As Palestinians Push for Statehood, Israel Finds Itself Isolated

There are links between nations, cordial relations, firm bonds, alliances and strategic partnerships. But what Turkey and Israel had in mind just four years ago was something akin to being joined at the hip. The plan was to snake an extraordinary “infrastructure corridor” from Ceyhan in Turkey’s south to Haifa in Israel’s north, a thick bundle of pipes carrying crude oil in one, electricity in another, natural gas in yet another and in the fourth, a steady flow of fresh, sweet water, all thrumming along the floor of the Mediterranean Sea. Not only would these pipes serve as ties that bind two nations, but they would also show the world that a Muslim country could tether itself to the Jewish…

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As Palestinians Push for Statehood, Israel Finds Itself Isolated

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