Did Gaza expose the boundaries or the foundations of modernity?

Thinking that the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken fears Israel and its extension, the Jewish lobby, as an individual, does not lead us to erroneous conclusions. However, when it comes to U.S. foreign policy, we must acknowledge that it will not succumb to the wishes of the Jewish lobby but rather adhere to the power centers of the U.S. deep state. This is, in fact, the requirement of being a state. It is certainly a great mistake to underestimate power centers and lobbies. However, being a "state" does not mean surrendering to them indefinitely. This situation is also valid for the United Kingdom. Moreover, in the UK, there is a broad consensus that traditional power centers, rather than power centers, are influential. We can discuss the contradiction between Jewish capital and state intelligence in the context of the policies of the United States and the United Kingdom towards the Islamic geography in the last thirty years. Thinking that these two countries are dependent on Jewish capital and Israel would lead us to error. Neither the UK nor the US has surrendered to a situation of dependency that would jeopardize their deep relations by supporting Zionist colonialism. We should view the Gaza genocide as an extension of the policies of the United States and the United Kingdom in the last thirty years. This situation indicates that the United States and the United Kingdom are primarily responsible for Israel's boundless genocide. While we can think that the general relationship of these two countries with Jewish capital generally determines their view of Jews, we cannot place Israel's current settler expansion within the same framework.

When Israel commits an unbelievable atrocity, and the United States and the United Kingdom do not feel the need to rescue the image of humanity in the eyes of the entire world and especially the Islamic nations, known patterns are surpassed. When they started the Ukraine War, they threw the legacy of the great artists of Tsarist Russia outside the borders of Europe. At that time, the United States and the United Kingdom, together with continental Europe, had abandoned the concern of saving the image. Anglo-Saxons showed that they wanted to reshape the whole world by establishing a balance of horror. The German and Latin world were mostly willing to follow them. All the states and nations we listed seemed determined to expel the Palestinians, even from the last piece of land they lived on. They want to completely colonize the last pieces of land under occupation. Turning eyes repeatedly to the regional policies of the United States and the United Kingdom is crucial to understanding the genocidal brutality against the Palestinians. Palestinians have been struggling not only against Israel but also primarily against the new imperialism of the United States and the United Kingdom.

Unfortunately, as a result of the dominance of Eurocentric perspectives on the whole world, concepts shaped within "local histories" such as modernization were seen as "global designs." This led to the emergence of understanding disconnected from reality. In fact, this showed that nineteenth-century romanticism continued on different planes. For this reason, it was not possible to see areas where colonialist expansion of power penetrated in the Western world. Orientalism criticism allowed us to see the areas of influence of colonialist ideologies. Jürgen Habermas's support for Israel should not be trivialized. Ideological tools such as Israel's right to defend itself and the protection of Jewish life indicate the need to focus on the foundations of modernity rather than its limits.

When President Erdoğan called to avoid the discourse of religious war against the West, those who stood against him were warned that they would have to do the same. Subsequent developments, especially the words spoken by political party representatives benefiting from the situation, showed that this warning hit its target. Although those inside blamed President Erdoğan for clinging to the discourse of religious war, there is no doubt that the real recipients received the message. Despite bringing together all the seven realms against a small Gaza, they deployed all their tools since they could not establish a new empire of fear. That they focus so much on Judaism or bring up a new clash of the Cross and Crescent is directly related to the loss of credibility. As Palestinians reveal Israel's settler colonial expansion to the world, criticisms of the new imperialism of the West are voiced more loudly. This also shows that a critical attitude is budding even in the West. Those inside are in an ingenious manipulation effort with accusations against President Erdoğan. Unfortunately, as long as Palestine resists, significant intellectual changes will take place.