False Friends of Free Civilization

As false friends are more dangerous than open enemies, every disclosure of such a “friendship” is a great gain.

Since the founding of NATO, Türkiye/ Turkey has been considered a valuable member of the Western alliance, mainly due to its size and strategically important location. “Thanks” to the uncritical mainstream media this positive image was not even permanently damaged by the country’s attack on Cyprus in 1974. Although the invasion cost around 5,000 Greek Cypriots their lives and between 162,000 and 200,000 were expelled from their homes, the event has been almost erased from the memory of Western citizens. Therefore, today hardly anyone considers this historical precedent when realizing the completely different style of media coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The same lack of fair reporting applies to the Turkish military operations against Kurds in northern Syria, which took place at the same time as the Russian operations in Ukraine. However, the Turkish government itself revealed step by step that it has been a false friend of free democratic civilization long since. The first clear outing came just 2 ½ weeks after the October 7, 2023 massacre, when Erdogan declared that Hamas was not a terrorist organization. This scandalous comment was later topped when he openly sided with the terrorists and even threatened Israel with an invasion.

What seemed to be a rather rhetorical warning could become reality after Assad’s ousting. A further destabilization of Syria could give Erdogan the pretext to invade as an alleged peacemaker. A Syria “stabilized” in the Turkish way would pose a most serious threat to Israel.

The good news, however, is that the democratic nations of the Judeo-Christian area have taken an important step forward in escaping their media-mediated disorientation regarding the vital distinction between real and false friends. It is becoming clear that all these free nations, not just Israel, are threatened by Islamism.

As ideological challenge to sharia and jihad in particular has been avoided – cowardly or conveniently – for at least 250 years, Muslim leaders have been encouraged to resist all attempts at substantive reform. In this ambience of appeasement, more and more Muslims view Islam as a political ideology whose principles are superior to Western civilization. As jihad and violence in general have not found adequate resistance, they were able to emerge and develop in various forms. Meanwhile, a long-hidden war by other means is coming to light after the mainstream media looked the other way and left Western citizens in deep sleep for decades.

The levels at which this battle is being waged include, among others, a demographic war, a migration war, and an extremely complicated propaganda war ranging from distorting historical facts to brainwashing naive students on campus.

Erdogan made a personal contribution in his speech on November 26, 2024 in Ankara, when he claimed that the West’s progress was built on “blood, tears, massacres, genocide and exploitation.” However, his comment distorted some causal relationships and responsible groups, missing the real causes of Western progress. These consisted of a science freed from church dogma, the fair and free market economy of the founding decades of the USA and its liberal democratic constitution. Fourthly, there was the authentic integration of Christians and Jews from all European countries who became Americans within two or three generations.

In contrast, the immigration of Muslims into Europe has hardly led to integration, but to rapidly growing parallel societies – while media blind to reality demand even more tolerance from Europeans. In fact, this tolerance has long since reached the level of submissive appeasement. This is reflected, among other things, in the generous funding of mosques by the EU, in the tolerance of Sharia law and in the inadequate fight against the mass rape of women.

It is time to recognize that in this struggle between two cultural areas with limited compatibility, the Muslim goal is not a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, nor just an Islamic Palestine “from the river to the sea”, but, starting from Europe, the gradual Islamization of the entire Judeo-Christian cultural area.

But the headquarters of the forces that are driving free civilization into this suicidal appeasement are not in Ankara, not in Riyadh, and not in Cairo, but in the northeast of the United States. The protagonists of the destructive ideology include financial and media power, the UN, and a huge number of tax-exempt organizations. Clearly identifying and argumentatively refuting their disintegrating ideology is a challenge for all Western nations, especially the United States and Israel.

Donald Trump, like any human being, has some weaknesses. But above all, he has qualities that make him the right man in the right place at the right time. After a long line of “politically correct” presidents who have subordinated themselves to a non-solidary financial aristocracy, he has the courage to form his own opinion independently. He is also aware of the means used to weaken the ability of Western societies to ward off the insincere war by other means, including the cultivation of a disintegrating anti-patriotism. And Trump knows that in this context, the defense of Israel is a central issue.