Daily Sabah – November 24, 2023
Hamas triggered it, now nothing will be the same
By İhsan Aktaş
With Hamas' triggering, the dark and sinister elements of the planet have been exposed. Today's world will not be like yesterday's world
The era of a unipolar world has become a thing of the past as Western values decline. The international media monopoly, predominantly controlled by the United States and the Zionists, struggles to conceal the ongoing Israeli massacres as global public opinion begins to scrutinize the falsehoods propagated by the two-century-old Western colonial empire.
The open genocide and brutality of Israel against the Palestinian people have brought its 75-year occupation of Palestine to the agenda, and cast doubt on its presence in the world. The tomorrow of Israel will be no better than it is today.
It was never more apparent in past decades that Western states are in the grip of Zionism. They cannot even call for a cease-fire in the face of a massacre. Only Spain, Italy and the former British colonies of Scotland and Ireland have been able to take a stand worthy of human dignity.
While millions of conscientious people in all Western capitals support Palestine, we have seen how far most Western governments have moved away from human dignity in the hands of desperate rulers who have lost the political future of their countries to a tiny number of Zionists.
A handful of Hamas mujahideen successfully conveyed the Palestinian cause to millions of individuals spanning diverse religious, cultural and ethnic backgrounds while unmasking the human rights hypocrisy of Western powers. It enabled humanity, which had nothing left to do than consumption, to side with the oppressed and the righteous. In other words, it reminded all the people of the world of conscience and humanity.
Main global challenges for Muslims
Palestinian civilian casualties have reached an enormous number. During this extraordinarily depressing period, we all realized nothing is more humiliating than despair.
Hamas has proven that Israel and the brutal colonialist West behind it do not care about any laws of war. When their enemies are Muslims, they have no sensitivity to protect children, women, patients, the wounded or civilians. They show no regard for bombing hospitals, schools, mosques, and churches.
During this very unfortunate massacre, not only did we understand that Zionism is a religious heresy, but we also realized that the administrations of the U.S., Britain and Germany have no moral values and no moral code. It is the law of the jungle – the strong rules the weak, and the big fish swallows the small one. This is the message Western civilization delivers to the peoples of the globe. It has been revealed how empty the human rights discourse is. The streets of Western countries react most to this situation.
Muslim peoples globally will have to take measures against two types of despair they face: How they are represented at the state level and how to get stronger. Unfortunately, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's resilience as the leader of a Muslim country has not been matched by the leaders of countries with blood ties to the Palestinians.
While President Erdoğan described Israel's actions as genocide, an atrocity a and massacre, Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) was content to speak of "Israeli operations." Emboldened by this timidity, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu publicly threatened the leaders of Arab countries. "Keep quiet if you don't want to lose your seats," he said bluntly. Not a single Arab leader has responded to this humiliating challenge, not even with a sentence.
Two-state solution was never so close
Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan made a striking comment at the beginning. Noting that human dignity can no longer bear the insanity of Israel, he said there would either be a big war or a great peace. He also added that liars' lives are short.
Eventually, the likelihood of the two-state solution being brought to the negotiating table will be there. Since Israel cannot kill 2.5 million people en mass, it will not be able to achieve the success it dreams of. Meanwhile, Hamas persists in its resilient resistance. Moral superiority and global public support align with Palestine, as it adheres to the rules of warfare while defending its own land.
Palestine will not be ruled by the puppet regime of Mahmoud Abbas, the current head of the State of Palestine. Abbas displays a lack of initiative in safeguarding the rights of his nation in the West Bank. Hamas will take power also in the West Bank in the first election.
The independent development and advancement of Türkiye served as a catalyst for the Arab Spring. Today, President Erdoğan, having taken a clear stance in favor of the oppressed and against the oppressor in front of the eyes of the whole world, can influence the Arab streets to seek independence for the second time.
The United States, Russia, Türkiye, China and the EU members support a two-state solution. The two-state formulation has never been so high on the world agenda.
Two centuries ago in the West, white Christians fought against the papacy and the Inquisition to establish modern Western civilization. The disconnection of their state from religion allowed Zionism to turn most Western states into a Jewish apartheid regime.
From now on, white Christians have a new battle ahead of them: to get rid of the enslavement of Zionism.
With the triggering of Hamas, the dark and sinister elements of the planet have been exposed. Today's world will not be like yesterday's world. Not only will the unipolar world end, but we will witness the dawn of a new era.
While perverse Zionists and Evangelists waited for the Messiah, a handful of Hamas resisters ignited the radical change in the universe. I wish God's mercy to each of our Palestinian martyrs. Their glory will live on as long as the world endures.
İhsan Aktaş is Chairman of the Board of GENAR Research Company. He is an academic at the Department of Communication at Istanbul Medipol University.
https://www.dailysabah.com/opinion/columns/hamas-triggered-it-now-nothing-will-be-the-same
Daily Sabah – November 18, 2023
While US gradually moves toward becoming Jewish apartheid
By İhsan Aktaş
While Israel's attack on Gaza brought its 75 years of occupation into question, this attack has also opened up many other issues to discussion.
Primarily, it reminded us again, to the people globally who have veered away from a meaningful purpose and left only with the pursuit of consumption, to be conscientious, encouraging us to align with specific causes, to take a stance either in opposition or support, to advocate for justice, and to stand against oppression.
On the other hand, the whole world has witnessed again that Israel has been occupying Palestinian territories for 75 years. It also revealed the relationship between Christians and Jews throughout history, which was obscured by the events during Adolf Hitler's leadership.
As historians know, Judaism has been a problem for Christians throughout history. Jews lived in Christian cities. They were often treated as half-human and half-animal on the streets of Rome, London, Paris or Barcelona. Throughout the Middle Ages, they were exiled, ostracized and marginalized, and where urban life was allowed, in cities like Rome and Venice, they were confined to ghettos.
Contemporary reflections on Jewish history often focus on the tragic events of the Holocaust, particularly the atrocities committed by Hitler, including the use of gas chambers. Secondly, everybody recalls the occupation and war in Palestine. However, all the suffering and enslavement that Jews have experienced throughout history was a problem between them and Christians.
Christians, from liberation back to enslavement
After a prolonged conflict between Western science and Christianity, Christians gained freedom from the Inquisition and papal control, paving the way for the emergence of a modern world in the West. This liberation marked the release from the constraints imposed by religious institutions, inquisitions, churches and ecclesiastical persecutions, leading Christians toward a trajectory of secularism.
Some two centuries later, collective consciousness recognizes that the Christians, whites, Westerners, Americans, French and British who were liberated from the grip of the church are enslaved again by the "Zionist gang."
Today, the Israeli army killed at least 11,500 people, including more than 4,700 children, through bombardments and ground invasions in Palestine. Just like the oppression and genocide that Jews have been subjected to throughout history.
Normally, rulers of a democratic country with a parliament who listen to the people's voice would react to this situation. But Israel, like Vlad the Impaler, kills anyone and everyone it comes across. It brutally kills babies and children without distinction, demolishes hospitals ... It destroys everything that Westerners have put forward in 200 years in the name of values and humanity.
All Western rulers silenced by Zionists
The United States cannot make a sound out of fear. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, with ties to colonial history, refrains from speaking, possibly due to concerns. Germany is a nation besieged by the Zionists, and its own people are oppressed, and they cannot stand up for justice either. Moreover, many other European countries are in the same situation.
Is Zionism a state, a media monopoly or a financial monopoly? This Zionist gang, which has wrapped the governments of all countries like an octopus, does not allow the rulers of any state to vote with their free will.
A million people marched in the streets of Britain, showing their will against Israel. But when you look at the politicians, it is as if they are all under a Zionist threat or as if they came from outer space. They remain insensitive to this voice. When all hopes are directed to the U.S., as it is the only power that can eliminate injustice alone, we notice it also acts just like the Zionists.
Or if you look at France, when President Emmanuel Macron says a word against tiny Israel, he has to hear a mouthful of insults and bad words. Or Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu addresses Muslim countries and Arab leaders and threatens them: "If you want to protect your interests, stay silent!"
Is Zionist siege sustainable?
So, what kind of power is this? What do the Western white Christians think about this? Or can non-Zionist Jews see this danger? Western states, which were freed from the shackles of the Inquisition and the Papacy some 200 years ago, are today, one by one, under the monopoly of a Zionist-perverted religious group.
This is not a sustainable situation for Western Christians, and sooner or later, they will rebel against it. Hamas' attack on Israel and Israel's ruthless massacre of civilians without any military success, revealing to the world a wilder brutality than in the 1940s, emerged like a litmus test and caused all nations to question their own governments.
How long will the people of the world remain silent when the Jewish community of 15 million people is destroying the fate of the whole world and dragging humanity into war because of their perverted beliefs?
This threat is most striking in the U.S., which today resembles a Jewish Zionist apartheid regime.
Let's await what the Almighty will do...
İhsan Aktaş is Chairman of the Board of GENAR Research Company. He is an academic at the Department of Communication at Istanbul Medipol University.
https://www.dailysabah.com/opinion/columns/while-us-gradually-moves-toward-becoming-jewish-apartheid
Daily Sabah – November 6, 2023
Zionism: The ideology of colonization, occupation and murder
By Hakki Ocal
Do not try your abused and outmoded “anti-Semitism” on me. It had no rhyme nor reason to begin with: Arabs and several other Middle Eastern folks are Semites, not only those who speak Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic, but many Afro-Asiatic people constitute that group. Muslims cannot be “anti-Semitic”: either their mother tongue or the language they pray in is “Semitic.” Were the tens of thousands of people who were protesting Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to weaken the country’s judicial system, consisting not only of the left-wing and pro-Palestinian groups and Arab parties but more than them, the mainstream center- and center-right parties, anti-Semitic, too?
Zionism was a religious ideal for many centuries of the exiled Jewish people to keep their religious (and national) identity. But it was the banner that gave strength and motivation not only to the Jews who were suppressed and excluded from the society in Europe long before they adopted it; Zionism was the banner of Christian Crusaders as well. From Crusaders, British Colonialism, and from them its heirs in the Anglosphere, that is, Australia, the United States, Canada and New Zealand inherited it not as an ideal derived from Biblical stories but as an ideology to shape the modern age.
Not only in the hands of Hitler in the 20th century but also in Spain, Poland and France, in those countries where the beacons of human rights and civilized modernization shone, Jews had been subjected to beatings, murders and expulsions for many centuries. Muslim empires in Spain and Anatolia cuddled and cradled Jews from the cavemen of Europe. But Zion, the shining star of David over Jerusalem, had always been the beacon inviting Jews back to the holy lands. It was wholly and entirely religious: promises of “freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel. It had nothing to do with the supremacist ideas of those fringe parties that slowly replaced the democratic and secular ideal of a homeland of all beliefs as it has been for many millennia. The idea of that joint homeland of Arabs, Jews, Aramaic and other folks in the “Land of the Philistines,” in short, “The Jewish Zionism,” had been inspired by Christian Zionism.
According to several historians, among them Noam Chomsky, an American professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism and social criticism, Christian Zionism put the word into the modern linguistics of Jewish Zionism. In other words, it was not Theodore Herzl who asked Arthur James Balfour, first Earl of Balfour, also known as Lord Balfour, a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905, to put this “ideal into law” and declare it to the whole world. Still, it worked the other way round: Lord Balfour put the words in Jewish mouths.
Eschatologically speaking, Biblical Israel should be re-established so that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ could be realized. One hundred years before the Balfour Declaration, President John Adams wrote, “I really wish the Jews again in Judea an independent nation.” (But Adams believed that Jews would gradually become Christians!)
Two birds with one stone
The British were killing two birds with the Balfour Declaration: They were finding a solution to their age-old Jewish problem to the satisfaction of Jews; they were providing a homeland to the Jews. At the same time, they were dismembering the rival Ottoman Empire so that Bible-thumper U.S. President Woodrow Wilson would immediately buy it, own the role of its undertaker and finalize it.
Thanks to the colonialist roots, Christian Zionism, and with the help of nationalist Jews, the Jewish version of it has not been any less bloody. Yet, 120 years ago, when Theodor Herzl flared the idea of creating a homeland for Jews based on their “religious and ethnic identity,” that is, Judaism and Semitism, he, in no writing or speech, defended Zion as an exclusionary ideology; he never said Israel would give only Jews their own state.
His presentation to Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II was no different than his predecessors: Moses Hess', 1862, “A social and religious association in Palestine for Jews"; Leo Pinsker, 1881, “An emancipation from raising antisemitism in Europe in an organization out of their reach, wherever it could be, preferably in East Africa.” Herzl formulated those recipes as “an ideology for the creation of a particularly Jewish state in its Biblical homeland.”
The British (first with the help of the French and later the Americans) had to eliminate the “Ottoman Question” before tackling the “Jewish Problem.” Remember: in 1917, when Britain issued the “Balfour Declaration” to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine, the Europeans were still looking for a solution to what they had been calling “The Jewish Question,” and they were ready to acquiesce Hitler’s inhuman formula under the disguise of “Peace in or Times.” Yes, Hitler killed 6 million Jews with the cooperation of the French, Polish and other Europeans and under the watchful eyes of the British and the Americans.
Today, neither the Jewish prayer that “May our eyes behold your return to Zion” nor Herzl’s Zionism returning to Palestine has anything to do with religion. How could the killing of almost 4,000 babies and little children, 7,000 innocent men and women, be related to any religion? As a political ideology that constitutes justification for the occupation of other people’s lands and houses, the current version of Zionism has created its own hyper-reality: Arab Palestinians, in general, and Hamas, in particular, commit atrocities that include mass murder, rape and kidnapping.
The ill-gotten and poorly thought-out Oct. 7 Shabbat Raid of Hamas added fuel to this narrative. According to The New York Times, “The Oct. 7 assault on Israel and a surge in acts of antisemitism have awakened a repressed horror in Jewish populations across the continent.” What surge of anti-Semitism? Arabs who are Semitic themselves are now becoming anti-Semitic? The Daily Beast, of all beasts, drags Russian President Vladimir Putin to “the new wave of antisemitism” simply because they did not condemn a door sign somebody put in a hotel in Khasavyurt, in the Russian republic of Dagestan!
No, no! What the NYT and their ilk are trying to do is to add new flames to their Zionist ideology; thus, it would go to the very end: ethnic cleansing of Palestine: A Palestine without Palestinians. Of course, they know very well that the Russian president does not follow the door signs forbidding entrance to Jews in a country that is twice as large as the U.S.
Reality of ideologies
Ideologies work that way: They create their own reality to create their dominance over the reality of others. Ideologies appear natural; they seem to be common sense and thus are often invisible and elude criticism. That is how the mass media in the U.S. and its social media extensions function as a means of generating false consciousness. The U.S., European and Israeli media expect that the entire world should join them in condemnation of Hamas and Islamic Jihad because of what they did in the Oct. 7 massacres.
Their ideology closed their eyes to the fact that what Israel has been doing since then, with the help of the U.S. and EU, upended world public opinion. The inhumanity of the Israeli armed forces, the crimes against humanity Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his accomplices, U.S. President Biden, U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and unelected EU commissioners, committed are so gross that the world does not only say that the Oct. 7 had not happened in a vacuum, but it says Hamas had a point in its actions against Netanyahu government.
Ideologies work that way. They make you act in a manner that you lose your deserving cause. In your rapaciousness, you take the mask off; people see who you really are: a murderous Zionist seeking to complete its colonization.
Hakkı Öcal is an award-winning journalist. He currently serves as academic at Ibn Haldun University.
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