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/