Apparently Area C of the West Bank and the sea zone off the coast have significant oil and gas reserves... Area C is the framework of roads, military bases, and colonizer settlements that the Israeli disallow Palestinian access.
The UN Conference on Trade and Development's 2019 report on this topic..
Geologists and natural resources economists have confirmed that the Occupied Palestinian
Territory lies above sizeable reservoirs of oil and natural gas wealth, in Area C of the occupied
West Bank and the Mediterranean coast off the Gaza Strip. However, occupation continues to
prevent Palestinians from developing their energy fields so as to exploit and benefit from such
assets. As such, the Palestinian people have been denied the benefits of using this natural resource
to finance socioeconomic development and meet their need for energy. The accumulated losses
are estimated in the billions of dollars. The longer Israel prevents Palestinians from exploiting their
own oil and natural gas reserves, the greater the opportunity costs and the greater the total costs of
the occupation borne by Palestinians become.
This study identifies and assesses existing and potential Palestinian oil and natural gas reserves
that could be exploited for the benefit of the Palestinian people, which Israel is either preventing
them from exploiting or is exploiting without due regard for international law.
Does the rest of Israel know what business is being conducted in the West Bank? How many of the businesses working those resources are owned and operated by the far right?
@Hector
I hit a state of surreal when I found I was comparing "1 million people attempting to migrate and being bombed" to "1 million people being relocated into economic or actual slavery".
I wouldn’t call people moving - willingly or otherwise - to avoid bombs “migrants”, particularly when Israel told them to move for their safety but still continues to put them at risk by bombing the areas they were told to flee to, but sure, whatever, “migrants”.
What you’re doing is comparing what’s happening in Ukraine with what’s happening in Gaza. Gaza has been under blockade since Israel moved out in ‘05, and suffers from a consequent humanitarian crisis, worsened by this conflict.
Israel’s position is that there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza, which sucks for Gaza because Israel controls the vast majority of what - and who - gets in or out.
Aside from that, I don’t particularly want to compare anything. Strongpoint got bent out of shape about a politician saying something, I said the politician wasn’t wrong and said why.
I’m not trying to say any particular conflict is better or worse than another. War sucks, people die. Someone dying in Gaza isn’t worth more or less than someone dying in Ukraine, or Tigray, or anywhere else. Suggesting we’re not allowed to get upset about any particular conflict because we didn’t get obviously upset about another one is foolish.
I would also contend that world government’s didn’t ignore these other conflicts. Ukraine is still being supported by countries across the world, and when the Tigray conflict began, the Ethiopian president basically told the world to go away. There’s not much that can be done after that, but reports kept coming out of the region as NGOs were trying to help, and government’s tried to get involved to bring the conflict to an end.
Unfortunately, short of putting boots on the ground there’s not much that can be done anyway. Sanctions can be avoided by trading with countries that don’t acknowledge or otherwise ignore them, like Russia trading oil with China and India, and diplomats can be ignored or fobbed off, like when Abiy told everyone to fuck off until Ethiopia asked for something. There are enough competing ideologies in the world that if you get shunned by one you can go to another for what you need.