“They have some baggage, but they have been responsible for the killing of ISIS in Syria. Lot of people benefited, but they sure get treated badly by what I consider the bad guys.”
So they’re not a bunch of would-be Fidel Castros?
In the PKK, that element exists. In some of the foreign fighters are Lefties. It is a fact.
The leadership and all I’ve come to know are certainly not and are good people. And sick of war.
Now they have communal farming operations. That is how they have been able to feed so many displaced persons without outside help until Raqqa. Little outside humanitarian aid was available to Syria, because the SDF freeing the Northern Part of Syria were not a national government. UN would not touch them and there was a problem with access except by air. I worked with my Congressman from February this year trying to overcome that problem. There was some help, a lot from the USAID.
The Kurd structure at this point is a lot like Israel in the beginning with the Israeli Kibbutz. There were European groups that helped with this. The Kurds have long been persecuted and are pretty self sufficient. Amazing today.
I’m not sugar coating this. They are very good people and good neighbors. Israel has already said they would recognize the Kurds. Note: there are Kurdish Jews. Most of them immigrated to Israel quite a while ago.
There are a significant and growing community of Christians in the region. Including in Northern Syria.