In recent weeks, Turkey’s President Erdogan has repeatedly accused Israel of plotting a post-Gaza takeover of the Turkish heartland, while praising Hamas for being Anatolia’s ‘first line of defense.’ It’s an outlandish conspiracy theory with deep roots in Erdogan’s biography, antisemitism and his current political predicament
ed note–another eye-opener that every war-weary Gentile with a vested interest in his/her own future survival needs to read, understand, and take deeply to heart.
Firsto, ladies and Gentile-men, plug into your understanding of what appears below several important ‘protocols’, the first being that–
1. The author of the piece is a Jew…
and…
2. The piece is published on a VERY Jewish website in Israel which many left-of-center/pro-Palestinian types read for its not-frothing-at-the-mouth ‘balanced’ perspective on the Israel/Arab ‘conflict’.
Now, is it possible that our deceptive Jewish writer is unaware of what his own religion, culture, and tradition teach with regards to the Jews taking over the entirety of the Middle East, from the ‘Nile to the Euphrates’ as appears NUMEROUS times throughout the Jews’ ‘how to’ manual, i.e. the Torah, or, as it is known to Christians, the ‘Old Testament’?
Not freaking likely, fellow Gentiles…
As a Jew, he better than any Gentile knows full well what his religion, religious texts, tradition, and culture say about this ‘Greater Israel’ business, so we can all dismiss the notion that he approaches the discussion bereft of the information he needs to form a credible argument.
Furthermore, it’s not as if Netanyahu and the Torah terrorist government he governs have not made statements since Oct. 7th (and before) saying that the Genocide in Gaza is part of the ‘redemption’ process of creating ‘Greater Israel’ as it is clearly laid out in the pages of that ‘how to’ manual known as the Torah and therefore it is EQUALLY unlikely that our deceptive Hebraic author is unaware of the recent ‘Greater Israel’ statements coming out of Netanyahu’s government as well…
So what’s the ‘rub’ here folks? How and why is it that the ‘Israelite’ writing the piece below is obviously on a mission to make the reader think that the entire ‘Greater Israel’ project is all a fantasy, a phantasm, and nothing more than an ‘anti-Semitic conspiracy theory’ that got its roots in that infamous ‘forgery’ known as the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion?
Simple fellow Gentiles, he is a liar, just as all the followers of Torah Judah-ism are.
The very first ingredient added to all (dis) informational dishes that they serve up is deception, and now is no different. They lie with the same methodical and ritualistic regularity as a Catholic makes the sign of the cross when hearing the name Jesus Christ or a Muslim utters the phrase ‘peace be upon him’ when the name of Mohammed is mentioned.
So, let this be a lesson, ladies and Gentile-men, and especially all yuuz out there who have bought into the ‘good Jews of conscience’ nonsense that leads you to read websites such as the one where the piece of disinformation below was published, which is that nothing wafting forth from the brain or the mouth of an ‘Israelite’ can be taken at face value, because somewhere, sometimes superficially and sometimes buried deep within, will be found that first ingredient that they add to all their disinformation buffets, which is dishonesty.
Simon A. Waldman for Haaretz
A week ago, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that, ‘Hamas and the Palestinian people are not only defending their own lands. They are also defending Anatolia,’ the central territorial base and heartland of the Turkish state, which was once known in the West as Asia Minor.
This wasn’t the first time he made such remarks. The week before he declared that, ‘Hamas is the first line of defense of Anatolia,’ adding for good measure that if Israel is not stopped, it would move on from Gaza to target Turkey: ‘this rogue and terrorist state will set its sights on Anatolia sooner or later.’
These are quite the statements. Erdogan thinks that Israel wants to march through Syria and parts of Iraq in order to grab lands in Anatolia. He believes in the outlandish and conspiratorial myth that Zionists covet the land between the Nile and the Euphrates and even well beyond.
Erdogan’s far-fetched views came after months of his vicious condemnations of Israel’s offensive in Gaza while defending Hamas as freedom fighters. In April, Erdogan rolled out the red carpet to Hamas leaders visiting Turkey while severing bilateral trade with Israel. In May, Erdogan said that Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was a vampire who feeds on blood.
Also last month, Mr Erdogan boasted that since the 7 October Hamas massacre of over 1,143 Israelis, his country has treated over 1,000 Hamas members in Turkish hospitals. Earlier in the year, he opined that Netanyahu was both ‘no different’ from Hitler and ‘richer’ than the Nazi leader.
But from where or whom did Erdogan get the notion that Israel has its sights set on Turkish territory or, for that matter, that ending trade with Israel is a good idea?
The answer lies with a politician to Erdogan’s conservative and Islamic flank, an influential figure who leads the way in vehement hostility towards Israel. What this politician advocates, Erdogan soon follows.
The name of this politician is Necmettin Erbakan.
Back in the 1990s, having lurked in the margins for years, Erbakan came to the forefront of Turkish politics. This avowed antisemite, who liked to write and talk about conspiracies in which Jews created a secret world state, while hypothesizing about similarities between Jews and bacteria, didn’t particularly like Israel.
He claimed that Zionists wanted a state from the Nile to the Euphrates with the ultimate aim of rebuilding their temple in Jerusalem while destroying Turkey and ending Islam. Needless to say he was an enthusiastic Islamist who praised the Islamic Republic of Iran as well as Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi and talked about Islamic unity through a monetary union and closer political and cultural ties.
During Erbakan’s time as prime minister, between 1996 and 1997, weekly protests featuring the burning of the Israeli flag were the norm. His very presence concerned western leaders as his bellicose anti-Western rhetoric put the alliance with Turkey, a geo-strategically important NATO member, in doubt. This also angered Turkey’s secular military. The armed forces stepped in and made it clear in no uncertain terms that it was time for Erbakan, the leader of the Islamist Welfare party, to step down.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan was once a dedicated member of the Welfare party, and he considered Erbakan both his teacher and mentor.
But these days it is not that Erbakan, and his toxic ideas, who has returned to the political foreground. That would be impossible. He lies buried at the Merkezefendi Cemetery in Istanbul after succumbing to organ failure back in 2011. It is his son, Fatih, who has recently entered the fray.
Like his old man, Fatih Erbakan attended university as an engineering student in Turkey. Also like his father, he went abroad for his master’s degree, although his dad went to Germany while Fatih studied, at least for a time, in England only to return to Turkey to complete his studies.
Just like dad, Fatih believes that teaching evolution leads to communism, that girls are ready for matrimony at the age of 14 or 15, and that the LGBT movement represents a ‘perversion’.
Like his father, he’s also a raging antisemite.
Erbakan Jr has said that Zionism’s goal was to expand Israel to the point that it takes over Turkish territory, while also seeking to destroy the nuclear family. He has said that Zionists were responsible for coronavirus, and, citing his pops, suggests that ‘Zionism is a 5,000-year-old germ that is the cause of people’s troubles.’ He’s accused LGBT groups and the Jewish lobby of working together to undermine Turkey. He again cites his father to claim that monetary interest, prohibited under Islamic law, is a Jewish tax.
After 7 October, Erbakan asserted that an arrest warrant should be issued for Netanyahu. He was also on the forefront in calling for Erdogan’s AKP to prevent Turkish companies working with Israel and cease all bilateral trade.
On 12 March 2024, a month before Ankara actually announced an end of trade with Israel, Erbakan declared that, ‘ships are currently being loaded from our ports and shipments worth billions of dollars are continuing. Trade with Israel continues. We are the grandchildren of the Ottomans, does this suit us?’ His party has constantly spewed propaganda stating that trade with Israel is a betrayal of Palestine.
The following week, responding to the contention that Erdogan’s ruling AKP were losing votes at the local elections because his party was taking away the support of disaffected AKP voters, Erbakan stated, ‘It’s not us who make you [the AKP] lose, it’s your continuing to trade with Israel.’
During those local elections Erbakan’s New Welfare party managed to garner 6.2 percent of the popular vote; the vast majority of these votes would normally have gone to Erdogan’s ruling AKP. This is also a considerable advance on the 2.8 percent of the popular vote Erbakan’s party won during the 2023 general elections.
Erdogan got the message loud and clear. If you don’t listen to Erbakan, you risk losing your traditional voter base. Plus, deep in Erdogan’s heart, he probably agrees with Erbakan. Afterall, Erdogan was a student of the late elder Erbakan.
Erdogan, who berates Israel at every turn, is no stranger to allegations of overt antisemitism. He has used the term, ‘interest-rate lobby’ as a synonym for Jews, and once insulted a critic by calling him the ‘spawn of Israel’ while also claiming that Jewish capital was behind the New York Times after the U.S. newspaper of record expressed concerns about the erosion of fundamental freedoms in Turkey.
No wonder, Erdogan halted trade with Israel, instructed Ankara to join South Africa in its genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, and repeated the outlandish conspiracy theory that Hamas is defending Turkish territory. He’s echoing Fatih Erbakan.
Erbakan’s vocal and conspiratorial antisemitism holds sway over the Turkish government and President. It completes the country’s political landscape where empathy for Israel is non-existent and the right competes with the left and the Islamists try to outdo the secular in their rage against Israel and solidarity with Palestine. It’s highly unlikely that any hostage deal, truce, or cease-fire in Gaza will change this reality.