The New Middle East, we are still renovating, are we? (P3)
Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made it clear in 2006 that the United States is seeking major changes and it is time for a “New Middle East”. This was during a thirty day war between Hizbollah and Israel in July of that year. The New Middle East which is now a fertile ground for the western greed to control most of its oil resource, whether by diplomatic channels or war. Since the destruction of Iraq, one of the strongest militarily and rich Arab Nations before the Gulf War, the destabilising of Syria and the bankruptcy of Lebanon, adding to that the recent normalisation of relations between Israel on one side and Bahrain and UAE on the other via the Abraham Accords, one can only see that our Middle East is not recognisable anymore. Therefore in order to create a new world you have to reshape the old one or destroy it.
Fast forward seventeen years later, the scale of unified support from the US in addition (but not limited) to UK and France, with the head of the each state visiting Israel during its war with Hamas, is unprecedented. One would wonder: "Why this unequivocal support?", "Why now?". After all Israel gone through six days war agains three Arab nations managing three fronts at the same time without the help of any direct foreign nation in 1967. Israel is definitely better equipped and better prepared for any scenarios now than ever before.
Does this unequivocal support, in actual fact, come now since the "October 7" event was on the same scale as 911? or is there more going on behind closed doors? Talks are now circulating about a "Tent Cities" in Sinai desert (Egypt), similar to the Syrian refugee camps in Turkey, is becoming more than just an idea to accommodate for the Gaza refugees. Will Egyptian administration cave in to the US and European pressure to take this step forward to welcome the Palestinian refugees until Gaza is rebuilt and ready post-Hamas-era. The west promised Egypt to wipe out completely its foreign debt if the plan goes ahead. The Palestinians know that once they step out of Gaza into Egypt as refugees there is no coming back. The Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan are a fact witness since 1948.
Hence The Renovation...
In September 2023, few days before October 7, The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed The United Nations General Assembly by showing a map of “The New Middle East” drawing a red line through the map that represents the new trade corridor stretching thousands of kilometres from Asia all the way to Europe going through the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Israel. An alternative, yet competitive route to the Chinese Silk Road and the?Suez Canal in Egypt. This is while Palestinians living in the West Bank have to spend hours going through humiliating Israeli checkpoints in order to travel just few kilometres within the West Bank and whilst Gaza is under sixteen years of suffocating blockade and thirty three days of constant bombardment as of today.
In order to achieve this route, the Israeli prime minister pointed out the potential future peace agreements starting with Saudi Arabia as the latest addition to the peace process portfolio in the Middle East and the normalisation of relations between the Arab World and Israel that goes as far as Morocco, yet Israel is unable to normalise its relations with their “Palestinian Neighbours” (as he addressed them in his speech) with no mentioning at all to the “two states solution”. The “Two State Solution” that every American president promised the Palestinian people to wait for, since “it is coming one day”. However you can tell from the map he was holding, there is no Gaza there is no West Bank in “The New Middle East”.
The “Palestinian Neighbours”, as he called them, can’t get building permits very easily for a natural expansion of population, therefore new families have to build illegally and face the consequences of their homes being demolished, yet the Palestinians watch the immigrant settlers building thousands of new settlements on the West Bank land. The “Palestinian Authority” receives constant assurances from the American administration as a vague message on every occasion saying: “We are Worried or Concerned” about the expansion of new settlements in the West Bank.
The New Middle East that the prime minister did not bother to include a plan to improve the lives of thousands of Palestinians living in refugee camps inside Gaza and inside the West Bank but went on to showcase the booming business Israel is achieving with its middle eastern partners.
Was October 7 a terrorist attack or a cry for help? Were Hamas leaders bored at the time and did what they did or is it to say “Hay World” we are still here we are still deprived from freedom and basic quality of life. Was that attack to bring our attention to a forgotten cause, the fight to free their home land, while the middle east is being reshaped by others. If the world sees Hamas as a terrorist organisation and not freedom fighters, then can the world tell us what Hamas wants? After all, every terrorist has demands, does the world know what Hamas’ demands are?