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ISTANBUL   Recent incidents and developments on Israel's Gaza war have shown that the US may not wield as much influence over Israel’s policies as commonly believed, and the reality could even be the opposite, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Thursday. “As you know, there has been a long-standing reality in American domestic politics regarding who controls and manages whom. Recent events have shown that the US does not have as much influence over Israel’s policies as assumed; it may