T. Belman. Absolutely, this pipeline should be resurrected. The oil and gas arriving in Haifa, could travel to Europe and Turkey through the same pipeline Israel, Cyprus, Egypt and Greece are planning for their gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean. This would cement the budding relationship between Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia into a major regional military and economic power.
The war in Syria is currently being won by the Russian/Iran axis. Saudi Arabia must decide to cede Alawite Syria to Russia/Assad/Iran and work toward a Sunni state in the rest combined with the Sunni in Iraq.
The question becomes should that part of Syria adjacent to Israel be ceded to the Russian/Iran axis or to the new Sunni state. Israel does not want the Iranians on their northern border and so must get involved to prevent it from happening.
An out-of-the-box idea for cementing a relationship with the anti-Iran Arab states.
In World War II, British tanks in Egypt heroically battled Rommel’s tanks coming east from Libya. There have been many movies and TV shows made about these grand battles.
No one seems to have asked a simple question: Where did the British get the raw unrefined oil, and then the refined oil to fuel their tanks and battleships of the Mediterranean Sea?
Answer: The 500,000 Jews of Mandate Palestine saved Palestine from the Nazi-lover Jerusalem Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini by refining the oil that was transited by a pipeline from the Mesopotamian oil fields to Haifa. Without the 500,000 Jews of 1930-1940 pre-Israel Israel, Great Britain would have been wiped out of the Eastern Mediterranean before the War began.
An Arab-Israel pipeline can save the world in what is shaping up into World War III just as the Arab-Pre-Israel pipeline saved the world in World War II.
A Saudi-Jordan-Israel oil and gas pipeline is the only answer. It’s the shortest distance between the two points of Saudi Arabia and the Eastern Mediterranean. That was the historical path of the westward oil pipeline before Israel was created in 1948, and the Arabs declared endless war. Egypt is too unstable to protect and control its own pipeline through the Sinai, let alone anything grander. Therefore, the Sunni oil kingdoms have one and only one choice: a pipeline through Israel.
Sooner, rather than later is the answer. With oil supplies in world surplus,and low prices/barrel, it is critical to Saudi Arabia to maintain its standard of living by opening up new markets, and getting to them before others. You know who are the others!