Gaza, that's why the Arab countries didn't save the Palestinians
The area of critical reading of the world that I see expressed recently on the events in Gaza and Palestine has a scotomization, a blind spot, and rarely considers the third actor in the situation: the world of the Gulf monarchies.
He does it because on a categorical level, he knows how to frame Israel and even better the United States of America, indeed he has strong contrary feelings, but he doesn't know how to frame this third subject and he doesn't know it, he doesn't know its power and intentions.
Apparently, an army of multilingual young men, sophisticated in lifestyle, all plastered, with or without beards, pouring dollars from their sleeves, raised in American and English colleges and universities, but autonomous from them.
The agents of a plan of the new generations who have suddenly realized that the reserves are falling, the climate towards fossils remains well tuned to business but increasingly worse in consideration and future prospecting, while living in a box of sand.
Apart from Qatar, which has the largest natural gas field in the world, oil companies have – in many cases – increasingly narrow margins.
The reaction to this awareness that reverses the historical flow of the area, which has always been upward, was a precise shared plan of global geostrategic positioning: a hub.
Hubs are for example Frankfurt airport, where in a network there is a point that is denser than the others in terms of exchanges and passages.
The Arab golf hub is at the center of relations between Asia, Africa and Europe.
The Emirates and Saudi Arabia have both entered the New BRICS (with Egypt), brought in by force from India but certainly with approval and as much sympathy and interest from China (and Russia) and take into account that the Emirati and Saudi monarchies they are relatives and must be strategically considered a single coordinated actor.
By aggregating the GDP of the Gulf monarchies, we have the GDP of Russia.
They are very liquid in terms of investment potential and want to buy things that will make them grow to give themselves a future.
We saw the World Cup in Qatar, the Saudis would like to do it again.
Saudi Arabia is in an auto-poietic effort of self-modernization and internationalization which is scary at the level of tourism, business and culture.
Not to mention the development of high tech, digital, pharmaceutical, electronic, solar, biomass, wind, hydroponic cultures, agriculture from sand.
The Emirates have probes in the atmosphere of Mars.
They have the fifth busiest airport in the world, Emirates is fourth in terms of international routes, apart from Singapore Airlines, they have a monopoly on business/first in world air traffic, if not in quantity, then in quality.
Stuff worth US$15,000 per seat.
Geostrategically, the area offers itself to the interconnection between Asia, Africa and Europe, it is in the middle like a natural square.
The young talents of the Gulf have no alternatives: either they relaunch in a big way or they perish by disappearing into the sand and from history.
Emirates with Saudis have been in Yemen for years and the former are more ferocious than the latter who are a bit stupid militarily, after all they are all very rich, you don't find many who enjoy flying with Houthi missiles whistling under their asses.
Their long-standing involvement in Salafist and Wahhabi terrorism is decidedly strategically sophisticated and ranges from Asian to African Islam, including that of the Sahel.
Perhaps little known here, but 90% of jihadist deaths and attacks are Muslim, not Western.
Jihadism is an instrument of hegemony of Greater Islam of which the Arabs are only a small minority.
They have hegemony in certain areas of Africa through religion, madrassas, investments, weapons.
They do great business with Asians in and of all shapes.
Qatar, Emirates and Saudi Arabia have a large Asian population, they are less than 10% of their own country (Qatar, Emirates).
They invest in Europe and buy us piecemeal in their fabulous shopping sprees.
The Gulf monarchies hate Hamas.
Hamas is the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni secular-religious organization with Salafist intent, anti-monarchical by definition, BR vs DC type.
As pure Arabs, they also dislike Palestinians in general.
Their public opinions, however, their own but also the wider "Arab" ones over which they have information hegemony (al Jazeera, al Arabya), throb for the destinies of the Palestinian brothers, martyrs for a tradition that has a strong symbolic figure of martyrdom.
If they really intend to set Israel up to make the landing plan on the Mediterranean coasts as it seems, their desire to expel the Gazesi and Hamas is at least equal to that of Israel.
If you go down to the details, a Jewish-Arab alliance is not being prepared: a system is being planned with structural interdependencies and co-interests, those that bind by interest, from which it is not easy to break away.
My suspicious references to the strange jihadist presence in the Hamas action of 7 October are certainly aimed at them and not at Israel.
Saudi Arabia is the second largest arms buyer in the world and Qatar third, Israel is the tenth producer-exporter, at very high tech levels that Arab kids really like.
After all, all those jihadists swarming in new Toyota pick-ups around the world cost a lot in weapons.
We said that the area should be considered a single system with Saudi Arabia, guardian of Mecca and Medina, as the central Sun, Kuwait, Bahrain (a monarchy related to that of Al Saud), seven Emirates as moons, Qatar as a separate planet and Oman even more eccentric .
But the system is binary because it brings Egypt with it.
Of course, it is strange that the irrelevant Arab-golfer demographic weight is able to exert such gravity on the Egyptian masses, yet for various reasons this is the case.
This group, which has been in the process of internal fusion for some time, aims for balanced and peaceful relations with Turkey, although other complex historical problems intervene there (which worry Erdogan more than the Arabs).
Above all, this constellation is in some ways forced to find a balance with Iran.
For a long time now, Saudi Arabia and Iran have started talking to each other again, but perhaps not just talking to each other.
It is impossible to carry forward the neo-ultramodern golf project with friction around it.
This is why in the latest BRICS meetings, if India pushed them in, China forced Iran.
Thus, perhaps more Saudi Arabia than the Emirates also brought down the tension in Yemen with the Houthis.
Furthermore, Russia, India, China all have a positive interest in this pacification, although it will be suspicious for a long time, Arabs and Persians are a much more complicated story than Arabs and Jews.
I would like to point out that Qatar, ultra-Sunni and prime sponsor of Hamas and the Palestinian cause, is a de facto friend of Shiite Iran, linked to it not only by Persian geography, but also by the joint ownership and exploitation of the enormous Persian gas field, the largest in the world.
In fact, here is a pole in the famous new logic of the multipolar world.
This new pole aims at strategic independence also through "balancing", leaning a little here (BRICS) and a little there (USA-EU but not NATO), friends of all, doing business with everyone.
Saudi Vision 2030 is the strategic bible of the project, conversion from fossil fuels to services, knowledge, tourism and above all hi-hi-tech.
Theme parks, rich neo-archaeology, smart cities, solar.
We are their second European supplier, they love us.
Our fashion reigns supreme.
We are at home in Doha, but no less in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, Milanese for parcels, restaurants, real estate speculation.
In fact, the Emirates are a tax haven officially blacklisted, but just don't look at it and the money travels anyway.
The money from there to Israel, there and back, has been traveling shipped for at least three years.
You are wrong to superimpose categories of our world and conception of the world on another world of its own conception and a very long and glorious history: Arab Islam invented by Muhammad in the 7th century AD.
Muhammad transformed peripheral merchant tribes into a people with the word of God, the last one he pronounced mentally dictating to the Prophet what would later become the Koran.
The Jews seemed not to have understood well, the Christians feel worse with that mess of Christ being half prophet (yes) and half divine (no), he had to say the last things once and for all to avoid interpretations, since 1,100 it has been forbidden to interpret the Koran.
Not a prophet who says he spoke to God, his direct megaphone.
This is why the Koran should not be translated and it is a divine book, not a sacred one, it is the word of God expressed in Arabic and should not be translated, why do you translate God? Hence the known touchiness when you touch it, it's not like the Torah or the Bible.
People who in a few years overflowed from the desert and built an empire that went from Morocco (Spain, Balkans) to Indonesia.
Sometimes with the sword, sometimes only with the word of the merchants and as merchants they are in no way second to the Jews with whom they even share very strong religious genetics, as well as centuries of coexistence without problems.
If we have inherited Aristotle and also a good part of Plato it is thanks to them, not due to Neoplatonism and the Hermetic-Chaldean tradition.
The same goes for algebra, numbers, cosmology, much medicine and much more, including civilizational exchanges with Asia and ancient China (silk, gunpowder paper, etc.).
As for the success of their single "word" for conversions, keep in mind that inside, the Koran has two parts.
That so-called Meccan monotheism is pure theological, ecumenical, salvific, therapeutic monotheism.
Sharia and holy wars are on the Medina side.
The word converting is that of the first part, but then once you have fallen into it, the rules of the club of those submissive to God arrive.
Now, what was said about the Abrahamic Covenant (Trump) and the Cotton Road (Biden), which to many it sounded a little too ambitious and not very credible, it should be reread in light of these facts.
That strategy is neither American, nor Chinese, nor Jewish, it is Arab.
The Americans use it to say to the Chinese "…
and then when you arrive there with your Silk Road, know that the terminal station is also our friend" and they give it to us Europeans as a commercial, industrial, energy partner to compensate us for the bans with the Russians and then intermittent ones with the Chinese.
Chinese who could also pragmatically take note that to get to southern Europe, they will have to go through their intermediation (as is always historically given) and that the further they move away from Asia, the more they have to make compromises of coexistence.
Here we have clarified why the people of Gazeta must leave Palestine and with them Hamas.
Because you can't do construction sites and work with the disturbance of Hamas.
The shares of the companies involved would collapse, the projects would not be co-financed by WB-IMF, everything would end up as usual in those parts in the usual tribal brothel of all against all.
This is why Israel prevents UNRWA from bringing aid to groups of unfortunates who have taken refuge in the rubble of northern Gaza and are harmless.
Because they have to leave, go somewhere else, disperse.
I know it's a new world that we often struggle to know, understand and even more so to judge.
But it's the world, the real and concrete one, not the one in your head.
It is urgent that you replace what you have in your head with the real one and do the math because those people do one thing well: counting.
To this day the money; from today on as the geopolitical and geostrategic weight of our new Big Complex World.