Being worthy of helping Gaza

We are on the 185th day of the genocide that genocidal Israel is carrying out in Gaza before the eyes of the whole world. That is, the Israeli terror that began on 7 October and tries a new level of baseness every day left its sixth month behind as of yesterday.

Six months is a more than sufficient time for a crime against humanity of this intensity to unfold before the eyes of the whole world. Israel, which has the entire material and political power of the USA and Europe behind it, is not alone in this aggression and savagery. It acts with a great alliance. Facing it is Hamas, which on a tiny strip of land, relying on no one but God, has been able to build a great front of resistance out of impossibility, by the power of faith. Six months is a long time in terms of the world's capacity to tolerate savagery. For six months the world we live in has kept watching as every value, ideal, right and law there is in the name of humanity was trampled underfoot. For six months the Zionist power, which has the entire might of the world behind it, has not been able to bring tiny Gaza to its knees or establish control despite bearing down on it with all its weapons and resources; far from achieving its initial goal of destroying Hamas, it is still very far from that goal. Of course, in such an extremely asymmetrical distribution of power, six months is also a very long time for the resistance the people of Gaza have shown against the destructive, genocidal armies of the world. And of course six months is a far longer time for the people of conscience who watch this savagery in anguish because they can do no more. Besides the unlimited support of the USA from which it draws its strength, the unlimited silence of the Arab leaders must also have lived through these six months as an entirely different span of time. How can the leaders who, behind closed doors, express gratitude to Zionist, genocidal Israel as a saving power against Hamas be living through these six months that have dragged on so long for Israel? What kind of state of mind can they be in, faced with the possibility that Hamas will not be eliminated, and at what speed are they living through these six months?

For the many events we have lived through, this six-month period really is a very long time. Under bombs, in makeshift tents pitched on mud, these six months last centuries. Everyone watches with admiration out of what kind of school of patience the noble Gazans, who even under these conditions do not neglect to say "hasbunallah wa ni'ma al-wakil," have come. Meanwhile, in the rest of the world, life goes on flowing in its own channel as if nothing were happening.

For six months there have been millions whose hearts beat in Gaza, who felt every bomb that fell on Gaza in their own lungs, who went to bed with Gaza and woke up with Gaza. They are those who struggle not to forget Gaza and not to let it be forgotten, to keep it on the world's agenda. From the beginning they have waited for news from Gaza as if keeping watch.

Meanwhile elections took place in Turkey, and in these elections Gaza's political profitability was discovered. We also saw, in recent days, people who have no sensitivity whatsoever about Gaza, who never shed a tear for those who died, who even stood at the point of "what does Palestine have to do with us," discover a Gaza and develop an eagerness to draw an interesting political profit from it. We naively asked why the leftist movements that have been at the forefront of protests for Gaza all over the world since the beginning of the process never had any echo in Turkey. We did not expect it at all. On the contrary, we saw the wisdom in Abu Ubaida's tremendous warning: Gaza does not need your help; you need to help Gaza for the sake of your own humanity, for your own salvation! In essence, we are not asking you for help. We ask for help only from God, who delivers that help to us at the hand of whomever He deems worthy. So it seems that up to now no one has been worthy of helping Gaza. Gaza did not invite us to help it; it invited us to salvation, to resurrection, to holding fast to humanity, to becoming aware of our captivity and to freedom. Everywhere other than Gaza is under occupation. Gaza showed us this reality strikingly and warned us, and continues to warn us.

Who will understand this warning and do what it requires? In the days, even the months after 7 October, was this invitation not sought to be drowned in the subject of "the grandfathers of the Palestinians having sold land"? Did Turkey's leftists, racists and ultranationalists not try to drown the invitation in this din? And then did Özgür Özel himself not describe Hamas, the noble representative of Gaza, as a terrorist organization and accuse Erdoğan of supporting a terrorist organization?

What does it mean that the incredible silence he displayed on Gaza from the beginning has now been broken by turning into accusing Erdoğan on Gaza? We had earlier touched on the disappointments that could arise from the fact that, despite even Erdoğan's criticisms of Israel in such a high tone, the attacks do not stop. Israel is at such a point that it no longer stops whatever the dose of criticism may be; the only language it understands is sanctions and power.

Does the fact that Erdoğan, who since Davos, indeed even before, has been giving Palestine the greatest support in the world, is being accused today by those who see Hamas as a terrorist organization correspond to a sudden Enlightenment in the opposition?

If only it really were so. In that case we could at least rejoice: fine, now in the Palestinian cause Erdoğan is not alone, since the opposition is at his side, they can wage a more effective struggle all together. Yet the Gaza issue has simply been discovered as a very convenient theme for pressing Erdoğan in the elections, as a source of political profit worth an unexpected treasure for the opposition. People whom we never saw in the squares or in the field for Gaza from the beginning are suddenly trying to raise a storm over the issue of trade with Israel. If there is trade, of course, it deserves protest in full measure, but before trade with Israel, is it not Israel's aggression that should be protested? In a world where the USA, Europe and so many silent Arab-Islamic leaders support this aggression of Israel, what is the point of targeting Erdoğan, perhaps the only leader who can continuously criticize Israel in the loudest voice?

This can only be Israel taking revenge on Erdoğan by using these fools as if mocking them. And these wretches, standing beside Özgür Özel, who calls Hamas a terrorist organization, undertake to serve as Israel's retaliation apparatus by targeting Erdoğan, who proclaimed to the whole world that Hamas is not a terrorist organization and who thus, perhaps, gave the most meaningful and effective support that could be given to Palestine at the very first moment.

Thus Israel, without lifting a finger, carries out its most effective attack against Erdoğan, who has been its greatest source of discomfort for years. The devil's tricks are many, but in this case he hunts those who consider themselves very clever using his simplest tricks.