The significant economic development in recent days is that Iraq has begun pumping oil through Syria to the port of Baniyas on the Mediterranean Sea.
The first convoy of nearly 300 tankers has already set off, and the Ministry of Oil in Baghdad promises that the pace will only increase. Surely, some will rush to see this as a "red alert" or a threat to Israel's land corridor vision (IMEC). I suggest looking at it exactly the opposite way.
What we are now seeing in Syria is not a substitute for Israel but proof of the enormous demand that will exist after the defeat of Iran. When countries have to transport fuel on hundreds of trucks on damaged roads, through unstable countries, and under high-risk conditions, they do not do so by choice. They do it because they simply need an outlet to the Mediterranean Sea.
So why is this actually a positive sign for Israel?
