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2019-12-10 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Why isn’t Israel doing more to help the Kurds?

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Posted by trailing wife 2019-12-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Whole platoons of Israelis were stationed with the Peshmerga

Imagine that...sniff.. Israel. Always heroic. David-like. Altruistic without posturing. Of course they mustn't go overboard helping them overtly. The world doesn't work this way.

It would immediately suit the world if the Kurds were revenged and settled and got their own nation, carved from Iraq and Syria; and a ready military stood to fight any resurgence of daesh or their remnants. I reckon it would still be as lawless and pathetic a state as any the terrorists themselves could run. And with that would come requests for aid. A dark well of slowly growing corruption like Afghanistan and Iraq. Sometimes biting the hand that fed it.

I know some guys who gave up their commissions, their citizenship, packed their bags and went to Iraq and Syria to live with Kurds. They were all deep core Marxist and radical fighters though. And young. 'Biji Kurdistan !' That was the new thingy for them. The peshmerga have been a siren call for armed adventure for some really brave/foolish fighters from everywhere, for some time now.

Naturally, they do get aid. Sympathetic entities that won't be named find multifarious ways and means to aid them. It's very grey, this area though; which is why they would like to remain distant in the media eye. Some ways and means would even raise questions in treacherous lower house committees and a lot of 'whisteblowing', so it's better this way. Traitors are alway ready to tear apart coalitions, topple govts and destabilize their own countries to brab power.

On a funnier note, here's our contribution. Typically Indian. Not a penny spent or even arm lifted.

'All ye, seek the uninterested gods with a fervent mind now.'

Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-10 01:09|| 2019-12-10 01:09|| Front Page Top

#2 But hands lifted.

Posted by Lex 2019-12-10 01:12|| 2019-12-10 01:12|| Front Page Top

#3 But...but Dron, they are darlings of the media!

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-12-10 12:46|| 2019-12-10 12:46|| Front Page Top

#4 I know. I like them too, if only for their courage and hatred for salafists. I like the pasthuns fighting against Taliban too. And the Balochis. Of course I pity them more, because eventually they'll die of Allan one way or another.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-12-10 13:14|| 2019-12-10 13:14|| Front Page Top

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