The End of the Dependence on Arab OIl
The End of the Dependence on Arab OIl

Less than a year ago, many respected Middle Eastern experts and self-appointed forbearers of truth in the media reported, without an iota of doubt,  Israel’s expected declining status as the United States major strategic partner in the Middle East. These “fortune tellers of truth” were talking about America’s ever-increasing demand and dependency for Arab oil and of how the United States will remain dependent on imported Arab Oil well into the future.

They also portrayed the on-going tit-for-tat between President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu as the main impetus that would strengthen this strategic trend that was portrayed as inevitable. Yet in recent months, we have witnessed how the on-going Arab Spring has released pent up Islamic Jihad rage, destroying Pan-Arab nationalism that had successfully used the Palestinian Arab conflict to inflate the price of oil since the early 1970’s. The Arab Spring has ravaged the political and economic integrity of Muslim nations of the Middle East and has resulted in the end of Western dependence on Arab oil.

With the international media focused solely on the rise of Islamic State in the past year, it’s no surprise that the most dramatic news of 2014 went almost unnoticed: The United States lifted the restrictions on American oil exports, and as of the first day of 2015, America has begun exporting oil to the world. Overnight, the United States reaffirmed its status as the world’s biggest manufacturer of oil, bigger even than Saudi Arabia, primarily due to the development of oil shale technology which has revolutionized the production of oil.

According to oil industry projections, in the coming year the United States is expected to export about one million barrels of oil a day and produce 12 million barrels a day. Oil producers such as Russia, Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Gulf States who have bankrolled - ideologically, financially, and militarily - the Palestinian Arab terror inflicted on Israel since the last century all face an uncertain future and are expected to consolidate their efforts inward so as to survive the expected game changing drop in oil revenues alongside the ramifications of the Arab Spring and the advancing Islamic State army.  As the price of oil continues its downward trajectory and is already being sold at less than $50 a barrel on the international spot market, the era of Arab nations using their immense wealth to threaten Israel militarily, politically, and economically is coming to an end.

In recent years, the “Industry of Lies” has expanded its financial support to European Parliaments and on campuses and Universities of America and Europe with the sole intent of de-legitimizing the State of Israel among tomorrows’ leaders. This too will be affected by the expected shortfall of funding by the Persian Gulf’s oil dictatorships. Over the years these dictatorships have funded thousands of “professional” students who spent all of their waking hours intimidating, out shouting  and at times exhibiting outright physical violence against any student or faculty member who publically supports the policies of the State of Israel.

These oil dictators have funded the BDS movements, and the many NGO’s who have been at the forefront of demonizing and de-legitimizing Israel. Expected in the coming year in the American and the European political arena is the realization, I might even call it an awakening, that what was, will no longer be. Western societies are all experiencing reservations about the true intentions of local Muslim citizens who reject any semblance of loyalty to the Western and Democratic tradition of the nations that have welcomed them. Using financial strong arm tactics to buy politicians, or bribing national companies will no longer be sustainable due to the severe drop in expected income of the oil dictatorships.  

​There are daily signs of these changes transpiring opposite our very eyes. The recent international effort by the Palestinian Arab Authority to pass an anti-Israel resolution at the United Nations Security Council not only failed, but the Obama Administration,which has deep sympathy and understanding for the Palestinian Arab movement didn’t even blink an eye when they rejected the Palestinian vote against Israel. In other parts of the world, nations that in the past invested extensive diplomatic resources to conceal their bi-lateral relations with Israel have become impervious to Arab pressure.  Israel is expanding her relations with countries, relations which were discreet at best, and at times totally denied the existence of clandestine bi-lateral relations with Israel. Nations such as India, China, Japan, and South Korea are only a few examples of the many nations that have been freed from the shackles of being dependent on Middle Eastern oil.

​With what seemed to be in the past limitless funding for all anti-Israel activities in the political, academic, and financial spheres will wind down and become a depleted shell. Today, in our dynamic global environment, Israel has a marked advantage over its neighbors and can share many innovations and creativity with nations that have in the past been hesitant to benefit publically from relations with Israel.

The Arab Spring which unleashed the forces that have torn apart the Middle East as we know it, aided by the collapse of the price of oil, will result in signaling a new year for Israel and its standing among the nations of the world.