l group including Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and his former cabinet secretary Zvi Hauser were actively lobbying Israel's government to take advantage of the chaos in Syria to demand international recognition of their section of the oil rich Golan Heights.
Netanyahu urged that Israel should demand this as compensation for having tolerated Obama's Iranian nuclear agreement.
Gaining control of the Golan Heights has long been a goal of Israel.
Netanyahu told Israeli and foreign media after his meeting with President Trump that he had raised the Golan issue, and said without elaborating that the U.S. leader was not surprised by the request.
On February 15th 2017 the Independent reported that billionaire globalist activist George Soros, known for his investment in pro-western color revolutions, had invested million in Goldman Sachs in the fourth quarter of 2016.
In late-February 2017, an ISIS affiliated group took control of the strategic oil-exploration area of the Golan Heights in Syria which Genie had rights to. After a surprise attack the jihadists captured the towns of Tseel, Sahem al Golan, Adwan, and Ten Jamoua which bridge Syria and Israel over the Yarmouk River.
The Israelis did not intervene at any point of the military confrontation, but have intervened on a dozen of occasions against the Assad regime.
While this conflict was unraveling between 2015 and 2017, Genie Energy was busy beefing up its advisory board with top names in the political and business world including many with Goldman Sachs connections.
Mary Landrieu, former U.S. Senator from Louisiana (1996-2014), and previous Chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, was one edition. While serving as head of the Senate Committee she sponsored and passed the U.S.-Israel Energy Cooperation Bill, which promised to foster partnerships focused on developing resources such as natural gas and alternative fuels, on the academic, business and governmental levels.
The wife of the board's Chairman, Michael Steinhardt, serves on NYU's Board of Trustees with former Goldman Sachs. #2 man Gary Cohn, along with Laurence Fink, the CEO of BlackRock, which is a top shareholder in Goldman Sachs, and John Paulson, who made billions of dollars on the purchase of credit default swaps with the collapse of the housing bubble in 2008. In 2010, Paulson along with Goldman Sachs was accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission of creating financial products designed to fail.
Genie investor Rupert Murdoch, the Founder and Executive Chairman of News Corporation, co-chairs the Partnership for New York City with Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO Lloyd Blankfein.
Lastly, in 2011 The New Yorker accused Rupert Murdoch of holding a profile story on-then Goldman Sachs COO Gary Cohn because they did not want him being unfairly associated with news stories about Goldman Sachs having sold clients mortgages it thought were junk.
On April 5th, a day prior to the US missile strikes in Syria, Israel and the European Union signed a preliminary agreement to build a $6-7 billion undersea natural gas pipeline, which would run from Israel through the Mediterranean Sea to Greece or Italy, and provide a non-Russian energy alternative to EU by 2025.
The oil for the 1,248 mile long, 6 mile deep pipeline would prospectively be pulled from Israel's Leviathan underwater natural gas field, discovered in 2010, and Cyprus Aphrodite gas field.
Could the Israeli lobbying for US and NATO intervention in Syria be an insurance play for the successful acquisition of the oil-rich Golan Heights, and the deployment of their competing Eurasia gas pipeline to Europe? - An asset, which would generate trillions of dollars of revenue and energy independence for Israel for the next hundred years.
