Banned from /r/unitedkingdom and deleted from /r/ukpolitics for posting: Rothschild/Murdoch company finds oil in disputed Golan Heights. Fighting breaks out between Israel and Syria
25 2015-10-16 by funPillows
Edit: now banned at /r/askUk too.
So I posted this to /r/unitedkingdom and /r/ukpolitics and they where deleted on the grounds that I was conflating two unrelated issues apparently and I was accused of trying to create a conspiracy theory. I then posted purely about the Genie oil company news and was then asked why it was important. So I posted the context again in comments and was immediately banned. Everyone was telling me to come here, so here I am :(
Oil company Genie granted licence to drill inside Syria - Telegraph 21/02/2013
UN Dispatch - May 2014: IDF seen handing boxes to Syrian rebels in Golan
UN observes cooperation between Israel and Rebels in occupied Golan - Times of Israel 07/12/2014
Syrian rebels capture UN border post in Golan Heights - Jpost 28/08/2014
Genie Energy eyes options to revive Israel oil plans - Reuters 26/10/2014
Two rockets fired from Syria hit Israeli controlled Golan Heights - NYT 21/08/2015
Irish troops return home after UN mission in Golan Heights - Irish Times 29/09/2015
Major Oil Reserve discovery confirmed in Golan Heights - UPI 09/10/2015
Israel strikes Syrian army posts in response to stray rockets - IBTimes 13/10/2015
6 comments
2 sunup_scribe 2015-10-16
From /r/ukpolitics sidebar:
I can see why they would have deleted this - it is geopolitics.
As far as /r/unitedkingdom , they've always been a little ban happy.
1 funPillows 2015-10-16
But this was concerning a very major oil find by two very prominent individuals in British politics.
1 sunup_scribe 2015-10-16
Murdoch isn't a politician; he's a media mogul.
4 funPillows 2015-10-16
I didn't say he was a politician but he is a prominent figure in British politics
3 [deleted] 2015-10-16
He's just as prominent with the US. I'm still confused why you thought to post this to UK based subs when it involves Israel and Syria.
2 funPillows 2015-10-16
The Right Hon. Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild is (unlike Corbyn) a member of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council and is a prominent figure in British banking and politics. He is an investor in and sits on the advisory board of the drilling company. http://genieoilgas.com/about-us/strategic-advisory-board/
Rupert Murdoch is also a prominent figure in Britain due to owning vast swathes of the British press and having unrepresented access to our Prime Ministers . Rupert is also an investor and member of the advisory board of the drilling company http://genieoilgas.com/about-us/strategic-advisory-board/