The inevitable end of the politics of hell

Donald Trump, the elected President of the United States, which is currently grappling with one of the greatest natural disasters in its history, has made clear in his rhetoric that after January 20, when he takes over, he promises to pay more attention to the problems of his own people. Although this rhetoric naturally gives rise to different expectations about what course he will follow in the Middle East, particularly in Gaza and Syria, his latest remarks, especially on Gaza, promise no line that would benefit his country on the matter of Israel, which has caused the United States the most trouble and the greatest costs. When he says, "By January 20 I want to see the agreement on the prisoner exchange on my desk, otherwise I will turn the Middle East into hell," he is telling Netanyahu to hurry up, but it is not him that he is threatening; it is again Gaza, Palestine, even the entire Middle East. This approach consists of words that we have in fact always seen in all of US politics but have rarely heard from a president with such openness.

Israel, with the unlimited support of the United States, has been trying in its own way to turn Gaza into hell since October 7. For the people of Gaza these are of course great sufferings, but they know who is capable of hell; even if the most merciless massacres lie at the end of it, in what they are living they see not a hell but a hard road leading to martyrdom and paradise. But the power facing them lays arrogant claim to godhood and is bent on making them live hell.

As if to prove that death and hell are in its hands like the Pharaohs. So far it has killed nearly 60,000 people: children, women, civilians, doctors, nurses, journalists, humanitarian aid volunteers. The rage that dominates its aggression imitates the wrath that it attributes to a God it imagines in its own Holy Scripture. It tries to punish the people of Gaza, whom it deems the enemy, adult and woman, elderly and child, even their animals, with the fury, rage and wrath of a rampant claimant to godhood. "Making them live hell," "turning their world into hell," the claim of "putting the human being into hell," is a rampant divine arrogance. This is what Israel has been doing since October 7, hiding it from no one, in defiance, showing it to the whole world.

At the very hours when Trump was threatening to make the Middle East live hell, the richest, most prosperous regions of the United States had begun to live fiery hell as a reality. Hollywood, which until now watched the hell of other worlds like a film and made the films of those hells, saw hell in its own home. The scenes of one of the greatest natural disasters in US history are by no means seen as a natural disaster that only a single people is suffering. Simultaneously, with the indifference, the callousness displayed toward the genocidal attacks in Gaza, even with the support that continues to be given to Israel in spite of everything, they flow one after another, like frames of the same film, on the viewing stage of humanity. The wind blows with a rage at an unprecedented speed, the fire burns with a fury and engulfs California.

Villas worth 100 million dollars turn to ash within minutes. Those who have established paradise in their own world at the expense of the hell of other worlds suddenly face hell...

The scenes flow by, and one scene in between, perhaps a flashback scene, lays bare the fact that the unlimited support the United States gives to genocidal Israel's attempts to create hell for the people of Gaza is deducted from its own citizens' taxes. The fires in California are not from unexpected disasters. Is it not the wasteful allocation of US citizens' taxes to the security of irresponsible, needless and genocidal Israel that has prevented preparation for far more than a fire of the expected intensity? This question will have the effect of the real great fire awaiting US politics. Here you have the Al-Aqsa Flood, begun with October 7, hitting the shores of US politics hard...

The cost of the Los Angeles fire is said to have already reached 150 billion dollars. This cost is a rough calculation of the burned buildings and forest assets. There is no counting the personal fortunes that have burned to ashes in it. The American people will ask why and how there could be no state measure to protect such a great fortune against natural disasters. In contrast, the resources allocated to aggressive Israel within a year so that it may commit genocide have exceeded 30 billion dollars. The American people will rightly ask this too, and it is not known where these questions will lead.

In fact, Trump's style of politics is typically embodied in the campaigns he has run against the squandering of citizens' taxes on foreign operations that do not concern the United States. From the beginning Trump has voiced a serious public reaction against the United States spending its resources by starting needless wars and taking on the role of world policeman. In recent days, in a way that has occurred to no US politician, he has even gone so far as to question the budgets allocated to Canada. Is it possible that he does not see that Israel consumes the economic resources and energy of the United States like a black hole? Israel, which is sinking by committing crimes condemned before humanity, is also sinking the United States along with it. This end, which all sensible Americans can see, is a clear warning for the United States.

Its presence in Syria also brings serious costs to the United States and in return provides it no benefit. It is known that Trump has seen and calculated the rationality on this matter from the beginning. The fire the United States is experiencing will revive and lay bare the questions on this matter further. That in Syria it stooped to supporting a real terrorist organization against an imaginary terrorist organization is already a disgrace for the United States. In the name of fighting ISIS, no role other than the de facto jailer of ISIS detainees can currently be invented for the YPG. Even if we accept this as a real problem, the cost caused by the YPG for this need for a jailer is a complete scandal from the standpoint of legendary American pragmatism. From the standpoint of this pragmatism, revived today in the person of Trump, the matter of the ISIS detainees can be taken on by a united Syrian administration or with Türkiye's help in a way that incurs no cost to the United States. This points to a new horizon that will leave the YPG's armed presence in Syria unnecessary.

The new process begun in Türkiye with Devlet Bahçeli's call actually offers a last opportunity for an honorable consideration as well.