{"id":30276,"date":"2019-01-23T12:28:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T12:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30276"},"modified":"2019-01-23T12:28:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T12:28:52","slug":"natural-gas-fields-give-israel-a-regional-political-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30276","title":{"rendered":"Natural gas fields give Israel a regional political boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1440391\/middle-east\" readability=\"40\">\n<p>\nJERUSALEM: The discovery of natural gas fields off Israel\u2019s coast along the Mediterranean Sea has given the country a geopolitical boost with its neighbors.<br \/>It\u2019s tightened relations with Arab allies and built new bridges in a historically hostile region \u2014 even without significant progress toward peace with the Palestinians.<br \/>Last week\u2019s inclusion of Israel into the Eastern Mediterranean Gas Forum in Cairo \u2014 a consortium aiming to cut infrastructure costs and lower prices \u2014 marked the first time Arab countries accepted the Jewish state into such a regional alliance, sparking excitement in Israel that its long-held hope of finally also making \u201ceconomic peace\u201d with Egypt and Jordan was fast approaching.<br \/>The forum, which also includes Cyprus, Greece, Italy and the Palestinian Authority, aims to emerge as a mini-OPEC of sorts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM: The discovery of natural gas fields off Israel\u2019s coast along the Mediterranean Sea has given the country a geopolitical boost with its neighbors.It\u2019s tightened relations with Arab allies and built new bridges in a historically hostile region \u2014 even without significant progress toward peace with the Palestinians.Last week\u2019s inclusion of Israel into the Eastern&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}