{"id":452,"date":"2003-04-24T08:34:37","date_gmt":"2003-04-24T13:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2003\/04\/24\/wmd-liberating-the-people-nope-oil\/"},"modified":"2003-04-24T08:34:37","modified_gmt":"2003-04-24T13:34:37","slug":"wmd-liberating-the-people-nope-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/archives\/2003\/04\/24\/wmd-liberating-the-people-nope-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"WMD? Liberating the People? Nope. Oil."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this article at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\">Guardian<\/a>, <a title=\"Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Israel seeks pipeline for Iraqi oil\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/israel\/Story\/0,2763,940108,00.html\">Israel seeks pipeline for Iraqi oil<\/a>, the reporter reveals plans to reopen a pipeline that has been inactive since 1948.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Plans to build a pipeline to siphon oil from newly conquered Iraq to Israel are being discussed between Washington, Tel Aviv and potential future government figures in Baghdad.<\/p>\n<p>The plan envisages the reconstruction of an old pipeline, inactive since the end of the British mandate in Palestine in 1948, when the flow from Iraq&#8217;s northern oilfields to Palestine was re-directed to Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Now, its resurrection would transform economic power in the region, bringing revenue to the new US-dominated Iraq, cutting out Syria and solving Israel&#8217;s energy crisis at a stroke.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmm, smells fishy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this article at the Guardian, Israel seeks pipeline for Iraqi oil, the reporter reveals plans to reopen a pipeline that has been inactive since 1948. Plans to build a pipeline to siphon oil from newly conquered Iraq to Israel are being discussed between Washington, Tel Aviv and potential future government figures in Baghdad. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf4VN-7i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colianni.net\/aj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}