Saudi Arabia may be the only Arab country that does not have to normalize with Israel, as it simply has an exceptional copy of Israel on its land, built on lands stolen from its owner, with an organized displacement project, protected with bullets fired against anyone refusing to leave their land.
If you were a child at the time of the establishment of Israel, or you missed the catastrophe and the Zionist tyranny, Saudi Arabia‘s NEOM offers you an opportunity to watch the whole scene once again to see how a city is bult on seized land, where its owners were forcibly displaced with bullets and fire.
Facts about the Neom city project say it is Saudi territory with an Israeli partnership and a foreign administration. Nevertheless, the Saudi embassy in Washington published a tweet revealing the reality of the future “Neom” city, revealing that the Saudi Cabinet had approved assigning a cybersecurity company to participate in managing the NEOM project.
Despite the embassy’s denial of this news, international media revealed a surprise; that the company agreed with is an Israeli company. Media reports also revealed that the Saudi ambassador met the Israeli businessman “Ariel Margalit,” who made economic proposals to him about Israeli companies’ investment in NEOM.
The Israeli businessman announced to the Saudi ambassador to Egypt that he and a group of Israeli businessmen residing in Egypt were ready to invest in NEOM projects and told him that if the economic projects proposed by him were approved, which include a group of hotels, farms, advanced laboratories, and nanotechnology companies that “This entails that the lands needed by the companies be owned by his parent company.”
Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman hopes that his city, which has a total area of about 26,500 and extends along 460 kilometers on the coast of the Red Sea, will make Saudi Arabia an alternative for the world to Silicon Valley in the field of technology, Hollywood in the field of entertainment, and the French Riviera in the field of tourism and vacation.
The project works on 9 specialized investment sectors; They include the future of energy and water, mobility, biotechnology, food, technical and digital sciences, advanced industrialization, media and media production, entertainment, and advanced social life.
However, these dreams were ruled out by economists, as the city is based on land that bin Salman seeks to forcibly displace its people and replace them with foreign residents, and this created a huge crisis inside Saudi Arabia with the sons of the Al-Huwaitat tribe, especially after killing one of them and arresting dozens to force them to leave their land and homes, in addition to the economic crisis that Saudi is going through due to the war on Yemen, the Coronavirus, and the freezing of Hajj and Umrah trips to the country.
The Wall Street Journal affirmed that the NEOM project, the largest project in Vision 2030, is facing many factors that will prevent its completion due to the forced displacement of more than 20 thousand Saudi citizens, in addition to the economy, which I considered as the second most important factor in delaying the completion of the project.
The newspaper said that building Neom is costing the kingdom money that it no longer possesses, due to its economic crisis, which resulted in a deficit in the budget.
An economic report revealed that the first phase of NEOM is based on financial loans and the entire project is based on foreign investors, as Saudi Arabia lacks global capabilities and lacks experience in the economic fields and sectors that the Saudi crown prince aims to provide in his city.
This doubles the required budget, and the city would lack the safety factor upon receipt, due to the lack of sufficient planning and engineering experience of the capacities that came from abroad to work on the project.
The newspaper saw the inception of the project before the Saudi Crown Prince entrusted it to foreign consulting companies, which made it write about the city describing it as fictional and illogical, especially since the land on which it will be built is nothing but sand and sun.
The newspaper pointed out that the transfer of the current residents and the first phase is scheduled to be finished by 2025, adding this date to the series of fantasies on which the project is based.
On the other hand, foreign advisors called on Bin Salman to adhere to international standards in dealing with citizens, because this project would cause a rift in Saudi society. They also stressed the need to think more deeply by seeking help from the original residents of the lands, employ, train and rehabilitate them.
The Neom project is considered the most prominent element in Vision 2030 that Bin Salman has long promoted, but those interested in researching Israeli history will discover that Israeli President Shimon Peres released his new book The Middle East in 1995, where hepromoted the same idea and Rabin spoke at length about his vision of the future of the Middle East region, and his plan to link “Israel” with Palestine and Jordan, establish a common economic market similar to the European market, and create military cooperation in the form of an alliance with some Arab countries, after recognition and normalization of relations between Israel and those countries.
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