How the natural gas agreement between Israel, Egypt and Jordan is related to the war in Gaza in July 2014.

1. The Natural Gas
Agreements Between Israel,
Egypt and Jordan, and the
July 2014 Gaza War
Iakovos Alhadeff

2. The following Financial Times article of 21st Mai 2014, reported
that Israel was very close to signing agreements with Egypt and
Jordan for exporting Israeli natural gas to these countries, from
Leviathan, Israel's largest natural gas field.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/02ea38aa-e0e2-11e3-a934-
00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=intl
At the following article of Haaretz, which is as you can see at the
following Wikipedia link, Israel’s oldest newspaper, and its English
version is published with the New York Times,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haaretz
it was reported on 30 June 2014 that Israel did finally sign an
agreement to export to Egypt 30 billion dollars of natural gas in the
next 15 years. That is 2 billion dollars of natural gas each year, and
it amounts to 20% of Leviathan’s capacity.
http://www.haaretz.com/business/.premium-1.601980
At the following article of the Times of Israel, an electronic
newspaper that is published in 3 languages, it was reported on 3
September 2014, that Israel did finally sign an agreement to export
to Jordan 15 billion dollars of natural gas in the next 15 years.

3. http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-signs-15-billion-gas-deal-with-
jordan/
What happened in the time between the Financial Times article on
21 Mai 2014, which reported that Israel was close to signing the
agreements and the Haaretz article on 30 June, which reported the
actual 30 billion dollar agreement between Egypt and Israel?
Well what happened is that the 3 Israeli teenagers were abducted
by Hamas on 12 June 2014, as you can read at the first line of the
following Wikipedia link, in section “Immediate Events”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Israel
%E2%80%93Gaza_conflict#Immediate_events
At the first paragraph of the following Wikipedia link, you can read
that on 7 July 2014, one week after the agreement between Israel
and Egypt, Hamas took responsibility for the teenagers’ abductions
and at the same time it launched 40 rockets to Israel. One day
later, on the 8 July 2014, the Israeli army entered Gaza.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Israel
%E2%80%93Gaza_conflict
It is well known that Hamas is funded by Qatar. Hamas won the
elections in 2006 by providing financial help to the people of Gaza.
In a sense Qatar bought a military camp at the Israeli borders.
Qatar is the 3rd richest country in the world in terms of proven
natural gas reserves, after Russia and Iran, and could have easlily
provided the natural gas to Egypt and Jordan instead.

4. One of the main reasons that Qatar funded and wholeheartedly
supported the Muslim Brootherhood candidate in Egypt,
Muhammad Morsi, is that if Morsi was in power he would have
never made a deal with Israel, since the Muslim Brotherhood is
supported by Qatar.
At the following Wikipedia link, section ‘Aftermath’, 2-3 lines
before the end of the section, where the consequences of the Arab
Spring on the Egypt-Israel 1978 Peace Agreement are examined,
you can read that the deputy chief of the Muslim Brotherhood said
that the Brotherhood does not recognize Israel’s right to exist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt
%E2%80%93Israel_Peace_Treaty#Aftermath
At the following BBC article you can read how much Qatar
supported the Muslim Brotherhood and its candidate Morsi. In the
6th and 7th paragraph you can read that Qatar did not give all that
money for nothing, but instead to make sure that Egypt would buy
natural gas from Qatar. I copy these two paragraphs.
“....But this was not a charitable giveaway. It was in the nature of
an investment. A Qatari economist told the BBC: "We couldn't
stand by and let Egypt collapse", but the billions came with an
expectation - "I'll give you the money, show me the outcome," he
said.
The Qataris had already secured a lucrative deal to sell their gas to
the Egyptians and they were proposing to heavily invest in the
redevelopment of the Suez Canal...”.

5. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-23185441
Many socialists that are financed by Qatar say that the
Brotherhood was democratically elected. As you can read in the
3rd paragraph of the following Wikipedia link, as soon as he was
elected, Morsi started changing the law to rule as a dictator. I copy
from the link.
“…As president, Morsi granted himself unlimited powers and the
power to legislate without judicial oversight or review of his
acts….”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Morsi
Moreover you can read at the following Haaretz article that the
Israelis have agreed to sell to the Palestinian Authority in West
Bank 1.2 billion dollar in natural gas. But this is a small amount
compared to the 45 billion dollar deals with Egypt and Jordan, and
Qatar would have not probably minded. As you can see the deal
was singed in January 2014 and there was no war in Gaza. It was
before the agreements with Egypt and Jordan that the war broke
out. Nobody starts a war for 1.2 billion dollars.
http://www.haaretz.com/business/1.567216