The US has no friend other than the US

After a resolution was blocked in the UN Security Council by the veto of the US alone against 14 votes, the draft prepared through Turkey's initiatives against Trump's Jerusalem decision was put to a vote in the General Assembly. Of course, the outcome is not merely the numerical result of 128 in favor against 9 opposed.

These results also have non-numerical political, psychological and historical dimensions. The first outcome is that the US has been seized by the psychosis that it has no friend other than itself.

Let there be no misunderstanding: when a country is just and acts with a reason, vision and maturity commensurate with its power, of course it will have many friends. But the first to see that someone who has no respect for anyone's existence, history or personality will be left with no friends at all must be that country itself.

Nor should anyone suppose that Israel, whom it sacrificed its own standing for in this process, will be or remain a friend of the US. Even its relationship with Israel extends only up to a point within the framework of Evangelical theology.

During the debate on the draft, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu ended his speech with the words "The world is bigger than five," which have become our President's motto. Together with the resulting decision, this amounted to a magnificent manifesto affirmed by the whole world.

This outcome is of course not binding, but then Trump's declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel has no value either. Yet it creates a fait accompli, and Israel's occupation continues step by step, as a fait accompli, by destroying the Palestinians.

In response, however, the UN decision has made clear that this de facto occupation by Israel is an occupation and has no legitimacy whatsoever, and that the US, through the support it thereby gives to the occupation, is a part of the occupation and of its illegitimacy.

There are no sanctions, but there is a decision in which the line of legitimacy has been drawn. In the face of this decision, it has been recognized across the world that the US, despite its power, stands outside legitimacy.

This result has also shown that economic, technological and armed power cannot always bring diplomatic superiority.

As for Turkey, it is often said that it is at times under certain sieges. Plenty of talk was churned out about Turkey becoming isolated and things going badly because of the troubles in international relations. In his capacity as term chair, Erdoğan convened the Islamic Cooperation in Istanbul within a week, the stance he declared from there, and the result that has now come out of the UN General Assembly, which he set in motion, have undeniably proven Turkey's diplomatic strength despite all the problems it is experiencing.

It has of course also become clear that this diplomatic strength stems largely from being in the right, and that this rightness was made possible thanks to its being very well managed by a leadership.

In fact, all that was needed was for the courage to throw in the face of the US this injustice, which isolates it in the world and which the whole world finds disturbing, to be gathered. It was Erdoğan's leadership that gathered this courage and brought about this decision.

Indeed, this result has been an occasion for Erdoğan, who has been the target of systematic discrediting and smear campaigns by certain circles in the world since the Gezi events, to have his undeniably proven political genius and leadership in Turkey read by everyone around the world as well. Thanks to him, the opposition that the world needs has found a chance to express itself.

US POLICY: DEMOCRACY AT HOME,

DESPOTISM IN THE WORLD

The arrogant, blackmailing language that Trump directed openly at all the member states that would vote before the General Assembly meeting revealed precisely what the US understands by democracy. The US, which makes no concessions on democracy in its own country, has a vision of a despotic order that it tries to keep standing in the world through blackmail, pressure and trickery.

It cannot make sense of the fact that it is being objected to. Because, after all, it wants undisputed obedience on the grounds that it provides the largest financial support to the UN's activities. This approach of the US, which demands obedience whatever its decision may be, however irrational and far from justice, was also expressed at the General Assembly meeting by the person speaking on behalf of the US.

When this order of blackmail established by the US probably faced, for the first time, so great a challenge, all the makeup of democracy, human rights and freedom of expression ran. From beneath the shattered US foreign policy discourse emerged an extremely tawdry picture.

How the US, which has been seized by a syndrome of abandonment and being left alone, will determine its policy from now on will be a matter of curiosity. The likelihood that this situation will turn into a pumpkin that bursts on Trump's head is very high. The likelihood is increasing that the sword of the judiciary already dangling over Trump will be seen as an opportunity to make up for this situation into which it has dragged the US in a short time.

Of course an attempt will also be made to bill Turkey for part of the situation the US has fallen into in the face of the UN's Jerusalem decision; but it is certain that the first installment of that bill will be charged within the US itself. As for Turkey, contrary to the anxieties of those who in all such situations try to frighten it and write disaster scenarios for it, it continues to rise, grow and stand out with its power based on its rightness.

Trump had in any case deviated onto the path of gifting Jerusalem to Israel in order to find a way out of this judicial vise. But the impasse into which he dragged US foreign policy on this path only inflated his bill a little more.