Turkey's Erdoğan 'Discovers' Israel an Actual Threat, Not just a 'Regional Partner'
When Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared Israel the "biggest threat for the region" at a Turkic States summit, the Western press largely focused on the 'controversy.' What they conveniently omit is the extensive historical record: the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre, the 2006 Lebanon War, the repeated bombardments of Gaza since 2008, and the consistent enabling of illegal settlements.
(One might wonder what exactly constitutes a 'threat' in their lexicon if not these actions.) This isn't a sudden epiphany from Erdoğan, but a statement echoed by countless voices suppressed in mainstream discourse, who have witnessed decades of regional destabilization. Perhaps now, as the ICJ investigates genocide allegations against the Netanyahu government ( ICJ filing by South Africa ), the
media might consider that calling a nation engaging in such actions a 'threat' isn't radical, but merely descriptive. How many 'regional partners' need to be annihilated before the label changes?