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Robert D. Kaplan is a journalist whose opinions on geopolitics are taken very seriously by military professionals in the US. He basically wrote a playbook on geography that Obama seemed to follow to a t.
Basically, the point of the book Monsoon is that the Indian Ocean is a strategically important waterway that countries like the US and Britain (historic sea powers) are uniquely qualified to dominate.
This is how the West will compete against and dominate China in the event that they attempt to build the Belt and Road Initiative straight through to Europe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYPoSKznrOg

So, what Israel is doing right now is carving up the land portion of this corridor to make this happen