{"id":1489626,"date":"2024-09-13T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1489626"},"modified":"2024-09-13T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T10:00:00","slug":"erdogans-proposed-islamic-alliance-against-israel-is-pure-demagoguery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/erdogans-proposed-islamic-alliance-against-israel-is-pure-demagoguery\/1489626\/","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan’s Proposed Islamic Alliance Against Israel Is Pure Demagoguery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Erdogan’s Proposed Islamic Alliance Against Israel Is Pure Demagoguery<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Turkish President Erdogan has attempted over the years to present himself as the voice of the international Muslim community, or Ummah, most recently by calling for an\u00a0Islamic alliance<\/a>\u00a0against Israel<\/strong>. His strong rhetoric about the\u00a0latest Israeli-Hamas war<\/a>\u00a0has earned him the praise of many and also resulted in sharp responses from Israelis, which in turn feed into the perception that he\u2019s seeking to form. All his tough talk is just pure demagoguery, however, since he isn\u2019t willing to go to war with Israel.<\/p>\n

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The Palestinians claim that over 40,000 of their own have been killed in this nearly year-long conflict that most of their supporters consider to be a genocide. The living conditions in Gaza are atrocious, almost all of the strip has been damaged or destroyed by Israeli bombs, and\u00a0Egypt<\/a>\u00a0continues to keep its border closed to prevent the outflow of refugees into its territory. By all indications, it\u2019s more than a little late for anyone to suggest forming a multilateral alliance against Israel, whether they\u2019re really sincere or not. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Erdogan is a very clever politician and therefore predictably has a few tricks up his sleeve for proposing this so belatedly. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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First and foremost, he wants to reaffirm Turkiye\u2019s image as the historical protector of the Ummah from back during its Ottoman days,<\/strong> hence why he\u2019s calling so loudly for forming such an Islamic alliance.<\/p>\n

The second objective is to build upon the aforesaid in order to position Turkiye atop the regional military hierarchy in the minds<\/strong> of those who take his proposal seriously.<\/p>\n

Third, he also knows very well that no Muslim country will voluntarily subordinate itself to Turkiye\u2019s implied military hegemony, especially not the Gulf Kingdoms.<\/strong> Their rejection of his proposal or at least public indifference to it can then be spun as passing the buck along to them for supposedly \u201cfailing to save Palestine\u201d. The fourth reason is related to the preceding one and concerns the\u00a0public pressure<\/a>\u00a0that Turkiye is coming under from some to cut off Azerbaijan\u2019s oil exports to Israel via Georgia and Turkiye.<\/p>\n

Ankara owns neither the pipeline nor the oil that transits through it so any interference with these shipments would be a blatant violation of international law and a stab in its Azeri brother\u2019s back. Its allied relations with Baku mean that Turkish officials can\u2019t pressure their counterparts on this, let alone publicly condemn them for continuing to literally fuel the Israeli economy, but having the public see their lack of response to Erdogan\u2019s proposed Islamic alliance might take some of the heat off of him on this.<\/p>\n

And finally, the last goal that he\u2019s seeking to advance is to wage psychological warfare on Israelis by making them fear the grand strategic consequences of continuing the conflict <\/strong>and thus ideally inspiring them to ramp up their protests to stop it, though this could also backfire. By exacerbating their existing siege mindset, he risks some reconsidering whether it\u2019s worth ending the conflict now if all their country\u2019s goals have yet to be achieved seeing as how this Islamic alliance is already forming anyhow.<\/p>\n

Altogether, observers shouldn\u2019t forget that Erdogan knows how to play to the Ummah\u2019s crowds, so little of what he says about his plans against Israel should ever be taken seriously. There\u2019s always an ulterior motive or several behind it like in this case as was explained. His strong rhetoric leads to extreme dopamine bursts from those who think that he\u2019s being sincere, but the rush will inevitably wear off once they realize that he\u2019s not, and some might in turn think less of him afterwards.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nFri, 09\/13\/2024 – 02:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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