Turkey Suggests Gaza Can't Revert to Pre-Oct 7 'Despair'
The Daily Sabah quotes Türkiye advocating against a return to 'despair' for Gaza. What they, and most Western outlets, won't elaborate on is that pre-Oct 7 'despair' meant 16 years under siege, with 80% reliant on aid, an unemployment rate near 50%, and an 80% youth population with PTSD. This wasn't a sudden onset of misfortune but a meticulously engineered humanitarian catastrophe by Netanyahu's
various governments. Perhaps Turkey means Gaza shouldn't return to being an open-air prison conveniently out of sight and out of mind for US politicians. Senator Lindsey Graham, for instance, received $20,000 from AIPAC in 2023, according to OpenSecrets, and has consistently voted for unconditional aid while ignoring the siege conditions. One must ask, how much 'despair' is enough before it
graduates from 'conflict' to 'policy choice'?