A ghost is haunting the US

When President Erdoğan says "the world is bigger than five," he is expressing not only that the current structure of the United Nations is neither just nor democratic, but also its inability to produce solutions to the urgent or chronic problems the world is experiencing.

In fact, being neither just nor democratic and being unable to act as a problem-solving actor are two major problems that develop in connection with one another. The massacres and crimes against humanity taking place in the world today have become almost continuous and unfold before the eyes of the world.

The world order has no capacity to act against these crimes, because these crimes are largely shielded by the fact that they are committed either by at least one of the 5 permanent members of the UN Security Council, which hold veto power, or by their allied countries.

In Iraq, a complete massacre of humanity took place at the hands of the US itself, under the pretext of so-called bringing of democracy, yet not a single country was able to act against it.

In Syria, because Assad is protected by Russia and China despite years of massacres and crimes against humanity that rival Hitler's, the oppression he inflicts and the crimes he commits go unpunished. As long as this protection continues, the UN is not even able to characterize what is happening there as a crime.

Because of the protection it receives from the US, all of Israel's actions violating international law create for it a zone of privilege of standing above and outside the law. For this reason, it can maintain its disdainful attitude toward international law, disregarding even the decisions that have by chance been issued against it.

The veto power held by 5 countries has turned international law and human rights into an empty discourse, one that nobody believes in anymore and that the powerful resort to only in order to crush the weak.

For this reason, no justice comes out of this structure of the UN, and the room for maneuver to produce politics is extremely narrow as well. Indeed, when an unexpected initiative against itself emerged from within the UN, from that very narrow space, the cause of the bewilderment that immediately took hold of the attitude of the US and Israel was typically reflected in the statements of both Trump and the Israeli and US spokespeople. They evidently believed that the UN bureaucracy, "whose salaries they all pay," was under control and that they held every guarantee that it would not act against them. In fact, with these very statements they also show what kind of vision of the UN and what kind of perception of the world they have.

Precisely for this reason, the draft resolution launched by the initiative of Turkey and Yemen, which ultimately turned into a kind of uprising against the world dictatorship of the US, thoroughly deserves to go down in the history of international politics as a political move carried out in an extremely narrow space. Of course, under this heading: however narrow it may be, hope is never exhausted in the political sphere. In the most difficult situations there is an inherent ease, in the situation said to be a dead end there is a way out, and even in the most helpless circumstances there is something to be done. In essence, those who exhaust their hopes in the political sphere end up thoroughly depleting its already narrowed space.

Yet President Erdoğan, who by saying "the world is bigger than five" demanded what was almost the impossible within the existing balances of international politics, showed how great maneuvers can be made even in this very narrow space whenever one wishes, and how the climate of the world can be changed all at once. All that is needed is to stay on the right course, and that the superiority of the oppressors not first be confirmed by our own sorrow and helpless incapacity in despair.

Turkey's approach, from the very beginning, of not seeing international relations as merely a field in which only interests speak is considered excessively idealistic. Yet it has been seen clearly how much the world needs such a politics and what kind of demand there can be for it when such a politics makes its maneuvers at the right time.

There is already a constant, simmering grumbling in the world against the arrogant attitude of the US. All that is needed is a will to turn it into a politics or an effective opposition.

That will now exists.

With this will, we can say that a specter is haunting the world order that the US has built devoid of justice.

Is this specter the Prophet David (peace be upon him) who will strike the tyrant Goliath in the eye with the stone from his sling? Is it Saladin, who ended the Crusader occupation of Jerusalem? Is it the wronged yet intifada children of Palestine who have been left stateless? Is it the lament of an entire people uprooted from their homeland for the sake of a Zionist theo-fantasy? Is it the sighs of the women raped in Iraq and the orphaned children, sighs that hold up the sky? Is it the poor wretches of Myanmar, who have never seen daylight, fleeing death or unable to flee?

All of them have trailed behind Turkey, all of them have crowded into Jerusalem, and they are wandering over the world. And for the oppressors there is no escape from the end that Jerusalem promises.