Eastern Med Pipelines- Cyprus, Greece and Israel

I’ve got background information at my former site on this pipeline.. It’s been planned for a very long time. I’m going to dig something up, but, for now- Let’s think about the overt hostility Greece and Cyprus have been demonstrating towards Turkey. Ramped up quite high lately. Then consider Israeli rhetoric towards Turkey. The very obvious destabilization campaign, western backed protests, taking place in Turkey, featuring Batman, Captain America and Pikachu… Marriage proposals and apparently the “handbook” is making the rounds. That would be Gene Sharp’s handbook. Think about the Black Sea deal that the US, made but is yet to carry through on. Consider the strategic location of Turkey. This article is another piece of that puzzle, when connected to the entirety of the situation, helps present a fuller picture. Also connected to the situation in Gaza and Lebanon. Hoping to expand on that in a new post.

Bear in mind I’ve written numerous reports concerning the remaking of the region- Birth Pangs. This is a part of that process.

BrusselsSignals

The Eastern Mediterranean is at a crossroads, and the EastMed Pipeline – linking Greece, Cyprus, and Israel in a defiant energy pact – stands as a promise and a test. This isn’t just a pipeline. It is a battle cry for sovereignty, a chance to redraw the energy and geopolitical map, and a slap to the face of timidity.

The United States, under a newly emboldened administration, is dangling the prospect of reviving this 1.900-kilometre lifeline, a project that could pump 10 billion cubic meters of gas annually into Europe’s veins. Yet it is courage, not just cash, that will decide if it lives or dies. Greece, Cyprus, and Israel must force it through, and Europe must wake up to why it matters.

The Greece-Cyprus-Israel alliance is forged in adversity. (Wow that’s heroic) Greece offers its strategic spine. Cyprus, unbowed by Turkish threats, brings its gas-rich waters. Israel, a warrior-state, endows it with Leviathan’s bounty. Together, they are a middle finger to Ankara’s neo-Ottoman delusions and Moscow’s energy stranglehold.

The EastMed Pipeline is a means to break Europe’s reliance on Russian gas, side-line Turkey’s tantrums and make Greece the EU’s southern energy hub. This must happen, because the alternative is servitude.

In 2020, Athens, Nicosia, and Jerusalem signed the deal, backed by the EU as a Project of Common Interest.

Worse, Greece’s own government – led by Kyriakos Mitsotakis, poster boy of spineless liberalism – abandoned ship. Where was the fight? Where was the roar of a nation that respects its millennia of history? Instead of challenging Erdogan’s gunboats, Mitsotakis mumbled platitudes about green agendas and “dialogue”, letting a €6 billion dream rot. Turkey won and Greece retreated. Shameful.

Now the US offers a second chance and the stakes couldn’t be higher. Europe is shivering through energy crises. Russia and Ukraine alike turn the gas tap into a weapon and LNG tankers from Qatar or America can’t fully plug the gap.

The EastMed’s gas is not just fuel. It is freedom

Freedom for who? Control of what country? Denial of access? It’s fuel all absurd rhetoric aside

Yet it must happen, because the cost of failure is existential. Without the EastMed, Europe stays an energy hostage, Turkey’s blackmail intensifies and Greece fades into irrelevance.

This pipeline redraws the map. It bypasses Ankara’s coastline, isolates its aggression, and forges a Greece-Cyprus-Israel axis that could pull Egypt and others into a bloc strong enough to resist Erdogan. Greece becomes a gateway, not a doormat. Cyprus thrives, not just survives. Israel’s gas fuels a continent. This is geopolitical muscle Europe and America cannot afford to pass on.

This is geopolitical muscle Europe and America cannot afford to pass on.

The clock is ticking. EastMed could be operational by 2030, but only if the will outmuscles the whining. Technical hurdles? Solve them. Costs? Pay them. Turkey? Face it with ships and sanctions, not handshakes.

Europe needs this gas, America needs this win, and Greece needs this historic comeback. The Greece-Cyprus-Israel triad has the vision. Now it demands the guts. Let’s not mince words: if EastMed dies again, it will not be fate, but failure. And history will not forgive the faint-hearted.

It’s like the hero’s journey. It’s mythical. It’s heroic. It’s a quest for greatness. That kind of talk makes me so leery. It’s excessively loaded with emotional appeals.