Opinion: How Israel's dream of being the Middle East's trade hub is unravelling

Opinion: How Israel's dream of being the Middle East's trade hub is unravelling The India -Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) has died at its Israeli end. Gulf states and their allies are now racing to build rival lines. In June, the Saudi and Turkish transport ministers signed memoranda to revive the Ottoman-era Hejaz railway as a corridor connecting their nations via Jordan and Syria - routed deliberately around Israel.