← All articles · Palestine and Israel

Palestine and IsraelYeni Şafak

A bandit does not become ruler of the world

5 dk okuma
Kudüs'te Kubbetü's-Sahra ve çevresi

A bandit does not become sovereign of the world, but, as it happens, he has.

The occupation of Jerusalem by Israel, the bandit of the world, is in fact the official record that the whole world has been occupied, that the bandit has become sovereign of the entire world. For Jerusalem is the mirror of the whole world. Whatever happens in Jerusalem is also happening in the world.

Whatever order prevails in Jerusalem, there is a reflection and an extension of it throughout the world. That is why whoever wants to establish a certain order in the world starts the job from Jerusalem, or the reverse. Whoever wants to save Jerusalem must lay hands on the world. We see that those who reckon the world to be no more than five, who take this assumption as a presupposition, and who accept it and are content with it, do not speak up, cannot speak up, about what is happening in Jerusalem today. For Jerusalem is the mirror of their condition too. What is under occupation is their freedom, and its key is in Jerusalem. Throughout history, as Jerusalem has been, so has the world been in that condition. And in whatever condition the world has been, Jerusalem has been in that same condition...

Jerusalem's passing under the bandit's sovereignty is taking place with the consent, will and intervention of the US itself. Whether because it takes bribes from the world order, because it is its hanger-on, or because it fears it, the whole world, though unable to make a sound, suffers from this occupation, from this bandit sovereignty. But no one can make a sound, no one can object. This world is a world of fears, of bribes and of force. The condition in Jerusalem is exactly a mirror of this world.

But despite this, there are also those who resist in Jerusalem. Even if the whole world has been bought, even if all the people of the world have surrendered out of their fears, or have in one way or another become partners in oppression, there are those who do not surrender. Just as those who resist the bandit order everywhere in the world do not come to an end. Jerusalem holds up its mirror to the world in this respect as well. Oppression never remains standing. When the bandit oppression's most dense armies have risen, the saving force rises beside them. With every hardship there is an ease, and in the face of every oppression there is surely a resistance.

Here in Jerusalem there are those standing upright. There are those who, though their legs were cut off in the savage attack they were subjected to in the previous resistance, resist on their knees without losing a particle of their power of resistance. Gaza, Ramallah, young and old, women and men, stand upright, and in this state cry out to humanity that the bandit's sovereignty over the world cannot be eternal. They say, "A bandit does not become sovereign of the world, he cannot!"

This voice is turning into a nightmare for Israel, the bandit's arm in Palestine. It fears its own shadow. With its very powerful weapons, it turns into a maniacal, paranoid fear in its heart that cannot be tamed. The weapons piled up by the surrounding so-called Islamic countries, worth hundreds of billions of dollars, do not frighten it, but the stone thrown from his wheelchair by the youth whose legs have been torn off at the knees does frighten it. Because it knows very well that what will deal with it will ultimately be a stone. It knows best that it takes the place of Goliath, resembles him, plays him.

Against Goliath, the Palestinian child displays the grandeur of a David and shows him his own end in the grandeur of the Angel of Death. What will deal with Israel will not be the so-called Islamic states with their carrion-like lives, nor their weapons accumulated through the purchases that give life to the US, but the stones in the hands of those Gazan, Ramallah and Palestinian children.

It is futile to expect any meaningful reaction or resistance from the European countries in the face of this oppression. They are, after all, first-degree responsible for Israel's present occupation, its insolence and its oppression. Whether to be rid of the Jewish problem, or because they have pledged their will hostage to the world Zionist power network, or perhaps just and simply because they are afraid, it is in vain to expect them to speak up about the blood being shed in Palestine.

At most they act like Britain, which our President is visiting these days. Theresa May, in the face of the terror and massacre that Israel is displaying these days for the sake of making Jerusalem its capital, makes statements along the lines of "for friends to see at the shop," that "Britain already does not agree with the decision that Jerusalem be the capital of Israel and is watching developments with concern." That the state that founded Israel brushes off what is happening today with these words is in itself an edifying example of insincerity. Were it sincere, there would of course be a great deal it could do. Yet in all the massacres Israel carries out today, in all the crimes it commits, the greatest complicity belongs to Britain.

GAZA IS NOT BLEEDING, IT IS DONATING ITS BLOOD TO THE UMMAH

In the face of this Israeli state terror, those in the most pitiful condition are by no means the children, young people and women of Gaza. They are the so-called Islamic states that lately look left and right, down and up, so that no responsibility falls on them, but never dare to look in front of them.

Blood flows in Gaza, but it is these countries themselves whose wounds are truly bleeding. Countries that from morning to evening in their prayers and supplications hypocritically say "O God, help our Palestinian brothers!", yet in all their politics, trade and stances give life to Israel, which massacres the Palestinians. In other words, exactly as the poet said, living carcasses; who will revive them?

The best comparison between them and the condition of the Gazans was made by an aunt from Gaza, and let us end with her: "Those who think Gaza is bleeding should look to themselves... Gaza is donating its blood to the ummah, which has suffered severe blood loss."