Israel backs Georgia in Oil Pipeline War

Last year, the Georgian president commissioned from private Israeli security firms several hundred military advisers, estimated at up to 1,000, to train the Georgian armed forces in commando, air, sea, armored and artillery combat tactics.

Georgian tanks and infantry, aided by Israeli military advisers, captured the capital of breakaway South Ossetia, Tskhinvali, early Friday, Aug. 8, bringing the Georgian-Russian conflict over the province to a military climax.

Jerusalem owns a strong interest in Caspian oil and gas pipelines to reach the Turkish terminal port of Ceyhan, rather than the Russian network. Intense negotiations are afoot between Israel, Turkey, Georgia, Turkmenistan and Azarbaijan for pipelines to reach Turkey and thence to Israel’s oil terminal at Ashkelon and on to its Red Sea port of Eilat. From there, supertankers can carry the gas and oil to the Far East through the Indian Ocean.

Aware of Moscow’s sensitivity on the oil question, Israel offered Russia a stake in the project but was rejected.

These wars are all about Greed for Oil....and the greater picture is not so opaque anymore....it's a clear cut case of Zionist Greed for Power.

The Georgia-Russia conflict instigated by U.S. & Israel

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Israel needs the pipelines routed to its homeland through the balkanized Iraq land (Syria poses the problem for U.S.-Israel in providing the shortcut access, so Syria would have to be conquered to make that feasible).

To clarify the confusion arising from the real reasons for Georgia-Russia war, this is probably over coveting oil-gas resources to satisfy not only the #ty little country's insatiable greed for fuel in profiteering but alleviate that nation's energy crisis, just like Afghanistan was destroyed post 9-11 after Caspian oil deal failed to materialize under Taliban regime. Full Article

But that still doesn't answer the larger question: Why would Saakashvili embark on such a pointless military adventure when he had no chance of winning? After all, Russia has 20 times the firepower and has been conducting military maneuvers anticipating this very scenario for months. Does Uncle Sam really want another war that bad or is the fighting in South Ossetia is just head-fake for a larger war that is brewing in the Straits of Hormuz?

Mikhail Saakashvili is a western educated lawyer and a favorite of the neocons. He rose to power on a platform of anti-corruption and economic reform which emphasized free market solutions and privatization. Instead of raising the standard of living for the Georgian people, Saakashvili has been running up massive deficits to expand the over-bloated military. Saakashvili has made huge purchases of Israeli and US-made (offensive) weapon systems and has devoted more than "4.2% of GDP (more than a quarter of all Georgian public income) to military hardware.

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Georgia recover their SO needs US to instigate? Who will instigate China to recover their Taiwan?

As long as the "brave" IDF storm troopers are shooting Palestinian kids in the head, or beating up a handcuffed "detainee," or clubbing elderly Palestinians in the skull, they are some of the "bravest" troops in the world.

But when the other side rares up and fights back, as we saw in Lebanon in 2006, the Khazars put their tail between their hoofed feet and run.

Security consultants? Right. And the US doesn't send combat troops to countries it's trying to subvert, only "military advisers."

Even a blind man can see what's going on here. Zionists like Leviev are trying to corner the oil and gas fields in the resource rich Caspian Basin region, to enrich themselves and to make Israel's port of Haifa the oil capital of the world.

Israel on defensive as military ties draw criticism

By Tobias Buck in Jerusalem

Published: August 11 2008 03:00 | Last updated: August 11 2008 03:00


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Israel's military relations with Georgia came under the spotlight yesterday as authorities insisted they had repeatedly turned down requests from Tbilisi to supply advanced offensive weapons, writes Tobias Buck in Jerusalem .

Russia lashed out at countries with military ties to Georgia. "Those who have been supplying arms to Georgia should feel part of the blame for the loss of life of civilians, including many Russian citizens," said Sergei Lavrov, the foreign minister.

Israeli media reported that the country's defence industry sold goods worth several hundred million dollars to Tbilisi in recent years, including drones, night-vision equipment and mortar shells. A number of retired Israeli army officers also provided training to Georgian troops.

Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel's biggest newspaper, also stressed the personal ties between the two countries, noting that Davit Kezerashvili, Georgia's defence minister, went to school in Israel.

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It is somewhat ironic that this area of Georgia reminded me of Israel's map and it's own settlements issue. It would seem that Russia wants to keep as close as possible near this area due to it's potential threat of complete independence from them.

Having Russian citizens there is no more different from what Israel is apparently doing with it's own settlements.

These Russian citizens are most likely paid and or forced to live there. Strange irony isn't it?

This whole Georgia area being controlled by NATO forces would obviously be a major strategic threat to Russia. They seem to have a point on that issue, even though it's more like cold war paranoia.

This is just one more reason to get away from the dependency on oil. We cannot allow oil to be the reason for any more wars. Obviously it wouldn't take much to disrupt the flow anyway. This would probably bring the price of oil back up again and most likely part of their plan?

So much for supply and demand......for higher profits. All they have to do is apparently put a choke hold somewhere.