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Benjamin Netanyahu now casts Turkey as the successor to Iran in the Levant, urging its expulsion from NATO while officials echo that Ankara embodies the same threat once attributed to Tehran. The shift reverses decades of cooperation that began when Turkey became the first Muslim-majority state to recognize Israel in 1949 and joined the peripheral alliance alongside Pahlavist Iran.
Israeli leaders have abandoned yesterday's strategic partners the moment those partners pursue independent power. The same pattern that isolated Iran now targets Turkey for its refusal to subordinate its interests to Israeli security calculations.
Christendom once understood that ordered nations exist as distinct realms under divine sovereignty, a principle ratified at Westphalia after the ruin of religious universalism. Every people owes primary allegiance to its own household, border, and inheritance rather than to shifting coalitions that dissolve when convenience ends.
The modern managerial order replaces that inheritance with permanent enmity managed by distant capitals. Alliances become instruments of ideological expansion instead of prudent defense of hearth and people.
Turkey's sovereign choices expose the emptiness of treating any single state as eternal foe or indispensable friend. Nations that follow the Iranian template of perpetual confrontation eventually consume their own former allies in the same machinery.
The faithful remnant must therefore demand that American policy cease serving as extension of foreign playbooks. Foreign lobbies that press endless realignment against rising powers must be named and resisted as corrosive to the national interest.
Only when statesmen recover the ancient distinction between friend and foe rooted in actual borders and blood will the cycle of manufactured threats cease. The household and the nation require foreign policy ordered to their preservation, not to the ambitions of another power.
