Syria, elections, Gaza: where everyone must determine their position correctly

While Gaza has been under an unprecedented genocidal assault for eight months by the terrorist state of Israel, which enjoys the unlimited support of the United States, in northern Syria another family of organizations (PKK/PYD/YPG/SDG), likewise backed and pampered by the United States, is preparing to hold an election on 11 June.

The ethnic group in whose name it presents itself, namely the Kurds, are not a majority in the regions under its control; in many places the Kurds even have a weight below ten percent. But for the organization that runs this process and has leaned heavily on the United States, this is not a limiting factor at all. The election to be held will in any case take place in the shadow of the weapons they have received from the United States, and it rests on the calculation that, whoever refuses to recognise the result, it can be presented as a fait accompli.

Because of the state terror that has prevailed in Syria for 13 years, nearly two thirds of the people have been driven from their homes and homeland. In Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Germany alone, the country is estimated to have close to 10 million citizens. Inside Syria too, at least 5 million people live outside their own homes and homeland, in the safe zones in the north. A significant portion of them are waiting to return to their homes once the situation is stabilised.

This situation, which is full of losses for everyone, is turned into one full of gains for the PKK/PYD/YPG/SDG through the cooperation of the United States and the Syrian Baath regime. Mercenary militants organised by this formation have been settled in place of the deported Syrians who were driven from their homes and homeland. The Arab tribes, who are the majority in the region, have also been bound to this structure under the coercion and supervision of the United States, creating a de facto political structure. Yet from the very beginning these tribes have openly voiced their complaints about being bound to these armed militants. In recent months these complaints reached the point of rebellion.

A demographic operation is plainly being carried out, and the minority-based Baath regime that was previously built in favour of Assad and the Nusayris on whom he relies is now being sought to be established, this time in favour of the PKK, over all the other elements. The elections to be held are an exercise in presenting a fait accompli in order to give this de facto situation legitimacy as well. That both the Arab tribes and the pro-Barzani Kurdish groups have said they do not recognise the elections and will not participate will not change the situation; the green light the United States has lit will be enough for the PKK/PYD. In which Arab regime is there a high-turnout election anyway? The Syrian regime has been holding elections for 70 years with 5 percent turnouts, and the incumbent ruler takes all of the votes; who cares? The aim is for the Zionist friends to see an election.

But then, U.S. State Department Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel made a statement that they "do not support these elections because the current conditions are not in place," and even added: "We have said this before; any election in Syria must be free, fair, transparent and inclusive, as set out in UN Security Council Resolution 2254. We do not currently believe that the conditions necessary for such an election exist in northeastern Syria. We have conveyed this view to the actors in northeastern Syria."

In fact Patel has stated, more clearly than anyone, why these elections should not take place: that the necessary conditions for any election, such as being free, fair, transparent and inclusive, are not in place.

Of course, in that case we are supposed to believe immediately that these elections are being held in spite of the United States, aren't we? Somewhere in the United States' Zionist operations there is always a taking of the whole world for fools. For instance, in saying that the PYD, which it has supported in every way for years and which it created out of nothing thanks to this support, has the freedom and autonomy to make such a move in spite of the United States, it reveals its entire intention. How very much the move resembles the one at the moment it said it did not approve of Israel's entry into Rafah, an Israel to which it has not withheld unlimited political, media and armed support for the genocide in Gaza.

Besides, before us, its loyal ally Salih Muslim also found this statement not at all convincing and denied it: "They made such a statement because it is on the Turkish state's agenda. Turkey has been saying for days that the United States is behind the elections. They may have made such a statement after Turkey's reactions. This is a diplomatic statement; the aim is not to provoke Turkey." Thus Muslim has exposed the real relationship between them, and that, whatever message is given to the outside, the United States' real plan is different.

In fact we need to see that the unlimited support the United States is giving to the PKK/PYD and the support it is giving to Israel are complementary steps of the same great project.

Just as Hamas is a Kuvayı Milliye for Turkey, the PKK/PYD are the aggressive forces for Israel with which to carry out its own Zionist expansion plans. The route by which the PKK/PYD create space in the regions it has occupied or been made to occupy, and the route and tactics Israel has followed in the regions it has occupied since 1917, are the same: deport the peoples it has worn down with armed gangs and terror attacks, and then establish occupier control over those places with its armed organisation.

This is a path Israel knows very well, and this time it is being attempted to put it into practice in Syria through the PKK/PYD. We have always said it: it is not possible for Israel to control on its own the lands it delusionally imagines were promised to it. It needs to create loyal, slave populations, and the PKK is only one of these probable slave armies.

And what, then, becomes of Assad, who says nothing about other countries carrying out such operations, with elections, armies and governments, in his own sphere of sovereignty? In this picture, is there any role left for him other than to be the head of another slave army, do you think?

Let us say it once more, clearly and plainly: Israel's occupation of Palestine and its attacks on Gaza are a man of a Zionist expansion programme which at one stage also includes Turkey. Just as Hamas's resistance there is also Turkey's defence, the terror formation supported in Syria by the hand of the United States is also part of this occupation plan of Israel. Therefore, in opposing this formation, Turkey is also defending Gaza. We are at a place where everyone needs to determine their position accordingly.