Wednesday January 22, 2020
I've Been Thinking:
Wednesday January 22, 2020
I've Been Thinking:
India is the third largest consumer of oil in the world. For three years in a row India has reduced the amount of oil they import from the Middle East. To give you a sense of the numbers, in 2018 they imported 65% of their oil from the Middle East while last year, in 2019, that number dropped to 60%. India understands the need to reduce their dependence on Middle East oil. The political situation is too volatile. Iran has made the region unpredictable. And so India and other countries are responding. During the same period that India has been cutting back on their Middle East oil imports, the United States has become energy sufficient. The US is now producing enough oil that there is no need to import oil. The US still does import, but they are now significant exporters as well. Read my latest book THUGS. It's easy. Just click. To reprint my essays contact sales (at) www.featurewell.com
India needs oil. They realize they need oil and they have been implementing a plan to insure that they continue to receive a regular stream of imported oil.
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Tuesday January 21, 2020
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Forty-six presidents, kings and prime ministers will visit Israel this week. The United States is being represented by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The last time so many leaders converged in Israel was in 2017 and the occasion was the funeral of Shimon Peres who served the country as both prime minister and president. Actually, fewer high level dignitaries came for the Peres funeral than are coming this week. Israel is marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp. The official ceremony will take place on Thursday at Yad Vashem, the national Holocaust memorial and educational center in Jerusalem. No other country in the world could successfully invite that many leaders to attend a memorial and receive so many positive responses. It shows how important and well respected Israel is and it shows how important the fight against anti-Semitism is. Again, truly impressive. To reprint my essays contact sales (at) www.featurewell.com
That number is truly impressive.
The central theme of this memorial event will be confronting anti-Semitism.
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Monday January 20, 2020
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According to the deals, Israel will soon begin providing natural gas for both Jordan and Egypt. Jordanian and Egyptian leadership are pleased with the arrangements - otherwise, they would never have signed on to the deals. The Jordanian Parliament, however, just passed a bill forbidding the deal. The bill is symbolic. The parliament has no real role in the decision making, all control rests in hands of the King. The King can, and in this case certainly will, disregard the parliament’s new bill. But the move by the Jordanian Parliament should not be totally discounted. And that's because this parliament passed bill represents the masses in Jordan who do not want a deal with Israel. The bill was passed on to the government for approval. According to the Speaker of the Parliament the bill "answers the calls of the people who refuse an agreement with Israel. Governments recognize Israel, but the peoples do not recognize Palestine's occupying entity." And so it goes. Read my latest book THUGS. It's easy. Just click. To reprint my essays contact sales (at) www.featurewell.com
Media in the Middle East has been covering details of the new gas deals developed between Jordan and Israel and between Egypt and Israel.
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Sunday January 19, 2020
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The IDF recently announced that they are installing their new seismic and acoustic anti-tunnel defenses on the northern border with Lebanon and Syria. This is a very new cutting edge technology that can detect tunnels that are being built and tunnels that have already been dug. This new technology marks the first effective weapon in history to defend against tunnel. Tunnel warfare has puzzled defense strategists for millennia. They say that there is no immediate threat. However, one must note that Israel has already detected a number of tunnels dug deep into the rock. So - while there may not be an immediate alert, there is an ongoing threat. And that ongoing threat is now being partially neutralized because Israel is taking the steps to install this new technology. Read my latest book THUGS. It's easy. Just click. To reprint my essays contact sales (at) www.featurewell.com
They devices are called tunnel buster sensors.
As for the installation of the tunnel busters on Israel's northern border, the IDF says this is just a preventative measure.
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