“Islamic NATO” or imperial tool? Zionism, unity, and collaboration |
Every empire perfects a favourite trick: persuading its victims that participation is influence and obedience is maturity. The latest refinement is the so-called “Islamic NATO” — a Sunni Axis of Resistance designed chiefly to reassure Western capitals that Muslim anger can be processed, outsourced, and safely neutralised. It is unity without risk, resistance without cost, and sovereignty performed entirely in quotation marks.
Let us dispense with illusions. If such an axis existed in any meaningful sense, Gaza would not look the way it does.
Israel’s destruction of Gaza was not subtle. It was televised, livestreamed, meticulously documented — atrocity administered with the calm professionalism of a bureaucracy trained to convert horror into routine. Hospitals flattened. Universities erased. Starvation weaponised. Children shredded with industrial efficiency. This was no accident or misjudgement; it was a moral audit conducted in public — and every regime now parading under the Islamic NATO banner failed it with such uniformity that one almost admires the discipline. Almost.
Not one of these states — Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkiye, Pakistan — was willing to impose sustained, structural cost on Israel and its patrons. Turkiye did sever diplomatic relations; it also exposed the limits of symbolic rupture when deeper architectures of trade, security coordination, and Western leverage remained intact. Others substituted statements for sanctions, rhetoric for rupture, televised grief for consequence. Red lines were not merely crossed; they were designed to be erasable. Palestine was mourned as spectacle, not defended as obligation.
And yet, having collaborated through inaction — or perfected action that changes nothing — these same regimes insist they will tame colonial violence by joining Trump’s grotesquely named “Board of Peace.” This is not naïveté. It is insult: the political equivalent of watching an arsonist strike a match and being told the fire brigade has arrived because his associates now supervise the ashes.
The Board of Peace is not a........