By Micah Halpern
I've Been Thinking:
Private geologists have announced that they found oil in Israel. And it looks like a huge find.
There are only three problems.
The first problem is that the oil reserves lie deep under volcanic rock.
The second problem is that the only country in the world that recognizes that the site of the oil discovery is in Israel --- is Israel.
Why? Because the oil that was discovered is in the Golan Heights. The Golan came under Israeli military law after the Six Day War in 1967. In 1981 the Knesset passed the Golan Heights Law which applies Israeli "laws jurisdiction and administration" to the Golan.
People often mistake this as annexing. The law and the Knesset fall short of annexing. They specifically do not use the word in the context of the Golan just as they do not use it when referring to Jerusalem.
Finally, the third and last problem is that the oil reserves lie right on the border with Syria. They are only hundreds of yards from where ISIS and al Qaeda and Hezbollah and Assad's forces are fighting.
This is one hot potato - but it might be worth dealing with in a serious way.
Micah@MicahHalpern.com
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