The Trump administration has stated that Turkish troop will enter Gaza as a force of stability, according to US government officials who spoke to the media. They also said that it will be the job of the USA to restrain Israel. As we read in Haaretz:
The joint statement signed by Trump together with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani was also deliberately vague and general, with only implicit references to a “lasting peace” in which both Palestinians and Israelis could thrive while safeguarding basic human rights, ensuring security, and preserving human dignity.
For the countries participating in the summit in Egypt, the most important part of the document is the signatures themselves: the U.S., Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey effectively assumed full guarantee – and in practice full responsibility – for implementing the agreement in Gaza between Israel and Hamas.
In other words, they took ownership of it, with the U.S. responsible for restraining Israel, and the other three countries responsible for restraining Hamas. Two senior American officials who briefed journalists on the night the agreement was signed stated this openly.
According to them, the role of Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), who will be involved in Gaza and allocate 200 troops for the mission, even though they are not expected to physically enter the Gaza Strip, is supervisory: “to ensure there are no violations or infiltrations,” since “everyone is concerned about the other side.”
The officials added that CENTCOM chief’s presence “gave the Arab countries a lot of confidence,” which also sent Hamas the message that Trump “was taking a very strong position in standing behind his guarantees and his commitments.”
The same officials also referred in their briefing to the dismantling of “military infrastructure and heavy weapons” in Gaza – another hint at what is expected, or more accurately, what is highly uncertain: the full disarmament of Hamas. According to the officials, the task of dismantling, or overseeing and supervising it, falls to the international stabilization force.
Its full composition is not yet clear, but the American officials said that the countries that mediated last week’s negotiations and signed the Sharm el-Sheikh declaration – Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey – will send forces to Gaza. The United Arab Emirates may also join them, the officials added.
Turkey is rising as a power and is now a regional powerhouse in the Middle East. Its biggest rival is, of course, Israel. Turkey and Israel are vying over Syria. Turkey sees Syria as part of its sphere of influence, and wants to control it as part of its revived Ottoman empire. Israel wants to keep Syria divided into small cantons, which would make Turkey’s dream of uniting Syria under Turkish control impossible. On top of this, Israel bombed Qatar, Turkey’s closest ally in the Middle East. Turkey is not going to stand idly by and do nothing after Syria’s south has been invaded and bombarded by Israel and after Israel has bombed Turkey’s closest Arab ally. A clash is inevitable. If Turkish troops are deployed into Gaza, one can imagine a situation in which Israel attacks and even kills a Turkish soldier (or soldiers). What then is America going to do in the case of a war between Israel and Turkey? Is the USA going to side with Turkey since it is indeed a major member of NATO? Our guess is, in the case of a war between Israel and Turkey, the USA will not help Israel. Any talk of defending Israel would be drowned out by the “America first” faction. Plus, Turkey controls the access-way from the Black Sea into the Mediterranean, thus making it a key chess piece for NATO’s encirclement of Russia. The US will wash its hands of Israel, and the Jewish state will be left to fend for itself. We recently did a video on this topic:
Also, we can expect that Israel will resume the genocide of the Palestinians with even more sanguinary fanaticism, butchering not only Gazans but people in the West Bank. In such a situation, Turkey will hear the cries for a hero emenating from the Muslim world, and it will see itself as having no choice but to rise to the defense of the Palestinians. As Benny Morris wrote in January of 2025, mass systematic genocide against the Palestinians is inevitable:
Many people from the religious Zionist camp and other fierce Bibi partisans openly declare their desire to flatten Nablus (biblical Shechem, as it is called in Hebrew), Jenin and other Arab villages.
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They do not see Palestinians as human beings. And I am certain that if and when the hostages return to Israel in the coming hostage release phases, living or dead, physically and mentally sound or not, this sentiment will only accelerate.
…The dehumanization that has to take root before mass murder is already here. Once upon a time, a minister in Israel talked about “cockroaches in a bottle” and was reprimanded. Today there are hardly any reprimands.
The Jewish public appears largely indifferent to the mass killing in Gaza, including of women and children. It is apathetic toward the starving of Palestinians in the West Bank by means of banning them from working in Israel, and to the violent harassment of Palestinians there, including in the past year as were killed at the hands of settlers.
The dehumanization is evident every day, apparent from the soldiers’ testimonies; from the killing of civilians in Gaza; from the brutality shown by soldiers and jailers while detainees, some from Hamas and some civilians, are led half-naked to the detention camps; from the routine of beatings and torture in the detention camps and prisons themselves. The Jewish-Israeli public is indifferent to all of it.
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October 7 was the peak event in priming Jewish hearts and minds for genocide, and the genocide will apparently come at some point. The disproportional birthrate among the Jewish populations that tends toward a forceful and aggressive stance toward the Arabs is only bringing the potential for this closer.
And the Arabs can be counted on to provide the excuse and the spark. It won’t look like October 7. There won’t be another mass invasion from Gaza into southern Israel. The IDF and Shin Bet security service have surely learned their lesson.
But there will be an action that serves as the spark – a raid or raids on settlements that inflicts numerous casualties, the downing of an Israeli passenger jet, or jets, filled with Jews, the sinking of a cruise ship sailing from Haifa, the poisoning of water sources or release of poison gas into the air.The trigger will come – and then the genocide will follow – with the indiscriminate flattening of cities from the air, without any attempt to distinguish between civilians and combatants, or with extermination camps. Maybe there will be a combination of expulsion (ethnic cleansing) and mass murder, as the Turks did to the Christian communities in Asia Minor between 1894-1924.
The Muslim world will be yearning for a hero. Turkey will eventually rise to the occasion, and the war will not just be in the name of vanquishing its biggest rival, but in the name of defending the Palestinians. Israelis will be massacred, and the killers and their supporters will say: ‘Just as you butchered the Palestinians, so you will be butchered.’ It will be like how during the Holocaust the Jews were murdered in the name of destroying Bolshevism, which also had an ocean of blood on its hands. Just as the Jews became synonymous with “Bolshevik,” Jews will become synonymous with ‘murderous zionists.’ We are currently living through the transition into the second part of the Jewish Holocaust.
In 2021, Erdogan told Putin that there should be an international military force to protect the Palestinians from Israel, as we read in al-Jazeera:
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has told Russian President Vladimir Putin that the international community should “give Israel a strong and deterrent lesson” over its conduct towards the Palestinians.
We wrote about Turkey’s aspiration to advance on Israel in 2021:
Turkey is a country that is encroaching in the Eastern Mediterranean, entering the maritime territories of the Greeks and Egyptians, and also causing consternation for Israel. Meanwhile, Turkey’s military has been occupying the Northeastern part of Syria. Should we really trust that when Turkey demands for an international protection force that they will not use such a situation to advance their own military on Israeli territory?
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If an international force makes its presence in Israel at the exhortation of Turkey, Ankara will definitely work to make sure that its military force has a preponderating position, and it will be done with the intention of making sure Turkey has an advantage for its geopolitical goals in the region.
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If Turkey is pushing for an international coalition to provide stability in Israel, it will be a pretext to expand Turkey’s military into Israel. I don’t see how one can see Turkey’s intentions in any other way when the country just had a victory over Armenia — her very old enemy — through its proxy, Azerbaijan; and when it now control’s northern Syria and is encroaching over other countries’ maritime territories in the Eastern Mediterranean.
After Israel launched its war against Gaza as a response to the October 7th massacre, Erdogan made a hint as to his desire to invade Israel:
“We are such a great nation and state that our strength, our problem, our struggle is not only limited to our borders. … From now on, we will continue on our path with the motto that we may suddenly knock on your door one night.”
Turkey wants to establish a new order against the established one: an Islamic order led by Turkey. This was expressed by Nejat Ozden, the vice-chairman of ASSAM — a front group for Erdogan’s paramilitary organization, SADAT. Once Israel began bombing Gaza, Ozden wrote that what is needed is an Islamic Union: “The Idea of Islamic Union is the search for a way of salvation and resurrection of the Islamic world from its weakness, helplessness and inferiority complex in the face of Westerners. In this respect, the Islamic Union, or in other words, the Islamic Union proposal, is an alternative to the current order in one aspect, and reactive in another aspect. It aims to improve the situation of Muslims against the West.”
In 2021, Erdogan proposed the creation of an international peacekeeping force to enter Israel to protect Palestinians, stressing the need for “the international community to give Israel a strong and deterrent lesson”.
And regardless of the fact that Turkey has been in a rivalry with Iran, both of these countries will unite in the case of a war with Israel. In November of 2023, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his Iranian counterpart Ibrahim Reisi discussed in a phone conversation about how they both have a common stance against “Israel’s brutality in the Palestinian territories”.
In Turkey, there is even a love for Adolf Hitler. An example of this was seen in Suleyman Sezen, an AKP (Erdogan’s party) city councilman at Samsun’s Atakum District. In October of 2023, he prayed for the soul of Hitler and praised the German Reich leader who committed the biggest genocide of the Jews:
“Historically, everybody has been angry with Hitler, and called him a racist. Hitler said: ‘You will curse me for every Jew I did not kill.’ This is true. Once again I pray for God to bestow mercy and grace upon Hitler. [I pray for this] because of the Jewish Zionist Israel – those people who are spreading confusion throughout the world, and emerge from under every rock and from behind any evil.”
We are in the transition into the next Holocaust.