In the days immediately prior to the attack by Israel and the United States on Iran, India’s President Narendra Modi visited Jerusalem. To prepare for his visit, Modi saluted the “deep and enduring friendship between India and Israel.”

The impact of this cannot be overstated. In effect the world’s most populous country, which is bursting with energy and economy, is combining with the world’s most dynamic country.

Imagine now what happens if Iran can free itself from the vice grip of the Mullahs and the IRGC. Incredibly grateful to Israel for helping liberate them, the Persians certainly would join this club, resulting in the “3-I” Alliance of Israel, Iran and India.

Don’t stop there however. Attaching themselves to this group will be Somaliland, which recently was recognized officially by Israel, and Ethiopia, which has signed a memorandum of understanding with the territory. That gives this alliance a strong foothold in the east coast of Africa.

Then add Greece and Cyprus, who have been moving closer to Israel over the last few years and now have a relationship that involves natural gas pipelines from the Eastern Mediterranean to the southern edge of Europe.

The possibilities are enormous. Combining Israel’s startup genius with the long-suppressed energy of the Iranians and the sheer productive power of India means you have a dynamic economically and socially integrated region that stretches across the Middle East, with access to the Horn of Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean. This will be one team competing in the Middle East of the future. And who will be the other team or teams? Syria? Egypt? The Palestinians? ISIS?

It is not too difficult to imagine which team the Gulf States will join. What benefit really does an alliance with Lebanon or Iraq have for the UAE or Bahrain, as compared to the “3-I’s”?

On one side will be the world’s future, while on the other will be its past. One team will be educating its young of both sexes, teaching them advanced computing, engineering and mathematics. The other team will hide its women behind veils, forbidding them from being educated or even being seen, and will teach its young men only verses from the Quran.

The United States of course, will be all in with the “3-I’s”. Instead of the future of the world being driven by an American alliance with Europe or by a “pivot to Asia”, as prior Presidents have suggested, the emerging world may emerge from an alliance between the United States and the new “3-I” group in the Middle East and their partners.

This leaves Europe, Canada and Australia in a quandary. Ever since October 7 the policies of nearly all of these nations have been driven seemingly more by their antipathy toward Jews than by their foresight of the geopolitical future. Where does the emerging Middle East leave countries like Ireland or Spain, who have practically reveled in their resurgent antisemitism? Likely, it leaves them on the outside looking in.

Instead of confidently striding into the mid-21st Century, European counties will be battling internally, possibly violently, as they seek to preserve some semblance of their national character against an expansionist Islamism they have been determined to import.

Regardless of what has happened since October 7, 2023, Jew- hate in Europe has only grown. It now is possible to imagine a scenario in which EU countries will be under enormous pressure from the alliance of leftists and Islamists to either ban or at least severely cut trade with Israel. The way the world is going however, that only will be the latest stake Europe nails into its own coffin.

Go ahead Europe, divest from Israel. See where that gets you. Quite bluntly, there will be over a billion people in Israel, Iran and India who care little about Europe’s astounding Jew-hate, and who actually will not mind a Europe focusing inward more concerned with fighting for its own soul and heritage than on developing the future.

That future is for those with the courage to shape it.  The “3-I’s” can shape the future world for good, while so many other countries in the region and in Europe literally will see only the veils they have forced in front of their women’s faces.

© The Times of Israel (Blogs)