“We are checking with deep issue the visits of senior folks of the Zionist entity to international locations of the location,” says the statement issued by Hamas in the Gaza Strip very last night time, subsequent the journey to Turkey go to by President Isaac Herzog. “These international locations are the Palestinian people’s strategic depth. Do not give an possibility to the Zionist entity to penetrate the area and play with the passions of our peoples.”

Inspite of the condemnation, this is extremely reasonable wording in comparison with former condemnatory statements launched by Hamas, these kinds of as on Israel’s normalization agreement with the UAE. The language of the assertion evidently indicates the concern on the part of the Hamas leadership for its economic fate, which resides in Turkey. “Globes” has uncovered Hamas’s economic set-up, which centers on Turkey, and is related to true estate and financial investment companies that provide finance for the group, which includes its terrorist arm. In accordance to Israeli defense sources, Hamas’s action in Turkey is not just economic. It directs terrorist attacks from there, like recruitment of operatives and preparing of the attacks.

Hamas wound up in Turkey soon after it was thrown out of Saudi Arabia in 2017 and its activity was curtailed in other countries of the region under US stress and next its designation as a terrorist group by the US and the EU. Hamas’s financial base in Turkey also grew because of the frosty relations and the friction involving Ankara and Jerusalem. Relations now look to be warming up all over again, even so, and it can be said with in close proximity to certainty that the problem of Hamas came up in the talks between Herzog and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an. The dilemma is what Erdo?an, who in the past despatched “humanitarian” assist to Hamas by means of protest flotillas, will now be ready to do.

Another aspect of Herzog’s check out to Turkey is vitality. The EastMed pipeline, prepared to traverse the Mediterranean from Israel to Europe by means of Greece, Turkey and Italy, is really considerably needed, but is trapped, amongst other factors due to the fact of superior fees. The choice at present is an current pipeline in Turkey. Theoretically, gas from Israel, and not just from Israel, could be transported to Europe through the Turkish pipeline, and so enable to reduce Russia’s leverage around northern Europe.

The vision is considerably a lot more significantly reaching, and Israel aspires to mediate in the dispute around Mediterranean gas concerning Greece and Cyprus and Turkey. Greece and Cyprus do not realize economic rights for Turkish Cyprus, and there is an area for fuel exploration in dispute north of the island. For its portion, Turkey contends that the scattered Greek islands give that region a lot much more than it essentially warrants.

There these who would say that this is an specially utopian eyesight, offered the lousy blood in the region, and undoubtedly in check out of the posture of Egypt, Israel’s closest fuel companion.

By the way, Israeli gas has commenced to attain Egypt through the Jordanian pipeline that traverses that country from north to south and crosses to Egypt from Aqaba to Sinai. The increase in portions of Israeli gas exported to Egypt will make it possible for Egypt to send out fuel from its liquefaction vegetation to Europe.

Published by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on March 10, 2022.

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