Why? It’s all about Islam. Karagül says that Israel is “a racist idolatrous structure that is at war with Allah.” How does Allah fight those who go to war against him? Through the Muslims: “Fight them, and Allah will punish them by your hands, and he will lay them low and give you victory over them, and he will heal the hearts of people who are believers, and he will remove the anger of their hearts.” (Qur’an 9:14-15)
“Turkish Journalist Close To Turkish President Erdoğan: ‘Turkey Should Urgently Be Turned Into A Nuclear Power… A Preemptive Strike On Israel Should Be Considered,'” MEMRI, February 24, 2026:
On February 23, 2026, Turkish journalist İbrahim Karagül published a column in the Turkish pro-government daily Yeni Şafak titled “If You Want To Prevent The Third World War, Get Israel Under Control. If You Want To Prevent A Nuclear Disaster, Get The Jewish Tribe Under Control. A Preemptive Strike On Israel Should Be Considered.”…
“Israel should be disarmed in every sense. Its power should be taken or an inspection mechanism should be put on its power. The Israeli army should be disbanded, and it should be given only the right to police power.
“Israel’s right to statehood should be revoked. Because this ‘Tribe’ is not qualified to be a state. It has proven this many times through its own actions.
“Israel cannot and should not have a ‘right of the map.’ There should be no such region as Israel in the region that constitutes the center, the axis of the world. This country, with this condition, should be taken under guardianship in the full sense of the word.
“Turkey Should Be A Nuclear Power, A Preemptive Strike On Israel Should Be Considered
“If these things cannot be done, every country in the region should be a nuclear power. Turkey should urgently be turned into a nuclear power. A map of siege, of encirclement, should be drawn around Israel.
“If everything comes to a standstill, the concept of a ‘preemptive strike’ with all of its elements should be directed at Israel. One cannot wait for a country that is clearly prepared to use nuclear weapons and commit horrific acts of destruction against the region to implement its plans.
“This is clear: Israel and the Jewish Tribe are at war with the human race. Without distinguishing between Muslim or Christian; without distinguishing between Turk, Arab, French, English, Russian, or German, it brings death to all generations.
“Racist Idolaters Who Make War On Allah!
“The family of humanity should develop a joint measure against this threat to the entire world.
“The political mind of Israel today has no grain of relation to Prophet Moses or the religions. It has no relation to the concept of ‘God’ that we know.
“They are actually a racist idolatrous structure that is at war with Allah, with God. They have become a society that throws poison on the world, spreads contagious disease, and endangers humanity.”
Patrick White says
Congratulations, Turkey. You have just made yourselves Israel’s number one target for the near future. Fully justified and long overdue. Splat.
John Pepple says
I don’t know how any nuclear strike on Israel could possibly avoid killing or at least harming a lot of people in the region who are not Israeli. It is so close to its neighbors, and there are lots of Arabs living in Israel, too. It’s not like it’s an isolated island like Crete.
Tony says
Easy. You have to know Islam and think like a Muslim. Any Muslim that perishes in Jihad goes to Paradise as would happen with a nuclear bond in the land. Allah in Qur’an 9:111 says, “Surely Allah has purchased from the believers[Muslims] their souls and their money so that they may have the garden[Heavenly Paradise]. They engage in war for the sake of Allah, so they kill and are killed…”. This is an important fact to know. Muslims seek death by jihad because this is a guarantee by Allah for the Muslim to go to Heavenly Garden, Paradise. Otherwise, there is no guarantee.
R.J. KATZ says
Let Israel arrange a meeting between Allah and his followers in Turkey
jerry glenn says
More good news from the religion of peace.
Westman says
“Fight them, and Allah will punish them by your hands, and he will lay them low and give you victory over them, and he will heal the hearts of people who are believers, and he will remove the anger of their hearts.” (Qur’an 9:14-15)
A diety that conveniently does nothing and promotes revenge and violence as a solution to anger. That, situationally ignored, “by your hands”, also suggests that when you lose it’s your fault or Allah was not with you.
These ramblings of an irritated journalist will not convince Erdogan to begin the undermining of Turkey as if the US and its ability to totally destroy Turkey in response to its “nuking” of Israel did not exist. However, if the bond of the US and Israel was severed the only hesitation would be economic.
Boastful rhetoric is a coin of the region, common as a gorilla beating on his chest.
Once it was thought that becoming a politician was the way to change the world. Yet there is a new form of “journalism” consisting of influence and propaganda peddling to the public that developed in the West, and even in Turkey – competing for power as if a shadow government.
NYGal says
Turks, the Asian steppes invaders who had conquered and Islamized Byzantium and took Constantinople as late as second half of the XV century, deny Jewish right to exist in their ancient homeland. What hypocrisy. What an ungrateful people who had already forgotten that it was Israel that was the first country that came to help them dig up and save their people buried under the rabble after an earthquake.
David Lakatos says
These people are nuts.
Wellington says
Turkey needs a new Mustapha Kemal. Preferably soon like.
James Lincoln says
Israel is – by far – the greatest ally that the United States has in the Middle East – and likely the rest of the world.
So, if Turkey – a NATO country – attacks Israel, what will the United States do?
Alliances have changed…
OLD GUY says
Turkey needs to be kicked to the curb in NATO. And than should be restricted from developing the materials to build a bomb, like Iran.
Kepha says
A while back Daniel Pipes observed that Turkiye is an ally no more.
I guess that Erdogan is mulling giving a lot of Falastin Arabs the “honor” of becoming shaheeds by turning into radioactive ash along with their Jewish neighbors.
I pray for that corner of the world. I have been made aware of “creative access” converts from Islam to Christianity in Turkiye, as well as the importance of Christian tourism for that country’ economy. Having seen that a knowledge of Christian Scripture and history is necessary to be licensed as a tour guide there, I pray that God’s Word will not return empty there, either.
Joe1 says
Muslims will do anything for power. Their whole religion is built around power. 2 weeks after they nuke Jerusalem, they will nuke New York City. That isn’t hyperbole; that is who they are.