Turkey
Is The Key: Israeli Recipe For Dealing With The World
05 July 2010By Israel Shamir
Bombs go off in Turkey, a great spree of terrorist
bombings and attacks. Practically every day Turkish
soldiers and civilians are being killed. The killings
are done ostensibly by the Kurd terrorists of PPK, but
this is a new step in Israel's warfare against Turkish
independence. Encouraged by Israel, PKK extended its
operations to the Aegean and the Black Sea resorts all
the way to Izmir.
Israelis armed, supplied and trained Kurdish
terrorists for many years; they have turned the Iraqi
Kurdistan into their territory with many Israeli
businessmen doing their affairs waiting for Kirkuk oil
to flow to Haifa as it did in the days of colonial
British rule. The Kurds remained a hidden tool of
Israel in the region for many years; its activation
now shows that Israel still wants to teach Turks a
lesson.
The main neocon magazine in the US, frontpagemag.com,
openly called to support the Kurds to retaliate for
Turkey's support of Palestine. Another Jewish
right-wing think-tank speaks of mobilising the US
congress to condemn one-hundred-years-old Armenian
tragedy as a means to undermine Turkey. After many
years of siding with Turkey, the Jewish Lobby now
decided to switch sides and support the Armenian
claims. So Turkey is now under attack from all sides.
It could be expected, for the popular Israeli slogan
says "if force does not work, use more force."
This was the explanation of the Flotilla Massacre on
May 31, 2010. The Mavi Marmara attack was intended to
be a short, sharp shock to the increasingly
independent Turks. Israelis intended to terrify and
frighten them into obedience; that is why they ordered
a blood bath on board the Mavi Marmara. As we know
now, the Israeli commandos began shooting well before
encountering any resistance. They did not want to play
soft ball, submission was what they are after. Murder
was not a result of surprise or miscalculation: it was
an open attack on Turkey.
Israel's conflict with Turkey was not an unfortunate
result of the murderous raid. The confrontation
between them became acute two weeks before the
massacre, on May 17, 2010. Together with Brazil,
Turkey has arranged and signed the Tehran Declaration
of a nuclear fuel swap deal with beleaguered Iran.
This declaration could derail the US-Israeli plans of
sanctioning Iran to death prior to bombing it.
Israel wants Iran destroyed; as much as she wanted
Iraq demolished, Gaza starved and the rest cowed. The
swap agreement undermined all the logic behind the
sanctions. All the plotting of Israeli lobbyists in
the US and Europe was wiped out in an instant. Indeed,
as the Muslims say: they plot, but Allah plots better.
Israel received the news of the Turkey-Brazil-Iran
agreement as a heavy blow. "We were defeated by the
crafty Turks and Iranians," read the headlines of
Israeli newspapers. Not so fast. The US State
Department minimized the damage, effectively asking:
"Who cares what these lowlifes agree about? If we have
decided to bomb somebody, bomb we shall. We shall
never allow facts to confuse us." Thomas Friedman in
the NYT was disappointed why "a Holocaust-denying
thug" is allowed to live.
Brazenly disregarding the agreement, the Security
Council approved the sanctions on June, 9. Moscow and
Beijing were bribed or blackmailed to agree. China
preferred to play ball in order to avoid confrontation
over North Korea. The story of sunken South Korean
ship provided a pretext for an attack on North Korea,
and such an attack could cause much damage to China.
The Chinese are also vulnerable to the Western
meddling in Xinjiang and Tibet.
The Russians have received some precious gifts:
Ukraine returned into Russia's fold, Georgia was
marginalised, the new nuclear arms treaty was better
to Russia than anything they could expect. At the same
time, Moscow suffered a severe terrorist attack
reminding the Russians of their enemies' ability to
seed trouble. Still, Turkey voted against the
sanctions, proving its new regional role as a reliable
new pivot for the Middle East.
The conflict between Turkey and Israel did not start
with the Iran swap: it began earlier, in January 2010,
when the Israeli deputy Foreign Minister Dani Ayalon
invited Turkish ambassador and publicly humiliated
him. In Oriental fashion, Ambassador Chelikkol was
offered to take seat in a sofa lower the Ayalon's
armchair. Ayalon refused to shake hands with the
ambassador and told journalists in Hebrew while
cameras were rolling: "We would like to show that he
takes lower seat and there is only one Israeli flag on
the table".
Or perhaps the conflict began a year earlier, in
January 2009, when the Prime Minister of Turkey Recep
Erdogan walked off the stage at the World Economic
Forum in Davos. Erdogan was annoyed by an attempt of a
western moderator to stop his response to the Israeli
president Shimon Peres who justified mass killings in
Gaza.
Or perhaps it started in September 2007 when the
Israeli planes flew over Turkey to bomb Syria without
as much as `by your leave'.
Perhaps it was even earlier, when Turkey began to
assert its independence by discarding its century-old
and worn ideology of Kemalism. Secular nationalism of
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was a trap for the former
Empire. Brutish Kemalist Turkey was necessarily a
member of NATO, an enemy to Arabs and Iranians, a
docile client of the US, a loyal ally of Israel and a
persecutor of Kurds.
Now is the time to thank the Europeans for doing their
bit to reform Turkey. In endless negotiations with
Turkey, the European Union demanded to release the
Army's iron grip on power. Without this gentle
prompting from Europe, Turkey would be still ruled by
a Zionist general or by a Zionist generals' appointee.
With people being free from military rule, the Turks
had ended their violent secularism and regained peace
with Islam and with their neighbours.
I visited Turkey last Christmas, and had met with the
activists who were about to depart for Gaza. Turkey is
doing well: no economic crisis, steady growth, peace
with the Kurds, a brave attempt to make peace with
Armenians, and a perfect balance of religion and
freedom. Who wants may go to a beautifully restored
Ottoman mosque and pray, who wants may go to a café
and drink very good Turkish wine. Girls are forced
neither to shed their scarves nor to cover their arms.
"We lost Turkey", said Robert Gates, the US Secretary
of Defence, and blamed the European Union for refusing
to accept Turkey. But we have to thank the Europeans
for this refusal. We do not want Turkey in the EU; we
need Turkey for ourselves, for the region.
There is a great new plan of creating a Middle East
Union as a regional equivalent of the European Union.
This is the right place for Turkey, in the head of
this new formation. In a way, it will be restoration
of the Ottoman Empire: to the same extent the European
Union is a restoration of Charlemagne's Empire. The
difference is that Europe was fragmented for
centuries, while our region was united until 1917.
Even if full political union may be a far-away
perspective, this is good to start moving towards this
goal.
There are already free trade treaties between Turkey
and its Arab neighbours; the spiritual dimension is
there, for Istanbul was the last seat of the
Caliphate. Now Turkey may establish a regional
International Court to deal with regional problems,
among others, with Zionist excesses. Europe is still
not free from Zionist control and that is why the
International Court of Justice and International
Criminal Court in The Hague are unsuitable places to
try Zionist criminals. Moreover, their present
location reminds of Eurocentric world of yesterday. A
regional Court may also convincingly deal with war
criminals in occupied Iraq and other Middle Eastern
countries. Great lawyers like Richard Falk and Judge
Goldstone could be invited to seat in it.
Establishment of the International Court (East) would
be a serious and realistic step towards further
decolonization of the region and its future
unification in a Middle East Union.
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