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2005-06-07 Iraq-Jordan

Iraq's Kurds support relations with Israel

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Posted by Steve 2005-06-07 09:07|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Establishing relations between the Kurds and Israel is not a crime

doesnt sound like he'll push real hard for it.

"barzani, we can recognize your Israeli friends, or we can give you an extra two blocks in Kirkuk"

"make it three blocks"

Posted by liberalhawk 2005-06-07 09:19|| 2005-06-07 09:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Everything on the issue is treated with kid gloves, out of the fear of murder for anyone who calls for anything but the destruction of Israel. However, push has come to shove. The Kurds are in a position to question who their allies really are: Turks, Arabs, Iranians & Syrians or Israelis. On the one hand, the Israelis have never done them harm, and are a prosperous country offering much--unfortunately with no common border. On the other hand, they have a de facto relationship with people they really don't care for, but who, right now, are no longer actively trying to kill them. This is not an easy choice.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-06-07 09:57|| 2005-06-07 09:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Kurds and Israel have a common ennemy: Arabs. Unfortunately Israel has a friend who is ennemy of the Kurds and far more powerful: Turkey. As long as Erdogan doesn't openly join the Arabs Israel will not openly help the Kurds. And I don't think the Kurds are still ready to openly reject Islam as an instrument of foreign domination. Until they don't take this step it will be difficult for a Kurdish politician to go against Islamic solidarity.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2005-06-07 11:31|| 2005-06-07 11:31|| Front Page Top

#4 yippy went to the dark side a long time ago. Israel and the US are fools to consider er'dogman anything but a back-stabbing opportunist.

Posted by 2b 2005-06-07 11:34|| 2005-06-07 11:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Wonder who trained the Pershmerga. Turks? Syrians? Persians? Naw, probably Libiyans.

Posted by Shipman 2005-06-07 12:17|| 2005-06-07 12:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Iraq was an arbitrary state created by the British. At the time of its formation, local people didn't think it would work as sunnis shitites and kurds hate each other.

It should have been three states. Why not just divide the freakin country and give the kurds a state of their own?

Posted by anon1 2005-06-07 12:22|| 2005-06-07 12:22|| Front Page Top

#7 who would have thought the north and the south could get along?

Posted by 2b 2005-06-07 12:24|| 2005-06-07 12:24|| Front Page Top

#8 So after the war with the Corleone family, Barzani moved to Iraq and changed his name to Massoud?

Posted by domingo 2005-06-07 13:37|| 2005-06-07 13:37|| Front Page Top

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