{"id":5187,"date":"2015-10-09T18:52:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T18:52:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-10-09T18:52:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T18:52:46","slug":"could_oil_in_israel_change_the_middle_east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2015\/10\/09\/could_oil_in_israel_change_the_middle_east\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Oil in Israel Change the Middle East?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: Matt in Pueblo, Colorado, great to have you on Open Line Friday. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s a great honor to talk to you, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I am a Rush Baby<\/a>. I\u2019m raising two Rush Babies.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wow.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ve served in the military. I\u2019ve been down to Laredo, Texas. And what Trump says is right. Now, my whole thing, though, is recently Israel has found a huge deposit of oil. They\u2019re saying it\u2019s like 35 times bigger than what they\u2019ve ever found before anywhere in the Middle East. It\u2019s in the Golan Heights region. Who\u2019s not to say that, you know, with Russia being in Syria now, they might try to attack Israel just to get hold of the Golan Heights.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I have not heard of this discovery of oil in Israel. I\u2019ve read novels about it. But I\u2019ve not heard of a massive discovery of oil in the Golan Heights.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It came out about two days ago.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I was laid up and I missed it. I have not seen a word about that. As I say, I\u2019ve read a couple of really great novels about how such a discovery would totally change the geopolitics of the Middle East, but I didn\u2019t know such a discovery had actually happened.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think the UK Daily Mail had an article, I believe it was yesterday.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What\u2019s the upshot of this? What were you going to say?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I mean, I just find it kind of strange that, number one, Iran finds a huge cache of natural uranium in there after the Iran deal, and then all of a sudden Israel has oil, and Russia\u2019s already there.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, Russia\u2019s already where?<\/a><\/p>\n

CALLER: In Syria.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, now, wait a minute, now. Where did you say the oil has been discovered? Israel, or the Golan Heights?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, the Golan Heights was taken by the Israelis during the 10 day war I think of 1967.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And the oil is found in the southern part of the Golan Heights.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Jeez, something in my head says Israel does not have the Golan Heights anymore, that they gave it up or lost it again. Damn it, I\u2019m totally confused by this. I need somebody to clarify for me who owns the Golan Heights right now before I can go forward with this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Game changing oil reserve discovered in — okay, so it is in Israel. So I\u2019m getting a flash note here. Well, if that\u2019s true, then it does totally — but your point that — I got that Iranians recently discovered uranium after the deal was done, which means it was always there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But the Russians being in Syria, what\u2019s that got to do with oil in the Golan Heights?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, the Russians right now, they\u2019re saying that they\u2019re attacking ISIS. Depending on who you listen to is they\u2019re actually attacking, not just ISIS, but the rebels that the Obama administration is backing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: What\u2019s not say that after they get done with whatever they\u2019re going to do in Syria, they\u2019re going to say, you know what, you guys never deserved to have the Golan Heights in the first place from the first —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, so you think the Russians, after they take care of our allies in Syria are gonna move on Israel\u2019s oil supply in the Golan?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, that\u2019s what your theory is? Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re asking, what would stop Putin if he wanted to make a — well, Israel has nukes. That\u2019s what would stop \u2019em.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But Israel really doesn\u2019t have United States backing it up anymore because of Obama.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s true, but I think this discovery of oil is gonna give Israel all kinds of independence, gives it new power and independence. Besides, there\u2019s no love lost between Israel and Obama anyway. This much oil, it could replace the primary asset they get from us, which is money.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, Syria, here\u2019s my point of confusion on the Golan Heights. Syria has not given up its claim on the Golan Heights. Therefore it remains disputed, whether it\u2019s a legitimate dispute or not, Syria still claims that the Golan is theirs. And, by the way, it is right down the hill. I have been to the Golan Heights. It\u2019s one of the most fascinating places. I got a tour up there with a young member of the Israeli Defense Forces, and it\u2019s where they take you when they want to illustrate the danger they\u2019re in and how surrounded they are and how people cannot envision it. You go up to the Golan, and they can point to every nation that wants to wipe Israel out, and you can see it. <\/p>\n

You can see Syria. You can see Jordan. You can see every one of these threatening regions from the Golan. Beautiful place, by the way. And they tell you how vulnerable they are as a result of this. So oil up there, well, that\u2019s just gonna increase the dispute. So I see your point. You think Putin, given the weakness of the US and the resolve of Obama to basically abandon the region, is gonna leave it wide open for Putin to go in and claim it from Israel. And, without US support, Israel is not gonna have much of a defense against an onslaught of Putin. <\/line><\/p>\n

I would never underestimate the Israelis. But I have to admit, you caught me short on this. I still don\u2019t know how much oil we\u2019re talking about, and I\u2019m gonna have to — I think Joel Rosenberg wrote a big novel about this that I read. It was a significant find. Do you know off the top of your head, Ryan, how big this find is, how they\u2019re describing it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: What I heard, it was like 350 meters of strata that they found of it. They\u2019re saying it was a significant find, well over a hundred times anything that they found in the Middle East before.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) A hundred times more?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, a hundred times more than —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Because I was looking at the UK Daily Mail earlier and — <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, what I\u2019ve got here is that there\u2019s “an Israeli subsidiary of the U.S. company Genie Energy, confirmed the find in an interview with Israel\u2019s Channel 2 TV, but conceded that until the oil is actually extracted, they won\u2019t be sure of the actual amounts and quality of the oil that has been discovered.”<\/p>\n

So the amount is unknown. Well, if it\u2019s a big find, if it\u2019s enough of a find, it\u2019s a game-changer is the bottom line. But without knowing any more than that, don\u2019t know how much. One thing it is going to do is turn Israel into an even bigger target now, in terms of getting them off the land, wiping them off, marching them into the Mediterranean. The Palestinians are gonna be right in there, “It\u2019s ours, it\u2019s ours, it\u2019s ours,” so forth. I\u2019m sorry to be caught short on this, folks. I literally did not know about this. I thought this was a story in a novel.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The oil discovery in Israel, it is said to be that it could be huge. I\u2019ve had a chance to read a little bit. Depending on how deep it is, the layers, it could be a gigantic find. This is what the UK Daily Mail is saying. So, if all that\u2019s true, and we won\u2019t know for a while, there\u2019s no question it\u2019s a game-changer. But it\u2019s just gonna focus enemies on Israel even more. That\u2019s the last thing anybody wants in that region is for Israel to become even more empowered. So the claim will be it isn\u2019t Israel\u2019s, it\u2019s Syria\u2019s or whatever, you watch. They\u2019re just not gonna sit by and let this happen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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