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in reply to @vin's post:
man i posted the gaza marine field yesterday and then deleted because I thought I was being too cynical. sigh.
love to go "this will make me sound like a conspiracy theorist" only to learn the next day
Here's the source link in case folks don't want to click into twitter: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/israel-awards-gas-exploration-licences-eni-bp-four-others-2023-10-29/
Just a point of order: the linked study in the quoted tweet by @anthonyzenkus is a UN study establishing that Israel already controls all of the coastal and a good amount of the land-based natural gas and oil fields that should be under Palestinian control.
The linked Reuters article is a little harder to make any strong statements from because there are 12 licenses given to 6 companies and they only mention 3 of the licenses if I'm reading correctly, but the only mentioned locations for the granted licenses are north and west of the Leviathan gas field, which is squarely within Israeli control and territory already and pretty far north of anything acknowledged even when the Oslo Accords were respected. There's a possible argument that this is an encroachment on Lebanon's gas rights.
I have no doubt this colonization project has its eyes on land-based oil and gas reserves that Israel hasn't been able to steal yet, just the coastal argument doesn't really make sense. I might be missing something here tho