the agreement with Lebanon presented today to the Knesset
L’agreement between Israel and Lebanonfor l division of maritime borders and the exploitation of gas fields in disputed areas, at the moment it is still only a pact between Prime Minister Lapid and Lebanon, under pressure from the United States. The Israeli government will have to ratify the act by the end of Octoberbecause Biden and Lapid need a political success to show at the convocations, the Israeli ones on November 1, the American ones on November 8.
And, even if the Israeli Security Council has given the go-ahead to the agreement, the pact will be presented to Parliament this evening, after which it will be submitted to the Government for approval. But the right has strong reservations about the terms of the agreement, and the congratulations from Biden, who has it, were not enough hailed as a “historic vault”. Because giving up nearly half of the Qana field, which is located in Israeli territorial waters, means one not a small economic lossthough the Jewish state will receive compensation for missing extraction rights.
The agreement will still allow you to start extracting gas from the field within a few weeks entirely Israeli by Karish et al export it to Europe without the threats of Hezbollah attacks. But the opposition leader Netanyahu is not there, and has accused Prime Minister Lapid of “completely surrendered” to the intimidation of Nasrallah, and of not being able to run for the role of Prime Minister because, all the more reason, “he will not be able to oppose a nuclear Iran”.
Massimo Caviglia