Israel is the greatest threat to world security

Today is the day Israel has declared to begin completing its plan to "annex" the Jewish settlements and the Jordan Valley in the already occupied West Bank, which it has been implementing for years in conflict with humanity. This step will be the most reckless and flagrant step taken by Israel, which since the day it was founded has expanded step by step, leaving Palestine almost no room to breathe, and which recognizes no law whatsoever. For that reason, apart from the US, none of the countries that we are normally accustomed to seeing support Israel in every circumstance supports Israel in this step. Indeed, a significant portion of the countries whose pro-Israel policies we are also familiar with openly oppose it and warn Israel to abandon this step. Moreover, even in the US, people other than Trump and his close circle severely criticize this annexation plan and warn that with it the US will have abandoned any peace-making and order-establishing role between the parties in the Middle East.

Without doubt, the role the US has played whenever the Palestine and Israel issues have been at stake has never been that of a mediator. On the contrary, it has always behaved like a party entering negotiations in Israel's favor. Even in times when it behaved as neutral and a mediator and when this role was accepted, it did nothing other than rig things in Israel's favor. Still, within the US there appears to be a broad public that cannot stomach the logic of this annexation plan of Israel, which stuns minds, reason, consciences and law. Pro-Israel tendencies among the Democrats are not to be considered weaker than among the Republicans. Israel is the most sensitive issue for both major parties. Despite this, no aspect of the annexation plan Israel is trying to put into effect today appears defensible or supportable.

With the Jewish settlements it has built for years on Palestinian lands, Israel is not only occupying certain regions step by step; because it sees the Palestinians living in the places it has occupied as a threat to its own illegal settlements, it also builds walls around them. Thus an interesting and inhuman security wall practice emerges. The wall is built not around the settlements but around the Palestinians who are their neighbors, and the space left to them is turned almost into a concentration camp. This alone is already a sufficiently inhuman practice, but Israel is no longer content even with this, and now considers it its right to annex completely these Palestinian areas, which make up about 30 percent of the West Bank, on account of the threat they pose to its own illegal-occupation settlements.

The concept of security is one of the most hypocritical concepts of the world order we live in. When security is mentioned, running waters stop, and an excuse is created for every kind of lawlessness and human rights violation. Yet if there is a security threat today, it is not a threat from the Palestinians toward the Israelis; it is just the opposite. Israel constantly threatens the Palestinians, and moreover this threat is not hypothetical or virtual but real. Just look at how the Israel-Palestine maps have taken shape, let us not go further back, since 1967. We see how the lands, the great majority of which belong to Palestine, have in this process slowly been painted entirely in Israeli colors.

Israel is a threat not only to the Palestinians but to the whole world. We also saw the aggressor role it plays on Palestinian lands in its recent annexation of the Golan. To annex a place it has occupied, it suffices internationally that only the US approve, or keep silent.

In all earlier peace negotiations, in periods of normalization and calm, Israel never stood idle. Indeed, while holding negotiations on the one hand, it continued on the other to open Jewish settlements whose purpose and intention for the future was entirely occupation and annexation. It treated the calm during the peace negotiations as an opportunity to expand its own occupation. Today too, during the coronavirus, when all people are preoccupied with their own troubles, Israel is intent on grabbing a bit more land. But this time it is truly a step of the kind that will drive the whole world mad with fury.

First of all, we have to say that for Israel, which has adopted occupation as a character, as a way of being, this course is itself ominous for itself. The greatest threat to Israel, which maintains this aggressive attitude by citing its own security, will again be itself.

Let us offer a reminder. Jerusalem was occupied before this too, by the Crusaders. This occupation lasted about a hundred years. In human history this century is not very long.

Let it trust neither the US nor the EU nor other international powers. Let it not place too much trust even in the rulers in the Islamic world whom it has drawn to its side by lulling, buying or threatening, and whom it has silenced. In the peoples of those rulers, anger against this unjust occupation has reached the point of bursting. If it insists on these policies, it is destined that at the moment it feels safest this anger will find it. It is destined by a fate that repeats itself in history. Pharaoh too took so-called "security measures" against Moses. The resentment those measures accumulated among the Children of Israel brought about his end. The roles have changed today, of course, but the fate is the same, and Israel is approaching its own end rapidly.