WHERE DOES ISRAEL GET OIL?

Impressed by the remarkable absurdity of these people struggling so desperately and passionately for practically the only piece of ground within a thousand mile radius that DOES NOT have oil, this question was intriguing:
Where Does Israel Get Oil?
If you're selling, they're buying.
By Daniel Engber
Posted Friday, July 14, 2006, at 6:19 PM ET



...Given the grim state of Arab-Israeli relations, where does Israel get its oil?

...From Russia and former Soviet republics. Israel produces only a couple thousand barrels of oil a day, which means it relies on the global market for more than 99 percent of its consumption. It's difficult to name all of the country's suppliers—in 2004, Israel's minister of national infrastructures admitted that "Israel's situation is complicated. We don't have diplomatic relations with most of the countries from which we import oil." But over the past 25 years, significant fuel imports have come from Angola, Colombia, Mexico, Egypt, and Norway. In more recent times, the Israelis have turned to Russia, Kazakhstan, and some of the other -stans for the bulk of their oil...

From SLATE.