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The collapse of the Assad dynasty may not have been specifically predicted by diplomats and intelligence agencies but it was anticipated. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held up a map of the Middle Eastern potentialities without Russia’s and Iran’s proxy empire — an empire which at the time included Lebanon and Syria – during a speech before the UN General Assembly on Sept. 27, 2024.
Ladies and gentlemen, as Israel defends itself against Iran in this seven-front war, the lines separating the blessing and the curse could not be more clear. This is the map I presented here last year. It’s a map of a blessing.
It shows Israel and its Arab partners forming a land bridge connecting Asia and Europe. Between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, across this bridge, we will lay rail lines, energy pipelines, and fiber optic cables, and this will serve the betterment of 2 billion people.
Now look at this second map. It’s a map of a curse. It’s a map of an arc of terror that Iran has created and imposed from the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean. Iran’s malignant arc has shut down international waterways.
The Blessing and the Curse. Turkey is notably absent from the list of Netanyahu’s blessed though it is not included in the roster of the accursed. The original “blessing” strategy of railroads, pipelines, and fiber optic cables was announced at the Sept 9, 2023, G20 meeting in New Delhi attended by Joe Biden. The India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor, as it came to be called, was envisioned as an alternative to the Suez Canal and deliberately designed to counter China’s Belt and Road. The agreement, “which could include Israel if it normalizes ties with Saudi Arabia, is one of several initiatives Biden is deploying to coax countries away from dealings with China”, reports The Times of Israel:
The project has been delayed due to the ongoing Israel–Hamas war.
