What should we call one who does not see Israel, a threat to humanity, as a threat to itself?

The genocidal attacks that genocidal Israel is today carrying out against Gaza with great spite, hatred and rage appear to have dragged it, too, onto a path of no return. Even if this path leads others to great suffering and tragic outcomes, it is also very clear that it is dragging Israel itself onto a path on which annihilation is inevitable. The fact that there is, for now, no power to stop it, and even that it receives unlimited support from the US, never gives it the sense of security it so needs. And it will not stop without feeling that security. Perhaps it may undergo some pauses or lulls from time to time, but by its nature it will always produce hatred, lovelessness, insecurity and paranoia around it, and all of these will continually drive it to still more aggression.

This is a summary of the Israeli reality from another angle. For Israel's existence is contrary to history, contrary to reality, contrary to geography and humanity. The Zionist conception of history, of man, of reality and of geography that brought it into being is problematic, and, because of its racist-supremacist insolence toward its surroundings, it promises nothing but unrest, insecurity, war and paranoia.

This characteristic of Israel did not emerge with or after October 7. This is the essence of the philosophy that brought Israel into being, and the policies of occupation and racist aggression driven by this philosophy led to October 7. The Zionist project that brought Israel into being, from the First World War onward, set the whole geography on fire, tore it apart, occupied it and colonized it so that it might serve as a cradle for it.

All the countries of the Middle East have been assigned a role of service for the security of Israel. This role-writing was based on the assumption that those living in these homelands were humanoid beings. These people, who are not human anyway, would be disregarded, driven from their places, and, failing that, killed, and the places they vacated would be made a homeland for the Jews, who are real human beings. What they did not take into account is that for the people who live in these lands the concept of homeland does not consist of soil, land or plots, but is sacred enough to die for.

The Palestinian who did not abandon his homeland and sacrificed his life for it was from the outset a surprise that upset all the calculations of the Zionists, but they never gave up the desire to eliminate this surprise. They tried to eliminate these inhabitants who stubbornly resisted with spite, rage and hatred. The more they did so, the more the monstrosity, the inhuman savagery and barbarism within them was laid bare. Today it is not the Palestinians dying under Israeli bombs

but a Zionist-Crusader civilization that is perishing through their martyrdom and their witness.

One who cannot grasp the nature of Israel's birth and of its planting in these lands has understood nothing of history, of man, of Western civilization or of independence. Indeed, the way for us to understand our own history today, our distance from true independence, the reality of our occupation and what is presently threatening us passes through understanding the reality of Israel. Israel is not simply a state that some stateless Jews founded in 1948 and then moved on and closed the matter. Until the day it was founded, from 1917 onward, the Palestinian lands around Jerusalem were prepared for it step by step by the British. And after it was founded, its presence on tiny parcels of land continued, step by step, until it forcibly seized all the lands of all the Palestinians through occupation.

From the first day, whatever was planned has been carried out step by step in the name of Zionism. This perspective of expansion has a plan called the Promised Land, which is a sophistry to us but which, to them, is to be pursued obstinately even against the whole world. Moreover, not against the whole world, but, unfortunately, with the unlimited support of the world's largest and most immoral armed power, the US, and of the EU. That is, no joking: the prophecies that we call sophistry are real for the Zionists, and for the Americans and Europeans who give them unlimited support, as a doctrinal obsession. None of them hides this; on the contrary, even in the middle of this war, all the details of those doctrinal obsessions keep being revealed at every stage.

They do not lull their children to sleep with imagined and mythological upstart historical narratives, as we do. They try to keep these promised lands alive, even though they were invented in very ancient times, with their stories, with the blood feuds arising out of those stories, with their racist indoctrination, and with expectations of revenge and enslavement. It is of course a catastrophic education system for humanity. A racist education constantly instilling spite, hatred and calculations of revenge against other people, but so it is.

When you look at the century-long development of a state whose very flag is defined by a Star of David and, above and below it, two lines representing two rivers, is it so hard to guess its intentions and plans for development in the years ahead? Today Israel is of course a problem for all humanity because of the crimes of genocide it has committed against humanity. But to insist on not seeing that it is advancing, as a real body, toward Türkiye, and therefore not seeing the threat it poses to Türkiye, is heedlessness, error, even treason.

President Erdoğan's words, "Israel, proceeding from the distorted Torah, with entirely religious fanaticism, will set its eyes on Türkiye after Palestine and Lebanon... Israel is dreaming a dream that includes the territory of Türkiye," are in fact the mildest expression of this threat. It is a threat that everyone in Türkiye who says "I am a Turk, I am a Muslim, or even simply I am a human being" must perceive and take up a position and a side against.

That the PKK and its affiliated forces have been fed by the US for 40 years inside Türkiye and Syria, in disregard of the NATO treaties and of the explicit treaties of alliance, precisely for this project is not an empty claim but the very truth. Are we now to discuss the heedlessness, the error or the treason of the one who cannot make this connection?

What should one say to anyone who does not perceive as a threat to himself this genocidal power, whose very existence is a threat to humanity, which since the day it was founded has produced nothing but harm for Türkiye, which openly intends and plans to devour Türkiye, and which, moreover, is already attacking everyone like a rabid dog?