The greatest threat to Israel is Israel itself

The agreement in Gaza, which prioritized the retrieval of the Israeli captives held by Hamas, has, as expected, begun to be quickly violated by Israel, which no longer feels the pressure of the captives.

Of course Israel has no difficulty finding justifications for these violations. "We saw the movement of a shadow over there and fired at it, a chicken passed over here, that was not in the agreement, Hamas did not keep its word," it says, and continues the bombings. After taking its own captives, there is a situation concerning the nearly 10 thousand Palestinians held in Israeli dungeons under the most severe conditions of torture that should make the world rise to its feet.

The issue is not merely the violation of the ceasefire but the trampling of humanity. But there is no human rights uprising over this. For Israel's patron the US, this too is a brutality included in the struggle sanctified as one against terror.

Israel, which has taken its living captives from Hamas, is now also using the fact that it has not been able to retrieve the bodies of its dead captives as a pretext to attack again. It is itself that slaughtered the dead captives, itself that buried its dead under the rubble, yet it is again itself that attacks, claiming Hamas has violated the agreement because it cannot dig them out and hand them over. US President Trump, in whatever fit of reason he said it, even said that Hamas committed a crime by not handing over the bodies of the dead Israeli hostages and that it deserves to be punished for this.

When the bandit becomes sovereign of the world, he becomes sovereign with his mind, his maddening logic, his twisted law. At present, through the "very good use" by the murderer Netanyahu of the "very good weapons" donated by the US to genocidal, occupying Israel, there are the remains of at least 10 thousand Palestinians left under the rubble. The world has joined forces, searching for Israeli bodies with search dogs and state-of-the-art search devices, while not the slightest empathy is shown for these 10 thousand Palestinians under the rubble. How could it be? A Palestinian whose living self is treated as a humanoid creature, whose dead body concerns anyone? When racism goes to the head, it stinks up the place even as it is applied in the most idiotic way to the dead.

When Israel's racist minister Ben Gvir says, now that we have rescued the captives, let us launch an attack on Gaza again and make them live hell, in what kind of human state of mind he is living, it will, I think, never be possible for us Muslims to understand. Because for Muslims there is never such a genocide, such a rage directed at children, the elderly, civilians. For Muslims even war with enemies is ultimately a war against oppressors who block the door of a mercy that would reach them. "There is no hostility except against the oppressors." And yes, today Israel, as a state and as a mentality, is among the most severe oppressors recorded in history.

The most common justification Israel advances for this aggression is security and the struggle for survival. It is itself that has occupied Palestinian lands and poses a threat to the existence of others, yet it sees the resistance of the people whose land and homeland it has stolen as a threat to its existence, and the more it sees it so, the more it attacks, and the more it attacks, the more it feeds their hatred and spirit of resistance.

The grand narrative that it presented to the world for years, whether concerning its occupation of Palestine or its war against Lebanon, Jordan and Iran, as a matter of Israeli security or the right to defense, has also now completely collapsed. It has a hostility that it has never hesitated to direct at Syria, Qatar, Iraq and, when the occasion arises, Egypt and Saudi Arabia as well. Its justification here is a threat that might form against it years later. Within this threat, all Israeli officials, from the lowest level to the highest, no longer refrain from stating that it in fact sees Turkey at the very center.

For the Syrian people, who had suffered every torment and hardship under 60 years of terrible Baathist tyranny and had just thrown off the despot at their head and found their footing, Israel's justification in attacking Syria is the same: to foresee a potential threat that might form against Israel and destroy it before it even emerges. Yet the revolution in Syria has only just taken place and it has not yet made any declaration directed at Israel. Of course, whether or not it makes one, it is inevitable that it will demand the Golan, which Israel currently holds under occupation. But this issue has in any case been a matter between Israel and Syria for 58 years. There are diplomatic channels too for discussing such matters, but for Israel, diplomacy is only a way temporarily resorted to for stalling and for gaining the appearance of a country and a state.

In recent days, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, in his interview with Turgay Güler on Ülke TV, was explaining that Israel's taking refuge in this security pretext to attack everyone has, on the contrary, turned into a factor that most threatens Israeli security. Truly, no country can survive for long by seeing everyone as a potential enemy from such a paranoid point of view and attacking everyone it sees as a potential enemy. Israel's greatest enemy and greatest danger is Israel itself. Interventions and schemes aimed at keeping all the surrounding countries weak and at keeping them at war within themselves for the sake of its own security will, in the final analysis, not produce a secure Israel. Indeed, the effort to create a divided, fragmented Syria by supporting the Druze in the Suwayda region of Syria and the SDF elements east of the Euphrates is reaching a state that will threaten Turkey too. Because instability inside Syria directly affects Turkey.

"If you develop a security policy saying 'These are Sunni Arab Muslims, we read their intentions, after 50 years if they become strong they will do something to me, so let me divide them now, tear them apart, swallow them, leave them in chaos, create trouble,' this is a very dangerous policy. Because this does not affect only Syria. How many countries are there around Syria? Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey, all of them are affected," Fidan was saying.

Of course, when all these countries are affected, a solution begins to shine like the sun in which all of them would be saved by destroying only Israel in total. Thus Israel ends up preparing its own end with its own hand. How could it be said more plainly?