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  AMMAN - HE Dr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, the prominent Arab economist and businessman, has shared his insights on the challenges and developments the world and the Arab region may encounter in the upcoming year, following significant vicissitudes at the end of 2024. He emphasized that 2025 will be a challenging year by all standards and it will not be in favor of the Israeli enemy.

In an interview on OTV Lebanon News TV, Dr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, founder and chairman of Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Global (TAG.Global) has stated that the ongoing US-China conflict, and the interests of these two superpowers, are the driving forces shaping both the region and the world. He emphasized that the world today is governed by territorial expansionist ambitions as clarified by US President-elect Donald Trump's expressed desire to take over Canada, Panama, and Greenland by annexing them to the United States. In contrast, the spokesperson of China’s Ministry of National Defense labeled America as ‘an aggressive nation’, underscoring that the world can no longer live under the dominance of American hostility.

Answering a question about the situation in Syria, Dr. Abu-Ghazaleh pointed out that assessing its situation and its future is still premature. The regime has yet to stabilize, he said, and the current developments mark the beginning rather than the end, emphasizing that the country will undergo multiple phases of transformation, conflict, and cooperation. In addition to the two key players (America and China), Turkey, terrorist organizations, and the Zionist entity - which continues its occupation and expansion under the pretext of temporary expansion - will significantly affect the evolving situation.

He referred to the Zionist dreams in controlling Syria and the surrounding region, presenting the ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ map, which outlines the Zionist plan of controlling all water, oil, and gas resources in the region. These ambitions go beyond the 1919 map of Syria, which included as well substantial parts of Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, and Syria.

Dr. Abu-Ghazaleh further pointed out that Zionist entity leaders are openly discussing today a new map for the Middle East and have already started expansionist plans, referring to  Trump's statement last August which says: “Is there a way to get more land for Israel, because it is small on the map compared to other countries in the Middle East?”.  

Accordingly, Dr. Abu-Ghazaleh warned that the Zionist occupation would never relinquish any land it has seized, including the Golan Heights and Mount Hermon, and that it will continue expanding. Israeli leaders, he said, claim that this region has now become an integral part of their national security, and ‘the time is ripe for annexing the West Bank’. This indicates that the decision was already made, but ‘the timing for implementation has now become appropriate’, as the ongoing conflict between the two superpowers (China and America) has created a favorable environment.

He explained that “regardless of the conspiracies made by the enemies to impose new arrangements on the region, they will not succeed in enforcing anything that contradicts history and geography. We exist, and we