Felicity Arbuthnot had a few more things to say back in 2013:

The giant Leviathan natural gas field, the most prominent field ever found in the sub-explored area of the Levantine Basin, which covers about 83,000 square kilometres of the eastern Mediterranean region, coupled with the Tamar field (same location) are an energy bonanza for Israel, for Houston, Texas based Noble Energy and partners Delek Drilling, Avner Oil Exploration and Ratio Oil Exploration. Also involved is Perth, Australia-based Woodside Petroleum.

"We estimated a mean of 1.7 billion barrels of recoverable oil and a mean of 122 trillion cubic feet of recoverable gas in this province using a geology based assessment methodology."

That the US in the guise of Vice President Joe Biden, as honest broker, acting peace negotiator in the maritime border dispute would be laughable, were it not potential for Israel to attack their neighbour again. In a visit to Israel in March 2010, Biden announced:

"There is absolutely no space between the United States and Israel when it comes to Israel's security- none at all", also announcing on arrival in Israel: "It's good to be home."

Given US decades of "peace brokering" between Israel and Palestine, this is already a road of pitfalls, one sidedness and duplicity, well traveled. There is trouble ahead.

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"I reiterate that Hamas is not a terrorist organisation. Israel was very offended by this ... Israel is an occupier, Erdogan speaks clearly because Turkey does not owe you anything," he told hundreds of thousands of supporters on Saturday.
People gathered at Istanbul's Ataturk airport for a rally organised by Turkey's governing AK Party to protest against Israel's continued bombardment of the Gaza Strip and call for a ceasefire.

Demonstrators chanted pro-Palestinian slogans and waved Turkish and Palestinian flags at the event dubbed the "Great Palestine Meeting" on Saturday, as Israel pushed forward with its "expanded" ground operation amid a near-total communications blackout in the Gaza Strip.

The rally was attended by leaders of other political parties, as well as high-profile media and sports figures - some of whom were expected to take to the stage during the event, local media reported.

'End the genocide'

Al Jazeera's Osama Bin Javaid, reporting from the rally, said this was "by far one of the strongest speeches that we've heard" from the president.

Protesters were seen wearing headbands with inscriptions such as "We are all Palestinians", "End the genocide", or "Be the voice of Palestinian children".

Large protest in London; ban in Berlin

Meanwhile, thousands of protesters were seen pouring onto the streets of London to demand the British government to call for a ceasefire. Other rallies were taking place elsewhere in the UK, including in Manchester and Glasgow.

As noted in the video above, 500,000 were reported to have protested in London.

Aerial footage showed large crowds setting off on the march organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, with the protest due to end outside the Houses of Parliament after passing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Downing Street office.

Echoing Washington's stance, Sunak's government has stopped short of calling for a ceasefire, and instead advocated humanitarian pauses to allow aid to reach people in Gaza.

On Friday evening, police in Berlin again broke up several pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

More than 100 people were arrested in front of the Brandenburg Gate as a crowd chanted pro-Palestinian, and then anti-police, slogans during an unauthorised rally. Police clashed violently with some participants, injuring two officers, according to police.

Another pro-Palestinian demonstration on Alexanderplatz in central Berlin involving about 100 people was also broken up on Friday evening. Police said on Saturday that any would-be protesters were "aggressively approached and consistently expelled from the square".

Authorities in Berlin have banned most pro-Palestinian rallies or demonstrations in the weeks since the 7 October attack by Hamas.

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