Economy follows politics in “Al-Sharq al-Awsat” … Presentations and results – Muhammad Abd al-Shafi ‘Issa

We will not go into contradictory definitions of the different geographical areas that surround us, given the overlap and ambiguity linked to their philosophical and geopolitical borders, even if the closest to understanding is: “the Arab region” with its Historical, civilizational and national connotations, in the final analysis, of what we call “the Arab nation” is a geographical area, defined specifically as “Arab people”, to form the concept of “Arab nation”.
There is also what can be called the “central Arab-Islamic region” which includes the Arab world in addition to the countries directly surrounding it, which are located at the center of the circle of civilization of the Islamic world with its general meaning. in the studies of languages, religions and civilizations, and its most important affiliates are Iran and Turkey, to distinguish it from Muslim majority countries is on the two dense sides which are relatively far from the center of the circle in Asia from East, East and West Africa.
As for the Western colonial term coined, during and after the Second World War, which is “the Middle East”, it caused a lot of “unease” and confusion. And here it is intended to replace the “Arab nation” to dilute the identity of Arab civilization, since it refers to countries with contradictory identities that allow the introduction of (Israel). This may explain the enthusiasm of certain international organizations, notably the “World Bank”, to insert this hybrid statement in the fire of terminology currently circulating in the political and economic literature. We mean “Middle East and North Africa” MENA. This is all about including Israel in a larger system than it includes the countries of the greater Arab world, and perhaps Iran as well.
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And anyone who forgets what spread in construction (in the Middle East and North Africa) in the midst of (the first wave of normalization) between some official Arabs and Israel during and after what has been called the ” Madrid Peace Conference “in 1990, which was followed by a series of” regional economic conferences “. To call for “peace accompanied by prosperity”, as we said at the time, in Casablanca in 1994, in the Jordanian capital Amman, 1995, in Cairo 1996, and finally in Doha in 1997. It was accompanied by a campaign to exchange official and informal “normalization” relations between Israel and a number of governments, especially in parts of the Gulf, through the opening of offices and “representations” as if they were embassies, they quickly collapsed a bit later. That is not to mention the wave of “fundamental” normalization between Israel and two countries for the confrontation with Israel after the legacy of many wars. We mean both Egypt – in Sadat’s time – according to the Camp David accords of 1977, then the 1979 Peace Treaty and Jordan according to the Wadi Araba Accord. 1994 year.
And who can forget what circulated and spread during and after the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 during the “administration” of George Bush Jr., when Western American propaganda circles promoted them. terms “Greater Middle East” and “Large Middle East” or “enlarged”, to always include Israel, pursuing the illusion that the former chairman of the entity (Shimon Peres) tried to market ideas on behalf of his (book) titled “New Middle East” in the early 90s (1993). The essence of the “message” which carried this (the book) was the construction of a prosperous Middle East based on the combination of the technological advancements that Israel promises, the oil and money provided by the Gulf, and the jobs. massive in other Arab countries, especially Egypt, as Peres believed that the Middle East without Israel is not. It is more than a “big nursery school” because of the demographic structure dominated by young age groups. This contrasts with modern demographic analytical frameworks at the international level, which now see the predominance of young age groups as a demographic window and gift that will create great development opportunities in the future, using the creative energies of them. young people, if the way to deal with them is really improved.
Since the difficult practical reality collapsed into the harsh practical reality of Zionist propaganda in its successive waves, it was necessary to create or invent justifiable pretexts to spread terms intended, as we have mentioned, to erase national content. of Arab memory, and to be replaced with this or that geopolitical term, which abounds in it The collection of American “think tanks” always, with its extension to the “Jewish lobby”, the forces of ideological influence, with great political influence, in the folds of the American political system in particular. This is partly what is being promoted at present in the context of the “second wave of normalization”, which is likely to meet the fate of its predecessor in a short period of time, as we see. But what is driving the push for one wave of normalization after another ..? Is this a personal revelation or a force from the outside? And if it is from the outside, who and why ..?
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In an attempt to answer this first, and having presented some basic introductions to the term, the term Middle East, and some of its connotations, we now find ourselves in front of some remarkable results, the result of which is the crystallization of four of the models of foreign political behavior in this region, which we may call the Middle East. This includes the Arab world and part of the “central Islamic Arab region”, in addition to an aspect of the colonial influence that resides there. These four models are the model of the Arab nation and that of Turkey, the other Iranian and finally (the Israeli).
We start from the Arab model, and continue to talk about it, to find it linked to exposure to outside influence that is not subject to equivalent resistance to a large extent, given the overwhelming power of the influencing party, the severity of this influence, and the power gap that will practically dissipate between the two opposing parties for the foreseeable future. The issue is closer to an irreversible decision by outside forces not to allow any force in the geographic extent of the Arab world in order to achieve effective and effective sovereignty over national resources, according to the name launched by the General Assembly. United Nations in the context of the call for an “economic system”. A new world law ”and“ new international law ”and“ international economic law ”in the 1970s. Of course, this concerns oil, oil and gas, and financial resources, therefore, that this region acquires from cosmic space in the bright and western parts of the Arab world and in the middle of the Nile Valley, with the acquisition of the largest share of the world’s oil reserves, and a significant share of the production and reserves of liquefied and associated natural gas. This concerns in the first place the large rich countries of the Gulf, with a small population and demographic composition, which suffers from known chronic imbalances, as regards the Moroccan wing of Libya and Algeria, as well as, within certain borders of the Arab Republic of Egypt.
We will end the discussion on the Arab model, and then show the other three models, in the second part of this article.