Nada Majdalani

These all come based on extensive research and data and advocacy and networking with regional and international partners and experts.

Let's first imagine

that huge amounts of energy are produced in Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt and exported to the eastern and southern parts of Europe to provide them with 30 percent of their energy needs.

This is all aligned with the Repower Europe initiative and also with the Euro-Asia Interconnector, which already is based on existing agreements between Egypt, Cyprus and Greece, and between Israel and Cyprus.

But what if I tell you that we add Gaza as a node for exporting renewables to Europe?

Let's also imagine a large-scale desalination plant in Gaza

not only to provide clean and drinkable water to Gaza, but also to the West Bank, and to sell this water to Jordan and transfer it through the Israeli national carrier.

If these projects are realized and implemented, we achieve interdependence in shared resources, just similar to the coal and steel of the European Union.

And finally, let's imagine our region as a conduit of goods from India, the Middle East to Europe.

IMEC is all planned around a railway from the Gulf to Jordan to the port of Haifa in Israel.

What if we add and extend this railway from Jordan to the West Bank to the port of Gaza, so that both the port of Gaza and the port of Israel, of Haifa,

serve as the gateway of the Middle East to Europe.

These projects, if realized and implemented, they will achieve not only economic prosperity.

The peace triangle is not merely an economic revolution.

It comes with a geopolitical security agenda that would make the Palestinian state an achievable dream alongside the state of Israel.

to achieve the two-state solution.

It would propel the reconstruction of Gaza into nontraditional ways that would achieve regional integration and prosperity for all.

Some of you might think that these are dreams that are impossible.

Some of you would never see such stories of hope on mainstream media.

And maybe you would think that such ideas and long-term visions are also really unrealistic during the time of war.