The terror brotherhood of the PKK and Israel under US protection

In a world where a child is torn apart and dies every 5 minutes under the bombardment of the genocidal Zionist gang, there can hardly be a more important matter to attend to. But the ever more painful dimension of the affair is that as evils and crimes against humanity, which would, if committed even once, rouse the whole world and suspend interest in any other subject, are committed every day and every hour, they become a routine of life. The bombing of hospitals, the deliberate, premeditated, barbaric slaughter of children, the elderly, women and civilians who are targeted, is becoming ever more ordinary. Crushing familiarities and habits wear down the parts of us that deal with pain and savagery, and accustom us to receiving the most unthinkable things in the world as the most ordinary things in the world.

Israel continues its rabid attacks, undertaken to destroy Hamas, raising the bar higher with each passing day. A conscience uprising against it is likewise growing across the world with each passing day. But none of this is enough to stop the rabid Israel. Perhaps Türkiye has so far voiced the most open and loudest criticism of Israel among the world with which it has relations, but these criticisms, these harsh condemnations, have not been enough to stop Israel. Indeed, these two modes of action have grown used to each other and have adapted to living together.

That is, genocidal Israel has, as the market idiom goes, "bought" the protests and rhetoric of Türkiye or of the peoples of the world; in other words, it no longer cares. It knows that no one but the United States, which feeds and supports its audacity, can tell it to stop. That is why it would actually be more correct for the addressee to be the United States, not Israel. The real party responsible and guilty for the genocide in Gaza is the United States.

Were it not so, why would it oppose the calls for a "ceasefire" made in the name of stopping the crimes against humanity accumulated by Israeli operations that have yielded nothing but the deaths of so many children, elderly, women and civilians? It is the United States that wants the rabid Israeli attacks, which cause the deaths of children, to continue. Therefore it will also be the United States that pays the bill for Israel's inevitable failure.

All over the world we are witnessing an uprising of conscience mobilizing against Israel's genocide. Yesterday, at the Great Gaza Marches organized by the Civil Society Platform in Istanbul and Ankara, many slogans were chanted and emphasis was made that the real aggressor is the United States and that Israel is its trigger-man.

The most striking aspect of the march was that it merged with a reaction to the PKK's martyring of 12 of our soldiers two days earlier in attacks from northern Iraq. The growing support in the world for the resistance that has reduced the occupier to helplessness in Gaza is driving Israel and its owner, the United States, mad, rabid. With the attacks they launch in this madness, they are drifting further from the goal of destroying Hamas with each passing day and taking out their spite on civilians and children. By unleashing the PKK, which works as an important instrument of the Israel project, we understand that they also want to take out a spite on Türkiye. The crowds marching for Gaza understand it exactly this way and identify PKK terror with the barbaric attacks Israel is carrying out against the people of Gaza. However much the know-it-alls among us try to put distances between Türkiye and Palestine, neither Israel nor the United States, and therefore not the PKK either, sees this distance; they see them as directly connected. When Israel strikes the Gazan, Türkiye is struck; when Türkiye strikes the PKK, it is Israel that feels the pain.

In Türkiye, when the subject is Palestine, there is a sensitivity that brings everyone together at one point: left and right, Turks, Kurds, Arabs, Circassians, Bosniaks, and so on. Palestine, as in the whole of the Islamic world, is in Türkiye too a cause that removes all divisions and gathers and unites people. However, alongside this shared cause and shared sensitivity, there is also a segment that the will that founded Israel has sown inside Türkiye through education, ideology and networks of interest, and we see this once again, and very conspicuously, on this occasion. It is of course not surprising to see the very same people who, when the dollar rate rises a little or inflation climbs a little, immediately say "one cannot live in this country" and start looking for a place to live, clinging to the "Palestinians sold land" balloon they themselves inflated, and trying to dilute the resistance of the valiant people of Gaza today. For a century they have tried to sow in Türkiye precisely such a generation of sedition and mischief.

Of course, the support the United States gives Israel against Hamas, which it counts as a terrorist organization in Gaza, does not remain within Palestine's borders. The United States, which counts Hamas, a national forces (Kuvayı Milliye) movement resisting to protect its homeland and honor against a genocidal and apartheid occupying power, as a terrorist organization, in practice does not treat as terrorist the PKK, which has been truly recognized and classified as terrorist against Türkiye, and supports its terrorist activities against Türkiye to the end.

In essence, the logic and the reason of the United States' support for the PKK and its support for Israel are the same. The support it gives the PKK or its extensions in northern Syria, the PYD and YPG, is directly related to Israeli policy. For the United States the PKK is merely an instrument within Israel's future expansion strategies. That it continues to support the PKK despite all the insistence of Türkiye, its strategic ally of seventy years and its partner in NATO, is directly related to Israeli policies. Israel is the most important reason for all the inconsistencies of the United States and for its alliance policies that let it break its word.

Today the success Türkiye has achieved over the years in the fight against terrorism is plain to see. By largely remedying the internal sociological and political conditions that provided ground and pretext for terror, the pretexts in terror's hands have been taken away one by one. A great distance has also been covered so far on security. Today terror in Türkiye has definitely ceased to be a result of Türkiye's internal democratic or sociological processes. In the past too the real cause was the same, but it could find the open points of the state and society. Now the only source of terror is Israel, the United States and some EU countries. Therefore we must be conscious of the war we are waging. This consciousness awakens by seeing that the target of the attack on Gaza is Türkiye, and that the resistance has a dimension of defending Türkiye.