The necessity of unity against the Israeli threat: with whom, and how?

The actions that Israel, which has entered a new phase with its attempt to occupy Lebanon, has undertaken with a crazed aggression are gradually gaining a speed that is hard to stop even for Israel itself. As they say, even if it wanted to, from this point on it cannot stop by itself. It has lost its own control, and stopping it now requires the laws of thermodynamics to be applied, that is, a force must be applied from outside. It does not hold back from using any advantage that the armed power it possesses gives it.

This sufficiently shows that, as a responsible state, it can in no way be trusted in the first place. Let us recall the justifications put forward for years concerning Iran's nuclear weapons program. It is very clear that, with respect to posing the greatest threat to the peace of the whole world through possessing this weapon, Israel constitutes a far closer and more real possibility. Indeed, although there are no heavy weapons in Gaza, it talked about using the nuclear weapon so as to target the entire population and wipe Gaza off the map. Israel is a threat not only to the Gazans but to all humanity.

The danger the whole world must wake up to first today is the Israeli danger. The world order that brought Israel into being must now be evaluated from this angle as well. Who was included, and in what role, in the Balfour Declaration, which planned to establish Israel as far back as the First World War, and in the world order established afterward, must also be looked at again with this eye. The threat of course comes not from Israel itself but from those who established that order and still keep it standing.

Following Israel's elimination of Hezbollah's entire leadership stratum, and then of its leader Hassan Nasrallah, Iran's place in this equation must inevitably be reconsidered. But of course, while the real threat and danger is Israel, what is said about Hezbollah, Iran and Nasrallah, who have been the target of one of its acts, though understandable, is both saddening and confusing. Truthfully, although the fact that Hezbollah under Nasrallah has for a long time filled its record not so much with its performance against Israel as against Muslims inside Iraq and Syria makes the feelings and reactions of those who rejoice at his death understandable, there is also the danger of diverting us from the actual course we are in.

That there were displays of joy in some parts of Syria upon the killing of Nasrallah is of course a matter that both Hezbollah and Iran, which has been put in real difficulty in the face of these attacks today, must evaluate.

I asked a Syrian friend who shares these feelings and reactions of the Syrians: "What would you do if Hezbollah had, say, carried out an effective attack on Israel like Hamas and inflicted losses?" He said, "We would certainly experience the same joy, perhaps we would not forgive him, but we would soften toward him somewhat; but we have never seen him show against Israel the violence and wrath he has shown against us until now."

Truly, when Hezbollah won a victory against Israel in Lebanon in 2006, the Sunni world, without seeing its Shiism at all, claimed its victory and almost took it to its bosom. Therefore there was no sectarian prejudice in the Sunni world either against Iran or against Hezbollah. But what happened in Syria, Iraq and afterward, unfortunately, sowed pains that will not easily be healed.

Even so, in the face of Israel, which is today the real threat to all humanity, there is a necessity to direct one's feelings, one's precautions and one's side correctly without losing one's qibla. Whatever the Sunni world's, even the Syrian people's, grievances regarding Hezbollah, the fact that it has been eliminated by Israel today is a matter more to be reflected upon, to be taken as a lesson, and whose other calculations underneath are to be examined with care, discernment and foresight.

President Erdoğan said, perhaps for the first time with such clarity and such force, that Türkiye is in the sights of Israel's occupying policies. This is in fact not a matter that anyone with even slight familiarity with the Zionist ideology on which Israel rests has failed to see. There is no one who does not know that Türkiye, too, is a target at one stage of the grand plan that established Israel.

The truth is that a role suited to this expansion plan of Israel had also been written for Türkiye in its domestic and foreign policy until now, and Türkiye acted in accordance with this role. In the time of Erdoğan, Türkiye objected to this role and moved step by step away from it. Even so, the PKK terror program run against Türkiye since 1984 was nothing other than a complementary step of Israeli expansionism. But the creation of distances between Turks and Arabs, and between Arabs and Turks, through hate speech, and the implementation of secularist policies, are likewise nothing other than basic elements of this program.

The implementation of Israel's bigoted religious program depended on Türkiye being radically secular. The plan is very clear: they would live everything within their Holy Book, while we would move away from the Qur'an.

That this religious motivation and goal lies beneath Israel's aggression is in fact nothing new, but until now it had managed to keep this goal off the agenda within the drama of its "right to exist." With the aggression it displays today, it has come to a point where it can no longer hide this goal and its expansion plan.

That President Erdoğan has begun to voice this danger openly, and that MHP Chairman Devlet Bahçeli expressed the same threat the morning of the same day, also reveal serious signs of where the ground on which Israel plays will develop from now on.

Of course, while this aggression targeting Türkiye also targets Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Syria and Egypt, it does not exempt the rest of the world from it either. For this understanding, based on a bigoted religious prophecy and the delusion of a promise, is the greatest threat to world peace.

It is time to think of more effective, productive and prudent measures against this threat. President Erdoğan's call to the whole world, and especially to the Islamic world, to be united and to take up the task, disregarding all the disputes among them, is a requirement of this responsible, prudent, farsighted approach.