Before the curtain came down on the war?

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Now is the time to watch what is happening in the world and the Middle East with logic, where there are many scenes of major plays, exceptional cinematic films that last for hours, and even classical operas with complex music and story. The matter is never devoid of exciting side scenes that are suitable for a work of art alone. When an Omani co-pilot succeeds in getting to fly a “Fly Dubai” plane in order to stab the Indian pilot and the plane rushes, taking into account natural gravity, towards the Earth, until the door opens and two pilots intervene to save 176 passengers, it is a draft of the imagination. Otherwise, what happens is the strange agreement between the United States and Iran in setting the date for the next round of war, which both parties agree will be decisive, and the war will break out when the midterm elections for the US Congress are over. This is an unprecedented fact in the history of wars and disasters. Or so US President Donald Trump agreed with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi. The United States announced an increase in its mobilization with a new army consisting of an aircraft carrier in addition to two others, and with it all supplements with the fire of destroyers and frigates. Fifty thousand additional soldiers. Tehran announced that it was ready for a long-term war, as if this war were short-term. But its applications were horrific when the Houthis succeeded in approaching the Bab al-Mandab Strait with the start of organized attacks on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia targeting oil and with it the global economy, with inflation and increased prices until the counterattack began by the legitimate government and the Kingdom.

In dramatic works of art, the basic lines do not disappear; In this war, which lasted much longer than President Trump announced, four to six weeks; And here we are waiting for it for the coming months and weeks, and here is the Gaza war and the Ukraine war, which will continue for additional years?! However, war artistic works are not limited to one story or one path, but rather add stories to it that are suitable for future exciting works. Four Arab countries are determined to build a national state: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen. These countries entered into bloody and bitter experiences in search of a national state by adapting to a “nationalist” ideology that sometimes relied on Arabism, Islam, or Marxist internationalism, and then they sank into hot sectarianism. All of them went through internal and external wars, and hostility to the early development of the twentieth century and the colonial divisions that took place therein. Until the experience became filled with the thorns of international and regional polarization. What is happening to these countries now is an attempt to get rid of and purify a recent history that did not know any value. The title of this stage is to build a national state that cannot exist without the political authority obtaining a legitimate monopoly on armed force.

The path to success is not difficult; Whether the leadership is in the hands of Prime Minister Ali Faleh al-Zaidi, President Ahmed al-Sharaa, President Joseph Aoun, or the head of the Yemeni Presidential Council, Rashad Muhammad al-Alimi, what makes them pass through the same stage is that the path to salvation comes from restoring national identity, which, with the prevention of dual carrying of arms, begins a national project for development, progress, and catching up with the contemporary world. The four presidents created an Arab political current that built on the major developments that took place in the current Arab environment, in which the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Arab Gulf states entered the circle of national states in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Tunisia. While there remain countries that are still drowned and destabilized in Sudan, Somalia, Libya, and Palestine as well. The scenes here take on a path of extreme and rapid complexity, as each arena has its own situation, and within the glimmer of hope, the region produces different visions and exciting alliances. Most of them are those that come from sadness and unhappiness when the “central” Palestinian issue appears to be in a state of division, which reaches those who want to postpone the upcoming elections. It is almost the last opportunity to translate international recognition of the Palestinian state into reality after some kind of good wishes persisted.

Determining the date of the war may not indicate its end, not only because of its many branches between the Straits “Hormuz” and “Bab al-Mandab” or between the Arabian Gulf and the Red Sea, with the possibility of it branching into the Horn of Africa, the Arabian Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea; But because wars do not only take place between countries and human groups; But when the cameras focus on a reality full of fire and flames, the truth appears horrifying and its essence is to create conditions conducive to other wars. These are critical moments that Europe experienced during World War II. The world experienced it in other forms during the Cold War, and now, after the unfortunate globalization, the world and the region will give the world of cinema and theater enough tragedies.

Quoted from "Al-Sharq Al-Awsat"