Figures. Obama Administration Sides With Lebanon’s Hezbollah Government Over Israel in Border Dispute

According to Wikileaks documents released last December, Obama State Department officials refer to the Hezbollah terror organization as the “armed resistance.”

This is the same terror organization that fires on Israeli troops from behind 3-story buildings in residential neighborhoods.

Now this…
The Obama Administration is siding with the Hezbollah-dominated Lebanese government over Israel in a recent border dispute.
Haaretz reported:

Amid rising tensions over gas reserves, Israel to submit proposal to UN on where maritime economic border with Lebanon should be over next few days; U.S. endorsed Lebanon’s proposal submitted to UN in August.

In the next few days Israel will submit to the United Nations its take on where its maritime economic border with Lebanon should be, as the two countries scramble for gas reserves estimated to be worth billions of dollars.

Israel’s position is due to be approved by the cabinet on Sunday; Jerusalem argues that Lebanon’s proposal includes major areas belonging to Israel.

Last August, Lebanon submitted to the United Nations its version of where the maritime border should be – the exclusive economic zone. In November, it submitted its version of its western border, with Cyprus.

The Lebanese proposal does not include the large Tamar and Leviathan gas prospects, operated by Delek Energy and U.S. company Noble Energy. But the National Infrastructure Ministry found that the proposal contains reserves with a potential value in the billions of dollars.

The Lebanese also sent their version to the United States, which conducted an expert review and endorsed the document. A senior Foreign Ministry official told Haaretz that the American diplomat in charge of the issue was Frederic Hof, who was responsible for Syria and Lebanon under the former U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, George Mitchell. Hof has kept the Israel-Lebanon brief despite Mitchell’s resignation two months ago.

In April, Hof began shuttling between Beirut and Jerusalem. A senior administration official told Haaretz that Hof’s main goal was to prevent the border from becoming a source of tension between Israel and Lebanon, which could give Hezbollah a pretext for targeting Israeli gas installations.

Beyond the political and diplomatic interest, the United States has an economic interest in keeping the parties calm, not least because American companies are involved in the search for gas an oil in Israel, Lebanon and Cyprus. Hof told his counterparts in Jerusalem that Israel should cooperate with setting the maritime border to prevent the creation of an “underwater Shaba Farms,” referring to a contested area on the Israel-Lebanon border.

The Foreign Ministry official said Israel had asked the Americans to relay a warning to Lebanon on the matter. Foreign Ministry officials told Hof that Israel would not allow a provocation on the matter or an attack on Israeli gas installations. They said Israel would consider such an attack an attack on its sovereign territory and would retaliate “strongly” against Lebanon.

Hof responded by suggesting that Israel submit to the United Nations its own outlook on the border and try to launch a dialogue. Hof asked Israel not to turn the issue into a political spat but to see it as an economic and technical matter that could benefit all parties.

Israel rejected indirect talks via the United Nations, calling on Lebanon to begin negotiations on all border issues, not just the maritime border. The foreign and infrastructure ministries believe that Lebanon is claiming vast offshore territories that belong to Israel under international law.

#1 July 10, 2011 at 9:06 am
Rose commented:

The Book of Obadiah is immutable and Obama laid himself down as part of the road in front of it.

In Verse 10, the word for “Violence” can be researched in the Strong’s Concordance, documented before the regathering of Israel, that word “Violence” is “Hamas” and equals Injustice, Violence, Wrong.

Obama has cut himself in for a share of the Harvest coming to the Enemies of the Apple of the Eye of the Lord God of the House of Abraham. Amen! Selah, Pause and calmly think of that.

Let God arise and His enemies be scattered, and filled with confusion, and fall upon their own weapons and into their own traps and snares and pitfalls, and the dirt of their digged pits fall upon their own heads.
#2 July 10, 2011 at 9:06 am
Male Silverback commented:

The cowards in Iraq do the same thing. The Muslim fighters know that countries such as the US and Isreal will always avoid firing into civilian occupied areas. We (US Forces) always ate the (Iranian made) 107mm rockets and mortars without returning fire if we traced the point of origin back to a civilian area.
#3 July 10, 2011 at 9:19 am
L.E. Liesner commented:

I can always remenber while in Vietnam taking rockets fired by the VC, and being told we could not retaliate because those rounds were coming from a friendly village. With friends like that we didn’t need enemies. Obama and his administration is just as un-American as the people that made those same decisions in Vietnam. If the sheeple allow themselve to be shields for terrorist their fate is doomed.
#4 July 10, 2011 at 9:27 am
t-wolf commented:

Israel should warn Lebanon that any attack will result in an Israeli invasion and permanent taking of all lands up to the Litani river. No more lebanese territoy, no more oil and gas dispute!
#5 July 10, 2011 at 9:29 am
Zilla commented:

Another day, another Obama alliance with islamic terrorists; Muslim Brotherhood, Taliban, Hamas, Al Qaeda (in Libya), and now this. No surprises here.
#6 July 10, 2011 at 9:46 am
Rose commented:

Any time in our history til the last 40 years, such action would bring a sure conviction of Treason and swift Justice for it.
#7 July 10, 2011 at 9:50 am
Rose commented:

RE #6 – BIG OOPSIE! I clicked on ONE STORY, the GUY WHO OUTED THE CIA AGENT – wrote my comment, AND VOILA’ I AM on the wrong story and #6 is a really stupid comment.

We cannot convict OBAMA of Treason – HE IS NOT A CITIZEN OF THE USA!!!

Sometimes the scroll feature jumps the page just as I go to click. Sorry!
#8 July 10, 2011 at 10:30 am
Gideon Reed commented:

This is a particularly interesting piece. I would love to send it to friends residing in Israel, who although exposed to the media reports there, do n ot have the “feel” of news reportage elsewhere, without linking or e-mailing articles from the West.

Please adopt an “e-mail” feature for Gateway Pundit. It would not hurt and would certainly have positive reactions.
Thank you.
#9 July 10, 2011 at 10:40 am
kato commented:

But 80 percent (or more) of American Jews will vote for Blowhard in 2012.
#10 July 10, 2011 at 11:00 am
saveus commented:

obama and muslim terrorists — perfect together
again and again
#12 July 10, 2011 at 11:37 am
dunce commented:

Some people will do anything for money even suggesting that Israel put its fate in the hands of todays UN that seems to have a main purpose of issuing statements condemning Israel. it amounts to being an accessory before the fact in another holocaust which all muslims proclaim is their intent and koranic duty.
#13 July 10, 2011 at 11:52 am
Jim commented:

I’ve been to Israel and seen the borders.

In what reality do you have a war and then have to give back the land you won? Absolutely surreal.
#14 July 10, 2011 at 12:15 pm
Mikey commented:

I’m not surprised. Obama ALWAYS comes down on the other side of America. Worthless POS.
#15 July 10, 2011 at 12:19 pm
RedBeard commented:

Obama sides with the bad guys against Israel? How [yawn] surprising.

Kato, you’re right, sadly. A majority of American Jews are still stuck in the warped philosophical view that Hitler was a right-winger, and therefore they should vote left. Utter claptrap. The only differences between Hitler and Stalin were in the details of how they went about instituting totalitarian state control of everything. American Conservatism is the polar opposite of the statism required of both communism and fascism. It’s time for liberal Jews to wake up and see that they’re backing the wrong horse. Some have, and with any luck it could become a trend.
#16 July 10, 2011 at 1:14 pm
Stuart commented:

L.E. Liesner #3
Yeah, the same thing happened to my unit in RVN Then they went too far and tossed a grenade into a truck full of K-9 troops. Fortunately it landed right in the lap of one of the troops who had the presence of mind to chuck it back before it exploded. Shortly thereafter the village experienced a terrible accident. Misread fire coordinates and all that. Afterwards we had no more problems with that village, at least for the rest of my tour.
#18 July 10, 2011 at 3:03 pm
ert commented:

Why would the US want an energy independent, self reliant Israel?

Why wouldn’t it be in the US interests to go with the whole “All land belongs to Arabs, and all oil interests must be Arab” school of though… I mean aside from that it’s totally insane!
#19 July 10, 2011 at 3:04 pm
ert commented:

#9 July 10, 2011 at 10:40 am
kato commented:
“But 80 percent (or more) of American Jews will vote for Blowhard in 2012.”

Jews and Israelis, and Israeli Jews, aren’t the same thing.

I guess you can’t help but jump on an opportunity to voice resentment towards .02% of the voting population though?
#21 July 10, 2011 at 5:55 pm
RedBeard commented:

#19: Ert, I’ll gladly jump on an opportunity to voice resentment toward anyone, or any race, creed, or national origin, who is ill-informed and foolish enough to vote for Obama.

Can you explain why a majority (maybe not 80% next time, but still a majority) of American Jews will vote for the Israel-hating Obama? It’s not rational. It’s like the blacks who voted for Robert “KKK” Byrd; it defies logic and self-interest.
#22 July 10, 2011 at 6:24 pm
bg commented:

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OT..

Delta Airlines and complicity with Saudi Arabia

previously posting..

much more here..

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#23 July 10, 2011 at 6:26 pm
bg commented:

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re: #22

previously posting = previous posting or previously posted..

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#26 July 22, 2011 at 9:06 am
bassel eid commented:

hey everyone im a lebanese cristian im 16 i just wana tell u fuc k hiz bullah im with israels side i know hes form lebanon but the truth is i hat these muslim shi3e basterds hope they burn in hell:)