India confronts a new regional security equation as Mecca pact takes shape

Col. (res.) Dr. Hanan Shai: Israel cannot assume that the Mecca pact will also remain an empty declaration.” He proposed not a rival military alliance but an economic-security organization built around the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor, with India, Israel, Greece, Cyprus and the United Arab Emirates at its core, Jordan providing land continuity and Saudi Arabia welcomed even while Riyadh remains in the Mecca pact.

Published in The Media Line & The Jerusalem Post, September 8,  2026.

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