After 16 months from the Hamas attack on Israel and the Israeli
intervention in Gaza, the geopolitical structure of the Middle East has
completely changed and not only because of the 1,200 Israeli deaths on
October 7 and the 70,000 Palestinian deaths in Gaza, but also because of
the thousands of other deaths in the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen
and throughout the area of the Middle East affected by the conflict. To
the dead must be added the wounded, estimated at more than 400,000. It
is not only the Gaza Strip that has been reduced to a pile of rubble but
also southern Lebanon, many homes in the West Bank blown up by the
Israeli army and settlers, not to mention the ruins in Syria, which has
been torn apart by civil war for years.
While a fragile truce has allowed some of the 250 hostages held by the
Palestinians to return to embrace their loved ones in exchange for the
release of Palestinian prisoners, the future fate of Gaza and the
Palestinian people is being discussed and the re-President of the United
States, an expert property developer, formulates a proposal that at
first glance appears absurd and unacceptable, so much so that it is
judged unacceptable by all international interlocutors, except by the
Israelis: Gaza would be administered by the United States, perhaps
dusting off the mandate formula (or perhaps Trump would like it to be
sold to the USA by Israel, which acquired it as spoils of war!). The
Gazan people would be evacuated to Egypt, Jordan or wherever they prefer
and the territory of the Strip, once the rubble has been removed, would
be transformed into a "riviera" that would constitute the new luxury
resort of the Mediterranean, where - according to the US President -
"everyone would aspire to own a residence." Probably, in the intentions
of the tenant of the White House, the processes of expropriation and
subdivision would be accentuated also in the West Bank, so as to ensure
that the expulsion of the Palestinians from Palestine is total and
definitive, realizing the plans of the fanatical Israeli religious
fundamentalists who plan an Israel according to the biblical borders,
from the Jordan to the sea. It is no coincidence that the government of
Tel Aviv enjoys a solid majority after the proposal, strong in the
support of the religious parties and that Netanyahu is sailing with the
wind in his sails.
All the other states of the world, albeit with different formulas, have
expressed their opposition to the project and have reiterated that the
only possible solution is that of two peoples, two states.[1]The US
president, in formulating his proposal, does not forget to underline
that it would be an economically very profitable investment, which would
involve hundreds of thousands of jobs and the use of capital so
substantial as to guarantee sure profits to the Gulf countries, Saudi
Arabia, the United States, Israel itself and anyone who wants to invest
in the area.
This is the political and economic substance of the Abraham Pacts which,
even before Hamas' action on 7 October, constituted the content of the
agreements reached between the first Trump administration and its Arab
and Israeli interlocutors. The infrastructure which at a geostrategic
level should justify and support this investment is constituted by the
creation of the so-called Cotton Road[2]which is in opposition to the
Chinese Silk Road project.
The Cotton Road
Now that the major obstacle to the construction of this infrastructure,
constituted by the presence of the Russians in Syria, has been removed
by a provident and questionable "revolutionary" uprising, urged and
sponsored by Turkey, interested in acquiring a part of the Syrian
territory, control of the sources of the waters of the great rivers, but
also in participating in the investment, the conditions that guarantee
the construction of the infrastructure seem to be in place.
It is undeniable that Turkish control over Syria would militarily
guarantee the investment on the flank, preventing Iranian interference
in the traffic that passes through it.
The "cotton road" is divided into two connections: one railway between
Europe and the Persian Gulf (Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan),
the other port, between India and the Persian Gulf; it also includes the
laying of cables for the transmission of data and electricity and pipes
for green hydrogen. The economic value of this infrastructure but also
the profits that would derive from it would be enormous and would
consist of goods produced in India reaching Europe with a short route
and at low costs, incomparably lower than transport through the Suez
Canal or by circumnavigating Africa. It would also be possible to run
the same route as the cables that currently pass through the Red Sea and
through the Suez Canal that support communications between India and Europe.
The current route that is under attack from Yemen and pirates in the
Arabian Gulf would be bypassed by an infrastructure that is totally
controlled by friendly countries and not subject to blackmail or
continuous attacks, thus escaping the restrictions on maritime traffic
currently imposed by Iran and its allies.
The Trump administration, while focusing its attention on the Americas,
according to a revised version of the Monroe Doctrine, does not intend
to neglect other geostrategic areas in order to contain the economic,
political and military expansion of what it considers its main
competitor, namely China.
The comparison with the BRICS
In recent days, Secretary of State Rubio declared: "Within five years,
there will be so many countries that will use currencies other than the
dollar that we will not be able to impose sanctions on them". The
sanctions adopted at the request of the United States are already
capable of putting small countries, such as Cuba, in crisis, but
certainly not great powers such as Russia, as is proven by the fact that
a growth rate of Russian GDP of 4% is currently forecast for next year.
This is because a vast and complex international economic and financial
circuit has now been created, consisting of the BRICS, which functions
as an alternative commercial and financial circuit and which, as of
January 1, 2025, has nine new "partner" states associated with the
group. Taken together, the members and partners of the group now
represent more than half of the world's population and 40.4% of global
wealth (in terms of purchasing power parity). The new category of
"Partner States", adopted starting from the Kazan Summit in October
2024, has extended the BRICS area to Belarus, Bolivia, Indonesia,
Kazakhstan, Cuba, Malaysia, Thailand, Uganda and Uzbekistan) but could
expand further during 2025.
The new configuration significantly strengthens the ties between the
partners, also because the new States that have joined the group will be
able to participate in the extraordinary sessions of the group's
summits, as well as in the meetings of the foreign ministers,
strengthening the cohesion of the organization. In this situation, it
will be increasingly difficult for the G7 countries and the United
States to establish privileged relations with India, especially because
the United States is withdrawing from many international organizations,
while the BRICS favor maintaining the group's openness to the countries
of the Global South, continuing to invest in the fight against climate
change, hunger and poverty, as well as ensuring access to vaccines and
medicines for developing countries. But there is more: India is
increasingly dependent on Russia for energy supplies, both oil and gas
in particular; not only that, but it makes considerable profits by
selling Russian oil that it refines and puts on the market,
circumventing sanctions.
The identity issue
But the area in which, in our opinion, Trump's plan has its greatest
weaknesses is precisely that central nucleus that, in the intentions of
the proponent, should constitute its strength. Trump's strategy relies
on the prevalence of economic interests and the pursuit of profit as the
rational driver of people's decisions and choices, without taking into
account the fact that it is not only material interest that moves
choices and orients decisions.
Even the elites are forced to acknowledge that the normalization of
peoples in the name of survival, their uprooting from the territory,
from tradition, from customs, from religion, from their ancestral
memory, is not viable because if there is always a part of people
available, in the name of profit, to erase every other value, this does
not constitute a universal choice, even less so in societies of
Islamic-Arab culture and traditions.
Once again the United States falls victim to their vision of the world
that places in first place a perversion of Protestantism transformed
into a theology of prosperity that leads them to believe that economic
interest and profit are the only true drive that directs and orients the
choices of human beings.
This perverse vision of collective and social feeling, of the dimension
of mass psychology generalized and extended to the entire human race,
leads them to believe that they can make economic interest and profit
prevail over every choice of human expulsion. There are peoples who are
"less young" than those who currently inhabit the territory of the
United States, who are endowed with traditions and historical memory,
characterized by a radical attachment to the land, to the environment in
which their history has developed, languages and traditions, religions
and belonging have been cultivated, wars have been fought, blood has
been shed, cemeteries and tombs have been built, places of memory have
been identified that constitute an essential and indispensable part of
their identity and who are therefore not willing to give them up at any
price, not even in the prospect of creating a "riviera", a modern resort
for the rich on one of the most beautiful shores of the Mediterranean.
[1]On the position of the anarchist communists on the Arab-Israeli
conflict, see: I comunisti anarchici, la domanda ebrei e quella
palestinese, Newsletter Crescita Politica, n. 178, Nov. 2023;
[2]The agreement for the creation of an India-Middle East-Europe (IMEC)
corridor was signed by the leaders of the United States, India, Saudi
Arabia, the Emirates, France, Germany, and the European Union. It
involves two connections: one railway between Europe and the Gulf
(Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan), the other port between India
and the Gulf which also includes laying cables for data and electricity
transmission and pipes for green hydrogen. The project was adopted by
the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGII), an
alliance created by the G7 in 2022, and by the EU's Global Gateway,
which has earmarked up to 300 billion euros for infrastructure
investments abroad between 2021 and 2027.
https://www.ucadi.org/2025/03/02/trump-limmobiliarista/
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intervention in Gaza, the geopolitical structure of the Middle East has
completely changed and not only because of the 1,200 Israeli deaths on
October 7 and the 70,000 Palestinian deaths in Gaza, but also because of
the thousands of other deaths in the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen
and throughout the area of the Middle East affected by the conflict. To
the dead must be added the wounded, estimated at more than 400,000. It
is not only the Gaza Strip that has been reduced to a pile of rubble but
also southern Lebanon, many homes in the West Bank blown up by the
Israeli army and settlers, not to mention the ruins in Syria, which has
been torn apart by civil war for years.
While a fragile truce has allowed some of the 250 hostages held by the
Palestinians to return to embrace their loved ones in exchange for the
release of Palestinian prisoners, the future fate of Gaza and the
Palestinian people is being discussed and the re-President of the United
States, an expert property developer, formulates a proposal that at
first glance appears absurd and unacceptable, so much so that it is
judged unacceptable by all international interlocutors, except by the
Israelis: Gaza would be administered by the United States, perhaps
dusting off the mandate formula (or perhaps Trump would like it to be
sold to the USA by Israel, which acquired it as spoils of war!). The
Gazan people would be evacuated to Egypt, Jordan or wherever they prefer
and the territory of the Strip, once the rubble has been removed, would
be transformed into a "riviera" that would constitute the new luxury
resort of the Mediterranean, where - according to the US President -
"everyone would aspire to own a residence." Probably, in the intentions
of the tenant of the White House, the processes of expropriation and
subdivision would be accentuated also in the West Bank, so as to ensure
that the expulsion of the Palestinians from Palestine is total and
definitive, realizing the plans of the fanatical Israeli religious
fundamentalists who plan an Israel according to the biblical borders,
from the Jordan to the sea. It is no coincidence that the government of
Tel Aviv enjoys a solid majority after the proposal, strong in the
support of the religious parties and that Netanyahu is sailing with the
wind in his sails.
All the other states of the world, albeit with different formulas, have
expressed their opposition to the project and have reiterated that the
only possible solution is that of two peoples, two states.[1]The US
president, in formulating his proposal, does not forget to underline
that it would be an economically very profitable investment, which would
involve hundreds of thousands of jobs and the use of capital so
substantial as to guarantee sure profits to the Gulf countries, Saudi
Arabia, the United States, Israel itself and anyone who wants to invest
in the area.
This is the political and economic substance of the Abraham Pacts which,
even before Hamas' action on 7 October, constituted the content of the
agreements reached between the first Trump administration and its Arab
and Israeli interlocutors. The infrastructure which at a geostrategic
level should justify and support this investment is constituted by the
creation of the so-called Cotton Road[2]which is in opposition to the
Chinese Silk Road project.
The Cotton Road
Now that the major obstacle to the construction of this infrastructure,
constituted by the presence of the Russians in Syria, has been removed
by a provident and questionable "revolutionary" uprising, urged and
sponsored by Turkey, interested in acquiring a part of the Syrian
territory, control of the sources of the waters of the great rivers, but
also in participating in the investment, the conditions that guarantee
the construction of the infrastructure seem to be in place.
It is undeniable that Turkish control over Syria would militarily
guarantee the investment on the flank, preventing Iranian interference
in the traffic that passes through it.
The "cotton road" is divided into two connections: one railway between
Europe and the Persian Gulf (Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan),
the other port, between India and the Persian Gulf; it also includes the
laying of cables for the transmission of data and electricity and pipes
for green hydrogen. The economic value of this infrastructure but also
the profits that would derive from it would be enormous and would
consist of goods produced in India reaching Europe with a short route
and at low costs, incomparably lower than transport through the Suez
Canal or by circumnavigating Africa. It would also be possible to run
the same route as the cables that currently pass through the Red Sea and
through the Suez Canal that support communications between India and Europe.
The current route that is under attack from Yemen and pirates in the
Arabian Gulf would be bypassed by an infrastructure that is totally
controlled by friendly countries and not subject to blackmail or
continuous attacks, thus escaping the restrictions on maritime traffic
currently imposed by Iran and its allies.
The Trump administration, while focusing its attention on the Americas,
according to a revised version of the Monroe Doctrine, does not intend
to neglect other geostrategic areas in order to contain the economic,
political and military expansion of what it considers its main
competitor, namely China.
The comparison with the BRICS
In recent days, Secretary of State Rubio declared: "Within five years,
there will be so many countries that will use currencies other than the
dollar that we will not be able to impose sanctions on them". The
sanctions adopted at the request of the United States are already
capable of putting small countries, such as Cuba, in crisis, but
certainly not great powers such as Russia, as is proven by the fact that
a growth rate of Russian GDP of 4% is currently forecast for next year.
This is because a vast and complex international economic and financial
circuit has now been created, consisting of the BRICS, which functions
as an alternative commercial and financial circuit and which, as of
January 1, 2025, has nine new "partner" states associated with the
group. Taken together, the members and partners of the group now
represent more than half of the world's population and 40.4% of global
wealth (in terms of purchasing power parity). The new category of
"Partner States", adopted starting from the Kazan Summit in October
2024, has extended the BRICS area to Belarus, Bolivia, Indonesia,
Kazakhstan, Cuba, Malaysia, Thailand, Uganda and Uzbekistan) but could
expand further during 2025.
The new configuration significantly strengthens the ties between the
partners, also because the new States that have joined the group will be
able to participate in the extraordinary sessions of the group's
summits, as well as in the meetings of the foreign ministers,
strengthening the cohesion of the organization. In this situation, it
will be increasingly difficult for the G7 countries and the United
States to establish privileged relations with India, especially because
the United States is withdrawing from many international organizations,
while the BRICS favor maintaining the group's openness to the countries
of the Global South, continuing to invest in the fight against climate
change, hunger and poverty, as well as ensuring access to vaccines and
medicines for developing countries. But there is more: India is
increasingly dependent on Russia for energy supplies, both oil and gas
in particular; not only that, but it makes considerable profits by
selling Russian oil that it refines and puts on the market,
circumventing sanctions.
The identity issue
But the area in which, in our opinion, Trump's plan has its greatest
weaknesses is precisely that central nucleus that, in the intentions of
the proponent, should constitute its strength. Trump's strategy relies
on the prevalence of economic interests and the pursuit of profit as the
rational driver of people's decisions and choices, without taking into
account the fact that it is not only material interest that moves
choices and orients decisions.
Even the elites are forced to acknowledge that the normalization of
peoples in the name of survival, their uprooting from the territory,
from tradition, from customs, from religion, from their ancestral
memory, is not viable because if there is always a part of people
available, in the name of profit, to erase every other value, this does
not constitute a universal choice, even less so in societies of
Islamic-Arab culture and traditions.
Once again the United States falls victim to their vision of the world
that places in first place a perversion of Protestantism transformed
into a theology of prosperity that leads them to believe that economic
interest and profit are the only true drive that directs and orients the
choices of human beings.
This perverse vision of collective and social feeling, of the dimension
of mass psychology generalized and extended to the entire human race,
leads them to believe that they can make economic interest and profit
prevail over every choice of human expulsion. There are peoples who are
"less young" than those who currently inhabit the territory of the
United States, who are endowed with traditions and historical memory,
characterized by a radical attachment to the land, to the environment in
which their history has developed, languages and traditions, religions
and belonging have been cultivated, wars have been fought, blood has
been shed, cemeteries and tombs have been built, places of memory have
been identified that constitute an essential and indispensable part of
their identity and who are therefore not willing to give them up at any
price, not even in the prospect of creating a "riviera", a modern resort
for the rich on one of the most beautiful shores of the Mediterranean.
[1]On the position of the anarchist communists on the Arab-Israeli
conflict, see: I comunisti anarchici, la domanda ebrei e quella
palestinese, Newsletter Crescita Politica, n. 178, Nov. 2023;
[2]The agreement for the creation of an India-Middle East-Europe (IMEC)
corridor was signed by the leaders of the United States, India, Saudi
Arabia, the Emirates, France, Germany, and the European Union. It
involves two connections: one railway between Europe and the Gulf
(Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan), the other port between India
and the Gulf which also includes laying cables for data and electricity
transmission and pipes for green hydrogen. The project was adopted by
the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGII), an
alliance created by the G7 in 2022, and by the EU's Global Gateway,
which has earmarked up to 300 billion euros for infrastructure
investments abroad between 2021 and 2027.
https://www.ucadi.org/2025/03/02/trump-limmobiliarista/
_________________________________________
A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E
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