Afrasianet - Dr. Sultan Al Falih - The United States of America focuses its political doctrine in order to preserve its national security on three strategic centers, dividing the world into three regions: Eurasia to encircle Russia, Asia Pacific to contain and encircle China geopolitically and geoeconomically, and the Middle East. It embarks on its foreign policy towards the Middle East through three main strategies: First: Access to energy sources, second: control over maritime edges and keys to control international trade, and third: maintaining Israel's security, ensuring the preservation of its national security.
While George H.W. Bush announced a new world order in 1991, George W. Bush announced the establishment of a Greater Middle East project after the events of September 11, 2001, and the then US Secretary of State, CanadaLisa Rice, confirmed the establishment of this project as well. The aim of this project was to create an American region in which its interests would grow primarily by controlling the most important maritime and land navigation routes and corridors, by weakening the governments of countries. Centralization and the encouragement of ethnic and sectarian tendencies within it, and the division of the divided by promoting sectarian conflict and the spread of hotbeds of tension and artificial terrorism to maintain Israel's security.
In the context of talking about Israel's security, the United States of America has always sought to plant an entity in the region to achieve its goal related to the Middle East, and this is what US Secretary of State Condoleezarais spoke during the Israel-Hezbollah war in 2006, where she described the violence practiced by Israel in Lebanon, as similar to the pain that accompanies childbirth, as these pains must foreshadow the birth of a new Middle East so that Israel is an integral part of it, and this goal is one of the most important strategic pillars U.S. national security.
The financial losses inflicted on Washington as a result of extravagant force in the Middle East prompted US President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2017 to move away from the Middle East and move from land to sea and adopt the "India-Pacific" strategy at the end of 2010, after the events of the Arab Spring and terrorist activity "ISIS" in the Arab region, and the subsequent conflict between the Sunni factions Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt on the one hand and Qatar and Turkey on the other hand during the Gulf crisis in 2017-2021.
The ethnic and sectarian tendencies that have occurred among the Arab peoples in many countries, some of which are still continuing so far between Saudi Arabia and Yemen since 2015, not to mention the Iranian nuclear file and its constant threat in the Strait of Hormuz, in addition to its proxies in the region in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Gaza, and the Houthis in Yemen, who threaten maritime navigation and international trade in the Bab al-Mandab Strait, which poses a threat to US interests in the region, and this is what President Trump promised. to end the dilemma of maritime security in the Red Sea ocean during the Gulf Summit in Riyadh 2025.
It is understood from the visit of US President "Trump" to the Arab Gulf region 2025 to advance the supreme interest of the United States over the interest of its partners from the European Union countries, Britain and Israel, as well as the consideration of the Arab Gulf countries, led by Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar, as each of them advances its supreme national interests at the expense of Arab issues without paying attention to the Palestinian issue, knowing that President "Trump" with this visit has exceeded the custom of American presidents who used to have Britain as their first stop when their official foreign visits, as well as ignoring him "Israel" is on his schedule, which is a key part of the Middle East system in American calculations.
There is no dispute in saying that the lifting of economic sanctions on Syria and the reference to Lebanon by President Trump at the request of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman came only to achieve the national Saudi interest, by fragmenting the radical Sunni system and removing Syria from the bosom of Qatar and Turkey and not being dragged behind the Muslim Brotherhood, in addition to fragmenting the remaining arms of Iran in Lebanon and Yemen, and this is what Saudi Arabia and the UAE seek.
Whoever thought that President Trump's visit to the Arab Gulf region included a two-state solution is not right, as this visit came with the aim of controlling oil prices, attracting Gulf investments within the US market, and refilling the political and economic vacuum in the Middle East to brake the Chinese expansion project. The investments worth $600 billion have been earmarked for defense deals involving C-130 military transport aircraft.The rest will be invested in the United States in various sectors, including artificial intelligence and digital infrastructure, which are part of Saudi Vision 2030 in exchange for the American blessing on the Saudi peaceful nuclear project that it hopes to obtain.
Qatar also provided the White House with a $400 million Boeing 747-8 presidential aircraft, not to mention Qatar's investments in its Al Udeid base, and Boeing and GE Aviation received an order to strengthen the Qatar Airways ecosystem, with an estimated $96 billion worth of up to 210 U.S.-made Boeing 787 Dreamliners.and 777X in addition to other investments, as well as UAE investments amounting to about $1.4 trillion over 10 years within the United States of America.
Thus, the US administration has succeeded in achieving its foreign policy goals by resorting to economic peace, which is based on the premise that peace cannot be achieved without peoples reaping tangible benefits such as those related to stability, trade and investment, which helps in consolidating relations between individuals or groups that stimulate peaceful relations between countries by activating the role of economic relations and intra-trade between them.
Thus, the concept of economic peace here is linked to the idea of restructuring the Middle East presented by Shimon Peres in his book "The New Middle East" by developing plans aimed at expanding commercial activity in the Middle East. Perhaps the Abraham Accords, or the recently called Indo-Abraham Accords, which were concluded between India, the United Arab Emirates, Israel and under American auspices in 2020, and the subsequent torrent of normalization of some Arab countries relations with Israel from the same year, such as: Morocco, Sudan and Bahrain are the best evidence of the conviction of countries in the principle of economic peace, which achieves security and stability based on interdependence at all political, economic and security levels.
In conclusion, we find that the focus of the Arab countries, led by the Gulf states, in addition to Syria, which demanded a new Marshall Plan for the reconstruction of Syria, in light of these regimes giving priority to their supreme national interests that are going to build cooperative networks based in essence on the economy, which will only be achieved through the establishment of economic peace and the integration of Israel in the region through Saudi-Qatari normalization with the entity state, which some believe has fallen from the calculations of the US administration at the Gulf summit.
In the context of talking about economic peace, it will not be achieved without taking into account the interests of other countries of the region, led by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, which has provided precious and precious service to the just causes of the Arab nation, especially the Palestinian cause, economic peace in order to be achieved must join hands to remove all regional security threats, posed by Israeli practices and violations in Palestine and in Gaza in particular, and this is what Jordanian diplomacy called for through King Abdullah II bin Al Hussein in every International forums and calls that stability and peace will only be achieved through the two-state solution, otherwise the map of the new Middle East will be implemented so that Israel will become part of it without the Palestinian people having the right to hold on to their land.
Dr. Sultan Al-Falih - Researcher in International Relations