Yossi Schwartz ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine) 09.08.2026
For many years, Zionist leaders have dreamed of a new Middle East centered on Zionist imperialism. The term “New Middle East” was coined by Shimon Peres, after the signing of the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians in the 1990s; He envisioned a new era in which the Arab world, Israel, and perhaps Turkey, cooperated in a variety of civilian areas. That serve Israel. The Arab world viewed the term negatively, which was perceived as an Israeli attempt to acquire hegemony in the region in non-military ways. The Abraham Accords, with the help of imperialism, were an attempt to realize this concept. After the defeat of the United States in the war with Iran, nothing remained of the Zionist delusion. A new Middle East is emerging, but it does not include Israel. Even in Lebanon, which according to Trump’s plan was supposed to forge a military alliance against Hezbollah in exchange for Israel’s withdrawal from occupied southern Lebanon, this plan is crashing.
Of the two pilot areas that the Lebanese army is supposed to enter with the consent of the Zionist state, only the more northern area has been entered. The southern area, which includes the villages of Peron and Randoria near the Litani and Saluki rivers, has not yet been captured by the Lebanese army that is afraid to fight Hezbollah
In the rounds of talks between Israel and Lebanon in Rome and Washington – the most recent of which, so far, took place last Thursday – the Lebanese have conveyed the message that there is no need to rush. In their estimation, it will be another two months before they can take responsibility for the southern pilot area.
Netanyahu is also in no hurry to implement it. The Netanyahu government is politically uncomfortable to be identified with further setbacks in the run-up to the Oct. 27 Knesset elections. Moreover, the Trump administration in the United States is imposing military restraint on it in attacks in the Gaza Strip and may also demand the beginning of the withdrawal of Israeli forces there. This is part of the 15-point plan of the so-called “International Peace Council.And it’s more correct to call it the Trump Council.
Iran is not in a hurry to open the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has issued conditions for the reopening of the waterway, including an end to the US’s naval blockade and compensation for war damages, unfreezing its held money and that the agreement will include Hezbollah, the Hotis and Hamas
A new military alliance has been formed between Pakistan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia instead of becoming an ally of Israel,has drawn two of the Muslim world’s most formidable military powers into its defense.
Pakistan and Turkey signed a NATO-style mutual defense pact with Saudi Arabia in Mecca on Friday, consolidating their longstanding security ties into a collective-defense alliance that stipulates an attack against any of them “shall be regarded as attack on them all.”
Until recently The India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC, or also known as IMEEC) is a proposed multinational infrastructure initiative aimed at upgrading connectivity between the three regions through integrated trade, energy, and digital networks. Announced at the Group of 20 (G20) Summit in New Delhi in September 2023, IMEC is envisioned partially as a counterweight to China’s international infrastructure project, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The multinational initiative consists of two main segments: an Eastern Corridor linking India to the Persian Gulf and a Northern Corridor connecting the Gulf to Europe via the Levant and Mediterranean. Its multimodal infrastructure, including railways, deep-water seaports, electricity grids, and high-speed data cables, could potentially reduce shipping costs by billions and shipping times by up to 40%, compared to traditional routes. At present, however, the corridor in its original form is effectively on hold due to regional instability and the new plan is to exclude Israel.
Turkey and Saudi Arabia plan to build a railway to link their two countries with Jordan and Syria in the next three or four years, Turkish Transport Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said, adding that other Gulf countries would also join the project.
Ankara says that the project would bypass Israel and diminish its regional influence. Supporters of the Saudi monarchy also noted that the project dealt a “fatal blow” to a 2023 US-Israeli plan to link India with the Middle East, Israel and Europe. The plan hinged on Israeli-Saudi normalization, which remains distant, with Riyadh demanding irreversible progress toward Palestinian statehood, which Israel rejects.
A day before the festive and well-publicized signing of the trilateral alliance between Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan in Mecca, another memorandum of understanding was signed outlining the boundaries of the sector and the limitations of the new alliance. The memorandum was signed in Islamabad between Pakistan and Iran, according to which the two countries aim to increase the volume of trade between them to $10 billion by 2030. Pakistan will also help Iran deal with the restrictions and sanctions imposed on it in a variety of ways.
For example, it was agreed that Pakistan would operate the six border crossings between it and Iran at all hours of the day, and that exchange transactions between the two sides would be able to replace the banking system in order to circumvent the sanctions on Tehran. It was also decided in the memorandum that ways would be examined to allow Iran to use Pakistan’s ports as a bypass to the blockade imposed on the Strait of Hormuz and on Iranian exports.
This understanding reflect the defeat of US imperialism in Iran and the growing understanding around the globe that the US is a decaying Empire.