From: gerald_a_levy (gerald_a_levy@msn.com)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2003 - 08:42:22 EST
The following story by Akiva Eldar reports on a plan after the imposition of a "friendly post-war regime in Iraq" to re-open a pipeline from the Northern Iraqi city of Mosul to Haifa which was closed in 1948 to supply Israel with an alternative to paying higher prices to have oil shipped in from Russia. The Israeli National Infrastructure Minister, Joseph Partitzky, believes that the US will support that plan since it would deliver Iraqi oil directly to a Mediterranean port. http://www.counterpunch.org/eldar04012003.html There is no discussion of the potentially explosive social and political consequences of such a development in the rest of the Middle East. In solidarity, Jerry
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