The Gaza Strip is becoming a decisive factor in Turkish-Israeli relations. It may so happen that Turkey finally take the side of the Islamic world and thus, in the worst of developments, untie the hands of Iran that has long been aspiring to destroy the Jewish state that stands in the light of the Islamic world ( like Armenia by the way). The interesting point is that despite the great similarity between these two countries, relations between them are, to say the least, far from being normal.