It would be wrong to call Israel a state

Israel, like a terminator from which every human feeling has been eradicated and which is set to destroy every living thing in its path, burns and demolishes whatever comes before it. By bombing hospitals, schools, refugee camps, mosques and churches in Gaza, it leaves nothing of humanity or civilization behind in the lives it destroys and under the rubble of the buildings it brings down. Only yesterday there were those who compared its attack on the tents of the displaced at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah to a Nazi Holocaust.

While the images of people being burned alive were playing out, how many people in the world were watching the Nazi Holocaust as it happened? Before how many eyes did the Holocaust unfold? What is known about the Holocaust is nothing other than some remnants left behind and what a handful of survivors told afterward. Yet from those accounts came stories that supposedly roused the conscience of the whole world and made it possible to build a new humanist ethic upon them.

Yet what is happening in Gaza is happening live, in front of the whole world. The genocidal terminator, an inhuman destroyer, is locked on to defining every living thing that comes before it as an enemy and destroying it. The most tragic side of all terminator scenarios is that even those who operate this destroying machine will not be able to stop it so easily when they wish to.

Babies, children, women and civilians are being monstrously and savagely wiped out in the most brutal massacre by the merciless attacks of this destroyer. The dominant powers that have been producing Holocaust dramas for us for 80 years are shamefully blind and deaf to this live Holocaust being carried out against Palestinians and Muslims. They even stand almost in the position of accusers, on the grounds that the destroyer is being tired out too much, that it is expending more energy than necessary, while carrying out its destructive acts. Yet this destroyer terminator is not even aware that in the end it is a calamity upon their own heads.

This destroying machine, a threat to humanity, must be stopped. That is of course what everyone says most easily. But the problem is who will do it.

It is as though nearly the whole of the Islamic world was built by the very order that established Israel as a hunting ground for this terminator state. As though no country was given a duty to stand against Israel and be able to stop it, but, on the contrary, a mission to ease its work and, when necessary, to be a target of its hunt.

Everyone knows that the potential the Islamic world carries is not inadequate against Israel, that it is sufficient both to stop it and to wipe it off the map. But a political will is needed to set this potential in motion in an intelligent and strategic way. To activate the Islamic world, even if everyone has other calculations, it is necessary to bring its leaders together, to adopt a common and strong position, and to take the lead in a stand against the US and the EU, which support these aggressive occupying policies of Israel. Of course, this proposal of ours is the first thing that comes to mind. This is in fact the path that Türkiye has been trying from the start. Everyone can guess what difficulties it has. Even so, one must not give up. Stances that secure the participation of more Islamic countries must be developed, in order to make the Islamic world live up to its name.

The Future of Palestine Conference that the AK Party held yesterday at its Headquarters is one of the activities of this kind that are very necessary but by no means sufficient. At the meeting, to which participants from all over the world were invited and which they eagerly attended, the awareness shared by everyone that what must be done right now goes far beyond talk created a heavy atmosphere. For before the eyes of the world, with all its insolence, with an aggression that recognizes no law, right, conscience or humanity, Israel has been continuing its massacres for more than a year, raising its insolence and its crime a level at every stage and testing the endurance of humanity, and these tests are increasingly moving toward humiliating humanity. It even attacked the UN headquarters, for instance. By this it showed once more, by humiliating not only Arabs and Muslims but the whole world, that it sees itself above every rule, law, order, power and humanity.

This attitude itself is regarded as the greatest danger in any order. It is a real danger directed not only at Palestinians but at the whole world. The whole world must say stop to this together; otherwise an Israel that has laid down the law to everyone will have taken the whole world captive.

The words of President Erdoğan, who spoke at the conference, "In Palestine, the shield, the tears and the oppression have never ceased. The state of Israel was founded in 1948. It would be wrong if I called this a 'state,'" were applauded with great enthusiasm by the participants.

Erdoğan, who began his speech by saluting with reverence, appreciation and gratitude those who have heroically resisted the occupying Israel since October 7 and those who have fallen as martyrs on this path, undoubtedly went far beyond mere words even with this stance alone.

The two-state solution, which most of the participants kept emphasizing, is by now a misconception that other participants rightly corrected. If the future occupation perspective of Israel, which has terminator-ness in its nature or its software, is already to occupy the lands between the two rivers, how will two states be possible?

Although Israel has seemed here and there since Oslo to agree to this solution in order to buy time, in practice it never gave it the slightest weight from the very first day. On the contrary, with each passing day it tried to expand its occupation further. In the face of this aggressive occupationism, the solution will ultimately be a single state, but Israel will have no place in this solution. Because on this course it will sooner or later destroy itself.