Speaking the language Israel understands

Israel's genocidal attacks on the Palestinian people in Gaza have reached their 136th day as of today. Israel has not paused its genocidal attempts at all, and it continues its unprecedented attacks against the people of Gaza, which it has pursued as far as Rafah and with which it lowers the bar of baseness even deeper each time.

Protests against Israel's genocidal aggression continue around the world without slowing. But the fact that the two are going on simultaneously without affecting each other, and that every day the people of Gaza continue to be savagely massacred, with their children, women, elderly, doctors, journalists, teachers, students, babies and sick, is leading the protests toward a search for another language and action.

In the first stages of Israel's aggression, the protests had a meaning, perhaps in the chance that they might stop the attacks. But with Israel, perhaps emboldened by the United States and the EU, continuing its genocidal barbarity despite all the protests directed at it, it is beginning to make it both meaningless and unnecessary for the protests to continue in the same tone. From this hour on, moving to another stage of action becomes obligatory. Depending, of course, on how much anyone cares. It becomes a necessity for Turkey, which from the beginning has stood ahead of all the state-level actors of the Islamic world in siding with the Palestinian people against Israel, to bring its rhetoric from the level of "Israel must stop its attacks" to the stage of "O Israel, our patience has run out, put an end to your attacks immediately, or else..." Of course, whatever the meaning or threat content of this language requires...

Whatever comes to mind. For if we have not understood that today there is no other power we can expect to stop Israel, what we are doing is just pounding water in a mortar. The powers we expect to stop Israel are Israel's collaborators in the first place. Our waiting for them to come to their senses means, above all, that we have not read the matter sufficiently. At this point, the statements of support made only make one feel the country's incapacity, not its weight. Either no statement should be made at all and no help should be sought from the United States, the collaborator in the genocide, or from anyone else, or whatever needs to be done must be done by those who take on the rhetoric.

Truly, the people of Gaza have said openly, repeatedly, that they expect nothing from anyone. God forbid, we do not expect you to come and support us with your weapons and your armies; when we set out on this path we expected help from no one. But perhaps we did not calculate that genocidal Israel could so savagely attempt the lives of children before the eyes of the world, that if it attempted this the world could remain so silent, that even if they remained silent, those who wanted to help could be so obstructed, or that Muslim leaders could remain so incapable of removing these obstacles.

The protests, directed not only at Israel but also at the leaders of Muslim countries who display their incapacity even in undertaking this humanitarian aid, are increasingly advancing toward another channel. The protest actions call on their governments to take more effective, sanction-bearing measures. Bülent Yıldırım speaks of a new Mavi Marmara organization. Together with the International Union of Muslim Scholars, the Head of the Presidency of Religious Affairs, Prof. Dr. Ali Erbaş, recited the verses that make Jihad against Israel obligatory.

Israel understands force, not words. None of its reservations that have so far kept it from going further has come from the leaders of the Islamic world or from the criticism of any country in the world. Its only reservation is the strong resistance and counter-attack power Hamas has shown against it.

Meanwhile, the arguments that Israel, using Hamas as a pretext for its aggression, deploys on this matter may still have some validity among its friends, on CNN, the BBC or in Western media and political outlets. But to see how much of a liar it is on this subject, it is worth frequently glancing at the latest situation in the West Bank, where there is no Hamas.

The number of Israel's violations and attacks against the Palestinian people in the occupied West Bank has reached 30,458 since 7 October, that is, as of the 136th day. Among these attacks is the killing of 394 Palestinians, 70 of them children. There is the fact that, according to Ministry of Health data, the number of wounded has exceeded 3,918. Again since 7 October, it has detained approximately 7,040 Palestinians, 260 of them children under 18.

In the West Bank, separately from the Israeli occupation army, Israeli settlers have also carried out 852 attacks, and the homes of 2,632 Palestinians have been raided. The Israeli occupation army has carried out 5,386 attacks on areas in the occupied West Bank. All of these are Israel's attacks on Palestinians in places where there is no Hamas. There is no armed force resisting it here. Those who, willingly or deceived, are convinced by the claims of Israel's terror and propaganda machine suppose that everything began on 7 October. In places where there has never been any Hamas, the situation was not at all different before 7 October either.

The helplessness and lack of solution that continue in the face of continuing oppression will surely lead to other actors and to solutions to be put forward by those actors. The point is that when this solution, which will revive humanity by keeping it from falling into a still worse condition, emerges, let everyone get themselves in line as to where they will be standing.