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The secret UAE–Israel railway project: A silent revolution in the Middle East
In a region long defined by conflict and cautious diplomacy, a quiet but potentially transformative project is underway: a railway linking the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to Israel. Informally called the "Peace Railway,” it would connect Abu Dhabi to the Israeli port of Haifa via Saudi Arabia and Jordan. If it comes to pass, the railway could reshape trade routes, alliances and regional cooperation in the Middle East, making it a more united and cooperative place in the future.
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Turkey has not much influence in the Arab World beyond its new Islamist puppet state of Syria. Except for Syria, Qatar and Libya, Turkey has no influence and has generally strained relations with almost all Arab countries, due to its close relations and support for the Muslim Brotherhood, which is regarded as a threat, because it wants to take over the governments of all Arab states, its support for Hamas, which is an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, and due to its imperialist neo-Ottoman foreign policy, which the Arab states resent and fear, because it ruled and exploited the Arab World for hundreds of years as the Ottoman Empire (which Armenians, Assyrians, Kurds, Greeks and other Balkan nations have of course suffered as well). The last thing the Arabs want is a new Ottoman Empire.
So two of the most thuggish states in the region are strengthening an alliance?