Israel cookin' with gas!

Here's what the World Book encyclopedia said about Israel in 2005: "Israel is poor in energy sources. It has no coal deposits or hydroelectric power resources and only small amounts of crude oil and natural gas."

So was Moses just waffling on in Deuteronomy 33 when he said:  

“they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hidden in the sand and later on of Asher whose land faced the great sea: "let him dip his foot in oil."                                                       

Listen Moses, you're 120 years old  and retired from sheep farming 40 years ago – what would you know about geology or seismic surveys, let alone what’s under the great sea?

Poor Israel - surrounded by oil-rich Arab lands but stuck with this 'ridiculous' prediction staring out from their Torah about abundance, treasures and oil....ridiculous until now.

Natural gas started flowing to Ashdod on March 31, 2013 from the Tamar field 80 kilometres west of Haifa, tapping into a reserve of 275 billion cubic metres of natural gas under the Mediterranean. If that's not enough there's 700 billion cubic metres of gas waiting in the Leviathan field nearby, plus 600 million barrels of oil for good measure.

Is this just ‘Lady Luck’ smiling on Israel for a change?..…or is this yet another modern day fulfilment of Jewish prophecy after 3350 years? Perhaps old Moses knew what he was talking about after all.                                      

With an Energy Triangle planned for 2015 with Cyprus and Greece, things are looking up for Israel, except there’s a jealous neighbour - Lebanon, backed by.......

 

Acknowledgements:  

World Book 2005    

wikipedia.org   

Photo credits: oil rig / oilinisrael.net 

map /worldtribune.com