Netanyahu predicts post-war alternate routes for world oil to bypass Hormuz and other ‘chokepoints’

Answering questions at his English press conference, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, says it is vital to have “alternative routes instead of going through the chokepoints of the Hormuz Strait and the Bab-al-Mandab Strait in order to have the flow of oil.”

What’s needed are “oil pipelines, gas pipelines going west through the Arabian Peninsula right up to Israel, right up to our Mediterranean ports, and you’ve just done away with the chokepoints for forever.”

This vision “is definitely possible,” he says. “I see that as a real change that will follow this war, but I also see this war ending a lot faster than people think.”

He quotes Winston Churchill saying that democracies only wake up when they hear “the jarring gong of danger… The jarring gong of danger is Iran gets nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles. That’s not a jarring gong. That is an apocalypse,” he says. “Don’t let it happen.”

“Leaders are tasked with the task of seeing danger in time and acting on it,” he adds, “and I hope that in time, people will see the wisdom and the courage of President Trump’s decision, and his leadership, and the fact that we’re working together. America is not fighting for Israel. America is fighting with Israel for a common goal: to protect our future, to protect civilization against these barbarians.”