No, not poison gas or tear gas, but actual useful, valuable natural gas. There's an old joke about Moses leading the Jewish people to one spot in the Middle East with no oil deposits, which recently got a lot more bite to it by the discovery and pending development of an offshore gas field off of the Gaza coast. Palestinian-controlled Gaza could be supplying Israel with up to $4 billion in natural gas over 15 years, with royalty income of over $1 billion, if the details can be worked out.ArabianBusiness.com (via the eagled-eyed folks at Ummah News Links, the outstanding website that keeps track of the Muslim world's news for infidels) reports:British gas giant BG Group is close to signing a deal that will see Palestine supply gas to Israel. [....]"We are making progress," said Nigel Shaw, BG Group Regional Vice-President. "There are commercial issues to be completed and we also require bilateral agreement between the two governments to get this project across the...(Read Full Post)