Future Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion spent his formative years in the Ottoman Empire and even raised a Jewish militia for the Turks during the First World War before he was exiled to Egypt. Two future leaders of their countries
Turkiye was the first Muslim-majority country to formally recognise Israel in 1948. Before ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu seized power in Israel, a covert Gordian Knot of intelligence cooperation tied Washington, Ankara, and Tel Aviv firmly together for 50 years. Israel's brutal ethnic cleansing of Palestinians changed all that, angering Ankara, as well as the international community, so now Turkish-Israeli relations are at a nadir.
According to the Global Firepower Index (GFI), nuclear-armed Israel is ranked 15th in the world while Turkiye is ranked 9th. Under Article V of the NATO treaty, Ankara can expect help from NATO in any future conflict with Israel, as well as from South Korea, who can provide them with powerful non-nuclear munitions designed to destroy North Korea's defenses. Ankara and Seoul have been loyal friends and allies since the Korean War when Turkiye came to their assistance under the UN flag. To this day, whenever there are sports matches (e.g. football, Tae Kwon Do) between competitors from their countries, there are no fights or rowdiness between fans. Parish nation Israel has isolated itself from the world and has few allies in the world.
In furtherance of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office issued arrest warrants against 37 Israelis suspected of committing war crimes in Gaza. Besides Benjamin Netanyahu, warrants target Defense Minister Israel Katz, National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, and military chief Eyal Zamir, among others.
I graduated in 1993. I owed just shy of $16,000. The income my first full year was just over $30K.
#234 | Posted by eberly
I'm assuming you mean from college.
Which is interesting considering I graduated in 2005 with roughly the same debt and roughly the same income my first year out.
Really shows how relatively stable things were and how recently and how quickly they went to s*&^.