You are asking for it, Israel!

However one reads the successive developments of the last few days along the line between the Genocidal Zionist Israel and Turkey, to us they come as the footsteps of an approaching doomsday for Israel.

Israel is itching for trouble.

It says "my security," it says "I see a threat," and then it says "I want no power in the region other than myself that could become a threat to me, even in the distant future," and each time its insolent aggression exceeds its bounds by another level.

Someone should advise them to listen to Scott Ritter, former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and former UN weapons inspector: "Iran can fire missiles at Israel, but Turkey can mass divisions on the Syrian border. You do not want to fight the Turks," he said. He then spoke of the fighting character of the Turkish soldier, pointing to Ömer Halisdemir and the Turkish Brigade in Korea as examples: "Turks fight. They are quite good at it and they are not afraid of dying... If the Israelis fight the Turks, the Turks will crush Israel in about 3.2 seconds."

Indeed, the valiant men of Gaza, the Qassam Brigades, with their asymmetric power, to the extent possible, and with this very fearlessness and their faith in martyrdom, disgraced Israel utterly. They exposed to the whole world its full monstrousness and its inhuman vileness. Whatever it is that makes the Turks strong in Ritter's eyes, the people of Gaza have in even greater measure. Indeed, perhaps there is no need to say, only to remind, that the Turks and the people of Gaza are of one and the same stock. Only a hundred years ago, Gaza and Konya, Rafah and Yozgat were merely two sides of the same body facing one another.

But it may have prevailed through the relentless show of asymmetric force it has displayed against Gaza. If it wants to meddle with Turkey, it will not face a different spirit, but, in the words of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, there are millions waiting to overflow with the patience they are barely holding back in their homes.

DO NOT ITCH, ISRAEL. However much it has been attempted to keep the Turkish people far from the spirit of Jihad ever since you came to haunt these lands, your itching today and your insolence are reminding this nation of its essence. Today the Muslim Turkish nation is by no means far from the spirit of jihad. I cannot speak for any other occasion, but if a mobilization were declared against Israel today, within a few hours millions of volunteers would be at your border to bury you in the land you fancy was promised to you. Here, take your promised land! But there is no place for you on top of it; you will have to content yourself with what is underneath.

The military display in Syria, naval activity in the Eastern Mediterranean, the defense relations Israel has deepened with Greece, and finally Israeli officials' beginning to describe Turkey openly as a power that "must be contained" show that the itch has become thoroughly scabrous.

The last serious threshold in this picture was crossed on 18 August with the Israeli strike on Abu al-Duhur air base in Syria. The base was about 60 kilometers from the Turkish border, and it is no longer concealed even by the Israeli side that the Israeli attack was aimed at preventing Turkey from establishing a military presence, an air defense system or radar capacity there.

A few days later, Defense Minister Israel Katz went to Mount Hermon, Syrian territory under occupation, and with all his insolence said that Israel "had acted against Turkey's attempt to settle in Syria" and would continue the same stance from now on.

Here Israel is no longer openly speaking of defending its own borders. It is saying that Israel will decide what kind of security relationship another state, namely Syria, may establish with Turkey on its own territory. In other words, it is trying to impose its own security doctrine increasingly as a fait accompli along the lines of "my security is the weakness of my neighbors."

One of the truly thought-provoking developments was the language used by US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee in describing the Abu al-Duhur strike. Huckabee explicitly described the strike as a "warning" and explained it through baseball: if the batter crowds the plate too much, the pitcher sends the ball toward his chest to tell him to back off; if he does not, the next pitch will come harder. Huckabee interpreted Israel's striking of the Abu al-Duhur runway as such a message to Turkey.

This is an extremely grave description. Because what is at issue here is Turkey, a NATO member, a state possessing one of the largest armies in the region. Setting NATO membership aside, Turkey's far more important attribute is that it is a deeply rooted power in the historical, cultural and political depth of the region. Besides the numerical or technological power of its army, it also possesses a consciousness of Jihad. If Israel and its brain-dead grain-pickers had a speck of brains, they would take this into account by now.

The latest news from the Eastern Mediterranean also animates another scene of the same development. Reports are appearing in the Israeli press that Turkish warships have forced the Israeli navy to take their movements directly into account in the region, and that the sides are following each other's naval movements ever more closely. The details of these have not yet been fully confirmed by the official authorities of the two states. One must therefore approach them with caution. But there is very little doubt that Israel now regards Turkey as one of the principal strategic rivals in the military balance taking shape in Syria, in the Eastern Mediterranean and via Greece.

Indeed, the roughly 3 billion euro "Achilles Shield" air and missile defense agreement that Israel signed with Greece is added to this picture. The agreement covers multi-layered air defense and anti-drone systems. It is not said, of course, that this is an agreement made directly against Turkey; but it is also clear that Israeli-Greek military integration in the Eastern Mediterranean is accelerating.

Just at this moment, the fact that Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan held in Istanbul the first meeting of the Strategic Political and Defense Committee under the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement also points to a regional transformation that cannot be regarded as coincidence. Hakan Fidan specifically said that the agreement was not established against a particular state; he even explained that a security architecture open to the participation of new members was envisaged.

But when he was asked about Israel's language beginning to portray Turkey as a strategic threat, Fidan's answer was much harsher.

He described Netanyahu as "the common enemy of humanity, the international community and security" and specifically said that the matter was not merely a Turkey-Israel dispute. According to him, Netanyahu and the "genocidal mindset" around him have turned into a threat to global security itself, and the international system must now act against this threat.

I think Fidan is making an important distinction here. Turkey's anger at Israel does not arise from a classical conflict of interests between two states. The moral and human rupture produced by what has happened in Gaza is far deeper than that.

There is a great anger that has accumulated in Turkish society since Gaza. The torn bodies of children, civilians starved, hospitals bombed, the expansion of the occupation, Palestinians expelled from their lands... Each of these has created a memory in Turkey that goes far beyond differences in political views.

The Israeli administration is now provoking this social anger further with language of a direct military threat against Turkey.

Here one needs to remind Netanyahu of the famous remark Erdoğan made in 2013 during the Gezi events. In those days, referring to the broad masses that supported him, Erdoğan had said, "In Turkey there is a 50 percent that we barely hold back in their homes."

Now that crowd is waiting, ready to explode at Israel. This much we say, and we warn: Do not itch, Israel!