Written by Mustafa Kamal Al-Amir

Have you ever visited the Triple Border Point near the Dutch village of Vaals I offer you an interesting tour with a brief history from above the highest point in the Netherlands Which has turned into a tourist attraction that attracts world tourists Climbing to the King Baudouin watchtower, where the border points between Holland, Belgium and Germany meet The village of Vals (322 meters above sea level). At a distance of 30 km from Maastricht in the Dutch province of Limburg, close to the German city of Aachen and the Belgian city of Luik

From above the Tower of King Baudouin King Baudouin You can enjoy a beautiful view of the surrounding areas in three countries at once, a rare case that may not be repeated often in our lives Since 1815, there have been five different national borders in the present-day Drielandenpunt near Vaals For 80 years from 1839 to 1919, the Triple Border Point was a point of four nations.

The Netherlands, Belgium, and Prussia (later Germany) bordered here at that time on the miniature nation Neutral Moresnet. After World War I, a re-demarcation of the border was carried out between Belgium and Germany The Neutral Moresnet Forest Nature Reserve was added to the Kingdom of Belgium. Then the four-country point near Vaals became a three-state point In the nineteenth century, especially in the period following the Second World War, There was a lot of smuggling near Drielandenpunt. Under the Vaalserberg mountain there is a tunnel for the railway line between Liege and Aachen, dug by Russian prisoners of war in the First World War.

In addition to the official border sign, there are also many "historic" border signs in the area In 1816, after the fall of Emperor Napoleon The borders of Europe had to be redrawn In the area between Germany Prussia and the Kingdom of the Netherlands There was a sharp dispute over the existence of a mine for the precious metal zinc Although the mine was already exhausted in 1885 However, the conflict continued until after the end of World War I The Treaty of Versailles was concluded in France Which also has triple borders with Luxembourg, Germany, Spain and Andorra What distinguishes the continent of Europe is the religious and cultural diversity and the geographical borders also among its fifty countries (the same number of states of America) Where the common borders converge between countries even within one state, such as the Republic of San Marino in Italy, the Faroe Islands in the Kingdom of Denmark, the Principality of Liechtenstein  and Andorra between France and Spain The Principality of Monaco in southern France The Vatican  is the seat of the Catholic Papacy within the Italian capital, Rome We also have a tripartite border in the continent of Asia between Taba in Egypt and Aqaba in Jordan with Eilat in Israel "occupied Palestine" since 1948 As well as the Lebanese Shebaa Farms, occupied by Israel, on its borders with Lebanon and Syria Also in the continent of Africa between the borders of Tunisia with Libya and Algeria Finally, after the countries of Europe reconciled historically and geographically after two world wars that destroyed their countries and killed tens of millions of war victims, military and civilian from the Axis and Allies In our Arab countries, we are still fighting over our common borders because of land, oil, or the power struggle that is fueled externally, such as the issue of the Moroccan Sahara with the separatist Polisario Front backed by Algeria and Spain (which rejects the secession of Catalonia from it). And before that, its support from the Libyan Jamahiriya before the Libyan revolution, with the help of NATO planes, the late Colonel Gaddafi The equation is very simple, then Europe cooperates and unites to achieve prosperity and prosperity Through a single flag that unites 25 European countries with a single currency and a single defense and foreign policy While it is necessary to differentiate between the Arab countries borderly, religiously, politically, economically, socially and even mathematically Until they remain backward and drown in their blood to run Western and American arms factories, even Chinese and Russian, and go back a hundred years. With the Arabic physiognomy that was known about them We may be too late to understand the lesson well But we can still catch the Arab unity train before it's too late