Water? Beer - which is forbidden. coal, iron ore, copper, chromium, antimony, mercury, gold, barite, borate, celestite (strontium), emery, feldspar, limestone, magnesite, marble, perlite, pumice, pyrites (sulfur), and clay among other natural resources. Olives? Michael

These are just words, unrealistic ideas. It's worth noticing the Turkish hypocrisy again - If the settlement products come from 'occupied land', then what about the 'Turkish' Cyprus? In short, let's rather concentrate on shabbat preparations.

If you want the Ottomans to again rule you, go for it! My bet is that Ottomans cannot help much if it does not involve a great deal of publicity for a very short time. Providing financing and goods will quickly hit an impasse when Turks will realize how unreliable you are. Turks are not naive like EU who keep pouring money into your black hole, once they become disappointed with you Arabs, they will abandon you in the dark of night without anyone noticing it.

The Islamist Turkish government`s decisions are becoming uglier day by day. Turkey is sptting at the face of Israel while Israel considers it "Raining".

Turks CAN'T compete with Israel: not even in the same league. PA has just made Israel and her supporters (US) mortal enemies as we will now begin refusing to buy Turkish goods here and our representative will more than likely enact very high trade tariffs on any US company that deals with the Turks. Congress and Senate are at whits end with Turky...only Obama wants to keep the status quo. We're already on the verge of recognizing the Armenian genocide, which only Obama doesn't want. Israel getter hurry up and make the tough decisions that need to be made: bolster all trade with US: ENSURE there are no more idiotic moves to embarrass the US and make one last (failing) attempt at peace with the PA. The PA has just made a permenant enemy of Israel: inviting such a relationship with the Turks right into our own backyard is suicidal: time for Israel to draw the line, count their losses, deal ONLY with the few nations who support us and call it a day. Enough of theseeft wing radical terrorist loving morons giving us a bad name. Whether they are Israeli citizens or not: give them a final choice: support your homeland or get the hell out! We're at war and fighting for our survival: anyone who does not support us, from within or without.... Is an enemy of the state and should be treated as such. It's two minutes before the final hour: what the hell is the Israeli gov't going to do? Play or fold: it's likely is we fold, we'll never have this chance again: the chance to have and keep our homeland. Enough no sense already: let's go Israel!!!!!!!!

Oh, Macheal it sounds that you are chemist: are not you? i think you know that the humilation speech should be far away from turkish. they are more than enough.

They have known all along that any penny invested with Arabs will go down a black hole. Why will they start investing now?

Let's finish the security barrier, block entrance of all Palestinians to Israel, stop selling to them and let them live off trade with Turkey

Someone should tell the Palestinians that they would have to pay for these goods.

Cucumbers !!

Should focus on Palestinian goods and products, if we want really to have a strong economy . YES, WE CAN

You can’t blame them for wanting Turkish goods as they are cheaper and better quality than Israeli goods.

I welcome your talk-back but Turkey has nothing much in the way of import/export to offer you. It is a primitive society that's likely to implode because of all its inner problems. I hope for peace between you and us! Israel inventions and boycotts. http://www.ourchangingglobe.com/misc/boycott.txt I was in Jerusalem a couple of weeks ago and spoke to two Arabs from the West Bank and they both said how much better it was before the intifadas. It was better for Israel too! I and friends use to go and eat in Jericho restaurant etc - but we don't (can't) anymore. They both told me that the PA is totally corrupt with the exception of Erekat, because he comes from a very rich family and can't be bought. I don't know if it's true, but get rid of all your bribe taking politicians and have peace and work with Israel. Shalom, Michael

But what happened to Gush Katif? When Israel withdrew it left a way for Palestinians to export to the world. What happened? All the equipment was looted and the crops died. Very very sad! I wish you well! Michael

If Palestinians would busy themselves producing their own products and services, you'd surely cease interest in wanting to knock off the rest of us. And you do have some good products....Taybeh, for instance, much better beer than Goldstar or the perfectly vile Maccabe.

Nah Michael not a chemist he just copyed and pasted from the CIA fact book, he was just trying to show off.

Salma if only the people of Gaza would listen to you. If only they had been as clever as you when Israel left them all of the oppertunities to work and export .But unfortunately the hate is stronger then the will to live. in the meantime http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca48ocpFBiE

Before the Gaza disengagement I used to buy canned Israeli pickles from Gaza at a Bayside Armenian store called Ararat in New York. After the disengagement these delicious pickles are no longer available. When Disengagement was announced and planned Turkish business organization TOBB pledged to spend close to a Billion dollars to build an industrial complex in Gaza. Israel approved and supported it. Unfortunately Hamas took over soon after and never used this golden opportunity.

matty, matty, you are to be commended for encouraging Arabs to use inferior products that's very good, keep them in the dark ages

This should have been implemented long time ago. I read all this message and what surprises me is the stupidity of authors of these comments! Have we overestimated jews?:) How could Turkey replace Israel? Have you read about Turkish economy recently? Have you noticed the difference in GDPs? Do you even know the quality of Turkish products? Go on, alienate yourself from the rest of the world.

Thank you very much for the link to that excelent document of the achievements of the Jewish People and Israel. BTW - Sad to say, in the Dark Age, the Muslims - and several Jews that were living in peace with them - in Europe and North Africa, brought a lot of discoveries in Medicine, Astronomy, Mathematics, Philosophy, etc. , but when the Islam was taken by the Fundamentalist Radicals, it reaches and end, up to nowadays.

and Israel should ban sale of goods made in West Bank. and cut down labor pool from W.B. big talk as usual by Pals.

import charmutas from Turkey?

And Burkas.

No need to import from Turkey. You have charmutas more than enough in Israel

rather, its the "palestinians" themselves who seek Israeli products, which beat the competition in quality and options. "Palestinians" tried before to import products from the Arab world and rejected them because it was crap. Even Jordan's Dead Sea products are inferior to Israel's, and many people have tried both.

and a nice rider import tax on top of other taxes for handling Turkish products should put a nice twist on this arrangement. Of course, they could always ask Erdogan to dig a tunnel from Turkey to Ramallah to bypass Israel.