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What Kurds can learn from Israel
2019-04-06
An interesting perspective from a very interesting Kurdish emigré.
[Rudaw] There are two minorities in the Middle East who share similar fates: Israelis and Kurds. Historically, both repeatedly were persecuted. Although they are neither ethnically nor religiously related, within the two groups there is a discreet mutual sympathy. Of the nation states created in the Middle East last century by Britannia and La Belle France, Israel and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
are the exceptions. Zionism is a national revolution by the Jewish population that says to survive we need our own state and we go back to the Holy Land and ancient Kingdom of Judea. Zionism means to be a Jewish patriot. Everything else is Middle East conspiracy theory. From the beginning, the Zionist movement tried to convince the international community of its intention and it took more than half a century.

The Kurds have tried to convince the international community of a Kurdish nation state; however, there was no real leadership negotiating with the French and Brits. The end result was Kurds are still living in four countries as a minority and their status varies from country to country. The solution of the Kurdish question is one of the most important Middle East issues and is rarely discussed, until now the Kurds have had an ambivalent relationship with the West.
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