By Reza Sohrabi

The international consequences of the Gaza war  for the Zionist regime

November 12, 2023 - 11:43

TEHRAN- The continuation of the conflict between the Zionist regime and Hamas will bring many negative consequences in the field of politics, security and economy for the regime. 

Stopping the process of normalizing relations between the Arab countries of the region and the Zionist regime, as well as stopping the project of economic corridors related to the Israeli regime until an unknown future, are only part of the side effects of the recent war, known as the Al-Aqsa Storm. It seems that now is the best time to apply multilateral international sanctions against the Zionist regime, and this can be put on the agenda of the countries at the initiative of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The direct armed conflict between the Palestinian Islamic resistance movement known as Hamas and the Zionist regime, which began on October 7 and continues until now, will have deep negative political and economic consequences for the uncertain future of the Zionist regime. Inside the regime, security considerations have caused the closure of many businesses and the calling of many owners of economic activities to join the military forces.

These consequences are not limited to the interior and can face the medium and long-term plans of some countries in the region to interact with the Zionist regime with numerous economic, security, and ideological challenges.

The armed conflict between Hamas and the Zionist regime, regardless of the outcome of the war, will lead to a reduction in public relations of some countries and a temporary halt in the process of normalizing relations of some others with the regime. The recent conflicts will postpone the official announcement of these normalizations to an unknown time.

At the second level, one of the coordination measures that can be expected to be implemented at the regional and extra-regional levels is to impose sanctions against products manufactured by the Zionist regime. These sanction programs, which the Arab League has a record of applying against the Zionist regime in the recent past, today are accompanied by the jurisprudential support of the orders of Muslim scholars regarding the sanctity of economic relations with the Israeli regime and the spontaneous welcome of Muslim and non-Muslim people.

Therefore, concluding a multilateral agreement to sanction economic relations with the Israeli regime can be on the agenda of many countries, and the Islamic Republic of Iran can also be a pioneer in proposing to conclude such an agreement.

It is even possible to use the experience of the Arab League to impose secondary sanctions against individuals and companies cooperating with the Zionist regime.

The Zionist regime dreams of implementing two projects related to transit corridors. The first project was related to the Red-Med project connecting the Red Sea to the Mediterranean, which was supposed to be completed with the participation of Chinese and European companies. In the "Red-Med" corridor project, the plan to connect the port of Eilat in the Gulf of Aqaba to the northern coasts connected to the Mediterranean Sea in the occupied territories, through the creation of a high-speed railway, was on the agenda.

It is noteworthy that the city of Neom, which is being established in Saudi Arabia, as the flagship project of the country's big economic plan for 2030, is located on the east coast of the Gulf of Aqaba and near the port of Eilat of the Zionist regime, as the starting point of the "Red-Med" corridor.

However, the experiences of Iraq and Syria during the presence of ISIS in the region have shown that investor governments such as China and its related companies, despite their great desire to develop their relations with other countries, are never willing to enter and invest in a market with low security. In fact, security as the priority of these investors has always been of great importance and this is what the Israeli regime has lost with the conflict known as the Al-Aqsa Storm.

The second project, which was recently unveiled during the G20 summit in New Delhi, is a corridor called "Arab-Med" or, in Indian terms, the "India-Middle East-Europe" corridor which is supposed to connect India to Europe through the Arab countries and the Zionist regime.

However, it is clear that the intensification of the disputes between some Arab countries and the Zionist regime, due to the massacre in Gaza and also the proof of the insecurity of the occupied territories, will delay the implementation of such initiatives until an unknown future.


 

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