A Definitive End to the Massacre of Palestinians

Embargo Oil Exports to the World, not Just to Israel

Hossein Askari
4 min readNov 11, 2023

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I have argued for days that if the world was starved of oil and natural gas (liquified natural gas or LNG and pipe gas), the United States and the rest of the West would pull the plug on Israel. And without their military, financial and political support, Israel would have little choice but to compromise — end its massacre of innocent Palestinians in Gaza and in the West Bank, end its continual and illegal seizure of Palestinian land, make territorial concessions needed as a result of its history of ethnic cleansing and come around to a two state solution. It is heartening that Muslim leaders are today gathered in Riyadh to discuss the war crimes and the ethnic cleansing, which could well amount to genocide, that we see unfolding before our very eyes.

This meeting could be the start of a wake-up call to the world if it charts an effective path that is focused on oil and natural gas.

Today’s world is still reliant on oil and natural gas. A shortage of oil and gas would drive up energy prices, fueling global inflation, leading to a global recession and creating massive unemployment. In short economic, financial and political mayhem. Presidents, prime ministers and legislators would see the light and force their will on Israel…

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Hossein Askari

MIT engineer-economist. Prof: Tufts, UT-Austin, GW. IMF Board. Gov Mediator: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait. Focus on Econ-Fin, Oil, Sanctions, Mid-East, Islam