The Turkish Foreign Minister this week used terminology that was born in the countries of the conflict with Israel, and just like them, he called Israel an "entity."

The minister said: "Israel is today an entity that ensures its security through the tactic of 'divide and rule,' and it keeps the countries around it weak."

The terminology that includes the derogatory term in the political arena, entity, has emerged in the Middle East since the dawn of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a terminology of military hostility toward Israel; a state is a fixed term in international discourse, and the existence of a state does not depend on its actions whatsoever, but on its recognized membership in the international community. An entity can be a state, and it can be not a state, for example an organization or a group or a community, they are entities; the existence of an entity in the international political arena has no validity in international law, and an entity as such is disconnected from the international community.

Since the beginning of the second millennium, entity has been a term used by Iran's political and military systems towards Israel, and this term has made clear Iran's intention to destroy Israel; and indeed, the course of the aggressive Iranian-Israeli military discourse ultimately led Iran to attack Israel on October 7 (see Today in the Diary), in order to remove the external foreign entity from its path in the Middle East.

Iran has paid a very heavy price for the move that began with the linguistic definition that it had and that carries the threat of annihilation. It is no coincidence that the Turkish Foreign Minister spoke this week in a term that originated in Iran in the last two decades. Iran and Turkey are deepening their alliance. And in the same breath in which Fidan called Israel an entity, he said with great confidence that the end that Israel expects in Iran "will not happen." His words, of course, indicate that Turkey does not want the Iranian regime to fall, and to some extent it even knows that it will not fall, otherwise the Turkish minister would not be so sure of his words.

Another issue that may establish a political assessment by such a senior figure in the Turkish political system is the possible assistance that Turkey is providing to the Iranian regime so that it does not fall. If indeed Turkey is assisting the Iranian regime, this explains Fidan's confidence that "the end that Israel expects will not happen." And this is not the only current event that is sharpening the gap in views and interests between Turkey and the US and Israel; the Kurdish uprising in Syria is also on the agenda, which Fidan almost openly attributes to Israel, and implicitly criticizes the US for its support for the Kurds.

Fidan is not attacking America head-on, so as not to diminish the new friendship between the thug president who sits in the White House and the Islamo-Nazi president who sits in Ankara. After all, the entire world, and certainly Fidan and Erdogan, are waiting to see if Trump will indeed crush Denmark by taking over the autonomous Danish territory of Greenland. Such a move would indeed bring destruction to the free world that Roosevelt and Churchill established in an effort that cost tens of millions of murdered and killed people, and would diminish the importance of the United States, but it would also greatly increase Erdogan and the importance of the Islamic axis that he intends to establish as a third pole in the world. Such a move would expose Israel to enormous forces, threats, and an unfamiliar world.

The Israeli Palestinian Post