Why are the "Knights of Resistance and Struggle" silent about the Turkish-Israeli normalization?
An "expected" silence surrounded the news that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had received the new Israeli ambassador to his country, who presented her credentials to him, ending a years-long diplomatic rift that had not interrupted military, intelligence, and economic relations between the two countries. The expected silence, however, belonged to the "resistance to normalization" camp, who, we have grown accustomed to choosing when to raise their voices in shouting and denouncing, and against whom, and when to hold their tongues and refrain from approaching the "normalizers." This camp includes a wide spectrum of "knights of the resistance" in Iran, Lebanon, Yemen, and elsewhere, as well as their "brothers in struggle" from Islamists and nationalists in Palestine, Jordan, the Maghreb, and elsewhere, and "intellectuals from the Arab and Islamic nations" who have made a profession of providing enthusiastic verbal support for the foremost cause of Arabs and Muslims, in thought, literature, and art.
What makes the silence of this disparate tribe, united only by their “bankruptcy” and inability to provide any real support to the Palestinian cause and people, all the more obvious is the silence of Erdogan’s normalization steps. It is a mixture of embarrassment, shame, and impotence. How can it condemn the actions of someone whose theatrical heroism in Davos against the late Israeli President Shimon Peres and his “conquests” in the Mavi Marmara affair was so loudly praised? How can it raise its eyes, or rather its voice, toward someone who hosted dozens of nationalist and Islamic conferences, and sheltered, fed, and spent thousands of dollars on hundreds of them? Where does it get the courage to admit that Türkiye’s normalization with Israel is no different from the normalization of the Abraham Accords?
The tribe of those unable to take real action has faced all the stages that led to the normalization of Turkish-Israeli relations over the past five years with silence. It has not said a single word that would anger the Turkish “benefactor,” regarding the mutual visits of officials from the two countries, or the warm statements between them. Instead, it has sharpened its tongues, summoned its “bravado,” and raced to condemn the establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan. This expresses its belief that Turkish normalization with Israel is beneficial to the Palestinian cause, while its Arab counterpart is causing the most harm to this cause!!
These discredited voices, which have excelled in praising the “firm Islamic positions” of Supreme Leader Khamenei and the “Caliph of Muslims” Erdoğan, and the “sincere Arab positions” of President Bashar al-Assad and his “mujahid” brother Abdelmadjid Tebboune, have willingly accepted to bear the burden of the actions of all those who came before, to be lumped in with them, and to justify and promote their actions regardless of their benefit or harm to the Palestinians and their cause. Conversely, they have readily attacked the statements and positions of the foreign ministers of the Arab countries that established diplomatic relations with Israel, despite the fact that they did not disavow any Arab or Islamic consensus supporting this cause, if such a consensus ever existed. The fact that the “tribe of bankrupts” fails to see any contradiction between the two positions is a damning indictment of them and evidence of their “horrific moral decline.”
As for the owners of the cause themselves (the Palestinians), they are either silent because they belong to the “peace camp” that launched the Arab and Islamic normalization process with Israel in Oslo, or they are also silent despite being from the “resistance camp,” out of concern for harming “Erdogan’s self”!! This legitimizes doubt regarding their previous praise for the principled positions of “Iran and Turkey, the guardian and caliph,” and their subsequent praise for the national positions of “the Algeria of France’s generals.” This exempts the Arab “normalizers” from the need to explain their sovereign steps that came in response to their national calculations, whether we agree with them or not.
In conclusion, the Palestinians’ inability to agree on a “national program” that clarifies the roadmap for their legitimate struggle, the Arabs’ continued reiteration of their adherence to the outdated and stillborn “Arab Peace Initiative,” the Muslims’ confused stand between these and those without knowing exactly what is required of them, and the “activists of the platforms and salons” being content with the struggle for Palestine with poetry and rhetoric without any action or ability to take any action of any kind, all of this makes it likely that the Palestinian cause will remain for a long time in the shadow of the pure “popular conscience” and the sincere human sympathy of every person with a conscience, in a way that separates it from the arena of Palestinian, Arab and Islamic political action. And whoever says otherwise must prove the opposite!
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