It was critical to launching the “Green Saudi” plan for a Green Middle East to cope with and combat Iranian nuclear programs in the Middle East.

On the one side, our region is not prepared to withstand a nuclear arms race. Rather, competition in peaceful ventures is required. The majority of countries in the Middle East region are Arab, as are the majority of the population in the region. This majority prefers to keep the region's countries and populations away from nuclear initiatives, preferring instead to enjoy a tradition of reconciliation, security, and prosperity.

That's been the trend through most of history, and they did not adhere to nuclear weapons until Western nations introduced colonial institutions and instruments of occupation in our country, and these forces were foreign to our region, society, and values. Indeed, Western colonial countries introduced sectarian regimes that are opposed to the religions and schools of thinking that seek to serve them. Then a nuclear arms competition raged between a land-usurping entity and a people-usurping dictatorship.

The goal of Saudi Arabia's “Green Middle East” project, launched by Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman, is not a simple one. With its green initiative, green knowledge, and green weapon, the Kingdom is developing and embracing a culture of stability in a country whose cities were becoming dungeons of terror, its connections have become a source of distrust, and its streets have become arenas for conflicts and a sanctuary for militias and mercenaries, a nation that has filled the international waterways with ships of refugees and impoverished migrants.

Saudi Arabia, a powerhouse in the Middle East and the world due to its dominant position in the oil industry and its important Arab and Islamic presence, is now undertaking an unprecedented local and regional environmental project named “Green Saudi” and “Green Middle East.”

The Kingdom launched the “Green Middle East” initiative as a large-scale environmental campaign that will involve the planting of 50 billion trees.

It is expected to be the world's largest reforestation initiative, with the regeneration of 200 million hectares of polluted land, reflecting 5% of the global target, and by cutting 60% of carbon emissions from oil extraction to keep up with mutual global attempts to reduce carbon pollution. The recent attack on the Iranian nuclear facilities at Natanz is just one event in a series of Israeli-Iranian nuclear weapons races in the region and around the world that will not provide protection to any of these countries but will keep Arab countries and populations in the region in constant fear of Israeli and Iranian nuke program.

The Middle East's nuclear arms race is much more threatening than those in the Far East and the Indian subcontinent.

This is due mostly to two factors. For starters, the Iranians are in fierce competition with a multitude of other countries in the region for natural resources. Second, there is the strength of the nuclear rivals' ancient hate and enmity toward everything Arab. The killings committed by Israel and Iran against Arabs in times of war and peace portray their hostile neighbors’ animosity and ethnic hatred.

Aside from the two nations involved in an arms race, the “Green Middle East” plan has presented another threat to countries with aspirations for the rivers that run through Arab countries.

Israel, Iran, Turkey, and Ethiopia have done all they can to use thirst as a weapon, including against Arab countries that have rivers. About this, the “Green Middle East” proposal comes from an Arab nation with few water resources.

Can the “Green Middle East” campaign take the carpet out from under the feet of the enemies of the environment and harmony?