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Geo-political Approach: Leviathan and Gaza Marine Gas—Israel and Turkey Are Major Players in the Energy Market

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Mohamed Aziz Abdel-Hassan

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DOI:10.17265/1548-6591/2018.01.003

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University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq

ABSTRACT

Israel has tried and is still trying to get closer to Turkey to solve the problem of exporting gas to Europe via Turkey and Greece. The issue of energy supply is an important priority for Israeli leaders because they realized that Turkey, by its strategic geographical location, could be an important node for the transfer of energy supplies from east to west. With the potential of strategic action, after the success of the Turkish Torch project to transport Russian gas to Europe via Turkey, the main center of the network will remain the distribution of energy supply from east to west in the near and medium term. According to the strategic rule that energy sources make competitors the partners, Gaza Marine gas, will lift the economic blockade in exchange for the export of Israeli gas abroad. The Turkish diplomatic reward to allow the export of Israeli gas abroad is marine natural gas in Gaza and allows the Palestinians to invest to develop the infrastructure and the reality of services and stimulates the economy in the Gaza Strip, which was rejected by Israel for fear of investing Hamas revenues derived from the export of marine gas in the development of military capabilities, especially the missile system, which led to the threat of Israeli national security.

KEYWORDS

Leviathan field, Gaza Marine field, Turkey, Israel, geo-strategic location

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Journal of US-China Public Administration, January 2018, Vol. 15, No. 1, 21-33

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