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foreign "aid" network, because
Iran's budget is balanced around a
crude oil price of $95 per barrel.
According to the International
Monetary Fund, Iran's budget is
now "unsustainable." And this could
seriously alter the balance of power,
in both energy production and ter-
rorism finance in the Mideast.
Galten, then, is quite liter-
ally planting seeds to change the
regional hegemony in the Middle
East. Oil prices, left in the dust of
the United States' financial collapse,
will inevitably skyrocket once more.
Once they do, Israel can and will be
the pinnacle of non-crude oil driven
economies in the Middle East. With
venture capital funds pouring into
Israel's green technology industry,
the days of OPEC's central com-
mand over the Middle East's energy
production — and its regional
economy — may soon end.
At the end of the oil horizon, the
Middle East will rely on Israel for
alternative fuel. At least we should
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The Charge
The United Nations special rap-
porteur on human rights in the
West Bank and Gaza accused
Israel last month of violating the
Geneva conventions in Gaza by
maintaining a siege and adminis-
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The latest U.N. report follows a
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