How The Gaza War Is Impacting Saudi Arabia's NEOM & IMEC Projects | Statecraft | Episode 26
1 month ago

How The Gaza War Is Impacting Saudi Arabia's NEOM & IMEC Projects | Statecraft | Episode 26

India Today  

The ongoing Gaza conflict is not only a humanitarian crisis but also a major geopolitical challenge affecting the future of two of the most ambitious infrastructure projects in West Asia: Saudi Arabia’s NEOM mega-city and the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor. In this video, we break down how the escalating tensions are disrupting both the NEOM project—Saudi Arabia's high-tech city of the future—and the IMEC trade route, designed to link India, the West Asia, and Europe. The Red Sea's strategic importance for trade routes and regional stability is now at risk, complicating Saudi Arabia’s plans for its ambitious Vision 2030 goals. Saudi Arabia’s Neutral Stance – Saudi Arabia has stayed largely neutral in the Gaza conflict, focusing instead on securing its economic future.

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Impact of Gaza War on IMEC corridor too soon to know, says White House
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Impact of Gaza War on IMEC corridor too soon to know, says White House

ABP News  

Washington, Jul 26 : The impact of the Gaza war on the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor, an ambitious initiative of US President Joe Biden, that creates an economic corridor from India to Europe via the Middle East is too early to know, the White House said on Thursday. The president's absolutely still committed to it,” White House National Security Communications …

US national security adviser, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince meet to discuss ‘semi-final’ security deal
7 months ago

US national security adviser, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince meet to discuss ‘semi-final’ security deal

Associated Press  

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — President Joe Biden’s national security adviser met early Sunday with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to discuss what the kingdom described as the “semi-final” version of a wide-ranging security agreement between the countries. In the time since, a punishing Israeli airstrike campaign and ground offensive there has killed over 35,000 Palestinians, endangering the …

Palestinian statehood key to post-war Gaza rebuilding plans of Arab nations
7 months, 1 week ago

Palestinian statehood key to post-war Gaza rebuilding plans of Arab nations

The Hindu  

As Israel keeps up its campaign against Hamas, Arab leaders are mapping out ways to support post-war Gaza, placing one major condition on their involvement: a pathway to Palestinian statehood. Two goals Arab countries are “pressuring the United States to achieve two things: establish a Palestinian state and recognising it in the United Nations”, said an Arab diplomat who is …

US mega-deal would tie together the futures of Saudi Arabia, Israel and Gaza
7 months, 3 weeks ago

US mega-deal would tie together the futures of Saudi Arabia, Israel and Gaza

CNN  

Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. An agreement establishing a firm US military commitment to Saudi Arabia’s security, without the normalization component, is unlikely to pass through the US Congress, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has said. Without normalizing the Israeli-Saudi relationship and …

US mega-deal would tie together the futures of Saudi Arabia, Israel and Gaza
7 months, 3 weeks ago

US mega-deal would tie together the futures of Saudi Arabia, Israel and Gaza

CNN  

Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week look inside the region’s biggest stories. An agreement establishing a firm US military commitment to Saudi Arabia’s security, without the normalization component, is unlikely to pass through the US Congress, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has said. Without normalizing the Israeli-Saudi relationship and …

Eye on the Middle East | Between the Gulf and the Sea, a changing geopolitical scenario
10 months ago

Eye on the Middle East | Between the Gulf and the Sea, a changing geopolitical scenario

Hindustan Times  

The Red Sea crisis is growing — on February 19, the European Union announced its own naval mission to protect shipping in the Gulf of Aden. Even as most Arab states stand by and Iran increases its naval presence in the Red Sea, the immediate mitigating measure for the US and allies has been a kinetic one — to strike …

Eye on the Middle East | The United States has subtly shifted its stand towards the Israel-Gaza war
10 months, 1 week ago

Eye on the Middle East | The United States has subtly shifted its stand towards the Israel-Gaza war

Hindustan Times  

Addressing a press conference on February 12, 2024, US President Joe Biden warned Israel against a planned offensive into Gaza’s Rafah city where fleeing Palestinians have taken refuge. The United States maintained this dual approach until December end — it denounced South Africa’s genocide charge at the ICJ as “meritless”, even as it increased its calls for Israel to limit …

Oil, aid, airspace: Arab leaders’ options to change the equation in Gaza
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Oil, aid, airspace: Arab leaders’ options to change the equation in Gaza

The Hindu  

Published : Jan 30, 2024 12:35 IST - 6 MINS READ It is often described as the world’s first oil crisis. So why not use the “oil weapon” again now, some countries, including Algeria and Lebanon, suggested at a meeting in Saudi Arabia on 11 November, 2023, where Arab leaders discussed how they should react to the current Gaza conflict. …

Need to find a way out of West Asia maze
10 months, 4 weeks ago

Need to find a way out of West Asia maze

New Indian Express  

One hundred days into Israel’s attack on the Palestinian enclave of Gaza, the geopolitics of the West Asian region has changed beyond recognition. The colossal destruction of Gaza and the horrific loss of innocent lives exposes Israel to condemnation of being an apartheid state committing genocide. The Palestinian resistance groups known as the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, which is targeting …

Saudi Arabia says it won’t recognize Israel without a path to a Palestinian state
11 months ago

Saudi Arabia says it won’t recognize Israel without a path to a Palestinian state

LA Times  

Saudi Arabia’s top diplomat says the oil-rich kingdom will not normalize relations with Israel or contribute to Gaza’s reconstruction without there being a credible pathway to a Palestinian state — a nonstarter for Israel’s government. In the interview on “CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS,” the host asked: “Are you saying unequivocally that if there is not a credible and irreversible path …

US secretary of state rallies Mideast leaders to prepare for Gaza’s post-war future
11 months, 2 weeks ago

US secretary of state rallies Mideast leaders to prepare for Gaza’s post-war future

Associated Press  

AL ULA, Saudi Arabia — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday that four key Arab nations and Turkey have agreed to begin planning for the reconstruction and governance of Gaza once Israel’s war against Hamas ends. Blinken, who is on an urgent Mideast mission aimed primarily at preventing the conflict from spreading as fears rise of a regional …

Israel’s war on Gaza means Arab normalisation is ‘off the table’: Experts
1 year ago

Israel’s war on Gaza means Arab normalisation is ‘off the table’: Experts

Al Jazeera  

Experts at Doha Forum say assault will impact Israel’s planned normalisation with Arab nations and downgrade US hegemony in the region. Doha, Qatar – Experts say the Israeli war on Gaza will force the Middle East to go into a “reset” and will impact the region’s normalisation process with Israel, creating a multipolar world away from the hegemony of the …

IMEC a ‘win-win situation’ for all States involved, not without its geopolitical challenges: FM
1 year, 1 month ago

IMEC a ‘win-win situation’ for all States involved, not without its geopolitical challenges: FM

The Hindu  

The India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor is a “win-win situation” for all states involved, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said here on Wednesday, while highlighting that the project is “not without its geopolitical challenges”. Navy Chief Admiral R. Hari Kumar said the fragile security situation in the South China Sea, in addition to “violations” of established Codes of Conduct or Confidence-Building Measures, …

Progress on India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor could be one of the reasons for Hamas attack on Israel: Biden
1 year, 1 month ago

Progress on India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor could be one of the reasons for Hamas attack on Israel: Biden

Firstpost  

“I’m convinced one of the reasons Hamas attacked when they did, and I have no proof of this, just my instinct tells me, is because of the progress we were making towards regional integration for Israel, and regional integration overall. We can’t leave that work behind,” Biden said US President Joe Biden has said that he is convinced that one …

Opinion: What the war is revealing
1 year, 2 months ago

Opinion: What the war is revealing

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Sign up to get this weekly column as a newsletter. Many were kidnapped and taken to Gaza and dragged through the streets.” Ghitis added, “There’s much that Israel has done wrong. As many knowledgeable people have pointed out, what Hamas has done is clearly an act of terrorism, no matter what your definition.” Amy Klein, a writer based …

Israel-Hamas Conflict: Hamas’ Rationale Behind Attacking Israel and Saudi’s Response - News18
1 year, 2 months ago

Israel-Hamas Conflict: Hamas’ Rationale Behind Attacking Israel and Saudi’s Response - News18

News 18  

The world was stunned when Hamas launched a large-scale attack on Israel on Saturday. The most talked about is the fiasco of Israel’s intelligence which is however not unprecedented, as the 1973 Yom Kippur War is the prominent example when Israeli intelligence failed to detect the ensuing war. Another factor that allowed Hamas to embark on this venture is Israel’s …

Reminder from Gaza: Unipolar moment is over
1 year, 2 months ago

Reminder from Gaza: Unipolar moment is over

Hindustan Times  

With West Asia up in flames, the war in Ukraine tilting in favour of Russia, and China going about its business in the Taiwan Strait/South China Sea, the strategic landscape could not possibly be more challenging for the preeminent power in the world. With the US now forced to focus its attention on West Asia, the EU will have to …

News Analysis: U.S. struggles with how to help restore calm in Middle East in wake of deadly Hamas attack
1 year, 2 months ago

News Analysis: U.S. struggles with how to help restore calm in Middle East in wake of deadly Hamas attack

LA Times  

Palestinians celebrate by a destroyed Israeli tank at the Gaza Strip fence east of Khan Younis on Saturday. “I think President Biden’s instinct is to put his arm around Netanyahu, reassure him of American support, and try to encourage some restraint, although that’s likely to fall on deaf ears at this point.“ In addition to speaking with Netanyahu, Biden and …

What purpose does the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) serve? | Explained
1 year, 3 months ago

What purpose does the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) serve? | Explained

The Hindu  

The story so far: At a special event on the sidelines of the recently concluded G20 summit in New Delhi, a memorandum of understanding was signed to establish the ‘India-Middle East- Europe Economic Corridor’. Ms. von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, said the corridor was “more than ‘just’ a railway or a cable, it is a green and …

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