If you want to know what's happening in Italy, you need to know what's happening in Brazil.
This statement is not a passing metaphorical description; rather, it is an entryway to understanding a world governed by economic snarls and transcontinental energy, where political geography is no longer read from the borders of countries, but from the maps of interests.
Between "Comedy and Tragedy"
A political comparison imposes itself
between the comedy embodied by
(Nihad Qal'i), where political criticism was delivered with satire, and the tragedy of the Arabs today, where the tragedy is no longer metaphorical but a reality with fully-fledged pillars.
The term tragedy brings back to memory that literary novel that was not just ink on paper, but a complete life moving between the lines: "The Tragedy of Man", one of the most complex and significant masterpieces of world literature, by the Hungarian author (Imre Madach), proudly translated into Arabic by the late Jordanian author Issa Al-Naouri in 1969, and presented more than a decade ago at the Arab Book Fair in the Hungarian capital Budapest, with a copy of the translation provided in the Jordanian pavilion to the Hungarian Minister of Culture.
Before Mediterranean treasures... Dead Sea treasures
Before we delve deeply into the treasures of the Mediterranean, we must unearth the treasures of the Dead Sea.
Perhaps we grasp the essence of these simple lines, and read between them simultaneously, to make the equation clear and its goals more apparent.
"Once the reason is known, the wonder ceases"
The pivotal geography of conflict
Turkey – Cyprus – Lebanon – Syria – Israel – Gaza.
These are not just neighboring countries, but geographic knots in the energy conflict network.
In Syria, gas was discovered years ago in several regions:
• Gharz – beside Nasib border crossing in Daraa governorate, the border area with Jordan
• Qalamoun Mountains
• Damascus
• Homs
• Palmyra
• Deir ez-Zor
However, what was discovered in the past decade in the Mediterranean Basin is what has exploded the scene, and unfortunately opened the appetite of the great powers before these countries themselves.
Energy War - The Game of the Great Powers
It has been written before that the energy war is only a game of the great powers, which determines and redraws global influence maps.
China, more than two decades ago, owned major oil wells in *Kazakhstan, and has not used them until now.
*Russia is redrawing its borders to maintain its dominance over the old continent, fearing the obsolescence of its energy resources, amid planning and collaboration between the United States and Israel through.
• Mediterranean gas
• Kurdistan oil
The Syrian case in the context of energy
More than a decade ago, an article was written titled.
“Regional Interests Behind Russian Intransigence in the Syrian Case”
It analyzed how Russia strongly prevented that plan, struck with an iron fist, and appointed itself as ruler and perhaps guardian of the previous Syrian regime, until it was later dragged into a whirlpool of war with Ukraine, distracted by regional matters, and distanced from the complex and multiple-party Middle Eastern files. After being exhausted, Russia was cunningly returned to the negotiating table to solve that crisis, in exchange for restoring the Tsar's dominance in its environment, subject to accords in the Middle East and Latin America.
Whose are the gas fields?
Turkey - Cyprus – Lebanon – Syria – Israel - Gaza
The gas fields raise fundamental questions:
• Are they national fields?
• Are they located in territorial waters?
• Is there a guardianship over them?
• And who will dominate them through strategic companies?
These questions seem legal, but they are inherently political.
Kurdistan - The Buffer Zone
North of Iraq (Kurdistan) traveling deep into southern Syria adjacent to the Jordanian border, turns into a buffer zone (Buffer Zone)
and projects to extend the oil pipelines from northern Iraq to the port of Haifa, then transferring them ( beyond Haifa, this slogan that has been ingrained in the Arab consciousness but reality has achieved the opposite today - the winds blow where the ships do not wish) across the Mediterranean, to feed the old continent's growing energy needs, of both oil and gas types.
Post-Mediterranean… and before it
The Venezuelan reserve is present in the current phase, and the Iranian is on its way.
Then we return to the discourse prior to Haifa
The West Bank
Jerusalem, Ramallah, Nablus, Hebron, Abu Dis, Jericho... reaching the Jordan Valley and the treasures of the Dead Sea.
What occurs in the Mediterranean basin is not isolated energy discoveries,
nor separate border conflicts,
but a unified political and strategic coordination, in which the region is managed through energy and the reshaping of international influence occurs, while the Arab geography remains at the heart of the equation... without being the decision-maker, to keep China away from energy sources.
