Turkey calls for Islamic alliance against Israel
...while Yemen downs the 8th American MQ-9 drone over Marib and Lindsey Graham admits once again the real reason why the Outlaw US Empire keeps financing Ukraine.
Following the killing of a Turkish-American human rights activist in the West Bank on Friday 6th September, on which I reported here, the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued the following statement, while talking at an Islamic schools' association event near Istanbul on Saturday 7th September, as reported by Al Mayadeen in this article:
The only step that will stop Israeli arrogance, Israeli banditry, and Israeli state terrorism is the alliance of Islamic countries.
Erdogan added that his recent efforts to establish a stronger relationship with Egypt and Syria are part of a strategy to form “a line of solidarity against the growing threat of [Israeli] expansionism”.
In fact, this comes after the visit of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Ankara last week (see this other Al Maydeen article for more details), the first visit to Turkey of an Egyptian President in 12 years, signalling the warming up of a previously frosty relationship.
And back in July Erdogan announced that he was trying to normalize the relationship between Turkey and Syria as well, after ~13 years of frozen diplomatic relations, as I reported in the article in the link below.
Turkey seeks SCO membership and normalization of relations with Syria...
It’s been a while since last time I covered the Middle East crisis and the ongoing genocide in Palestine and I could not ignore what happened in the last two days: Israeli airstrikes yesterday on the Nuseirate refugee camp, targeting an UNRWA school, with 15 dead and 80 wounded people, as of last night (source:
So, it looks like Erdogan is quite serious in his efforts! So serious that Israel did not like his statements and its Foreign Minister, Israel Katz, called them “a dangerous lie and incitement” in the following tweet:
It must be said that Israel Katz is quite good at generating AI images… Joking aside, I would start getting worried, if I were the Israeli Foreign Minister. The last thing Israel wants is a wide alliance/coalition of Islamic countries: Turkey, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, Iran.
Meanwhile, the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) downed a $32 million American MQ-9 Reaper drone, the eighth since the Houthis entered the fray after the Al-Aqsa Flood operation on 7th October 2023, as announced by the YAF spokesperson, Yahya Saree, and reported by Al Mayadeen in this article. That’s $256 million of US taxpayers’ money wasted for you!
Speaking of money and turning our attention to Ukraine, US senator and warmonger Lindsey Graham recently stated the quiet part out loud, when he said the following, while visiting Zelensky in Kiev, as reported by Al Mayadeen and as you can hear in the video below (English transcript further down):
I am here with President Zelensky. I am such an admirer of what you and your country have done. You're trying to stop the Russians so we don't have to fight them. They don't need American troops. They just need weapons to free their country of a terrible invasion. They are sitting on trillions of dollars worth of minerals that could be good to our economy. So I want to keep helping our friends in Ukraine. We can win…
Just to make things clear: this is not an AI-generated video! You can find it yourself on the official X page of Lindsey Graham: here is the link to his tweet.
unfortunately the islamic alliance is not strong... they appear to be swayed strongly by money... egypt is a case in point with its heavy reliance on money from the usa... it seems to me money trumps religion here...
as for erdogan - he talks tough for his fan base at home, but he isn't doing anything directly ( other then talk ) to change the equation here... there are a number of things he could do, but turkey would also feel the heat economically if he was to do any of this, so he doesn't... talk is cheap and erdogan exemplifies this..
as for graham lindsay - he has been saying this for a long time and there is nothing new to his statements... he is a warmonger and exemplifies all that is wrong with the usa, but there are many more where he came from who would be quite happy to fill in for him if need be...
something truly shocking needs to happen to change all of these politicians and people reliant on a continuation of what is happening at present on the world stage.. alternatively, a slow change is taking place, but it is moving too slowly for most people... a change is coming.. it just isn't coming quick enough..
There are many, many, nasty, war mongering Americans here but Linda Graham is in a class by himself. He's such a galoot that he speaks the quiet part out loud. Blah, blah, blah...we're coming for all your mineral wealth you stupid rubes. And none dare call it genocide-on two continents.