Posted on 07/11/2009 10:23:59 AM PDT by Psion
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Finally, at long last, another native people, besides Arabs, is staking its claims to a slice of the justice pie in the Middle East--a region proclaimed by Arabs to be solely their own, despite the presence of scores of millions of native, non-Arab peoples in those lands.
A story by Sam Dagher in the July 10th New York Times reported that Kurds were going ahead staking claims to the huge fossil fuel deposits sitting under land in northern Iraq on which they have lived for thousands of years before an Arab ever arrived there. It was land promised to Kurds as an independent state after World War I, but was aborted on behalf of Arab nationalism in collusion with British petroleum politics--especially after the League of Nations' Mosul decision in 1925. A united, Arab-dominated Iraq arose instead in the British Mandate of Mesopotamia, with the oil of the Kurdish north attached to it. The British miltary helped suppress the Kurds' response to this.
Finally, at long last, another native people, besides Arabs, is staking its claims to a slice of the justice pie in the Middle East--a region proclaimed by Arabs to be solely their own, despite the presence of scores of millions of native, non-Arab peoples in those lands.
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May G-d bless those poor people.
‘Bout time they got their share. The Kurds are an honorable people. They remind me of what we’d be like if we lived there. An American can work with a Kurd. The rest...........
Those poor people have been forgotten in our rush to appease the Islamic world.
You mean "Allah". These people abandoned God ages ago when they adopted the Satanic cult of their Arab invaders. Now they are nothing more than another Islamic tribe fighting for a piece of the pie. And of course the Arabs treat them as a lower form of human like they do all non arabs, regardless of them adopting (after years of force) Islam.
There are also Armenians who have a equal claim to much of the region, except they have been largely reduced by slaughter over the past centuries by both Kurds and Arabs and other lesser Islamic tribes.
They are Islamic as well.
I've met quite a few Christian Kurds.
Some are, despite being Islamic.
There are nasty Kurds as well who fight with the fundamentalists against us.
Things aren't as black and white as some would like to believe.
Not from the region unofficially known as "Kurdistan" in northern Iraq. They are Islamic. But there are some that share the same Christian heritage and suffered the same losses of life and land as the Armenians across the entire region.
From Dahuk and Erbil. But what the heck do I know about Iraq?
“There are nasty Kurds as well who fight with the fundamentalists against us.”
And there are US citizens who do the same thing. If one plays that game the ship of state is steered towards isolationism (which a significant percentage of the US is perfectly happy with). I am not an isolationist, so I’m for deciding if the group as a whole is worth dealing with.
The Kurds are in that category. It may “complicate” things with with the Turks and Iraqis, but those folks aren’t the only two entities in the region, though they would like us to believe it.
The Europeans, particularly the Brits, drew artificial maps all over the Middle East, to suit their interests and to suit locals that they made deals with. None of the lines respected anyone’s ethnic heritage but many of the lines did favor Arabs.
But, of all the people in the Area, today’s Kurds are the only ones besides the Jews and the Persians who have a continuous history back into ancient times.
In spite of that fact, out of everyone, the Kurds were denied their own state.
Maybe history will someday correct that and let’s pray the path to it be peaceful.
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