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[OPE-L:8706] Israel and Iraqi oil



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The following story by Akiva Eldar reports on a plan
after the imposition of a "friendly post-war regime in
Iraq"  to re-open a pipeline from the Northern Iraqi city
of  Mosul to Haifa which was closed in 1948 to supply
Israel with an alternative to paying higher prices to have
oil shipped in from Russia.   The Israeli National 
Infrastructure Minister, Joseph Partitzky,  believes  that
the US will support that plan since it would deliver Iraqi
oil directly to a Mediterranean port.
http://www.counterpunch.org/eldar04012003.html
 
There is no discussion of the potentially explosive
social and political consequences of such a development
in the rest of  the Middle East.
 
In solidarity, Jerry


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