Middle Eastern airlines can't fly the shortest routes

This is a hilariously sad article. Here's a summary:

• No one flies over Syrian airspace for obvious reasons, except Lebanon's Middle East Airlines, which doesn't give a shit.
• Qatar Air can't fly over Saudi Arabia.
• Due to insurgents, no one flies over northern Sinai.
• Libyan and Yemeni wars make flying to Africa difficult.
• No Arab airline flies to Israel other than Egypt (which uses a subsidiary jet with no livery) and Royal Jordanian (which cannot fly over Israel to get to Lebanon).
• For El Al planes to go to East Asia, it has to fly down the Red Sea to the Horn of Africa, and then turn east.