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This is by far seemingly the most collective and factual summary I have seen so far.

Say the Israel and Palestine solve this.. what about the balance of the levant territories? Lebanon and Syria have immense issues. Same for Iraq. What if we were to look at how say a “UAE” of the Levant could look like? ( United Territories of the Levant)

Kind of like a future project to build some aspiration and appease this pico-Sykes disaster; etc.

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There were some projects like that! I will cover them in my next article.

More importantly: a mega wave is coming that is about to completely change the Middle East, way faster than politics: oil.

Or more precisely, it’s drop in value.

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And I imagine that the coming displacement of oil with technology is one of the reasons the Saudis will be setting aside their age old differences with Jews in the region.

The market economy is a beautiful thing.

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One of the most exciting developments of our era

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We can already see effect of this. Saudis and UAE have embarked on ambitious project to industrialise and export beyond commodities. One could see the rapid change in Saudi society mainly women emancipation and increasing secularisation. Also $100 which they got for barrel of oil in say 2000s doesn't buy same amount of influence and things now.

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For sure

But there can only be so many Dubais, and for now what I’ve seen in Saudi Arabia is more desire than reality

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Yupp.. but I see many ambitious projects of Saudis in an effort to industrialise. They are opening new mines for sulphur, etc. IMEC corridor will also facilitate this process

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I really do hope they succeed. I don't want another failed state in Arabia

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Next article touches on this!

More importantly, another big wave is going to completely change the Middle East very soon: the drop in the value of oil

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Looking forward to an exchange of ideas. It looks like a drop in necessity vs value. We will need O&G for the near future well into the next century. A nice KPI would be to monitor the daily B/D. Price needs to stay higher to enable the transition.

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