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BTW. Saudi Arabia and Israel have been talking since...2019.On this. The idea is to build a pipeline that exits at an Israeli port in the Mediterranean Sea. With that and enhanced pipeline capacity exiting out the Red Sea, the
Strait of Hormuz becomes much less relevant as only Iraq and Iran would need to use it...and if we needed to build something from Iraq out I'm sure that can be arranged.
The Iranians and their western apologists forgot something: If you have a nuclear option, it carries much more value if you
leave it as an option. When you fire your nuke off you've got nowhere else left to go.
That's the position Iran finds itself in.
gulfmagazine.co - Israel and saudi arabia discuss groundbreaking oilThe idea of a pipeline connecting Saudi Arabia’s vast oil fields to Israeli ports is not new. However, this is the first time in recent years that an Israeli minister has publicly acknowledged ongoing discussions about such a project. The proposed pipeline would likely stretch from Saudi Arabia, across Jordan or other intermediaries, and reach Israel’s Mediterranean coast—possibly through the Eilat-Ashkelon pipeline route.
This would allow Saudi oil to be transported to Europe more quickly, bypassing traditional and sometimes risky maritime routes like the Strait of Hormuz and the Suez Canal.They've been talking since 2019:
Though Saudi Arabia has not officially recognized Israel, the two countries have been inching closer through backchannel diplomacy. In 2017, then-Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz publicly admitted that Israel had “secret ties” with many Arab and Muslim nations, including some in the Gulf.
In 2019, Bloomberg reported that Israeli and Saudi officials discussed the idea of a gas pipeline running from Eilat to the Arabian Peninsula. These early talks laid the groundwork for what could now become a historic partnership, especially following the Abraham Accords of 2020, which normalized Israel’s relations with the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan.
