The Theft of Gas Reserves by Israel which is destroying the Palestinian people who own them and could have made them among the wealthiest in the Middle East.

To the editor.

The several letters and articles announcing the cancelling of the Jewish film

festival, some by Jews and Jewish organizations, fail to understand that the

theatre owners also fear for the lives of their audience who will be largely

Jewish. The Ancaster theatre which will host the festival has promised strong

security. References to the holocaust and Kristalnacht are obtuse when Israeli

genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza is about to be completed.This

unconscionable act has turned world opinion against the Jewish people and is

the cause of the threats against them. The horrors endured by the citizens of

Gaza reflected in a recent headline in the Guardian newspaper—Israel will no

longer approve UNWRA food aid to the North [of Gaza]—should enflame Jewish

fury against Israel as members of the human family. Known to readers of news

media outside the heavily censored North America and Europe is that the

Hamas War was an Israeli false flag operation long in the planning to expropriate

the 30,000 Kilometres of gas fields under Gaza territory, which by rights would

have made Palestinians among the richest in the Near East. Netanyahu’s

government supported Hamas with Egypt’s help in order to keep Abbas’s

Palestinian Authority in the West Bank from creating a Palestinian state and

used in its false flag operations a military-intelligence faction within Hamas

which cooperates with Israel and U.S. intelligence. Israel’s crimes against

humanity in Gaza are also against the people of Israel who are the victims of the

Hamas “False Flag Attack” carefully engineered by Mossad-IDF. — David

Richard Beasley, Simcoe, Ontario

I sent just over the first half of this missile to the Hamilton Spectator on March

25, 2024, rewrote the rest on the 26th and resent it. The first was not printed.

The second may have a chance. In its issue of March 26, it announced on its

front page that a theatre in Ancaster would host the festival with suitable

safeguards. My letter had an alarming charge— that Israel had planned to

exterminate the inhabitants of the Gaza strip to exploit the recently discovered

oil fields under Gaza, a small piece of which was under Israeli land. I rewrote the

last sentences to give more information on the false flag operation which

needed it, struck my remark that newspapers favoured support for Israel and

censored support for Gaza because that is now generally known. Actually oil is a

small part of what are gas fields 30 kilometres west of the Gaza coast, worth

many billions of dollars and the subject of secret talks between Israel and Egypt

on how to eliminate the Palestinians in order to control the gas fields. My suspicion that the Hamas War was an Israeli false flag operation [see my blog False Flags], while others claimed it was owing to Israeli incompetence, I now find verified by the Canadian professor Michael Chossudovsky writing in Global Research weeks

ago and ignored by the mainstream press.

“A Tissue of Lies” has served to justify the killing in the

Gaza Strip of more than 23,000 civilians, of which 70% are

women and children coupled with total destruction and a string of

atrocities. [Now the number is over 31,000].

“The Cat is out of the bag. Netanyahu has tacitly acknowledged

that it was “A False Flag” which was intent upon justifying a

carefully planned genocidal attack against Palestine.”

“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian

state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money

to Hamas,” he [Netanyahu] told a meeting of his Likud party’s

Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy – to

isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West

Bank.” (Haaretz, October 9, 2023, emphasis added)

On that same day of the Hamas attack, October 7, Netanyahu

launched a carefully planned military operation against the Gaza

Strip entitled “State of Readiness For War”.

Military operations are invariably planned well in advance. Had

“Operation Al-Aqsa Storm” been a “surprise attack” as parroted by

the media, Netanyahu’s “State of Readiness For War” could not

have been carried out (at short notice) on that same day, namely

October 7, 2023.

As the press reported, but not in Europe and North America:

“Hamas was treated as a partner to the detriment of the Palestinian

Authority to prevent Abbas from moving towards creating a Palestinian

State. Hamas was promoted from a terrorist group to an organization

with which Israel conducted negotiations through Egypt, and which

was allowed to receive suitcases containing millions of dollars

from Qatar through the Gaza crossings.” (Times of Israel, October 8,

2023, emphasis added)

“Crimes against humanity beyond description by the Netanyahu

government against the People of Palestine; crimes also committedagainst the People of Israel who are the victims of the Hamas “False

Flag Attack” carefully engineered by Mossad-IDF.

“There are deep-seated divisions within Hamas. Our “False Flag”

analysis pertains to a military-intelligence faction within Hamas which

cooperates with Israeli and U.S. intelligence.”

Not only Egypt, whose waters touch on the reserves and must be further

discovered, is involved in the crime of genocide but also Britain, whose British

Gas discovered the gas reserves, and the United States through Joe Biden who

knew of the plan through U.S. Intelligence and close ties to Netanyahu.

Moreover, a United Nations Conference on Trade and Development report of

August 2019 wrote that “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. . . Israel is either preventing them

from exploiting or is exploiting without due regard for international law.”

Nimer Sultany wrote: “It’s not just Israel in the dock over genocide, it’s everyone

who looked away. The powerful case brought by South Africa against Israel at the

international court of justice under the genocide convention is a wake-up call for

many western governments and media outlets that uncritically supported Israel’s

savage war. They should now reflect on the fact that they may have supported a

genocide. South Africa’s case marked the first time since 7 October 2023 that the

story of Gaza and the Palestinians has been so powerfully told through official

channels, piercing through propaganda and obfuscation. It is hard not to be

overwhelmed.

“What has been remarkable . . . is the chilling disregard shown towards

Palestinian civilian lives. Too many lazy talking points were used to enable so

many in Europe and North America to look away, or worse, to justify complicity in

what South Africa argues is a genocide, through their support for Israel both

diplomatically and with arms supplies.”

Thankfully Canada has cut armament supplies to Israel, is sending medical and

food supplies to Palestine, participating in the nursing of large numbers of

Palestinian women raped by Israel soldiers and was among the nations calling

for a permanent cease-fire long before the United Nations did so while ignoring Netanyahu’s threats. More than complicit in the genocide, the U.S. is a

participant by sending the most devastating engines of war, bombs, and two

thousand troops to Israel to use against a defenceless people trapped by

intention in a small area and using its own war ships to prevent help for the

Palestinians from Near Eastern nations. Meanwhile the millions of protestors

around the world are ignored by the oligarchs who hold the reins of governments.

All wars have an economic compellent.