Egyptian gas pipeline to Israel, Jordan blasted for 14th time

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CAIRO, (PIC)-- The Egyptian gas pipeline in northern Sinai Peninsula supplying natural gas to Israel and Jordan was blasted for the 14th time, since 25 January 2011, at dawn Monday.

Security sources said that the blast targeted a section of the pipeline in northern Sinai near the entrance to El-Arish city.

No party declared responsibility for the attack.

The gas agreement between Egypt and Israel is criticized by the Egyptian public, charging that gas was sold to Israel at a very low price compared to the international prices.

A responsible source in GASCO that operates the pipeline said that the Egyptian economy suffered one billion Egyptian pounds, around 166 million dollars, in losses as a result of the repeated blasts.

He added that the repeated repairs and replacements of pipelines cost the company around 100 million pounds while the insurance premium was raised to 40 million from 30 million.

Egyptian gas pipeline to Israel, Jordan blasted for 14th time

 

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CAIRO, (PIC)-- The Egyptian gas pipeline in northern Sinai Peninsula supplying natural gas to Israel and Jordan was blasted for the 14th time, since 25 January 2011, at dawn Monday.

Security sources said that the blast targeted a section of the pipeline in northern Sinai near the entrance to El-Arish city.

No party declared responsibility for the attack.

The gas agreement between Egypt and Israel is criticized by the Egyptian public, charging that gas was sold to Israel at a very low price compared to the international prices.

A responsible source in GASCO that operates the pipeline said that the Egyptian economy suffered one billion Egyptian pounds, around 166 million dollars, in losses as a result of the repeated blasts.

He added that the repeated repairs and replacements of pipelines cost the company around 100 million pounds while the insurance premium was raised to 40 million from 30 million.

Egyptian gas pipeline to Israel, Jordan blasted for 14th time

And people wonder why so many Arab states remain poor.

 

[P F Tinmore]

CAIRO, (PIC)-- The Egyptian gas pipeline in northern Sinai Peninsula supplying natural gas to Israel and Jordan was blasted for the 14th time, since 25 January 2011, at dawn Monday.

Security sources said that the blast targeted a section of the pipeline in northern Sinai near the entrance to El-Arish city.

No party declared responsibility for the attack.

The gas agreement between Egypt and Israel is criticized by the Egyptian public, charging that gas was sold to Israel at a very low price compared to the international prices.

A responsible source in GASCO that operates the pipeline said that the Egyptian economy suffered one billion Egyptian pounds, around 166 million dollars, in losses as a result of the repeated blasts.

He added that the repeated repairs and replacements of pipelines cost the company around 100 million pounds while the insurance premium was raised to 40 million from 30 million.

Egyptian gas pipeline to Israel, Jordan blasted for 14th time

And people wonder why so many Arab states remain poor.

Maybe the price will have to go up. That's cool.

 

[Hossfly]

CAIRO, (PIC)-- The Egyptian gas pipeline in northern Sinai Peninsula supplying natural gas to Israel and Jordan was blasted for the 14th time, since 25 January 2011, at dawn Monday.

Security sources said that the blast targeted a section of the pipeline in northern Sinai near the entrance to El-Arish city.

No party declared responsibility for the attack.

The gas agreement between Egypt and Israel is criticized by the Egyptian public, charging that gas was sold to Israel at a very low price compared to the international prices.

A responsible source in GASCO that operates the pipeline said that the Egyptian economy suffered one billion Egyptian pounds, around 166 million dollars, in losses as a result of the repeated blasts.

He added that the repeated repairs and replacements of pipelines cost the company around 100 million pounds while the insurance premium was raised to 40 million from 30 million.

Egyptian gas pipeline to Israel, Jordan blasted for 14th time

And people wonder why so many Arab states remain poor.

Maybe the price will have to go up. That's cool.

While you are salivating over this like some silly teenager, would you think it cool if Americans said no more imports of clothing manufasctured in the Muslim world which hates us and that we should have all the factories built in Mexico and Central America so that these people will have jobs?

 

[Jos]

CAIRO, (PIC)-- The Egyptian gas pipeline in northern Sinai Peninsula supplying natural gas to Israel and Jordan was blasted for the 14th time, since 25 January 2011, at dawn Monday.

Security sources said that the blast targeted a section of the pipeline in northern Sinai near the entrance to El-Arish city.

No party declared responsibility for the attack.

The gas agreement between Egypt and Israel is criticized by the Egyptian public, charging that gas was sold to Israel at a very low price compared to the international prices.

A responsible source in GASCO that operates the pipeline said that the Egyptian economy suffered one billion Egyptian pounds, around 166 million dollars, in losses as a result of the repeated blasts.

He added that the repeated repairs and replacements of pipelines cost the company around 100 million pounds while the insurance premium was raised to 40 million from 30 million.

Egyptian gas pipeline to Israel, Jordan blasted for 14th time

And people wonder why so many Arab states remain poor.

Maybe the price will have to go up. That's cool.

Seems like a boycott ?

 

[JStone]

The rabs are doomed.

The Economist Magazine: Arab World Self-Doomed To Failure

WHAT went wrong with the Arab world? Why is it so stuck behind the times? It is not an obviously unlucky region. Fatly endowed with oil, and with its people sharing a rich cultural, religious and linguistic heritage, it is faced neither with endemic poverty nor with ethnic conflict. But, with barely an exception, its autocratic rulers, whether presidents or kings, give up their authority only when they die; its elections are a sick joke; half its people are treated as lesser legal and economic beings, and more than half its young, burdened by joblessness and stifled by conservative religious tradition, are said to want to get out of the place as soon as they can.

One in five Arabs still live on less than $2 a day. And, over the past 20 years, growth in income per head, at an annual rate of 0.5%, was lower than anywhere else in the world except sub-Saharan Africa. At this rate, it will take the average Arab 140 years to double his income, a target that some regions are set to reach in less than ten years. Stagnant growth, together with a fast-rising population, means vanishing jobs. Around 12m people, or 15% of the labour force, are already unemployed, and on present trends the number could rise to 25m by 2010.

Freedom. This deficit explains many of the fundamental things that are wrong with the Arab world: the survival of absolute autocracies; the holding of bogus elections; confusion between the executive and the judiciary (the report points out the close linguistic link between the two in Arabic); constraints on the media and on civil society; and a patriarchal, intolerant, sometimes suffocating social environment. The great wave of democratisation that has opened up so much of the world over the past 15 years seems to have left the Arabs untouched. Democracy is occasionally offered, but as a concession, not as a right. Freedom of expression and freedom of association are both sharply limited. Freedom House, an American-based monitor of political and civil rights, records that no Arab country has genuinely free media, and only three have “partly free”. The rest are not free

Knowledge. “If God were to humiliate a human being,” wrote Imam Ali bin abi Taleb in the sixth century, “He would deny him knowledge.” Although the Arabs spend a higher percentage of GDP on education than any other developing region, it is not, it seems, well spent. The quality of education has deteriorated pitifully, and there is a severe mismatch between the labour market and the education system. Adult illiteracy rates have declined but are still very high: 65m adults are illiterate, almost two-thirds of them women. Some 10m children still have no schooling at all. One of the gravest results of their poor education is that the Arabs, who once led the world in science, are dropping ever further behind in scientific research and in information technology. Investment in research and development is less than one-seventh of the world average. Only 0.6% of the population uses the Internet, and 1.2% have personal computers.

Women's status. The one thing that every outsider knows about the Arab world is that it does not treat its women as full citizens. How can a society prosper when it stifles half its productive potential? After all, even though women's literacy rates have trebled in the past 30 years, one in every two Arab women still can neither read nor write. Their participation in their countries' political and economic life is the lowest in the world.

Arab development: Self-doomed to failure | The Economist