Let the troublemakers keep whining

There are those who cannot make sense of Armenia's attack, out of the blue, on Azerbaijan, which it has kept under occupation for 28 years. Because of this senselessness, some even claim that, especially in the latest attacks, it was Azerbaijan, not Armenia, that launched the real assault.

Yet Armenia's attack has a very clear and visible aim. A way of easing the pressure that comes with an occupation, even of turning the state of occupation into a gain, is sometimes to pile further occupations on top of it, new occupations that will be abandoned at the first negotiation. If the occupations realized through the new attacks succeed as before, all well and good; if a reaction comes from the world, the path is quite simple. Under the intensity of the world's reaction, the latest attacks are halted, and any new occupation is withdrawn from as well, so that the old one is made to be forgotten.

As negotiations are stretched out over time, the occupation turns into a gain, into a de facto situation that is harder to reverse. This has been the case in many experiences of occupation. Today, as attention fixes on Israel's efforts to establish new settlements and to annex, no one even remembers the 1967 borders. The 1967 occupation threshold, in turn, has made the homeland regions lost in the 1948 Nakba almost a right for Israel, and the situation of those Palestinians left stateless in exile has already been normalized. However much all the resolutions of the UN condemn Israel and call on it to abandon this occupation immediately, as long as there is no effective sanction Israel carries on with its occupations ruthlessly, trusting that time will make everyone get used to them.

Meanwhile the Palestinians, the owners of the homeland, who took up resistance saying that the only way to end the occupation is resistance, are labeled terrorists. Because they abandoned the path of dialogue and moved to a resistance that includes violence. Yet the simple law of physics says that if there is resistance somewhere, the source of the violence is not those who resist but the force that gave rise to that resistance.

The logic that we are accustomed to seeing constructed in reverse thus defines terror, the terrorist, stability and dialogue as it pleases. What has the dialogue that has gone on for 55 years under the supervision of the USA and the world given back to the Palestinians of what they lost until now? Nothing, other than adding yet more to their losses with each passing day...

As the counter-operation that Azerbaijan launched to put a stop to this hypocritical game advanced successfully, voices began to come from all over the world inviting it to the table of dialogue so that the clashes would stop and no more blood would be shed.

What will the table of dialogue do from now on?

It will do what it has done for 28 years, of course. Yet because they did not do for 28 years what was expected of them, Azerbaijan set out saying the task has fallen to it. What it is trying to do is the problem the whole world is also trying to solve. In the latest situation, it is trying to solve by the way it should be solved a problem that has been understood not to be solvable through dialogue. That is, Azerbaijan is trying to solve the problem that remains unsolved because all the Minsk member countries, who also regard it as an occupation, somehow never manage to make Armenia listen to them.

If I were in the place of France, Canada, Germany and Russia, I would watch in silence and with respect, in embarrassment, Azerbaijan trying to end the unjust and spoiled occupation of Armenia, which they have never managed to make listen to them. No one needs to worry; there will be no massacre or injustice against civilians by Azerbaijan. No one needs to fear that what Armenia did in Khojaly 28 years ago will be repeated by the Azerbaijanis. What is demanded in this matter is not revenge but justice. And in the matter of justice, no one can be forced to bear the punishment for an act for which they are not responsible. Azerbaijan, for its part, does not demand more than its right.

One of the voices calling for stability and dialogue again came from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Repeating that the problem can only be solved through dialogue, Trudeau, saying meanwhile that it has been determined that some arms and equipment of Canadian origin have been used by Azerbaijan against Armenia, is reported to have threatened both an embargo and sanctions on that account.

What kind of briskness is this? As far as we know, when 28 years ago the Azerbaijanis were unarmed and the Armenians attacked with state-of-the-art weapons and committed massacres, not a sound came from Canada. Do these needless meddlesome acts against an operation carried out to end the occupation of their own land, as the most natural of rights, not sufficiently explain on what kind of understanding occupations, massacres and injustices in the world rest?

Yet if one truly wants to contribute to peace and dialogue, what needs to be done in the first place is to press the occupying side seriously to leave the land it occupies immediately. This zeal shown by those who have no initiative, plan or intention to end the occupation, against those who have acted to end their own occupation, only indicates that they are partners in the crime of occupation.

And right in the midst of all this, would Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz not come along and accuse Turkey of "disturbing peace and stability in the Middle East"?

What would you say other than "Alhamdulillah"?

The honor of throwing a spanner in the works of the corrupters of the earth, of opposing the orders of occupation, annexation, usurpation, coup, torture and massacre that they run "in stability", is more than enough in this world. Let those corrupters go on lamenting as they please.