Kenan Camurcu

When I was in the military, serving on the Armed Forces Power weightlifting team in Ankara in 1981, Hasan Köni used to come to our weight room for strength training. He was agreeable and entertaining company. He once described the tactic used by the Grey Wolf (Ülkücü) and revolutionary leftist movements before the 1980 coup to 'steel' new university recruits into the movement. The Grey Wolves would send a freshman to the left-wing stronghold, the Emek campus, to ask for a famous Grey Wolf "abi" (older brother/leader), while the leftists would send their new recruit to the Cebeci campus, the right-wing headquarters, to ask for a famous leftist "abi." The beating the newcomer received there would solidify him as a staunch and loyal adherent of the movement. He would also become thoroughly radicalized.

Köni undoubtedly caricatured and fictionalized the story, but real-life examples certainly existed. While we were in a training camp at a hotel in Ulus for the European Youth Championship to be held in Italy, we witnessed a fight between one group writing on the building across the street and the opposing group at midnight on September 11, 1980. That was the night before we awoke to Kenan Evren reading Communiqué Number One. The motivation that drove the parties to clash at that hour could not have been ideology alone. Such incidents were the predictable outcome of unchecked radicalization. The curfews and travel bans following the coup meant that officials spent days trying to get us to the championship in Italy. When it became certain we could not go, we returned to our home cities. Since they did not know I was away at the camp, the police who came to our house for a while eventually gave up, which incidentally saved me from an illegal 12 September detention.

Years later, when we met on a foreign policy program on NTV in the early 2000s, my recounting of the conversation from the weight room in Ankara surprised Köni, and we shared a laugh. Yes, I used to be invited to NTV back then—before the epidemic of trolism and ignorance had fully infected the nation—and we would genuinely discuss foreign policy, even on pro-government channels, and criticize some of the government's approaches. Young people today would not know it; it was an entirely different universe. There were objective, scientific, impartial programs with analytical and informational value, and we would make our assessments with seriousness, upholding the responsibility of our words. Those were days of quality, moderation, and good temper. Today's irrationality, vulgarity, lack of qualification, and tastelessness were too feeble, powerless, and invisible to spoil the enjoyment.

Anyway.

As Long as There Is Enmity Towards Jews, They Sprint to Every Call

The radicalization drills of the “Palestinian cause” are thematically similar to my Ankara memories, which contain a tragicomic anecdote. The Palestine industry is the foremost element radicalizing Islam. It is at the top of the list. With cross-border intentions, it morphs into terrorism. Al-Qaeda's global jihad emerged in this way. It is a common phenomenon for Islamism, which is already prone to fascist radicalism and brimming with antisemitic hatred, to take to the streets for Palestine, whose reality it neither knows nor cares to inquire about. As long as there is enmity towards Jews, they are triggered to sprint with absolute conviction to every call. These protest actions constitute essential radicalization training, not only in Turkey but also for the people they manage to mobilize in various countries through abundant media deceptions that render the truth unrecognizable. We understand this from experimental examples. The answers given to random microphones extended to the demonstrators are ample evidence of how little they know about the “cause” for which they risk clashing with the police and rival groups.

I confess that when we organized the first Palestinian rally in İzmit after the 12 September coup in the mid-80s, and again when we held the first Jerusalem Day, as the person who spearheaded these activities, assumed legal risk and responsibility, and was unlawfully detained for police questioning without anyone's support under ongoing military coup conditions, I, too, knew nothing about Palestine through research. I only knew the common recitations from the social "in-group drinking" (socializing) environment we were in. This is true for all who pursue these matters, then and now: they possess no information beyond clichés and slogans. This includes the high-ranking figures and luminaries of Islam across all branches. We can exclude the IBAN merchants who handle the profiteering side of the Palestine industry. They are entirely rational and know exactly what they are doing. For instance, Bassim Youssef, a celebrity of the Palestine industry, signed a $400,000-a-year deal with the Sisi regime's propaganda apparatus after receiving a positive asylum decision from the US, citing "Sisi's military coup and fascist regime." Similarly, the professionals in Turkey who whip Islamic communities and groups into a fervor over the Gaza war, inducing a state of martial law-like depression in the country, have offered their gratitude for the blessings bestowed upon them by putting the ruling party, which is struggling due to the abysmal economy, back into first place.

Ignorance is the Fuel of Palestinism

Of course, the most significant fuel sustaining Palestinism is ignorance. The Spanish activist who contributed to the fame of the Sumud Flotilla with a twerk video recorded on the boat, stating that "Palestinians have been treated like animals for eighty years," is an example of deep, incurable ignorance. Yet, at that time (1945), only 30% of the approximately 2 million inhabitants in what is now Gaza and the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) were Jewish. Setting aside the impossibility of the Jewish minority ill-treating the Arab majority, Jewish immigrants could not even defend themselves against harassment and attacks. It was precisely this vast demographic disparity that led the Arabized (Mu'arrab) Muslims to reject the 1947 UN Partition Plan and launch the 1948 war with a coalition of six Arab states, seeking the ethnic cleansing of the Jews. This attack, which they call the "Nakba (Catastrophe)" and for which they hold annual tearful commemoration ceremonies, accusing Israel of being the "occupier," was the war they lost. The cliché of the "occupying Zionist regime" is the slogan of the campaign to blame the inevitable military, political, and diplomatic consequences of this severe defeat.

In the years following World War I, when Jews began returning to their homeland, the population distribution in Judea under Ottoman rule was 700,000 Arabs to 50,000 Jews. There was also a small number of Christians. The Arabized Amalikites constantly harassed Jews, raided villages, and pursued ethnic cleansing. The massacre of 67 Jews, including women and children, during a dawn raid on homes in Hevron (Hebron, al-Khalil) in 1929 is recorded as the first mass slaughter. It was an exact replica of the October 7, 2023, attack. The Qassamites probably thought that by committing the October 7 massacre, they would cleanse Israel of Jews, just as Hevron was de-Judaized after the raid and massacre. What happened in the 1948, 1967, and 1973 attacks is what happened with the October 2023 attack. Palestine-politics lost again. Their dream of conquering Israel turned into a nightmare, and they lost Gaza.

The Aggressor Who Loses Cannot Be the Victim

The essence of the “Palestinian cause” is the conviction that, despite the large Arab population initiating successive wars of annihilation against the small Jewish minority and losing every time, they are still entitled to victorious gains. Can the aggressive loser become the victim? Of course not, but the propaganda efforts of political Palestinism are focused precisely on this narrative.

Israel, the party under attack, returned the territories it gained (by conquest?) in the wars waged against it to Egypt and Jordan in exchange for peace; they, in turn, recognized Israel, and the era of wars with them ended. However, Palestine-politics refuses to abandon the fantasy of annihilating Israel and the Jews, and having the entirety of the country, cleansed of Jews, ceded to them. Neo-fascist Islamism, inheriting the legacy of Amin al-Husseini, who formed a Palestinian Nazi brigade for Hitler, has consecrated this fantasy as a holy cause. I have previously detailed the evidence demonstrating that this cause has no relation to true faith or religion.

The “Palestinian cause” is not an inherent entity with an essential core or selfhood. It is accidental, contingent, random, and temporary. The historical irony is this: Had the coalition of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia won the 1948, 1967, and 1973 wars, and had Israel lost, Israel would still have existed, but not only would there be no country, there would not even be a distinct Palestinian society. This is because Gaza would have remained with Egypt, and the West Bank with Jordan, and the residents there would have become citizens of those countries. Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir explicitly stated: “If Hussein [Jordan] hadn't gone to war in 1967, the West Bank would have been in his hands. If Assad hadn't gone to war, the Golan Heights would have remained in Syria. If Nasser hadn't gone to war in 1967, the Sinai Desert and the Gaza Strip would have been in his hands. [Israel returned Sinai in exchange for peace.]” Therefore, the “Palestinian cause,” invented by Arafat, should be grateful and indebted to Israel for winning the wars.

Consequently, reverting to the 1967 status, where Israel would border Egypt and Jordan, effectively means rewinding the tape and rendering the Palestinian identity null and void. Conversely, if the UN Partition Plan had been accepted in 1947, there still would not have been a country, state, or society named Palestine, but another Arab state would have been established adjacent to Israel, and the two states would have lived side-by-side in peace and prosperity. Perhaps over time, wounds would heal, and they might even become a canton or a federation. Consider this: Would an Arab state, with a per capita income comparable to Israel’s $56,000, permit Ikhwani (Muslim Brotherhood) aggression, the primitivism of Hamas, violence, and terror? Yet, Muslims, starting from the days of World War I and culminating in enlisting for Hitler, became fixated on the evil of ethnically cleansing the Jews. This has brought them nothing but defeat, loss, destruction, misery, and suffering.

The Idea of a Palestinian State is the Most Disastrous Option

A new map, where the West Bank is ceded to Jordan and Gaza to Egypt, has been on the table for a long time, well before Trump's Gaza peace plan. It is an understandable intention for Israelis to want to neighbor reasonable states on such a map. This way, they would have a sovereign state as a counterpart to hold responsible for attacks originating from their Palestinian citizens. However, Jordan is reluctant and hesitant about the American and Israeli plan, stemming from the traumatic experience the populace endured when Palestinian politics attempted a coup in 1970. It might only engage with structural guarantor measures in place. Egypt, observing the violence, terror, and looting the political Palestinism exhibited in the country during Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, the attempted coup in Jordan, and its role as a cause of the uncontrolled spiral of violence, does not want to make this problematic population its citizens. Its intentions are clear from the massive wall it has built around Gaza. This wall is an exact replica of the barrier Israel erected in the West Bank. The Palestinians who call the latter a "wall of shame" cannot utter a single word against Sisi’s wall. Perhaps a stimulating amount of financial, military, and commercial support could incentivize Cairo to annex Gaza.

All regional capitals are aware that the idea of an independent Palestinian state is the most disastrous option. They are certain that Islamist and Ikhwani organizations in such a state would not only make life miserable for the local population but would also export terror to the surrounding area, making the state a permanent source of unrest. For this reason, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi, whose patience with Ikhwani radicalism has run out and is on the verge of snapping, were cold and deliberately kept their distance during the Sharm el-Sheikh meeting. They openly state that jihadist, Islamist, radical Islamism, as currently embodied by Hamas, must not be tolerated. Furthermore, they are wary of the strategy that argues that Turkey and Qatar, who were granted the prestige of mediating the Gaza peace plan, were actually being kept under surveillance through this method and thus rendered incapable of supporting Hamas. Lobbying on this matter was publicized by the Israelis.

No Place for a Palestinian State in Pax-Arabiana

The ruler of Riyadh, Mohammed, like his namesake the Prophet, has managed to unify the Arabs in the Hijaz. He has gathered everyone except Qatar, a country whose future as a sovereign state is doubtful in the "New Middle East" and which functions as the ATM of global jihad, under the umbrella of Pax-Arabiana. The Palestinian state is precisely the stale, exhausted, and antiquated idea that would spoil this blend. Tehran and Ankara insist on the “Palestinian state” as a way to sabotage Mohammed’s project, which would otherwise exclude them from the circle. Egypt, observing Pax-Arabiana from a distance, also sporadically and cautiously mentions the Palestinians' right to a state for the same reason. Members of the opposing camp are carefully watching the efforts of some Europeans, who dislike the political, diplomatic, and economic energy that will emerge from the collaboration between the US, Israel, and the Gulf Arabs, to knock the now-almost-complete puzzle off the table.

However, it appears that Europe is disintegrating, and in this intra-Atlantic confrontation, Germany, the orchestrator working behind the scenes, will again find itself isolated. Italian Prime Minister Meloni's eye-rolling when German Chancellor Merz asked Trump to press Putin for a ceasefire during the Washington meeting with European leaders, which Zelensky also attended in August 2025, was a powerful piece of pantomime. It staged the degradation of Germany, which, whatever anyone says, is responsible for the defeat incurred by pushing Ukraine against Russia. The effective destruction of France and Spain, who signaled against the Jews—whose population and influence are invisible on the electoral scale—by factoring in their Muslim voters and sphere of influence during the Gaza war, was also a disciplinary lesson for the Europeans.

Spain’s campaign to attract the over $30 billion Palestine industry to the country, with an enthusiasm that revives its structural medieval hatred of Jews and the antisemitic legacy of the fascist Franco era, has failed. Israelis documented that most boats in the Sumud Flotilla belong to a Hamas shell company registered in Spain. This support for Hamas will also have a cost for Spain. Trump has stated that Spain should be expelled from NATO. This could, of course, have implications within the EU. The threat of Spain being isolated in Europe must have raised the alarm level in Madrid to high degrees. Indeed, in early October 2025, the Speaker of the Spanish Parliament intervened when the left-wing group displayed a Palestinian flag in the Assembly, saying, “We are tired of Palestine,” and had security remove the flag.

In summary, the mothballed idea of a “Palestinian state” is an impossible solution. The referenced UN Resolution 242 was, in any case, related to the 1967 war, not Palestine. The resolution's addressees were Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. It was Arafat who "Palestinianized" the issue, aligning it with the left-secular fashion of the time. Following the 1979 revolution in Iran, Khomeini religionized it. The involvement of Islamist radicals in the matter came after Khomeini, especially with Hamas.

The Dark Universe That Calls a 9-Month-Old Baby a “Zionist Captive”

Khomeini’s perspective, which separated Zionism as a political movement from the Jewish community, did not gain traction among Islamists. It failed to satisfy their antisemitic rage and hatred. Instead, Hamas's world, which is hostile to Jews and hates even a baby born Jewish, was enthusiastically embraced. Kfir Bibas, one of the hostages kidnapped and murdered by the Qassamites from Israeli border villages near Gaza during the October 7, 2023, attack, was a 9-month-old baby. His brother Ariel was 4 years old. Abigail Idan was 4, and Alma Or was 13. The list goes on. 40 children were kidnapped, and they were called “Zionist captives.” Islamist media in Turkey repeated this disgraceful epithet verbatim. To legitimize this madness, they used a comparison with the casualties that occurred when Qassam militants hid among children and non-combatants in the war zone, using them as human shields.

While Islamist media campaigns specifically emphasize that Israel kills Gazan children, the Islamists know that Qassam militants are hiding among those children and attacking Israeli soldiers. That is why they do not ask Hamas to stop using civilians, children, and non-combatants as human shields and endangering their lives.

None of the Israeli children who were kidnapped had committed a crime against Gazans or anyone else, nor had they harmed them. Among the Gazans released in exchange for the hostages, however, are killers responsible for numerous deaths, who approached people insidiously and stabbed or shot them at Israeli bus stops, in cafes, and on the streets. This is the reason why Islamist media, when mentioning Palestinians imprisoned in Israel as minors, fails to mention the crimes they committed.

Muslim radicalism, which only bears a partial, superficial, and formal resemblance to the Prophet's Islam, considers it its right to kill Jews—young, old, or civilian—believing they are guilty by birth. To deem a person guilty simply for being born Jewish is the definition of racism. Its transformation into a political movement is fascism. Islamists should not deceive themselves into thinking they are supporting the oppressed; the boycott of Jewish goods and slogans like “Palestine from the river to the sea” are the contemporary language of Nazism. Nothing about their actions is original or new; they are all an imitation of the atrocities initiated by Hitler's fascists in the 1930s, which ultimately reached the never-to-be-forgotten level of shame at Auschwitz in the 1940s.

Attributing “Cursed People” to Jewish Prophets

Let everyone consider calmly: Which is racism? The Muslims' hatred and enmity towards Jews, or the Israelis' military engagements with Hamas? Excluding fanatical extremists who represent nothing, do the official and credible declarations of Israel contain any intention to wipe out Muslims or Arabs from Judea, the region, or the face of the earth? Yet, from the highest levels to the lowest, the entire spectrum of Islamists, and even ordinary Muslims, openly, shamelessly, audaciously, and without any compunction, repeat rhetoric about the annihilation, ethnic cleansing, and expulsion of Jews from the region. The aspiration of the Islamists is merely an updated version of the exile policies of the Romans and Babylonians.

Don't Muslims refer to Jews as the “people cursed by God”? This is a deviant belief, not found in the Qur’an or the Prophet's sayings, which asserts that a baby born into a Jewish family comes into the world already cursed. This is despite the fact that the Qur'an extensively narrates the stories of Jewish prophets and the Children of Israel. Are the Jewish prophets Moses, Jesus, and others—their children and continuing lineage—therefore members of a cursed people? We should not dismiss this as mere ignorance. There is a destructive psychopathology, a mental disorder, and a state of mass delusion at play here. These are the poisonous fruits of the fertile ground of fascism.

It is a historical truth that ignorant, antisemitic, and fascism-infatuated Islamists choose to ignore: When the Kurdish Saladin (Ayyubi) entered Jerusalem (Medinetu'l-Kuds), his first act was to summon back the Jews who had been expelled from the city by the Crusader administration, which continued the ethnic cleansing policies of Rome and Babylon. He encouraged their return to Jerusalem. Like the Persian Shah Cyrus, he fostered their resettlement in the city with dignity. Historical records show that Jews flocked back and settled in the city upon his invitation. The organization of this effort was managed by his Jewish advisor, Moses ben Maimon (Maimonides), whom Saladin kept close. Saladin's actions may be seen as continuing the tradition of ancient Persia, the Fatimids, and the Seljuks. However, theological imperatives were certainly involved. He knew that the original inhabitants of the city, which is referred to as Iliya, Urushalem, and Jerusalem (City of Peace) in Islamic sources, were the Jews. He also knew they had been persecuted, oppressed, and repeatedly exiled. In other words, when he conquered the city, he restored their historical rights.

Islamism Fighting Against a Qur'anic Verse

Do the religious scholars not know that Jerusalem, referred to as the “holy land” in the Qur’an (Al-Ma’idah 21), was not named "Quds" but that this Arabic translation (Medinetu’l-Kuds) was assigned to the city by the Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan? Or do they know and conceal it because the truth would refute the Muslim narrative? Which is worse, the former or the latter?

The instruction given by Moses to the Jews after leaving Egypt—to “Enter the Holy Land (ardul-muqaddasah) which Allah has assigned to you” (Al-Ma’idah 21)—dates back 3,400 years. This staggering story was recounted to the Prophet and his companions who migrated from Mecca. Moses did not live to see it, but the Jews, led by Joshua (Hoşua, Yeshua, Yuşa), managed to reach and settle in the Arz-ı Mev’ud, the Promised Land, Canaan.

While there was ample land for everyone to live in peace and prosperity, the Amalekites, who had continually attacked the Jews during their arduous exodus through the desert, did not leave the Jewish community in peace even after they settled in Canaan. What was their problem? The same as the Pharaoh's. It was likely hatred and enmity stemming from envy, of course. The hostility and hatred of the Amalekites, which continued after they became Arabized and Islamized during the 7th-century Arab invasion and persists today, is the very same ancient enmity that spans the ages.

For this reason, the claim that Gazans are subjected to Israeli oppression because of their Muslim or Arab identity is invalid. This is because there are Israeli citizens with that identity who have no problem living alongside Jews. That is to say, the 2 million Sunni Arabs and other Muslim groups in Israel's population—including Circassians, Druze, and Alawites—along with those of other faiths and identities, have no issues with Jews or the state of Israel. However, due to the behavioral genetics of the Amalekites, there is no possibility or prospect for Gazans and Jews to live together in peace.

To label Israel's war with Hamas, which it calls "counter-terrorism," as the commonplace, facile, and easily uttered term “genocide” is pure propaganda. What genocide is being committed when 2 million Arabs live happily, contentedly, and prosperously in Israel? It is a great evil to trivialize a grave matter like the Holocaust—a crime against humanity committed by the Nazis against the Jews—by applying it indiscriminately to every situation. It is shameful, scandalous, disgraceful, and an example of moral abdication to equate the Holocaust—the reality of Jews who were reduced to 30 kilograms, unable to stand, and utterly spent when liberated from concentration camps at the end of the war after millions were killed through unimaginable torture and executions—with Gazans who post Instagram stories looking perfectly clean, cheerful, and robust after the ceasefire in Gaza.

Complimenting Criminal Anti-Jewish Hatred in Europe as “Conscience”

It would be useful to scratch beneath the surface of the “love for Palestine” displayed by foreigners who are fond of “genocide” propaganda. For instance, the Austrian dollar-billionaire activist Marlène Engelhorn, whom Islamists admire, exalt, and endlessly praise as the “voice of conscience” of the Palestinian protests. Her grandfather was the inventor of Zyklon B gas, used in the genocide against Jews. He bequeathed $4.2 billion to his granddaughter, money earned by taking the lives of thousands of innocents. Her Palestinian cause is the hatred and enmity towards Jews inherited from her grandfather. Likewise, Canada’s former Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. Of course, he would be an ardent supporter of the “Palestinian cause.” His father, former Prime Minister (1980–84) Pierre, refused to revoke the citizenship of a Nazi who commanded a squad that executed over 5,000 Jews and provided protection to other Nazis. Muslims exalt this tradition as “conscience.” Although, let's not unnecessarily and unduly sanitize this; they know the truth perfectly well and are on the verge of openly expressing admiration for the Nazis.

Incapacity that attempts to operate with blind ideological fixation also lacks the competence to act with Realpolitik. While the Khomeinist Shiites are still pursuing the slogan of “free Palestine” at the cost of their own destruction, the leader of Iranian Sunnis, Maulana Abdolhamid, clearly aware of the agility required by realpolitic, stated: “Palestinians should not go to extremes and say that Israel must be destroyed. With what will you destroy it? Moreover, there is no benefit in this slogan.” Reason is truly a great blessing.

A State, Country, and Society Named Palestine Never Existed

Historical reality cannot be fought. A state, country, or society named Palestine never existed in Judea. The Filistinciler (Palestine-advocates) who claim that the “Palestine” mentioned in the literature—which the Ottomans supposedly never ceded—was named for those lands even under Ottoman rule, are clinging to an imaginary conception, as it never existed in any period. When the Arab states launched the 1948 war, the headline of the Boston Globe was: “Arabs Invade Palestine.” The report stated that Arab nations surrounding the Holy Land began the invasion of Palestine with a pincer movement 15 days before the end of the British Mandate. The report positioned the original owners of the lands—which the Romans named Palestine to alienate the Jews—against the aggressive outsiders. How different this is from the memorized cliché, isn't it?

Islamists are neither curious about nor searching for the truth. There is nothing respectable about this. For example, they allegedly prove the existence of Palestine with an 18th-century map. Yet, the name “Palestine” is 1,500 years older than that. It dates back to the time when the Romans changed the name of Judea to “Syria Palaestina” as punishment for the Jewish revolts for freedom. They are unaware of, deprived of, and uninterested in this basic information, which could be found in a beginner's history book. As always, the professionals and troll networks who know the truth but cover it up are excluded from our discussion.

When various sources advocate for the ethnic cleansing or even genocide of Jews, Muslims begin to change, at the very least by remaining silent about this notorious crime. This is the moment when the morality of the faith they believe in is abandoned. Campaigns and harsh propaganda turn people into an open buffet for uncontrolled, injudicious, and merciless radicalization.

Antisemitic Conservative Cunning’s New York Victory

The election of Zohran Kwame Mamdani as New York City mayor is an example of ideological radicals finding a foothold in the system by exploiting democracy's vulnerability to justice. It is a victory for Mouffe's strategy of defeating right-wing populism with left-wing populism. But his is not an agonistic, negotiatory, or constructive victory. It is an antagonistic victory achieved through rupture, hostility, enmity, and destructiveness. The foundation of his success in curdling the pond is bullying through hatred. It is an ambition that is blind to the destruction caused in the pursuit of the vote level needed for victory.

Of course, I am reactive because the severity of the ideas he expresses without any constraint is not tolerated in his political regimes, where justice is non-existent and even minimal discontent is suppressed. Turkey, Iran, and Gaza are extreme examples of this. Despite this, he and his supporters do not even glance at this painful truth.

The “victory that drives Zionists mad” jargon of those ecstatic over Mamdani’s win may excite the spectator stands uninterested in the truth, but we need seriousness, reasonable assessment, information, and the truth itself.

Lest there be any misunderstanding, this is not because I deem the political universe of his opponent and adversary, Trump—who seeks to conquer, completely seize the system, and pound his fist on the table—as the lesser of two evils. We have experienced the meaning of such a person in this land, being weary of life since July 2016. The issue is that it is fundamentally wrong for those who cannot bear to be utterly alone to become confined to desperation and try to cling to one of the evils in the realm of wickedness by putting a good mask on it. The clearest and most distinct arena where this is observed is Israel, the Jews, and hostility toward Semitic origins.

We know that the antisemitic affliction has no time for nuances, but let us suppose a person opposes the Israeli government’s policy in Gaza. Instead of offering criticisms on this subject, why do they become the advocate for Hamasism, which pursues madness on the margins of barbarity? Or why, while protesting policies made in Tel Aviv, does one not shout a equally forceful word against the tyranny dominating Gaza? The reason is that there is a dark worldview at play that uses the rule-of-law violations or war crimes committed by some Israeli soldiers during wartime as a justification (pretext?) for the annihilation of Israel, the destruction of all Jews, including children, or for ethnic cleansing.

The darkness in this worldview is inherited from its ideological genetics. This is the same mob that, under the pretext that “the house of our ancestor was bombed,” destroyed and looted the workplaces, homes, cemeteries, schools, churches, and synagogues belonging to Greeks, Armenians, Jews, and even Turks in Istanbul on September 6-7, 1955. They plundered over 6,000 locations on that date. They did something similar to the Armenians in 1914. During the ethnic cleansing (deportation/tehcir) that exiled Armenians from Edirne, Kayseri, Malatya, and other cities under the pretext of clashes with Armenian armed groups in Van and Erzurum, the people of the same dark worldview seized the opportunity to destroy and loot homes, workplaces, and places of worship. What connection did the Armenians of Bardizag (Bahçecik), where I now live, have with the clashes in Van, apart from being of the same race? Bardizag was an Armenian village, but because they were Armenian, they were held responsible for the clashes in Van and Erzurum and were exiled. They were the master masons of the Yeni Cuma Mosque, a masterpiece by Mimar Sinan in Izmit. Their homes, churches, and workplaces were looted during the ethnic cleansing. They are still destroying historical artifacts and grave remains in the hope of finding something valuable.

When we ask Mamdani why he targets Israeli soldiers who commit crimes but does not address Hamas's war crimes, the radical wall that has taken hold of him will cause the question to bounce back. His leftist, liberal, and secular supporters share the same mindset. His secular-seeming life may comfort New Yorker bohemians, but let us remember that the September 11 attackers who killed over 4,000 people in one go in 2001 completed their night in a bar in the country they left before arriving in America. Likewise, the Islamist radicals who massacred over 130 people in the 2015 Paris attacks had partied the day before their journey to paradise. This is because they believe their sins are erased upon becoming martyrs, and they will go directly to heaven.

Mamdani’s transfer from Ismaili Shiism to Twelver Shiism has a special significance. Such a conversion does not happen naturally. It requires ideological nourishment as much as financial incentives. The ideological transformation experienced in the Husseiniyas controlled by the Khamenei faction of the Twelver Shiites is a crucial note. His radicalization is thanks to this. Just like the Houthis in Yemen, who were Zaydi Shiites before turning into an armed militia and becoming the Quds Force's missile launcher against Israel.

Those who claim he made false statements when applying for US citizenship, demanding the revocation of his citizenship and deportation, have been saying so louder since he was elected. His surname is actually Muhammadani. It was changed to Mamdani. This is like the Turkish names “Mehmet” or “Memet.” Essentially, he is a copy of familiar conservative politicians. Until he was elected, he took care to appear as “Mr. Easy.” His constantly unsettling smile is the symbol of his blue-bead (charm-like) politics. He always smiles. It’s as if he has facial paralysis. Expressionless face, exaggerated gestures, overflowing display of emotion. He is trans with the trans, gay with the gay, Muslim with the Muslim, a hatred rapper, a “scourge of antisemitism” discourse-monger. He quickly assumes the shape of his environment. He immediately put on a kippah during a visit to an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect. It is thought he is practicing taqiyya (dissimulation). Whichever social group meeting he attends, he acts as if he has been part of it forever. Perhaps this is why the gaze of his wife, whose marriage was arranged, always looks surprised. She looks like someone who is just getting to know her husband.

Mamdani’s strings are held by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an organization founded by Nihad Awad, one of the most radical figures in Palestinism, from which he later stepped back. CAIR is an organization funded by Qatar, and allegedly provided cautious logistical support by Ankara. Mamdani's organic relationship with this group is evident from his highly radical articulation of Palestinism. This allowed him to easily mobilize 100,000 Islamist, leftist, and liberal activists, who never leave the streets for the sake of Palestinism, as volunteers at his election coordination center.

The story that Manhattan capital flowed to Cuomo while Mamdani sprinted to victory with the sacrificial support of the poor might be appealing. But the reality is slightly different. For example, suspicious spending of $1.8 million in Mamdani’s campaign has become the subject of a complaint. What is $1.8 million when his mother, Mira Nair, has been funded by Qatar for over a decade? All her films. 

There is no obstacle to considering that these funds circulated in the streets of New York during Zohran’s election campaign, which subsequently translated into a significant number of previously non-voting poor, homeless, immigrant, and dissident people adopting voting behavior in favor of Mamdani.

The theory that Zo may be a "project child" might transcend mere speculation. It appears that the architects of the project are Qatar, Turkey, and Iran. This trio scored a surprise goal against Trump and his strategic allies, Mohammed of Riyadh and Mohammed of Abu Dhabi, right in New York. Ankara’s successful role in such a large-scale endeavor is noteworthy. The attempt by Ahmet Davutoğlu to claim a share in his own style speaks to the high magnitude of the success. This is the performance of Hakan Fidan and İbrahim Kalın; otherwise, there are no figures among the current conservative powers capable of pulling off this feat. However, while Iran and Qatar have little to lose, the Zohran matter may not yield positive results for Turkey, which is careful to remain somewhat neutral. I do not know what additions will be made to the capitulation list for the sake of not spoiling relations with Trump, but if something to appease him is not found, things could go awry.

Zohran's PR team prepared composite phrases like “democratic socialist” to make the useful simpletons salivate. They repeat this frequently, perhaps to blur his Muslim identity. Promises such as free buses, childcare, and municipal markets are more akin to social assistance than socialism. Conservatives in our country do much more. The naiveté of contemporary leftists who rejoice that socialism has won in the heart of capitalism is discouraging. You can find everything from those delivering tirades about the victory of socialism to those who interpret dreams about progressive left-wing candidates winning where class contradiction has intensified. Zohran, who poses intimately with the jihadist Imam Siraj Wahhaj, is inwardly laughing at this naiveté. Wahhaj is known to repeat his dream of establishing a jihadist army in America in his sermons. He was implicated in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that killed 6 people. He was not imprisoned as the case was unproven. He advocates for the killing of homosexuals.

Now, let us turn to the crucial point where the truth emerges. The dynamic that won Zo the election was not his fabricated leftism, socialism, opposition, or social assistance promises. He raised the flag of anger and hatred. Towards America, the police, ICE (the law enforcement agency of the immigration institution), politicians he called fossilized, the wealthy, and the Jews, coded as “Zionists.” But he proceeded with a two-steps-forward, one-step-back march. He roused the masses by calling the police department “racist,” but after the excitement reached a sufficient level, he apologized to the police. The promise to cut NYPD funding followed the same pattern. The moment he saw in the polls that it had worked, he withdrew the promise.

It is clear from the election results that he succeeded in making anger and hatred towards whites a political motivation. While he was consistently ahead of his rival, independent candidate Cuomo, by one or two points in the vote distribution by regions, he achieved a significant lead in the vote distribution by race classification: 54% to 39%. There is no praise to be written in the democratic gains column for an election won by leaning heavily on hatred for whites, Jews, and Western civilization. Some see this as the intellectual legacy of Edward Said. Said was shaken when a fatwa was issued for the death of his close friend Salman Rushdie while he was building sympathy for anti-Western Islamism. Perhaps he regretted it. But he had already gone too far to turn back. I have written about this:.

The combination of Muslim and socialist identity in the conservative, populist, radical Mamdani is overly synthetic. Not in the Kantian sense, but in the sense of a contrived artificiality. The speech he gave after his election victory is the rhetoric we have heard countless times from populist conservative politicians. Where are the socialist principles in the speech? Is immigrant advocacy—the doctrine of the easiest reaction to turn into a vote—socialism?

He has no intention of paying the political price for denying Israel's right to exist. He is watchful and highly alert, with the safety-first reflex of the conservative cunning. That is why he expressed his inwardly held denial as follows: “I don’t recognize the right of any state to exist that has a system of hierarchy based on race or religion.” But he does not make the same statement for a Hamasist Palestinian state. He does not include Islamist militants, Mullahs, and academics—who speak from morning till night about universalizing the primitive religious governance in their heads and conquering the world—in this category. How could he? He received his jumpsuit (meaning, his instructions/backing) from mosques where vows are made to destroy America and Western civilization and fill the world with Talibanism. He also does not see the horror that sharpens its teeth to extend the Palestinian state—which has rejected the right of Jews to exist—from the river to the sea, as a hierarchy based on race or religion.

He ignores the fact that Arabs and people of all other faiths in Israel can serve in Parliament, the Supreme Court, the bureaucracy, and the military everywhere. Just as he ignores the fact that one does not naturally encounter Jews, Christians, Buddhists, or people of non-conforming faiths and sects serving at this level in Muslim societies. If there are exceptional examples, the only reason is the necessity of an international image. Internally, it is a quota arithmetic.

The issue is not related to the fact that Hamas, after seizing power in Gaza in 2006, did not organize any elections or referendums for 17 years. Mamdani wants this very radicalism, which caused the catastrophe of October 7, 2023, to become a state right next to Israel, Egypt, and Jordan.

God Forbid, What if a Palestinian State is Established?

What would happen if a Palestinian state were established can be predicted by looking at how Hamas, after securing a parliamentary majority with 44% of the vote—only 2.5 points more than Fatah—in the January 2006 election, used acts of terrorism to expel its political rival Fatah and other opponents from Gaza one year later. Once it established absolute dominance, it never organized another election. Until the “Al-Aqsa Flood” attack on October 7, 2023, Gazans were deprived of the opportunity to express their political will through elections.

God forbid, if a Palestinian state is established, it will be a regime where those with power eliminate their political rivals. That is, seizing the state through arms, as in Syria, and continuing without elections. How can peace and stability be established in such a place?

During the Hamas years, nothing but armed violence was seen in Gaza. The Hamas cadre embezzled large amounts of the international aid, donations, and other financial resources exceeding $30 billion annually, and spent it on weapons for the cause of “Jew-free Palestine” aimed at ethnic cleansing and genocide. There is not a single initiative, action, or activity it undertook to increase the prosperity or raise the quality of life for Gazans. As long as Gazans can remember, they have been soliciting aid from the world. Is it not certain that being a society whose existence is sustained by aid makes sustaining existence through production impossible? Constantly begging for aid is also something that corrupts morality.

Have you ever seen the cries from Sudan, Somalia, Nigeria, or Yemen—places where a great number of rigid people have died, children have been orphaned, and hunger and poverty never cease—that dominate the headlines of the global media? Thousands of aid clips, individual videos asking for money, and campaigns? Why are the people there not calling out to the world with Instagram stories, crying out for charity, donations, and in-kind and cash aid? Living on aid consumes morality; this is certain knowledge.

Especially now, in the age of artificial intelligence, we know from countless examples what tricks are pulled to appeal to the mouth-watering volume of donations and aid. Investment has been made in the fact that those whose consciousness has short-circuited due to anger and hatred will not even notice the most obvious mise-en-scène and fake images. The bank accounts of their local agents or the Sülün Osmans (con men) who turn the crisis into an opportunity must be swelling with every crisis. Financial traffic that is unregulated, unaccounted for, and unexamined.

Yet, from the international airport opened in Gaza in 1998, 100,000 Gazans traveled in a single year. It reached a capacity of 100 tons of cargo. Gaza was producing and exporting; life was returning to normal. Hamas, seeing that there would be no room left for them, halted the upward trend of increasing prosperity and ending the war with a campaign of terror called the “second intifada.” The greenhouses that Israel left behind when it withdrew from Gaza in 2005 were burned and destroyed by the Hamasists, and the materials were looted. Those greenhouses were the source of vegetable and fruit exports beyond domestic consumption. With Hamas, which 56% of Gazans did not vote for in the subsequent election a year later, this violence, terror, looting, and lawlessness came to power.

Hamas’s Immediate Return to Street Executions

The same Hamas that immediately returned to a show of force with street executions as soon as the last Gaza war peace was signed (October 9, 2025) is still the same. Nothing has changed after twenty years. These are Muslim Brotherhood members with a tainted record, a dark past, and an extensive criminal history.

The militants of political Palestinism looted the homes and businesses in the places they lived when Saddam invaded Kuwait. Yet, Kuwaitis had unhesitatingly provided them with jobs, shelter, and social life following the defeat of the 1967 attack. After the betrayal of Palestinians who supported and aided Saddam's invasion of Kuwait, Kuwait expelled 400,000 Palestinians from the country. Years later, Mahmoud Abbas apologized to Kuwait at an Arab League meeting, but to no avail. The same aggressors established a parallel state in Jordan and attempted a bloody coup. They became involved in the civil war in Lebanon, providing an excuse for Israel to occupy Beirut. For this reason, Imam Musa Sadr, a respected and credible figure and a powerful mediator among all groups in Lebanon, warned Arafat, who was destabilizing Lebanon, to take the Palestinian cause and leave. Because of this, the Libyan dictator Gaddafi, who had complete control over the Palestinian industry, lured Sadr to Libya under the pretext of an official visit and had him killed.

Is it now understood why neighboring Arabs do not like, host, or support political Palestinism, and why they do not take to the streets for Palestinians? During the Gaza war days, the famous Egyptian footballer Mohamed Salah of Liverpool looked at the jersey with the Palestinian flag extended by a fan for him to sign and walked away. He did not even care about the risk of confronting the power of the global campaign that inflates Palestinism. This is because the depressive “Palestinian cause” is not beneficial for countries, Western societies, Eastern nations, or Islamisms. With its frowning, sullen, protest-aggressive demeanor, it paralyzes thought, science, art, culture, literature, joy, entertainment, economy, production—in short, everything that constitutes life. Palestinism is the new face of Nazism. The young people it radicalizes are ticking time bombs for society.

The Palestinian Industry’s Financially Sound Radicalism

Of course, this excludes the calculated radicalism of those who accumulate financial, political, and social benefits from the Palestinian industry. Theirs is a financially sound radicalism. For instance, Greta Tintin Thunberg, who, as a small girl, had already staged an operation against a German company during the years she was taking planned, staged photos here and there as a climate change activist. She tried to portray the German company negatively by sitting on the floor with her luggage, despite having a business class ticket for the train journey, but the company exposed her lie. For some reason, Greta suddenly abandoned environmentalism, transferred to the “Palestinian cause,” and turned into a lie machine there. The spectacle of her protest friends throwing plastic bottles into the sea, or the Gazans' killing of the endangered whale shark accompanied by takbirs (Islamic exclamation) and celebrations, did not affect her at all. Not a single word was heard from the environmentalists, climate activists, or nature warriors who advocate for Palestine. The poor fish had been wandering alone in the Mediterranean for years without harming anyone. They slaughtered this beautiful animal on the very first day they set out to sea after a ceasefire was signed in Gaza and Israeli operations ceased.

The media of the “Palestinian cause” spread the lie that the fish had washed ashore to cover up this savagery. Even if that were true, they should have behaved like civilized people and returned it to the sea to save its life, of course, but the Gazan radicals preferred to run with machetes and knives, screaming and yelling, to tear it apart. The mind of Muslim radicalism is at a level where it believes it will be applauded if it suggests that God sent the fish to the starving Gazans. This happened at a time when hundreds of trucks of food were being distributed, and there were news reports of people collecting waste from mountains of food scraps.

What those who make these news reports fail to consider while trying to create drama is: How can there be hunger in a place where enough food is consumed to turn into a mountain of garbage? Or what is a child doing in a mountain of food scraps, why can't they be fed at the same level as those who produced that heap, and who is preventing it? Furthermore, how did news of children and adults dying of starvation suddenly stop like a knife-cut the moment the peace agreement was signed in Sharm el-Sheikh? Yet, they are highly confident that there is no intelligence, conscience, common sense, logic, or intellect to even ask these simple questions.

Those Who Turn Israeli Detention into a Career

When Israel stopped the Sumud flotilla from reaching the shore, almost all the activists were released after giving the necessary signatures, but some members of the Turkish delegation were kept in custody longer due to legal procedures because they refused to sign the illegal entry document into Israel. A girl from this group suddenly went viral with video edits after returning to Turkey. I am talking about the girl who uses English words inappropriately while speaking. She was probably trying to show that she was different from suburban Islamism by using English words, I don't know. Her ignorant remarks, sharply repeated with familiar clichés and slogans, received a lot of cheers, but the sentence “my mother who raised me,” which she inserted frequently, probably did not go unnoticed only by me.

She kept repeating her mother, not her family or father, who raised her. Why? What was the reason for her effort to use every microphone extended to her to circulate her mother? Most likely for this reason: Her mother served as a deputy for a period, but uncharacteristically, she was not nominated even for a second term, while everyone else uses their right for at least three terms, and was sent home. There is a situation that can be explained by psychopolitics related to rationality in the political future campaign. It is undoubtedly clever of the poor girl to use her Israeli detention career to create an opportunity for her mother, perhaps to compensate for the crater opened in her psychology by being sent home after a single term as a deputy. But this maneuver will have a complication. This breakthrough must have triggered unwarranted mobilization, positioning, and counter-campaign efforts in the district where she plans to run for office.

The performance of some Turkish participants in the Sumud flotilla, who turned their detention by Israel into a career, was met with backlash and sparked discussions even among their own supporters. Everyone is more than familiar with the details, of which I am certain I know the minimum.

Since the Mavi Marmara, there has been a title gained through being detained by Israel in such actions. A shoulder epaulet with many stars. A medal on the chest, a symbol of pride. When you succeed in getting yourself detained by Israel, your return among similar intelligence levels is magnificent. You are a hero for no reason. Cost-free, hassle-free, risk-free. This title is more than enough for the rest of your life. Now, whatever you tell (invent?), your audience listens with open mouths. Turning this adventure into profit on various occasions is a bonus.

It is like the “Sahaba” (Companions) theory of Sunni Islam. Thanks to this rank given to everyone who saw the Prophet, even the most ignorant person in that crowd suddenly becomes the most learned, the most wise, the most pious, the most superior. Even the most unexemplary person can become a role model with the possibility of this theory. For example, Vahshi ibn Harb, who killed the Prophet's uncle Hamza. During the general amnesty declared after the conquest of Mecca, he benefited from effective remorse, like Abu Sufyan and Muawiya. The Prophet did not embrace him as a believer; on the contrary, he said, “Do not let him appear before my eyes as long as I live” (Halabi, Siretu'l-Halebiyye, 2/72). Vahshi did not regret killing Hazrat Hamza; rather, he boasted about it. When he claimed to have killed the false prophet Musaylima, he said: “I killed him as I killed Hamza” (Ibn Kathir, al-Bidaya, 4/18). He was an alcoholic and died because of this (Ibn Hajar, Isaba, 6/470). The Umayyad palace's Islam honored and exalted this very Vahshi with the title “Sahaba” and called him “Hazrat Vahshi.” It turned the Umayyad clan's hatred of Hamza and the Prophet into a religion by celebrating Vahshi.

We can recount what classical Sunni sources wrote about the “Sahaba” who are highly revered despite being the most unexemplary, on other occasions. But this clever idea has a very important practical benefit. In an environment where everyone is a Sahaba, it becomes possible to trivialize and marginalize important figures in the Prophet's inner circle like Ali, Ammar, Salman, and Abu Dharr. Consider this: While people who spent a lifetime with the Prophet exist, a person nicknamed “Abu Hurayra” (whose real name is debatable), who came to Medina three years before the Prophet's death, becomes the main source of religious knowledge, facilitated by the Sahaba theory. It is an effective strategy.

Mavi Marmara, a Paper Piggy Bank

When I presented results that neutral minds would value by connecting clues with numerous pieces of information and evidence from world media and think tanks I followed in three languages, while analyzing the Mavi Marmara adventure in 2006, someone whose ignorance, lack of education, and lack of qualifications were known to that assembly sneered. What was I talking about, he himself was on the ship, so how could I know better than him? Of course, in a society composed of people like him, his word would be credited. Someone else added that he was injured in the leg during that journey. So he was a Ghazi (veteran/hero). What can knowledge do against so many “qualifications,” right? I later learned that the alleged leg injury was merely a sprain when a wave hit and shook the ship. It is like the recorded injury stories rushed through on the night of July 15, 2016. How did that come to their minds first in that situation? They are truly very cunning.

The entire community knows how Islamist groups use the accredited struggle area, the “Palestinian cause,” to recruit new supporters and keep the existing ones within the group. But they act as if they are unaware. For example, they can put up the extremely antisemitic, very fascist, pure hatred, overtly ethnic cleansing “free Palestine from the river to the sea” posters anywhere they want without obstruction. But they cannot pursue unaccredited and unacceptable causes. It is impossible to make the same excited radicals put up the most innocent poster like “free Turkey from Kars to Edirne.” Ultimately, this is a community that, when talking about going to aid Gaza, puts the condition “release us, chief” on the table, which they are sure will not happen. They are overly cunning, cautious, and risk-averse.

The Mavi Marmara concluded its adventure by turning into a paper piggy bank. It was the sincere people who did not hide in corners like the alert ones who ensured their own safety when the ship was driven towards death that suffered. Sumud has already taken its place on the shelves of the industrial product range.

Heroic Narratives from the Palestine Opportunity

The Palestine issue for the political regimes and supporters in Turkey and Iran is not about Palestine but about their own countries. They are not concerned with the decisions made about Gaza. The sole purpose is to polish the leader through countless invented and produced narratives, thereby sustaining the order from which they benefit. For example, in Iran, to compensate for the heavy toll of the 12-day Israeli attack, the supporters of Khamenei fabricated a story in which Trump begged for a ceasefire while they were launching missiles at Israel and the US base in Qatar. Those recounting the story are not coffeehouse regulars but top figures: grandees around Khamenei—general, IRGC commander, deputy, senior bureaucrat, and so on.

Similar stories were written in Turkey. However, the important difference between Iran and Turkey is that in Iran, those who support the fabricated stories do not exceed the 15% loyal to Khamenei. According to public opinion polls, the 85% opposition mocks the fabricated stories. In Turkey, despite the unbelievable absurdity of the heroic narratives, the polished leader can receive half of the voters' support in the election. The majority of those considered opposition also have their own dogmas, stories, and fairy tales that are no better than the opposing side. They are also injudicious. They have made the glorification of existing dogmas the purpose of the political struggle.

The fabricated stories in Iran bring no gains to the regime's elders. In Turkey, however, public opinion polls indicate that the ruling party's narrative campaigns are effective. The high-cost international support gained abroad has a significant impact internally. The level of persuasion of what was given to Trump was enough to bring the Presidency to the table for the Gaza peace, despite Netanyahu's strong objection. Conservatives used that photo effectively domestically.

Washington D.C. was not refunding the $1.5 billion paid for the F-35 program after Turkey was expelled under sanctions for purchasing the S-400 defense system from Russia. Now, even though the US is asking for more money, citing increased costs, Ankara is still silent. This is because the need for Trump’s support is great. Besides, that money is not coming out of their own pockets anyway. When hope was lost there, 20 Eurofighters were purchased from the UK. The deal was announced by UK Prime Minister Starmer in a cheerful video recorded in front of the jets, saying, “Great day for Britain. I signed an £8 billion Typhoon jet deal with Turkey. This will create 20,000 jobs for Britons.” I mention these to make it understood at what cost appearing at the Gaza peace table or providing a group of soldiers for the International Stabilization Force (ISF) to serve in Gaza can be realized.

As if this were not enough, when Ankara’s statements about “rare elements” became more frequent, and this coincided with Trump's remark, “Soon we will have so many rare elements that you won't know what to do with them,” another item was added to the list that was met with justified suspicion, even if the Disinformation Center denied it. Consequently, the calculations that this will be the most expensive political promotion campaign in Turkey's history may be valid, justified, and correct.

Even though the issue is a public relations activity, Erdoğan ultimately signed Trump’s Gaza peace plan and agreement. The agreement states that peace “can be possible in an order where the fundamental human rights of both Palestinians and Israelis are protected, their security is guaranteed, and their dignity is exalted.” It further states: “We are resolute against all forms of extremism and radicalization. No society can flourish in an environment where violence and racism are normalized or radical ideologies threaten the fabric of civilian life. We commit to eliminating the conditions that fuel extremism and promoting education, equal opportunity, and mutual respect as the foundation for lasting peace.” These sentences are clearly about Hamasists, radical Palestinians, and political Palestinism. That is, the antisemitism, hatred, and enmity toward Jews and Israel in the slogan “Palestine from the river to the sea” were rejected in the signed text. Everything that will be done henceforth will be done together with Israel. At the end of his speech in the Israeli Parliament (HaKneset), Trump had said, “Israel has become so strong that this is what brought peace.” The parties signing the Gaza peace fully supported the agreement, accepting Israel's strength, and swore to protect it. The Gaza agreement is the summary of the Abraham Accords. The main idea of the agreement is the fact that Israel is not a stranger to the region but a partner in all solutions.

In the strange ceremony where the original party, Israel, saw no need to attend, and proxy forces signed the peace agreement, the former proxy Qatar and presumably the new proxy Turkey were authorized on behalf of Hamas, and the USA on behalf of Israel. The ceremony was also the event where the transfer of Hamas's proxy status to Turkey was implicitly announced to the world. Ankara was appointed as a trustee over Hamas by Trump. This means that from now on, Turkey will be responsible for every attack made against Israel under the Hamas brand.

The transfer of Hamas to Turkey's accountability is a binding record in that agreement that there will be no more acts of terror, or if there are, Ankara will be addressed as the liable or jointly and severally liable party. Both Washington and Jerusalem seem to have taken careful note. The grandees in Ankara have clearly grasped that this is not a matter of simply getting through the day. That is why the famous Shay Gal (director of Israel Aerospace Industries) made his first warning early: He claimed that within the scope of the “Palestine awareness” events initiated by Minister of National Education Yusuf Tekin, children in 81 provinces of Turkey were being taught that “massacre means justice” and said, “This is not education, it is indoctrination.” This is not an information note; it is a full-blown report/denunciation.

What is called Palestine awareness amounts in one way to crediting what a professor from Gaza Islamic University teaches Palestinians: “Beat your wives for treatment, not revenge.” The female presenter interjects, smirking, “So there are limitations on beating, right?” “Of course,” says the so-called professor, “to set the woman straight and protect the family.” What Islamists call awareness is merely normalizing this disgraceful primitivism.

Hamas teaches children, starting from kindergarten, to hate Jews. How to kill them, techniques for attacking a Jew encountered on the street with a knife, how to slit throats, and so on. “Awareness” that views this with understanding and does not dwell on it only internalizes blind violence and nihilistic terror. For this reason, the proponents of that awareness found nothing strange in the Qassamites’ attack on Israeli villages on October 7, 2023, killing everyone in sight, and massacring 1,200 people—old, young, children, and women—in five or six hours.

Those whose Palestinian sensitivity and awareness are highly developed celebrate the aggressor who shouts Palestinian slogans in the middle of a church service in the heart of Europe. They claim it is jihad, a tabligh (preaching), and a means for those present to awaken. Well, if Christians did the same thing in the middle of a Friday prayer for the over 4,000 co-religionists killed by Muslim terrorists in various countries in 2024 alone, would they still congratulate them? Or would they scream “Islamophobia”?

Trump's warning about Palestinians laying down their arms and his threat about the treatment they will face if they do not is an opening that will eliminate the most important reason for Muslim radicalization. But this should have been done by Muslims themselves, without waiting for Trump. On the contrary, they want to arm the Palestinians and have more war, more suffering, more death, and more misery. They are very eager to make their own countries the epicenter of violence, terror, and war. What happened when Khamenei made Iran a headquarters of violence? While his own supporters loot the state treasury, the public is poor, unhappy, joyless, hopeless, and angry. Not a fragment remains of the legendary Iranian history, culture, art, literature, philosophy, and civilization. The reference to Iranian history by the Speaker of the Israeli Parliament (HaKneset) when comparing Trump to Cyrus the Great should have embarrassed the rulers of Tehran. But I doubt they cared.

Iran was the only one missing from the peace meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh. This is because Tehran chose to be the central power for all conflicts in the region and had to resign itself to fate in the club of losing radicalisms. The ideological energy of the radicalism that Khamenei tried to keep alive was actually zero. It was tried to be kept afloat formally with huge budgets. Enormous amounts of money were squandered at the expense of impoverishing Iranians since the Arab Spring. With that money, Haniyeh's children live a 5-star life in Qatar. Mashal's children have billions of dollars. Sinwar's wife did not let go of her $32,000 Hermes Birkin bag even while moving through the tunnels in Gaza during the Israeli operation.

Ismail Qaani, the commander of the Quds Force, which maintains its existence in appearance and as a corpse, repeated in his last interview that he had no prior knowledge of Hamas’s October 7 attack. While stating that he was unaware of such an important issue, as a high-ranking person responsible for the “axis of resistance,” he added that Nasrallah and even Haniyeh were also unaware of the attack to avoid implicating himself. According to him, Haniyeh was going to Iraq and returned from the airport when he learned of the attack. In Qaani's cost calculation, the effort to exempt himself and the regime in Tehran from being a target of the US-Israel coalition by showing them as ignorant of the October 7 catastrophe clearly outweighs other factors. Nasrallah, for the same purpose, had also stated immediately after the attack that he had no knowledge of the matter and would not intervene in the war, but it did not work. He could not save himself and Hezbollah from the fate he tried to prevent. The interesting point in Qaani's interview is the risky narrative he conveyed from Khamenei, who takes special care to distance himself from the Qassamites’ massacre. Qaani quoted Khamenei as saying, “I kiss the forehead of those who did this great work,” when they learned of the attack. Khamenei's pleasure over the October 7 massacre had not been reflected in the public sphere until it was disclosed in the interview. Even those closest to him did not mention it. But for some reason, and with what intention, Qaani revealed this testimony that would be highly detrimental to Khamenei.

Qaani, the patron of Islamic radicalism and violence, has always been the focus of a contradictory, inconsistent, strange, and interesting adventure since October 7, 2023. It was announced that he was in Lebanon during the September 27, 2024, air strike that killed all the high-ranking managers of Hezbollah and Nasrallah. News even spread that he, too, was killed during the meeting with Nasrallah, as he was not seen for days. Arab, Israeli, and Iranian sources also claimed that he was interrogated in Tehran for allegedly showing the Israelis Nasrallah's location. However, after a long break, he appeared 18 days later at the funeral ceremony of the IRGC general killed in Beirut. Again, when IRGC and Army generals were killed during Israel’s air and UAV operations against Iran, it was said that he was also present and killed in the meeting hit by a missile. Iranian state television published his name and photo among the “martyrs.” But a few days after the attack, he emerged in Tehran. In a staged scene suggesting he was among the people. While all commanders were holding a war meeting, he was the only one not present at that very important meeting or had left shortly before the building was hit.

Tehran has temporarily withdrawn from the “Palestinian cause” to keep the regime, which was greatly weakened after the Israeli attack, afloat. Despite shouting that it will not abandon carrying the banner of radicalism in rhetoric, it is physically standing still. While before the Israeli attack, they were collecting women who showed a strand of hair from the streets, now they do not even intervene against women who open live broadcasts on Instagram with marginal décolletages at high-volume, alcoholic parties right next to the IRGC headquarters in Darband, at the foot of Mount Damavand, after the war. In other words, the “Palestinian cause” has lost its most important patron. Out of necessity. It seems unlikely that the elders of the absolute Velayat-e Faqih (Guardianship of the Jurist) regime will return to the old ways at the expense of jeopardizing their power. Anyway, after the sharp transformation in Syria and Lebanon, the physical possibility for this no longer exists. Turkey, on the other hand, has no political, economic, or ideological capacity for such adventures. It also does not need to prove anything to its domestic public opinion. This is because the shadows cast on the screen in the fantasy game are sufficient to generate the acceptable status and consent needed to empower the Islamists. The heat of the legitimacy crisis does not even need to subside.

What is the benefit for Turkey and Iran of the Palestinian struggle, which is carried out with complete ideological fixation? Are the peoples in these countries very free, very prosperous, and competing with developed countries in democracy, human rights, and living standards? Of course not. These states, which claim to be working to liberate Palestine, are oppressing their own people. Moreover, what is the benefit of supporting the Palestinian industry for the Palestinians? Which problem can it solve?

What is the rational, logical, conscious, and acceptable justification for the fact that in PEW's survey on states seen as threats, where all threat assessments cite very rational, understandable, and explainable conflicts of interest such as political, economic, or border neighborhood reasons, only in Turkey is Israel seen as the biggest enemy (43%)? None. This reasoning only has a blind, fixated, bigoted, nihilistic ideological foundation and hatred of Jews. And does this fixated and unhealthy attitude bring any benefit to Turkey? Is its economy growing thanks to this, is the society happier, is science, art, and culture developing? What does the state gain by injecting anti-Israeli sentiment and fueling the fire of hatred, other than radicalizing people and making them dangerous?

The “Palestinian cause” is a powerful industry with a not-to-be-underestimated media impact. However, if it were merely a qualified multiplication business, who would care once it found its volunteers? But hatred is like substances that cloud the mind. Like alcohol that does not stay in the bottle as it is. The personnel of terror always come from radicals whose minds, judgment, and consciousness have been abolished. The Palestinian issue needs unequivocally committed individuals whose judgment, consciousness, and mind have been disabled to stay on the agenda, and it can only continue its path if they remain radical. This means constant unrest, and security and safety problems in society.

Psychopathological groupings that have suspended their lives leave no joy, hope, or future prospect for the populace. Radicals are enemies of the expectation of a high-quality life. They poison the most naive desire to complete one's day happily and peacefully. Aggressors with frowning, sullen, anger- and hatred-laden faces who rush into the streets at every opportunity and pretext cling to life and demand an explanation from everyone for why they are not being dragged along. Can such a society and people continue their historical march with dignity, and can any good come from such a country?

Translated by Gemini