The day after tomorrow!

While trying to understand what was happening in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, I ran into Ambassador Türkekul Kurttekin, one of the most valuable diplomats trained by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on Tunalı Hilmi Street in Ankara and had the chance to ask him a few quick questions.

Following the destruction of the Twin Towers, the US had targeted Afghanistan and announced that Iraq was next in line. 

Ambassador Kurttekin knew the region very well, having previously served as the Director General of the Middle East Department, and he was also involved in the contacts being conducted regarding Afghanistan at that time.

In one breath, I asked, "What will happen tomorrow?"

He answered my question with a single sentence.

- You shouldn't look at tomorrow, but at the day after tomorrow!

As hundreds of question marks fly through the air following the attack launched by Hamas and Israel's retaliation, this sentence by Türkekul Kurttekin came to my mind.

So, what will happen the day after tomorrow?

Let us proceed by considering the fine line between conspiracy theories and the long-term strategic planning of global power brokers.

Let us weigh our sentences with the precision of a jeweler's scale!

In the Middle East, the doors to a new era have opened, one whose global repercussions are inevitable!

First, let us establish this assessment.

The issue carries a nature that will yield consequences far beyond regional conflict.

With this attack—which we should read as Iran—Hamas has placed a bomb right in the middle of the recent rapprochement between Israel and Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Egypt.

What does this mean?

At the G20 leaders' summit held in New Delhi last month, there was an initiative for a new trade route that would connect India to Europe, backed by the U.S. 

The project titled the "India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor" envisioned ships departing from India's Mumbai port docking in Dubai, from where a transport route would be established via rail through Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Israel, and across the Mediterranean to Europe.

The intended destination for this projected trade corridor was the port of Hamburg in northern Germany.

According to calculations, this new economic corridor would have increased trade between Europe and India by at least 40 percent. 

At first glance, this new corridor, which gave the impression of being determined more by political preferences than by rational economic and strategic approaches, excluded two important countries in the region: Turkey and Iran.

It prioritized India and sidelined China.

In reality, this project was a "preemptive" move by the US against China. 

With this project, the US aimed to respond to the new "Silk Road" project, which the Beijing administration launched about 10 years ago with the goal of connecting China to the world.

In short, the plan was for the Middle East to become an economic hub and for Israel to be brought closer to Arab countries through "shared economic interests."

Israel's rapprochement with Arab countries, which it had viewed as a "threat" until yesterday, was meant to signify the expansion of a political, strategic, economic, and military front against Iran in the region.

For the Tehran administration, this was practically a nightmare scenario!

Hamas's attack on Israel is precisely what upended all these plans.

Unable to set the rules of the game, Iran took a strategic and risky step, successfully disrupting the game the U.S. was trying to build through Hamas!

Although Arab countries may not be able to take a unified and strong stance on the Palestinian issue, it would not be wrong to say that from this point on, they will carefully avoid being mentioned in the same sentence as Israel.

One does not need to be a prophet to say that as the intensity of Israel's retaliation against Hamas increases, the reactions on the Arab streets will reach a point that cannot be ignored!

The killing of two Israeli tourists by an Egyptian police officer in Alexandria following the Hamas attack is significant in terms of reflecting the psychology of the Arab public.

From this perspective, this is what "tomorrow" looks like.

So, does this attack on Israel provide a justification for the US to descend upon Iran?

Let us set an appointment for Thursday for "the day after tomorrow" and conclude our article here.