Regarding Israel's push for a Kurdish state or, at the least, a largely autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq which could realize the long sought-after dream of an oil pipeline from Mosul to Haifa.
In order to realize their dream Israel charted our course into the horror that is Iraq through their own document, A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, July 8, 1996, which called for the elimination of the Saddam Hussein regime in Baghdad, as a first step towards overthrowing or destabilizing the governments of Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Iran.
Israeli Parliamentary investigators have determined that Israel's intelligence services delivered an erroneous assessment of pre-war Iraq's weapons of mass destruction to get the United States into Iraq.
Taking into consideration the 80-page report written by Parliamentary investigators, A Clean Break, the Carl Cameron report, and the confirmation of Alex Diamandis Israel by its own behavior and words has committed a most heinous crime against the United States resulting in the deaths of many Americans for their own end, an oil pipeline from Mosul to Haifa.
Pipeline as "a serious blow to Turkish-Israeli relations." Monday, August 25 2003 @ 10:28 AM Central Daylight Time
JERUSALEM, August 25 – The U.S. Defense Department sent a telegram to the Israeli Foreign Ministry last week on the possibility of pumping oil from U.S.-occupied Iraq to Israel, reported a leading Israeli newspaper Monday, August 25.
A "senior Pentagon official" has sent a telegram to a "top Foreign Ministry official" on the cost estimate for repairing the Mosul-Haifa pipeline that was in use prior to 1948, reported Haaretz.
It quoted sources as confirming that "the Americans are looking into the possibility of laying a new pipeline via Jordan and Israel."
The new pipeline would take oil from the oil-rich Iraqi northern area of Kirkuk, where some 40 percent of Iraqi oil is produced, transport it via Mosul to Jordan and then to Israel, said the daily.
After the end of the British mandate, the 1948 war and the creation of Israel, Iraq stopped the flow of oil to Haifa and the pipeline, only 8 inches in diameter, fell into disrepair since then.
A recent research by the Israeli National Infrastructure Ministry put the construction of a 42-inch diameter pipeline between Kirkuk and Haifa at some 400,000 dollars per kilometer.
On Sunday, August 24, Israeli National Infrastructure Minister Yosef Paritzky vowed to discuss the issue with the U.S. secretary of energy during his envisaged visit to Washington next month.
He asserted that the whole project depends on Jordan's consent, adding that the kingdom would receive a transit fee for allowing the oil to flow through its territory.
Paritzky believes restarting the pipeline could reduce Israel's fuel costs by 25 percent and turn Haifa into "the Rotterdam of the Middle East."
Israeli Premier Ariel Sharon’s government "views the pipeline to Haifa as a ‘bonus’ the U.S. could give to Israel in return for its unequivocal support for the American-led campaign in Iraq," according to Haaretz.
Angry Turkey At present, Iraqi oil is being shipped via Turkey to a small Mediterranean port near the Syrian border.
Ankara, which considers the transit fee it collects an important source of revenue, has warned Israel it would regard the talked-about Kirkuk-Mosul-Haifa pipeline as "a serious blow to Turkish-Israeli relations."
Haaretz quoted sources as saying reports about the alternative pipeline are part of an American "attempt to apply pressure on Turkey" which had opposed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and is still reluctant to commit troops to the neighboring country to ease the burden on American forces.
Iraq is one of the world's largest oil producers, with the potential of reaching about 2.5 million barrels a day.
Oil exports were halted after the 1991 Gulf War and then were allowed again on a limited basis (1.5 million barrels per day) under the U.N. supervision through the so-called oil-for-food program.
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