeli maritime dispute returned to the spot light in June, when the Greek-owned Energean Power FPSO [Floating Production Storage Offloading] reached the Karish naval field to extract gas for Israel. Lebanon claims that at least a part of the field is located within its exclusive economic zone.
The optimistic Lebanese statement came following a speech by Hezbollah Secretary-General Hasan Nasrallah, in which he threatened Israel with escalation if went on with its plans to extract gas from Karish. Nasrallah also noted that the fate of the Iranian nuclear deal will not affect Lebanon’s maritime dispute with Israel.
Despite the recent progress in the US-backed indirect talks with Lebanon, Israel appears to be preparing for the worst. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have reportedly placed its troops in the northern region on high-alert.
Reaching an agreement before September is critical for Lebanon, as Israel is planning to begin extracting gas from Karish then. If the diplomatic efforts failed, Hezbollah could take military action to stop operations at the dispute gas field. This will likely lead to a serious confrontation with the IDF.
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Convenient for the globalist oligarchs the “American” Jew was able to negotiate with the “Israeli” Jew. The gas must flow.
Very rare occasion where the chosenites recognised a neighbours rights and territorial integrity. I hope they could expand such gestures to the rest in the region.
They expanded their control over the world long ago. Literally everything is owned and controlled by chosenites.
The Zionists are scared of Hezbollah and don’t want an escalation as it would destroy their hovels. These criminals only understand the logic of force. Hezbollah has evened the playing field. The Zionist child killers could not even take on a rag tag IJ in totally besieged Gaza, let alone fight Hezbollah and its 200,000 missiles and rockets.
Its only because Hezbollah has them by the throat.
Israel is not agreement capable and will make sure Lebanon can’t get any financing or any company to drill or export its gas for certain, while israel makes all the money.
So let israel pay to develope the gas fields and then blow them all up
The Zionist scum are devious and grovelling as they are petrified of Hezbollah.
Speaking of agreements, a rumor is going around that the Kremlin wants to surrender Kherson as a goodwill gesture to help restart negotiations with his valued partners. Really, wtf, maybe they could try blowing up those bridges instead????
Was this rumour from Asif, the nato fool?
” The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have reportedly placed its troops in the northern region on high-alert. ”
Mmmm, That aggressive Israeli stance suggests that its a crap deal for Lebanon.
Better to have no deal at all and let Hezbollah’s anti ship missiles negotiate with Israel.
Florian, “high alert” means “prepare to run away”, as they did last time Hezbollah threatened retaliation.
A deal would be good, but it must be equitable.
I hope the IDF has a good stock of Diapers what with all the supply chains problems going on!
So when bandits appear on site with equipment and machinery intent on stealing resources, that’s the time to do a deal? And this deal has to be made before the bandits are ready to start pumping? Good luck with that. The isreali apartheid regime will break the ‘deal’ anyway.
I thought borders were already decided long ago?
The Borders are how the chosen see fit. Do not busy your mind with them. They know better. Just give your taxes and everything will be fine.
why can’t we steal all gas? we pay Israel 3.8 billion $ every year —they sell us kosher pickle, we use for dildo too poor to pay for banana
border problems common in many nations , especially where resources discovered or believed present—disputes between turkey Greece, France Cyprus etc, Chile, Argentina, UK —Falklands…Qatar, Iran have resolved gas disputes in hormuz….fixing ownership in sea easy when only fish, less so when oil/gas
Nasrallah said that in an interview, I think, not a speech. Anyway, US ‘mediator’ looks fishy, the US is a side to this, not impartial. Maybe the illegal explotation of Karish by Israel has been delayed, but a real solution must include Lebanon actually making use of its natural resources.
the “jew ordred mediator” is just trying to win time. 1 september they start drilling and Libanon still waiting. On the 1 of september Hesbolah must blow up the drill ships, thats all. Never ever think Libanon is to have 1 cent from his gas. Belgium has send a warship to the east of the mediteranean, not for a holiday, but on the 1 of september the war will start !!!