The U.S. and other NATO members are courting Erdogan: “Turkey’s Erdogan is waging war on the West and Israel – NATO must not ignore it – opinion,” by David M. Weinberg, Jerusalem Post, July 4, 2026:
Erdogan said, “When we fight Zionism, we are not conducting a personal struggle for ourselves. We are conducting this struggle for our own survival and for the collective survival of our nation. Zionism threatens not only me, not only our party, and not only our alliance, but everyone.”
Zionism, in Erdogan’s view, “threatens everyone” in the world. And what do you do to such a threat? Why, you must destroy it completely. You annihilate the Jewish state, and expel or kill its Jewish inhabitants. Judea delenda est is his murderous motto.
Then he hit back at Israel for formally recognizing the Armenian genocide by escalating his oft-repeated false accusations of Israeli genocide: Israel being “a country that has the blood of 73,000 innocent Gazans, most of them children and women, on its hands.”…
Of the 73,000 people who have died in Gaza since October 8, 2023, all of whom Erdogan describes as “innocent” victims of Israel’s “genocide,” we know the following. About 25,000-30,000 were terrorist members of Hamas, with some — not many — belonging to, Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Another 2,000 were the estimated number of Gazans that the IDF did not kill. The Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad launched missiles from Gaza that misfired and fell short in the Strip itself, killing civilians. Most of those missiles that Palestinian Islamic Jihad launched fell short and killed Gazans.
In one memorable example, a Palestinian Islamic Jihad missile struck a parking lot next to the Al-Ahli Hospital, killing — according to Hamas — 471 people. In addition, there have been deaths in Gaza from natural causes —cancer, heart disease , COVID, diabetes, accidents, and so on. How many? Some calculate that natural deaths in a population of 2 million over a 2.5-year period amount to 39,000-41,500. This estimate is calculated using typical crude mortality rates of ~ 8.5 to 9.5 per 1,000 people.
But that strikes me as much too high. The head of the statistics team at Gaza’s Hamas-controlled health ministry, Zaher al-Wahidi, says that about 5,000 Gazans have died each year from natural causes; over the 2 ½ years since the Gaza war began, that would mean 12,500 Gazans died of such non-combat related causes. Now, let’s do the math for Erdogan, who accuses Israel of “genocide.” 73,000 total deaths minus 30,000 Hamas combatants killed equals 43,000. 43,000 minus 2,000 killed by misfired missiles that landed in Gaza equals 41,000. 41,000 minus 12,500 (natural deaths) equals 28,500, the total number of non-combatants who have died in Gaza as a result of the war. Erdogan insists that the IDF has killed “73,000 innocent civilians.” His math is way off.
But speaking in his playacting parliament, the Turkish tyrant said Israel’s military actions in Syria and Lebanon have escalated to a level that could endanger Turkey, warning that Israeli “aggression” poses a threat to the entire world and must be stopped.
How could Israel’s military action in Lebanon or Syria endanger Turkey? In Israel, the only reason the IDF has taken and is holding onto some Lebanese territory is to push the terror group Hezbollah further away from the border with Israel, so that its missiles will have a harder time reaching northern Israel. Israel and the Lebanese government are on the same side — both want Hezbollah to be disarmed and dismantled. How does that endanger Turkey?
As for Syria, the Israelis now control a small enclave inside Syria is because of fears that terror groups, at encouragement of the jihadist regime of Al-Sharaa, will attack Israeli villages. And another goal of the IDF is to support the Druze in Sweida governorate south of Damascus and the Kurds in northeastern Syria. It is this last — Israeli military support for the Kurds — that most infuriates Erdogan.
Let the NATO members remind Turkey that it is an alliance of democracies, and his authoritarianism, grading into despotism, is fast making Turkey an odd man out. He should be told that his support for Iran, a country at war with the West, that openly declares its hatred of America (“Death, death to America”) is unacceptable. His menacing posture toward Greece, a fellow member of NATO, must stop. And his annihilationist threats toward Israel are deeply distressing. Israel is not a member of NATO, but it is a founding member, one could say, of Western civilization.
Meanwhile, Senators, make sure you prevent Trump’s mad plan to sell Turkey a squadron of F-35 fighter jets from being realized.
somehistory says
And he’s getting the military jets.
‘Zionism” threatens his evil plans to take over control of every human on earth. If he abandoned islime and his evil, demonic plans, he would not be facing a “threat.”
The “threat” he feels, comes because Israel engages in self-defense.
rick says
Still want to deliver those fabulous American made jets? The best made in the world.
OLD GUY says
I say oh heel NO. to the fighter jet deal with Erdogan. He’s a bad dude as the saying goes. But some big military industry will push and bribe its way through the red tape to get the big profit.
Tony says
Incompetent Trump does not see the threat of Islam and its murderous Muslims against Non-Muslims using hatred, discrimination, deceit, violence, and terrorism as taught in Islamic Law and in Islam’s Qur’an(Qur’an 9:5, 29, 111; 49:15, etc.). Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…”
Allah stirs hatred, cursing, propaganda, and punishment against Christians until the resurrection day as Qur’an 5:14 instructs, “And some of those who say, ‘Surely we are Nasara (Christians),’ we took their covenant. So they have forgotten a part of what they were reminded of, so we have stirred up ENMITY and HATRED among them until the resurrection day. And Allah will inform them of what they were doing.” See also Qur’an 2:225; 60:4; 8:55, 60. Through Mosques, Muslim Schools, and Islamic Centers, Muslims fund and teach hatred to children and Muslims against Non-Muslims when Qur’an 60:4 teaches, “…We became infidels in you, and the enmity and the enduring hatred between us and you will appear forever until you believe in Allah alone…”. Hence, Allah’s satanic hatred is further carried out by Muslims against Non-Muslims.
Rob Porter says
Well said, Tony. Trump is clueless about Islam and the Muslim mindset. Why any truly aware Western leader – which he isn’t – would align him self with a disgusting, savage Erdogan-led ‘shit-hole’ like Turkey, beats me. Every opportunity it gets it murders Kurds. It helped the al-Qaeda barbarian, Ahmed al-Sharaa, get into power in Syria where his Muslims have brutally murdered thousands of Druze, Christians, Alawites, Yazidis and Kurds. And we are supposed to swallow that Trumps knew nothing about this? He had to know about the ISIS flag flying over Raqqa. Trump has to know about Turkey’s threats to Greece. With Trump ‘compromise’ is high on the agenda.
GE says
What’s the snake Erdogan got on Trump?
That’s what I want to know—
40 rounds says
I don’t think he has anything on Trump, just Trump is totally naive when it comes to Islam. He thinks they are rational and their religion is just a suggestion
Princess says
“He should be told that his support for Iran, a country at war with the West, that openly declares its hatred of America (“Death, death to America”) is unacceptable. His menacing posture toward Greece, a fellow member of NATO, must stop. And his annihilationist threats toward Israel are deeply distressing. Israel is not a member of NATO, but it is a founding member, one could say, of Western civilization.”
Yes, he and other members of his government should be told, but everyone, especially in NATO, is too cowardly to do so. If they spoke with one voice, they could stop him, but they don’t, and that is the tragedy.
Cynthia says
NATO countries are held hostage by Turkey who can expedite the influx of hundreds of millions of Muslim invaders into Europe. Trump does not want to see western civilization go down, so he kisses up.
His attacks on Israel are deflection considering his dream of a Turkish caliphate across the Middle East.
Taffy says
Unless Erdoğan is mad as an Ayatollah, I do not see Turkey starting up with Israel in the near future. Turkey has too many high value targets within Israel’s reach. And if Turkey acquires F-35s from the U.S. and threatens to use them against Israel, I’ll bet that they all get destroyed just as Egypt lost its whole Air Force in the Six-Day War. If Turkey manages to fly them to Israel to cause trouble, it will be a one way trip for those planes. They don’t have the fuel capacity for a round trip, especially if Israel’s fighters engage them. And I would bet on an IAF pilot any day against a Turk.
Now, if Syria allows Turkey to use its country as a base, the stakes go up.
On paper, Turkey should be able to defeat Israel. But Israel’s lopsided win over Iran (before the US entered the fray), shows wolverine ferocity from Lil Ole Israel, so paper statistics don’t really apply.
The only land route to Israel is through Syria, and I’m sure that the IAF can contain any tank or infantry attack from that direction. Erdoğa can talk tough, but the probability of a military attack is low.
40 rounds says
And Israel has nukes