This falls under the "be careful who you follow" category. A little truth with the lies makes it easier to swallow.
Fact Check: Israeli Channel 13, Al Jazeera Did NOT Confirm Hezbollah Captured All Or Part Of Kiryat Shmona
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fact-check-israeli-channel-13-002339571.html?fr=yhssrp_catchall
[I think Trump has already said this will not happen.]
Netanyahu wants oil, gas to flow through Israel post-Iran war
Mar 19 2026
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday he believes pipelines should be built to transport Middle East oil and gas across the Arabian Peninsula and up to Israeli ports to avoid threats by Iran in the Hormuz Strait and other Gulf waters.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/netanyahu-says-iran-no-longer-has-uranium-enrichment-capacity-2026-03-19/
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[Israel has been planning a pipeline for years - before the Gaza war. The pipeline would meet the Mediterranean just above Gaza. Coincidence?]
The ‘Pipeline Economics’ behind Gaza conflict
Jan 2024
Hamas killed hundreds of innocent people and kidnapped many others at a rave party in the Negev desert on the Israel-Gaza border on October 7, which invited a sharp retaliation from the Jewish country. But what were their real intentions? What is the economics behind the attack?
It is a secret oil pipeline running through the vast Negev desert near the Gaza Strip that is a lifeline for Israel. The infrastructure is also a potential competitor to the Suez Canal, one of the only two transit points between Europe and Asia for shipping lines that carry billions of dollars of crude oil daily.
The 158-mile pipeline connects Israel’s oil refineries to the Red Sea coast. Hamas and Houthis, who are targeting pipeline choke points in Israel, see everything that boosts the Israeli economy as a threat.
Before a catastrophic oil spill a few years ago, Israel’s state-owned Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Co., now the Europe-Asia Pipeline Co. (EAPC), was the country’s best-kept national secret.
However, EAPC may become the world’s leading oil transport system, supplying Israel, and safely transporting billions of barrels of oil from the Middle East to Europe and the rest of Asia.
Sense in the senseless
Iranian ships heading to Europe would carry oil to Eilat, Israel’s southernmost tip, on the Red Sea. Ashkelon, a Mediterranean city 5 kilometres north of northern Gaza, received the oil from there. The pipeline crossed Egypt’s 200-kilometre-wide Sinai Peninsula, separating it from the Suez Canal.
The 1979 Iranian Revolution ended this possibility and changed Israel-Iran relations. Israel briefly let Iranian oil into the pipeline following the revolution. After that, the two nations became each other’s enemy.
EAPC briefly gained attention in 2014 when a pipeline breach sparked Israel’s biggest environmental crisis. The EAPC pipeline died again until the 2021 Abraham Accords with the UAE, Israel, and Bahrain. Israel and the UAE discussed the Red Sea-Mediterranean EAPC oil pipeline. This pipeline’s operations have been kept secret by Israeli officials.
Major historical events like the Soviet-Afghan struggle, the Azerbaijan-Armenia rivalry, the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and the Israel-Hamas war occurred along significant trade corridors, which intersect the seven global choke points.
What is the attack tactic and whose hands are the boorish radicals? Iran, Qatar, Russia, and China would rejoice if Israel’s oil pipeline and Eilat project were destroyed because they threatened their dominance over regional routes.
https://globalbusinessoutlook.com/magazine/economy-magazine/the-pipeline-economics-behind-gaza-conflict/
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Oil traders that lease two ships through the Suez Canal will now pay for one VLCC ship through Israel. With Suez one-way rates rising from USD 300,000 to 400,000, the EAPC pipeline can provide its customers with a significant economic advantage.
Before recently, ships mooring at Ashkelon (Northern Israel) could not access GCC ports, forcing EAPC’s customer shipping businesses to use several registrations and other methods to hide their identity. Israel never disclosed too many EAPC specifics since it would have affected its consumers.
Israel’s sharing of earnings with Iran contributes to EAPC’s secrecy. In 2015, a Swiss court ordered Israel to pay Iran USD 1.1 billion for their joint ownership of the EAPC pipeline earnings. Israel disobeyed this compensation ruling. The current Iranian regime refuses to collaborate with Israel; thus peace and profit sharing are unlikely.
Regional corridor control war
Seven geographical maritime choke points shape the world’s strategic terrain in the complicated web of global geopolitics. Three of these critical choke spots are in the Middle East, complicating the region’s problems. This is why the Middle East is always unstable.
International supply chains and maritime transportation depend on the Suez Canal, Bab El Mandeb, and Strait of Hormuz in the Middle East. Two choke points are near Israel and one is near UAE.
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Egypt and Israel have developed close ties in recent decades, affecting regional geopolitics. The full operational capacity of the Eastern Mediterranean Pipeline Company (EAPC) will threaten this relationship.
This project is controversial because it will drain 10–12% of Egypt’s lucrative Suez Canal commerce. The possible effects extend beyond Egypt’s borders, worrying China and Qatar, which have Suez Canal interests.
Israel must handle this difficulty without jeopardising its delicate diplomatic relationship with Egypt, its neighbour, for trade. Israel must delicately balance regional stability and energy security.
EAPC can carry oil unloaded in Ashkelon from Azerbaijani and Kazakh ships to Gulf of Aqaba tankers. These tankers will travel to China, South Korea, and other Asian countries. This dynamic affects energy trade and geopolitics.
https://globalbusinessoutlook.com/magazine/economy-magazine/the-pipeline-economics-behind-gaza-conflict/
[Israel relentlessly wants to build this pipeline. The benefit to Israel is enormous, and the loss to other interests are also enormous.]
Mediterranean Tensions Flare Up As Israel Rehabilitates Pipeline
Sep 2020
The infrastructure was completed in 1968 with the support of Israel and the pro-western shah of Iran. However, the Islamic Revolution of 1979 cut of the oil supplies from Iran that traversed the country. The strategic value of Israel as an essential linchpin of Western energy security diminished overnight.
https://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/Middle-East/Mediterranean-Tensions-Flare-Up-As-Israel-Rehabilitates-Pipeline.html