Egyptian plane falls out of the sky

It is yet to be confirmed that the plane that disappeared over Egyptian air space was a victim of foul play, but the likelihood of that is great. Planes these days don't fall out of the sky. Egypt has some vile enemies. Perhaps it is not entirely coincidental that this occurred a day or two after Egypt's President, al-Sisi offered to facilitate a peace agreement between Palestinians and Israelis. The rise of extreme fanatical forces in the Middle East brought some enemies together on the principle that my enemy's enemy is my friend. The Islamic State is as much of a threat, if not a greater a threat to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Palestine, both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran as it is to their common enemy, Israel. Saudi Arabia offered to open an embassy in Israel should the Palestinians and Israel come to a peace agreement. Jordan and Egypt have both been actively cooperating with Israel on security matters for some time. Only the fertile imagination of a George Orwell could have imagine such a reshuffling of former enemies. But the potential implications of such cooperation are huge for the future of the whole world. With the decline of Europe, Russia and the United States, all fraught with great internal divisions, the centre of economic power and possibly culture and civilization could well shift to the Middle East. The region as a whole has enormous natural resources as well as vast human resources, large population, great underdeveloped land mass, and educated and underutilizers middle class, and in the middle of it there is Israel, world leader in innovative technology. All that is needed is a degree of cohesiveness, cooperation and mutual trust, and the Middle East could become the powerhouse of the world.