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From Saladin, revenge within revenge

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While genocidal Israel's barbaric attacks on Gaza and the West Bank continue with full ferocity, the Qassam mujahideen in Gaza are meanwhile displaying their resistance with unparalleled examples of heroism.

The further Israel drifts each day from the goals it declared in the attacks it launched against Gaza on October 7, the more its rabidness, destructiveness and barbarity grow. It is trying to exploit every opportunity available to it. We would indeed have been surprised if the PKK had not stepped onto the stage at that very moment. For every bomb that explodes in Gaza sets a fire in Türkiye's own heart. As the fire falls, Türkiye, with its state and its people, declares that it stands with the resistance. At the level of states, and especially at the level of Islamic states, Türkiye displays the firmest stance against Israel and voices the heaviest criticisms. Of course these are not enough to stop Israel; they even madden it further. And the more it goes mad, the less it hesitates to play the most important card in its hands against Türkiye.

The PKK is not the only card Israel or the United States holds against Türkiye, and this card is not merely an instrument to be used only against Türkiye. The dimensions of the matter are far deeper than that.

The murderer Netanyahu, responding to Erdoğan's criticisms accusing him of genocide, shamelessly said, in words to the effect of "we have no lesson in humanity to receive from Erdoğan, who bombs his own villages," and so warmed up again the card that has been used against Türkiye for years. Right after that, his son made a social media post with "Free Kurdistan" content. And in recent days, as if it had received an order, the PKK, in attacks carried out through a treacherous infiltration from northern Iraq, martyred 12 of our soldiers.

Of course, we are not discovering only now, because of the attacks on Gaza these days, that Israel and PKK terror are parts of the same grand project. This relationship is in fact an entirely open one. It has long since ceased to be a secret that the United States, Israel's unconditional supporter and indeed instigator, gives open support to PKK extensions in Iraq and northern Syria. Despite all of Türkiye's warnings, and even though the United States itself describes the PKK as a terrorist organization in its official documents, it has not refrained from giving this support. When it gave the PYD-YPG elements 10,000 truckloads of weapons before the eyes of the world, the justification it shamelessly put forward was: the alliance in the fight against DAESH.

Yet everyone has known from the beginning that DAESH, too, was an invention of the United States, and that the very reason for inventing it was to give this support to the PYD and to form an organized, armed force out of its own "friendly" elements there. This force was of course to be used against Türkiye when desired, and indeed it is being used, but its long-term reason for existence is far different.

For this, one has to look at Israel's famous plan of expansion toward the "promised land" (arz-ı mev'ud). Had we proposed this earlier, perhaps it would have been treated as the fancy of conspiracy theorists and not taken seriously. Yet today it is very clear that this is the only reasonable explanation for the support that both Israel and the United States are giving to Israel. U.S. President Biden, who says "you don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist," does not represent only his own view. He is expressing the loyalty of all U.S. presidents to a plan to which they are in one way or another sworn.

It is a picture of how the rulers of the existing world system, which has made secularism practically obligatory for the whole world, and especially for Türkiye and the Islamic world, are themselves living terribly in the era of the Holy Scripture. It seems very clear that bringing into being an Israeli state extending from the Nile to the Euphrates is the strategic plan for them. The support the United States is giving to Israel and the PKK, at the cost of so much prestige, sympathy, interest and image, makes sense only within this plan.

The interest of the United States or Israel in the PKK never stems from love for the Kurds. What do the criminals who slaughter with great appetite the infant in the cradle, even in the incubator, even in the mother's womb in Gaza, know of love for human beings, of love at all? For them the PKK is merely an apparatus for spreading across this region, and they need this apparatus. The Zionists feel for the Kurds only as much love as they feel for the tools they will use.

The Jews, whose total population in the whole world does not exceed 12 million, how will they be able to hold on to all the lands from the Nile to the Euphrates, even if they seize them? Half of these Jews do not live in Israel, and persuading them to come here is very hard. That leaves 6 million Jews, most of them uncomfortable with Zionist policies in Israel; how can a country from the Nile to the Euphrates be held in peace, tranquility and security with them? Moreover, how can the Zionist power expand into this area?

This question is precisely the door that opens onto an explanation of all the terror activities, unrest and wars created in recent years in the region stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates. The Jews themselves have no possibility of spreading across these lands and dominating them, however powerful they may wish to be. That is why they need populations they can use, servant and slave populations.

The Crusader-Zionist gangs under U.S. patronage are after making the Kurds their slaves in this way, by means of the PKK. Of course other populations will be employed in other parts of that Land. The Jewish population has never been enough, and will not be enough, to fill the Promised Land and to dominate it alone. Indeed, even now, in their present state, they cannot hold on in Gaza or the West Bank, on the tiny piece of land they are trying to occupy; in the past they could not hold on in Sinai. It is not enough, however powerful they may wish to be: their numbers are not enough, their hearts are not enough.

Between 1917 and 1947, the state of Israel was established for these gangs under the patronage of Britain itself. Now it is calculated that the same result can be obtained, this time under U.S. patronage, with the PKK in another part of this region. In total, the collection of the promised land in the geography stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates will have been secured.

By whose hand? By the hand of the grandchildren of Saladin, the brave lion of the East who delivered Jerusalem from the Crusader occupation. Revenge within revenge.

Will the grandchildren of Saladin fall for this scheme?