Saudi Arabia - France - Egypt: agreement on Gaza, and for economic and diplomatic diversification

In this historic month of April 2025, it is essential to highlight the sincere alignment between Egypt, a giant of the Arab world, France, an essential scientific and military power, and Saudi Arabia, a giant of energy and a genuine promise of a welcome leadership for the entire Muslim world.

While Donald Trump has unveiled a raving plan for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on February 4, 2025, the visit of French President #EmmanuelMacron to #Egypt’s President #AbdelFattahElsisi confirmed France's traditional policy of balance between Israel and the Palestinians. Hamas's October 7, 2023 attack on Israel, planning massacres and kidnappings of civilians, discredited forever this organization. The tsunami of bombs that Benjamin Netanyahu unleashed on the Palestinians in Gaza, transforming civilian homes and infrastructure into rubble, causing the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people, discredited Benjamin Netanyahu and his supporters.

The meeting in Riyadh on February 21, 2025, driven by the leadership of Crown Prince #MohammedbinSalman, unveiled an Arab solution for a ceasefire in Gaza, a $53 billion reconstruction plan, and governance without Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. The current visit of the French President to Egypt condemns Israel's violation of the ceasefire in Gaza, supports the realistic Egyptian-Jordanian Peace Plan, and reaffirms France's traditional policy for a two-state solution in Israel-Palestine. A policy spectacularly implemented by General de Gaulle in 1967, in the midst of the Six-Day War, by deciding on an embargo on French arms sales to Israel on June 2, 1967, and by the June 15, 1967 Communiqué condemning the opening of hostilities by Israel.

The bombardment of tariffs that Donald Trump began on April 2, 2025, and the escalation of retaliation with China, threaten a "self-induced, economic nuclear winter," in the words of Businessman #BillAckman, both in the USA and the entire global economy.

The Gulf Countries usual tactic of lowering oil prices seems insufficient to bring to reason a US President who is undermining the Gulf Countries momentum in diversifying their economies, through tourism, the sports and entertainment industries, luxury real estate, New Tech, industrial platforms at the intersection of new trade routes. And their ability to rebuild a Palestinian state. And the plan to devalue the dollar would represent a melting like snow in the sun of the value of the trillions of dollars in which the Gulf States have invested!

The "Quincy Pact" of February 14, 1945, between Saudi King Abdulaziz ibn Saud and U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt appears to be outdated in light of the need for the Gulf Countries to diversify their economic partnerships and military alliances. To fall behind in "updating one's geopolitical software" is to risk losing trillions of dollars and weakening one's defenses.