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2018-03-15 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Israel in talks with Russia over disputed gas field put up for tender by Lebanon
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Israel is holding talks with Russia and other parties about the situation around a disputed gas field that has been put up for tender by Leb and is expected to be developed by an international consortium of energy companies, including Russia’s Novatek, Israeli Ambassador to Moscow Gary Koren told Sputnik.
"I can only confirm that we hold talks with Russia and other parties, and we hope that they will be successful. The Russian side is fully aware of the details," the ambassador said when asked about the possible risks for Russian companies that plan to develop the gas field.
In February, Israeli Minister of National Infrastructure, Energy, and Water Resources Yuval Steinitz said that Israel was ready to resolve differences with Leb by diplomatic means.
At the same time, Total said that the exploration work of the consortium at Block 9 would not affect the disputed territories with Israel.
Leb’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri
 Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if  Hizbullah
...Party of God , a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
has him bumped off, too.
emphasized during talks with outgoing US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in February that his country has the right to explore and develop potential oil and gas reserves in its territorial waters.
In December 2017, the Lebanese government approved provisions for the right to explore two energy blocks ‐ Block 4 and Block 9 ‐ in Leb to the consortium of natural gas producer Novatek with La Belle France’s Total and Italia’s Eni.
In February, the companies signed relevant agreements; the Russian share amounted to 20 percent, while Total and Eni each got 40 percent.
However,
the difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits...
in late January, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that Block 9 belonged to Israel and that the companies participating in the tender were making a big mistake.
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