Israel’s War Dividend: The Energy Corridor Gambit
Netanyahu just said the quiet part out loud: this war isn’t only about “security,” it’s about rewriting the region’s energy map so oil and gas flow through Israel — and everyone pays a toll.
At a Jerusalem presser, right after Israel hit Iran’s South Pars field and Iran answered by smashing Qatar’s Ras Laffan LNG hub and Gulf refineries, he floated the “solution”: just run oil and gas pipelines across the Arabian Peninsula straight to Israeli ports on the Med and you’re “forever” free of Hormuz. In the middle of a forced shutdown of roughly 16 million barrels a day through the strait and years of lost Qatari gas, Israel is pitching itself as the new regional tap.
The wild part is it’s not wild. Israel already has the Eilat–Ashkelon line, built to move Iranian crude in the Shah era, with capacity around 1.2 million barrels a day from the Red Sea to the Med. Saudi Arabia already has the East–West Petroline, up to 7 million barrels a day to Yanbu on the Red Sea, now running flat out because Hormuz is half‑choked. Between Yanbu’s hinterland and Eilat sits one missing link of pipe and one missing piece of paperwork called “normalization.” In wartime marketing language: not a betrayal of the ummah, just a rescue package for the global economy.
On gas, the same logic applies. Leviathan and Tamar pump roughly 23 bcm a year, heading above 30, under a 130‑bcm mega‑deal with Egypt that runs to 2040. Some of that gas keeps Egypt’s lights on as domestic output falls; the rest is liquefied and sold to Europe as “Mediterranean diversification.” Every damaged train at Ras Laffan quietly boosts the leverage of an Israel–Egypt combo that can still load tankers.
For Washington, this is where doctrine meets blowback. The 2026 National Defense Strategy describes Israel as a “model ally” that can act autonomously with “critical but limited” US backing, but builds no real mechanism to stop that ally from crossing American risk lines. Israel hits the biggest gas field on earth; Trump says he “wasn’t informed” and urges Jerusalem to stop striking Iranian energy, because every drone over a gas plant detonates in global inflation and his re‑election math. That’s not supervision; that’s the principal watching his agent bet the balance sheet.
The winners‑and‑losers grid behind this is harsh. The Shia axis — Iran, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Iraqi militias — loses infrastructure, revenue, and the credibility to brandish “energy chaos” as a threat. A Saudi–Emirati core walks away with a potential Hormuz‑free export route, deeper roles in IMEC and I2U2, and a chance to plug into an Israel‑centric pipeline and port network — if they swallow normalization at the right price. Qatar, the gas ATM of the old order, loses about 17% of its LNG capacity and maybe $20 billion a year, and suddenly looks more dependent on US security guarantees than on its own checkbook. Turkey, the self‑styled Sunni command center, is pushed to the margins: less Iranian gas, higher domestic prices, no seat in IMEC, a hotter Kurdish file and fewer Qatari dollars feeding its pet networks.
Netanyahu’s pipeline line is not an offhand fantasy; it’s an opening bid. For Riyadh, it frames normalization as a trade for a unique, choke‑point‑free route that no one else can offer. For Washington, it promises that some of the war’s costs might be cashed out later as a more resilient, Israel‑anchored supply architecture. For Europe, it signals that the serious overland alternative to missiles and Houthis is a Gulf–Israel–Mediterranean corridor, not a neat bypass around Israeli soil. Even if no extra pipe is buried tomorrow, the narrative has moved: Israel isn’t just another frontline state under fire — it’s trying to turn the whole energy crisis into a toll route with its name on it.
#Israel #IranWar #energy #oil #gas #Hormuz #SaudiArabia #Qatar #Turkey #IMEC #Netanyahu #geopolitics #warDividend
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Netanyahu just said the quiet part out loud: this war isn’t only about “security,” it’s about rewriting the region’s energy map so oil and gas flow through Israel — and everyone pays a toll.
At a Jerusalem presser, right after Israel hit Iran’s South Pars field and Iran answered by smashing Qatar’s Ras Laffan LNG hub and Gulf refineries, he floated the “solution”: just run oil and gas pipelines across the Arabian Peninsula straight to Israeli ports on the Med and you’re “forever” free of Hormuz. In the middle of a forced shutdown of roughly 16 million barrels a day through the strait and years of lost Qatari gas, Israel is pitching itself as the new regional tap.
The wild part is it’s not wild. Israel already has the Eilat–Ashkelon line, built to move Iranian crude in the Shah era, with capacity around 1.2 million barrels a day from the Red Sea to the Med. Saudi Arabia already has the East–West Petroline, up to 7 million barrels a day to Yanbu on the Red Sea, now running flat out because Hormuz is half‑choked. Between Yanbu’s hinterland and Eilat sits one missing link of pipe and one missing piece of paperwork called “normalization.” In wartime marketing language: not a betrayal of the ummah, just a rescue package for the global economy.
On gas, the same logic applies. Leviathan and Tamar pump roughly 23 bcm a year, heading above 30, under a 130‑bcm mega‑deal with Egypt that runs to 2040. Some of that gas keeps Egypt’s lights on as domestic output falls; the rest is liquefied and sold to Europe as “Mediterranean diversification.” Every damaged train at Ras Laffan quietly boosts the leverage of an Israel–Egypt combo that can still load tankers.
For Washington, this is where doctrine meets blowback. The 2026 National Defense Strategy describes Israel as a “model ally” that can act autonomously with “critical but limited” US backing, but builds no real mechanism to stop that ally from crossing American risk lines. Israel hits the biggest gas field on earth; Trump says he “wasn’t informed” and urges Jerusalem to stop striking Iranian energy, because every drone over a gas plant detonates in global inflation and his re‑election math. That’s not supervision; that’s the principal watching his agent bet the balance sheet.
The winners‑and‑losers grid behind this is harsh. The Shia axis — Iran, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Iraqi militias — loses infrastructure, revenue, and the credibility to brandish “energy chaos” as a threat. A Saudi–Emirati core walks away with a potential Hormuz‑free export route, deeper roles in IMEC and I2U2, and a chance to plug into an Israel‑centric pipeline and port network — if they swallow normalization at the right price. Qatar, the gas ATM of the old order, loses about 17% of its LNG capacity and maybe $20 billion a year, and suddenly looks more dependent on US security guarantees than on its own checkbook. Turkey, the self‑styled Sunni command center, is pushed to the margins: less Iranian gas, higher domestic prices, no seat in IMEC, a hotter Kurdish file and fewer Qatari dollars feeding its pet networks.
Netanyahu’s pipeline line is not an offhand fantasy; it’s an opening bid. For Riyadh, it frames normalization as a trade for a unique, choke‑point‑free route that no one else can offer. For Washington, it promises that some of the war’s costs might be cashed out later as a more resilient, Israel‑anchored supply architecture. For Europe, it signals that the serious overland alternative to missiles and Houthis is a Gulf–Israel–Mediterranean corridor, not a neat bypass around Israeli soil. Even if no extra pipe is buried tomorrow, the narrative has moved: Israel isn’t just another frontline state under fire — it’s trying to turn the whole energy crisis into a toll route with its name on it.
#Israel #IranWar #energy #oil #gas #Hormuz #SaudiArabia #Qatar #Turkey #IMEC #Netanyahu #geopolitics #warDividend
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📰 Turkey’s Peripheral Doctrine: Evict Israel, Own the Map
Ben-Gurion’s periphery doctrine is broken. Iran and Turkey, once the non‑Arab rim that balanced Israel’s environment, now sit at the heart of two hostile axes.
The partial defeat of the Shiite arc didn’t remove the threat; it opened space for a Sunni front with Ankara in the middle and Syria, Hamas-in-Istanbul, Qatar, Saudi Arabia–Pakistan, and reactivated jihadist networks around it. Israel emerges from simultaneous wars depleted, while its main military patron (the US), economic partner (the EU) and Arab pillar (Saudi Arabia) all cool at once.
Turkey’s challenge is threefold and cumulative. Politically, Erdoğan’s camp now brands Israel a regional danger and warns that “after Iran, Israel cannot live without an enemy,” casting Turkey as the next target.
Geopolitically, Ankara pushes pan‑Turkic and “Blue Homeland” projects, drawing in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan — even Baku criticized Israel’s recognition of the Armenian genocide while keeping energy ties with Turkey.
Economically, Turkey and Syria are building an India–EU route that runs via Jordan and Syria to Latakia and Tartus, ports locked into 30‑year concessions with CMA CGM and DP World, backed by Turkish–Saudi rail memoranda reviving the Hejaz corridor.
Paris has entrenched itself as the Western anchor at Syria’s terminus: Macron’s Damascus visit, EU sanctions relief, UN delisting of Syrian leaders, and CMA CGM’s expanded Latakia concession mean any Syrian–Turkish branch of the India–EU corridor ends in a French‑operated port.
Brussels’s parallel sanctions ladder and “peace triangle” logic tie support for an Israeli endpoint to Palestinian conditions no Israeli government can meet.
Washington, meanwhile, arms Turkey with F‑110 engines and flirts with restored F‑35 access, tests Syria as a tool against Hezbollah, and seats Ankara and Doha in Gaza governance under Trump’s “Board of Peace,” all while Israel’s air defense remains tuned to long‑range Iranian threats rather than short‑range Turkish and Syrian vectors.
Five forces now converge on pushing Israel out of the corridor: French control of Latakia, Turkish–Saudi logistics deals, a US pivot to Ankara and Damascus, an EU conditionality built on Palestinian attachments, and Turkey’s grip on Levantine ports and rails.
Iran’s reopening of Hormuz may soften the urgency of overland bypasses, but it doesn’t restore Israel’s centrality.
The new peripheral doctrine belongs to Ankara — and it draws the region’s arteries around Israel, not through it.
#israel #turkey #syria #IMEC #latakia #nato #periphery #fakeCentrality
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Ben-Gurion’s periphery doctrine is broken. Iran and Turkey, once the non‑Arab rim that balanced Israel’s environment, now sit at the heart of two hostile axes.
The partial defeat of the Shiite arc didn’t remove the threat; it opened space for a Sunni front with Ankara in the middle and Syria, Hamas-in-Istanbul, Qatar, Saudi Arabia–Pakistan, and reactivated jihadist networks around it. Israel emerges from simultaneous wars depleted, while its main military patron (the US), economic partner (the EU) and Arab pillar (Saudi Arabia) all cool at once.
Turkey’s challenge is threefold and cumulative. Politically, Erdoğan’s camp now brands Israel a regional danger and warns that “after Iran, Israel cannot live without an enemy,” casting Turkey as the next target.
Geopolitically, Ankara pushes pan‑Turkic and “Blue Homeland” projects, drawing in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan — even Baku criticized Israel’s recognition of the Armenian genocide while keeping energy ties with Turkey.
Economically, Turkey and Syria are building an India–EU route that runs via Jordan and Syria to Latakia and Tartus, ports locked into 30‑year concessions with CMA CGM and DP World, backed by Turkish–Saudi rail memoranda reviving the Hejaz corridor.
Paris has entrenched itself as the Western anchor at Syria’s terminus: Macron’s Damascus visit, EU sanctions relief, UN delisting of Syrian leaders, and CMA CGM’s expanded Latakia concession mean any Syrian–Turkish branch of the India–EU corridor ends in a French‑operated port.
Brussels’s parallel sanctions ladder and “peace triangle” logic tie support for an Israeli endpoint to Palestinian conditions no Israeli government can meet.
Washington, meanwhile, arms Turkey with F‑110 engines and flirts with restored F‑35 access, tests Syria as a tool against Hezbollah, and seats Ankara and Doha in Gaza governance under Trump’s “Board of Peace,” all while Israel’s air defense remains tuned to long‑range Iranian threats rather than short‑range Turkish and Syrian vectors.
Five forces now converge on pushing Israel out of the corridor: French control of Latakia, Turkish–Saudi logistics deals, a US pivot to Ankara and Damascus, an EU conditionality built on Palestinian attachments, and Turkey’s grip on Levantine ports and rails.
Iran’s reopening of Hormuz may soften the urgency of overland bypasses, but it doesn’t restore Israel’s centrality.
The new peripheral doctrine belongs to Ankara — and it draws the region’s arteries around Israel, not through it.
#israel #turkey #syria #IMEC #latakia #nato #periphery #fakeCentrality
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📰 Corridor War: Iran Takes IMEC Hostage, Turkey Builds the Detour
IRGC‑linked Fars sketches a new escalation script: if the US keeps hitting Iran’s rail bridges on the North–South corridor, the “answer” should be strikes on Jebel Ali in the UAE and Haifa in Israel — the showcase ports of the India–Middle East–Europe Corridor, the Abraham Accords’ economic product.
One cruise‑missile hit on an INSTC/BRI bridge moves the fight off Hormuz and onto the hardware of connectivity itself: ports and junctions that tie India to the Gulf and Europe.
Message from Tehran: you hit our corridor, we hit yours. IMEC becomes collateral for INSTC. Naming Jebel Ali and Haifa means that routing around Israel via the Gulf doesn’t protect you from Iran’s valve.
The only segment that falls out of Iran’s direct line of fire is the land route through Syria under Turkish patronage, because it isn’t wired into the Israel–UAE combo. On that section, Iran and Turkey are rivals in most things — except on one point: both want the Israeli branch weakened.
Turkish foreign minister Hakan Fidan, meanwhile, leans into the Syrian option. He talks up a land corridor from Turkey through Syria and Jordan to the Gulf, wrapped in “regional solidarity” and the mantra that “nothing can be solved without the regional powers.”
If Hormuz stays open, Ankara cashes in as mediator; if demand for a dry bypass grows, Ankara sits as gatekeeper and shareholder. Either way, freight pays Turkey.
The S‑400 deal is the operational key. Ankara is weighing sending its Russian air‑defense batteries to a Gulf state — widely tipped as Dubai — under a formula that would lift US sanctions and reopen the F‑35 program.
That clears the legal tripwire that knocked Turkey out; at the same time, it thickens the triangle UAE–Turkey–Russia just as Abu Dhabi straddles IMEC and Turkey’s “Development Road.”
The UAE isn’t defecting to an anti‑Israel axis — it’s buying protection after taking the heaviest Iranian fire — but the neat Israel–UAE versus Turkey picture starts to blur.
Turkey with F‑35s has a sharper air edge over the Eastern Med and northern Syria. Israeli strikes on the Syrian segment of the land route become more expensive and risky.
Fidan’s line that “the only risk to Syria is Israel’s policy” isn’t aimed at convincing the IDF; it’s aimed at building a corridor‑backed bloc that treats each raid on Latakia, Tartus and the Turkish‑patronized rail link as a hit on shared infrastructure, raising the political price of every sortie.
Together, Tehran’s threat to Jebel Ali and Haifa and Ankara’s push for a Syria track create the same outcome: the Israeli branch of the India–Europe project becomes the most exposed piece on the board, while the Turkish‑Syrian bypass grows into the corridor you can’t bomb without paying a much higher cost.
#iran #turkey #uae #israel #IMEC #INSTC #S400 #F35 #fakeConnectivity
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IRGC‑linked Fars sketches a new escalation script: if the US keeps hitting Iran’s rail bridges on the North–South corridor, the “answer” should be strikes on Jebel Ali in the UAE and Haifa in Israel — the showcase ports of the India–Middle East–Europe Corridor, the Abraham Accords’ economic product.
One cruise‑missile hit on an INSTC/BRI bridge moves the fight off Hormuz and onto the hardware of connectivity itself: ports and junctions that tie India to the Gulf and Europe.
Message from Tehran: you hit our corridor, we hit yours. IMEC becomes collateral for INSTC. Naming Jebel Ali and Haifa means that routing around Israel via the Gulf doesn’t protect you from Iran’s valve.
The only segment that falls out of Iran’s direct line of fire is the land route through Syria under Turkish patronage, because it isn’t wired into the Israel–UAE combo. On that section, Iran and Turkey are rivals in most things — except on one point: both want the Israeli branch weakened.
Turkish foreign minister Hakan Fidan, meanwhile, leans into the Syrian option. He talks up a land corridor from Turkey through Syria and Jordan to the Gulf, wrapped in “regional solidarity” and the mantra that “nothing can be solved without the regional powers.”
If Hormuz stays open, Ankara cashes in as mediator; if demand for a dry bypass grows, Ankara sits as gatekeeper and shareholder. Either way, freight pays Turkey.
The S‑400 deal is the operational key. Ankara is weighing sending its Russian air‑defense batteries to a Gulf state — widely tipped as Dubai — under a formula that would lift US sanctions and reopen the F‑35 program.
That clears the legal tripwire that knocked Turkey out; at the same time, it thickens the triangle UAE–Turkey–Russia just as Abu Dhabi straddles IMEC and Turkey’s “Development Road.”
The UAE isn’t defecting to an anti‑Israel axis — it’s buying protection after taking the heaviest Iranian fire — but the neat Israel–UAE versus Turkey picture starts to blur.
Turkey with F‑35s has a sharper air edge over the Eastern Med and northern Syria. Israeli strikes on the Syrian segment of the land route become more expensive and risky.
Fidan’s line that “the only risk to Syria is Israel’s policy” isn’t aimed at convincing the IDF; it’s aimed at building a corridor‑backed bloc that treats each raid on Latakia, Tartus and the Turkish‑patronized rail link as a hit on shared infrastructure, raising the political price of every sortie.
Together, Tehran’s threat to Jebel Ali and Haifa and Ankara’s push for a Syria track create the same outcome: the Israeli branch of the India–Europe project becomes the most exposed piece on the board, while the Turkish‑Syrian bypass grows into the corridor you can’t bomb without paying a much higher cost.
#iran #turkey #uae #israel #IMEC #INSTC #S400 #F35 #fakeConnectivity
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The Haifa Bypass
Lebanon and Syria have restarted work on a railway link from Tripoli’s port to the Syrian border, then onward through Homs. Their transport ministers met in Damascus, created a joint technical team and agreed to update studies for the corridor.
Lebanon is already assessing the rehabilitation of roughly 40 kilometers of track between Tripoli and the border.
Forty kilometers of abandoned rail is the easy part. The political map behind it is larger. Syria and Saudi Arabia signed rail and logistics agreements this week.
Turkey and Saudi Arabia have already agreed to study a rail connection through Syria and Jordan. Ankara wants its network connected to Aleppo. Riyadh wants the Gulf connected to Turkey and Europe.
The route makes sense on paper. Gulf cargo moves north through Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria, then toward Turkey or the Mediterranean.
Tripoli wants a seat at that table. Syria wants to become a transit state again. Turkey wants a land bridge. Saudi Arabia wants alternatives to the Red Sea and Hormuz.
Israel has its own map. IMEC is supposed to link India, the Gulf, Jordan and the port of Haifa before continuing to Europe.
But IMEC remains in feasibility work, with no firm construction schedule or committed funding for its most sensitive land section.
The Lebanon-Syria line is not built. Funding is unresolved. Syria still has about 1,052 kilometers of operational railway from a network of 2,552 kilometers, much of it damaged or limited by years of war. The ministers have created a committee, not a corridor.
Still, routes are political statements before they become infrastructure. This one says the region wants options that do not require a stop in Haifa.
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Lebanon and Syria have restarted work on a railway link from Tripoli’s port to the Syrian border, then onward through Homs. Their transport ministers met in Damascus, created a joint technical team and agreed to update studies for the corridor.
Lebanon is already assessing the rehabilitation of roughly 40 kilometers of track between Tripoli and the border.
Forty kilometers of abandoned rail is the easy part. The political map behind it is larger. Syria and Saudi Arabia signed rail and logistics agreements this week.
Turkey and Saudi Arabia have already agreed to study a rail connection through Syria and Jordan. Ankara wants its network connected to Aleppo. Riyadh wants the Gulf connected to Turkey and Europe.
The route makes sense on paper. Gulf cargo moves north through Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria, then toward Turkey or the Mediterranean.
Tripoli wants a seat at that table. Syria wants to become a transit state again. Turkey wants a land bridge. Saudi Arabia wants alternatives to the Red Sea and Hormuz.
Israel has its own map. IMEC is supposed to link India, the Gulf, Jordan and the port of Haifa before continuing to Europe.
But IMEC remains in feasibility work, with no firm construction schedule or committed funding for its most sensitive land section.
The Lebanon-Syria line is not built. Funding is unresolved. Syria still has about 1,052 kilometers of operational railway from a network of 2,552 kilometers, much of it damaged or limited by years of war. The ministers have created a committee, not a corridor.
Still, routes are political statements before they become infrastructure. This one says the region wants options that do not require a stop in Haifa.
#Lebanon #Syria #Turkey #IMEC
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The Regional Bundle
The Trump administration is drafting a postwar Middle East strategy to contain Iran, stabilize Israel’s open fronts and expand the Abraham Accords.
Washington calls it a regional alignment. The region calls it putting every unsolved war into one PowerPoint deck.
The plan reportedly ties together a U.S.-backed coalition against Iran, the next stage of Trump’s Gaza plan, a security arrangement between Israel and Syria, implementation of the Israel-Lebanon agreement, and Saudi-Israeli normalization.
Trump has discussed the idea twice with senior advisers and has reportedly called it “something much bigger” after the Iran war. The White House declined to comment. An official familiar with the process told Axios that “they are cooking it, but it is not yet cooked.” Fair enough. The kitchen contains Gaza, Hezbollah, Syria, Saudi demands and an Israeli election.
But Washington has already backed two regional arrangements that point in another direction. Trump welcomed the Mecca Pact, a Saudi-Turkish-Pakistani defense alignment modeled on NATO’s collective-defense language. It offers a Sunni security club beside the U.S.-Israeli architecture that the Abraham Accords were meant to build.
The administration has also supported plans to revive the Kirkuk-Baniyas pipeline from Iraq to Syria’s Mediterranean coast. The route would bypass the Strait of Hormuz and allow Iraqi crude to reach European markets through Syria, while turning Israel from IMEC’s intended Mediterranean gateway into an expensive detour.
IMEC was already stalled by regional war and lacks firm funding commitments.
So Washington is pitching Saudi-Israeli normalization while tolerating the infrastructure that makes Israel optional.
The Abraham Accords promised a new Middle East through Haifa. The Mecca Pact and the Iraq-Syria route offer a different map, where Gulf money, Turkish influence and Arab transit can run around Israel.
Iran containment is the sales pitch. Competing corridors are the real policy. Who needs normalization when the cargo can take another road?
#MiddleEast #Trump #IMEC #Israel
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The Trump administration is drafting a postwar Middle East strategy to contain Iran, stabilize Israel’s open fronts and expand the Abraham Accords.
Washington calls it a regional alignment. The region calls it putting every unsolved war into one PowerPoint deck.
The plan reportedly ties together a U.S.-backed coalition against Iran, the next stage of Trump’s Gaza plan, a security arrangement between Israel and Syria, implementation of the Israel-Lebanon agreement, and Saudi-Israeli normalization.
Trump has discussed the idea twice with senior advisers and has reportedly called it “something much bigger” after the Iran war. The White House declined to comment. An official familiar with the process told Axios that “they are cooking it, but it is not yet cooked.” Fair enough. The kitchen contains Gaza, Hezbollah, Syria, Saudi demands and an Israeli election.
But Washington has already backed two regional arrangements that point in another direction. Trump welcomed the Mecca Pact, a Saudi-Turkish-Pakistani defense alignment modeled on NATO’s collective-defense language. It offers a Sunni security club beside the U.S.-Israeli architecture that the Abraham Accords were meant to build.
The administration has also supported plans to revive the Kirkuk-Baniyas pipeline from Iraq to Syria’s Mediterranean coast. The route would bypass the Strait of Hormuz and allow Iraqi crude to reach European markets through Syria, while turning Israel from IMEC’s intended Mediterranean gateway into an expensive detour.
IMEC was already stalled by regional war and lacks firm funding commitments.
So Washington is pitching Saudi-Israeli normalization while tolerating the infrastructure that makes Israel optional.
The Abraham Accords promised a new Middle East through Haifa. The Mecca Pact and the Iraq-Syria route offer a different map, where Gulf money, Turkish influence and Arab transit can run around Israel.
Iran containment is the sales pitch. Competing corridors are the real policy. Who needs normalization when the cargo can take another road?
#MiddleEast #Trump #IMEC #Israel
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