Eye on the Middle East Nov/Dec 2011

The late Golda Meir, fourth prime minister of the State of Israel, once said, “If Moses had turned right instead of left when he led his people out of the Sinai desert, the Jews would have had the oil; and the Arabs would have ended up with the oranges.” That was Golda’s humorous explanation of Israel’s energy deficiency, while energy-rich neighboring countries hold billions of barrels