Benghazi government (Led by CIA asset Haftar) Friend to Israel; Resettling Palestinians?

Libya’s eastern-based gov’t says it may announce force majeure on oil fields, ports

Haftar is tied into both the US and Israel- we’ll get to that after this latest news, keeping in mind Israel views Libya as the destination of choice for the ethnically cleansed Palestinians.

Libya’s eastern-based government said yesterday it may announce a force majeure on oil fields and ports citing “repeated assaults on the National Oil Corporation (NOC),” Reuters reports.

The government in Benghazi is not internationally recognised, but most oil fields in the major oil producing country are under the control of eastern Libyan military leader Khalifa Haftar.

The government said it may also temporarily relocate the NOC’s headquarters to one of the “safe cities such as Ras Lanuf and Brega, both of which are controlled by the eastern-based government.

The NOC is currently located in Tripoli under the control of the internationally-recognised Government of National Unity (GNU).

The North African country’s crude oil production reached 1.3 million barrels per day in the last 24 hours, according to the NOC.

At my previous site there are many articles about Khalifa Haftar

https://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2020/08/haftar-and-israel-shedding-light-on.html

Back in 2020 there was a link to a piece about Mr Haftar- sadly it’s inaccessible now, but, here’s the quoted info

“There is currently much dispute over which side, in Libya’s ongoing civil war, is a force for good in the region and which side should be treated with the most legitimacy. Many will argue that the LNA (Libyan National Army) forces, commanded by warlord Khalifa Haftar, are indeed what is needed for Libya to see progress and to make its way back to operating as a normal State in the Middle East, however, there are many problems with this argument.

For those who value the independence of Arab peoples - including the people of Northern Africa - Khalifa Haftar is not a figure to revere. His LNA forces have aligned themselves with a number of regional enemies of the Palestinian people and also the people of the wider region, including Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Israel and France. Using the airpower of both Egypt and the UAE as an integral part to play in Haftar’s plot to control Libya.

Who is Commander Khalifa Haftar?

The now internationally well known leader of the LNA opposition forces in Libya, Khalifa Haftar, is not a new figure unknown to the Libyan people. He first emerged to prominence as a colonel under Muammar Gaddafi’s rule, aiding Gaddaffi in his 1969 military coup which removed King Idris from power.

After enjoying a large public following in Libya, he was eventually arrested as a prisoner of war during the Chadian-Libya war and was disavowed by Muammar Gaddafi. The condemnation coming from Gaddafi due to Haftar’s military operation having violated an agreement brokered between Libya and Chad at the time. Khalifa Haftar feeling he was betrayed by his leader, then went on to form a militia, based in Zaire, which was aimed at overthrowing Gaddafi.”

As part of a CIA-sponsored deal with Kenya, in 1990, Khalifa Haftar was then welcomed into the United States, being given citizenship to the country. Once in the US, Haftar built close connections within the nations’ intelligence services. In fact, when Haftar resided in the US, he chose to live in close proximity to the CIA’s headquarters.

Khalifa Haftar continued then to support a number of attempts to overthrow the Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, the most notable case being in the 1996 uprising.

Later, come 2011, Khalifa Haftar became an influential figure in the overthrow of Gaddafi, leading to the bloody chaos we have seen since, in Libya. Keep in mind that this was all possible due to NATO forces having supplied both air support and also weapons to Libya’s opposition militias – who were fighting Gaddafi – leading to their eventual victory. Meaning that the legacy of Khalifa Haftar is one of Western collusion, aiding in the mass murder of Libyan’s, for personal political gain. Leading him towards his current campaign.

The link below is older but fortunately is accessible still- We can understand that Israel is part and parcel of the problem in Libya

Israel provided Haftar Weapons

Commander of the Libyan National Army, Khalifa Haftar, has reportedly been supplied with Israeli military aid after secret meetings with Mossad agents that were mediated by the United Arab Emirates.

A high-ranking official in Haftar’s military informed The New Arab that the Libyan commander has been holding secret meetings with Israel over the past two years.

Sniper rifles and night vision equipment were amongst the military aid provided, according to the source.

Haftar and his Libyan National Army stands in opposition to the government in Libya’s western city of Tripoli, the Government of National Accord, which is officially recognised and backed by the United Nations.

In 2014, the military strongman said he would not mind “cooperating with Israel and receiving various forms of support from it.” He justified it by claiming that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”

And bringing this up to present time

Resettlement of the Gaza population: Libya as the best option

Including the image of Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar, CIA asset, friend to Israel.

Libya is a country with a huge territory and a relatively small (7 million people) population. The population density is about 4 people per square kilometer, with most of it concentrated in the coastal areas. It is one of the least densely populated countries in the world.

But what is more important is that Libya today consists of several quasi-states.

• The officially recognized Government of National Accord or Unity (GNA/GNU) sits in Tripoli in the west of the country. Its authority is limited exclusively to the capital of Libya and its environs.

• In the east, in Tobruk, there is an alternative government subordinate to the House of Representatives, which competes with the GNA/GNU and supports the commander-in-chief of the Libyan National Army, Khalifa Haftar. Haftar controls 90% of the country’s territory, including part of the southern province of Fezzan.

When interests converge

Thus, we are dealing with several entities.

All of them (or most of them) are extremely interested in:

• first, the influx of a fresh population capable of successful integration;

• second, investments to develop local industry, agriculture and infrastructure and to strengthen their armed formations;

• third, political dividends and international recognition, which will help them to emerge from isolation into the international arena.

This is especially true for two leading players: the NTC and Khalifa Haftar.

General Haftar, in alliance with the House of Representatives, controls most of Libya with the province of Cyrenaica (whose capital is Benghazi, the second largest city in Libya) and its leading oil and infrastructure facilities, and remains the unrecognized leader of the opposition. He also controls part of the historical territory of Fezzan, which is of strategic importance due to its oil fields and cross-border trade routes.

In turn, in the current situation of the extreme fragmentation of Libya, the United States could easily influence almost each of the parties to the conflict, using the carrot and stick method.

An entity that agrees to accept and accommodate Palestinian Arabs would receive generous financial and political support, including international recognition.

Yeah, it’s long. But to understand the present, we have to look back to the past.

Oh and one last piece of the puzzle.

If any party to the conflict in Libya becomes a partner of the United States in implementing the project (primarily Haftar, who controls most of Libya), Washington gains leverage in this key North African country. This allows strengthening the influence of the United States and containing the expansion of states hostile to America: China, Russia and Turkey.