![]() ![]() “You need to drill, find gas, do your analysis to find out if it is commercial and economically viable you need to build necessary infrastructures and then start production,” Haytayan said. Activists say that the politicians were using the talks to create a false impression that they would be able to pay the country’s debts with revenue the state might earn from gas, without ushering in political or economic reforms. Even if gas were discovered, it could take up to a decade to put the required infrastructure in place. Gas has not yet been discovered and the only offshore drilling attempt revealed a dry well, according to Laury Haytayan, a Lebanese oil and gas expert. They say everyone benefits from the talks, except for the Lebanese. Some went as far as to say that Lebanon would earn billions annually if an agreement is reached. But many in Lebanon-oil and gas experts, political analysts, and civil society activists-have been skeptical. mediation, hopes were raised that the discovery of gas in the disputed area might alleviate Lebanon’s economic misery. It was a de facto recognition of a state they do not officially recognize.Īs the two delegations met in Naqoura in southern Lebanon, under U.S. Last month, Iran’s proxy, Hezbollah, and its Shia ally the Amal movement gave in to American pressure and greenlighted Lebanon’s government to engage in talks with Israel to resolve their dispute over maritime boundaries. strategic interests-and it has already started. Such diplomacy will inevitably focus on what Lebanon can do for U.S. They should be careful what they wish for. diplomacy-just not filtered strictly through the prism of Palestine. election at all, they are hoping the winner will recognize that the economy, not Israel, is their country’s top concern. To the extent that Lebanese people are now thinking about the U.S. One year later, the Lebanese emerged in the thousands against their own political elites and demanded they be replaced, along with the country’s sect-based power-sharing system. BEIRUT-When Donald Trump moved the American embassy to the disputed city of Jerusalem in 2018, Lebanon, a country that has been at the frontline of the Israeli-Arab rivalry since the start, witnessed muted protests. ![]()
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