When I say “theatre”, I am not repeating the nonsense that “the Iranian attack on 13 April was for show, a collusion” based on the misconception that “Iran and Israel are actually brothers!” that has been prevalent in our country for years. The theatre is that Iran gave Netanyahu a breathing space while trying to “inflict damage and retaliate”, made Biden, who was turning towards the traditional hatred of Israel by the US Democrats, “fall in line” again, and caused three of the eight Arab countries, which were trying to forget and forget their normalisation agreements with Israel, to actually come to Israel’s aid. It is possible to add others to these points. But even these three are enough to show that the Iranian mullahs do not know politics or military service.
During the reign of the former Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Israeli-Iranian relations had improved considerably, but after the so-called “Islamic Revolution” in Iran, comments based on an open-secret friendship between the two countries would make even conspiracy theorists tip their hats. Especially the “news” that Iran, in preparation for an attack on Israel, is informing Israel via the United States where it will strike, should make all rational minds turn their hats upside down. It helps to understand the relations between the two countries that even in the normalisation agreements that Israel accepted with Trump’s encouragement, Arab countries put the condition that they cut ties with Iran and not re-establish relations.
Iran’s operation to “drive Israel into the sea” with its glider-like drones on a six-hour journey towards Israel was indeed ridiculous; but it was not funny that Iran had put the Gaza Massacre on the back burner for at least a week with this theatre.
For 6 months, people have been broken in Gaza. Every day it becomes more and more clear that Israel, in its attacks, is destroying families with many children and the professionals needed for the reconstruction of Gaza after the war, such as doctors, midwives, policemen, electricians and motor mechanics, by pinpointing their addresses. It is building a border road dividing Gaza from east to west, two-thirds in the north and one-third in the south. The electricity and sewerage infrastructure, roads, parks, water reservoirs, hospitals, mosques, madrassas, cemeteries in the north are being destroyed one by one with construction equipment.
In the last six months, 34,843 Palestinians have been killed, 12,300 of them children. If the estimated number of babies martyred without birth registration is added, the number of children killed exceeds 14,000. When death is expressed as a statistic, it is stripped of all human emotion; it becomes meaningless to the reader (and the writer) after a while. Especially when it is stated that “70I per cent of the dead are women”, neither anger, influence, interest, compassion or even pity are replaced by strict mathematics.
However, the wheels of diplomacy are in motion. It seems that Biden is preparing to follow a new approach by firing Victoria Nuland, who aims to divide Iraq and Syria and establish a buffer terrorist state there, and making John Bass, who represented his country in Ankara for three years, undersecretary of state. Bass, who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan in addition to Turkey, must be well aware of the impact of the Gaza genocide on the countries in the region. Bass, who came to Ankara at the beginning of the week and met with Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and Deputy Foreign Minister Burak Akçapar, must be taking the message to his country that “Turkey will no longer tolerate the Gaza massacre”.
Erdogan’s foreign trips and Ankara meetings, which will resume after Eid, and his recent statement that “we will continue to stand by Palestine” will send a message to the whole world that the knife is to the bone. It is time to turn attention from the Iranian theatre to reality.
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