Sizeable reservoirs of oil and natural gas wealth are located in offshore Gaza and even in the occupied West Bank. But the Israeli occupation prevents Palestinian efforts to develop the energy fields, while seeking to benefit from their assets. Hence, the need for whitewashing.
Oil Insider Gary Vogler writes of the Iraq War: The oil agenda I discovered and experienced was to supply Iraq oil to Israel. The players were oil mogul & commodities manipulator Marc Rich, pardoned by Clinton; the neocons in the Bush Administration, Feith, Zell, Wolfowitz, Libby, and other Israel partisans – contains video of Vogler