Posted on 10/18/2019 5:45:55 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which is designated as a terrorist group by both the U.S. and Turkey, penned an open letter in English rebuking President Trump's comparison of the group to ISIS amid a fight between Kurds and Turkish forces in northern Syria.
The PKK said in Friday's letter that it “refused comparisons” to ISIS after Trump said at a press conference on Wednesday that the Kurds were “no angels” and that the PKK is likely “more of a terrorist threat” than ISIS.
“We refuse comparisons being made between our movement and the inhumane thugs of ISIS,” the PKK’s Foreign Relations Committee wrote in the letter.
“We are not guilty of terrorism; we are victims of state terrorism. But we are guilty of defending our people. We believe that the American people will be able to judge for themselves who the dangerous terrorists of this world are,” the group added.
The PKK has been in armed conflict with Ankara for decades as part of an anti-Turkish insurgency to establish an independent Kurdish state. Turkey has accused the PKK and People’s Protection Units (YPG), which is fighting against Ankara in Syria and allied with the U.S. against ISIS, of being linked.
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The history of the Kurds is long, that's for sure. But, so is the history of most of that area. Damascus, Syria, is VERY old...only because it has TWO completely INDEPENDENT fresh water wells. WATER is the biggie over there.
The Kurds in Iraq are not PKK.
In fact they have a decent autonomy within Iraq for quite some time. Why bother other nations?
The ottomans conquered a big chunk of Kurd land. If Kurdistan existed, it would be mostly comprised of parts of Iraq and Turkey. https://www.posters.cz/kurdistan-kurdish-lands-political-map-f116699321is as good a map as any.
Although I agree with aspects of it being land inhabited by people who call themselves Kurds throughout many years, it’s “ownership” is analogous to saying Palestinians own their land and Israel is their occupying force.
In other words, it’s pretty bogus, as neither Palestine or Kurdistan ever existed as “countries.”
The Marxists do not serve the Kurds, it is the Kurds who are to serve Marxism. They have used the struggle solely for Marxist propaganda purposes.
The dream of the Marxists is to create a Marxist narco-oil terror state or empire in the middle east
Right you are.
What is not understood by most around here is that there are several Kurdish groups. The communist PKK being the minority and just one.
They are mainly the ones who have fought the Turks in the past and the Turks dont like it..not that the Turks are not beyond genocide since they wont admit to the Armenian genocide.
Pick the proper side and the free Kurds will respond kindly. The PKK is NOT the proper side.
i didn’t know ottoman apologists lurked here, sry
They are partly PKK and most all are Muslim.
The labels are bs, especially the Baghdaddi one.
I though that was what he asked for it there another?
That fake labeling sprang from a French ‘9/11 Truther’ who has a history of working for Russian web sites, one of them a site that used to be independent until the Russian government arrested the site owner and took the business over. It appeared around the same time on a Hezbollah site. The guy on the right who isn’t labeled is Mouaz Moustafa of SETF, the Syrian Emergency Task Force which is based in Washington DC. There is a woman, Razan alSham who was cropped out of the photo on that side who is also from SETF.
The more hysterical claims mislabeling a guy as Baghdadi may actually be to draw attention away from those left unlabeled, because SETF leads to the Libya fiasco, CAIR, ISNA, and the MSA and those are Muslim Brotherhood fronts, and Mouas Moustafa leads to the AMC and Abdulrahman Alamoudi, the Hillary Clinton donor whose group’s donation she misrepresented as coming from a museum group rather than an Islamic group because she didn’t want to lose Jewish votes over Palestinian cash.
Alamoudi was the guy who got nailed for a plot back in 2003 or 2004 involving Libya and Syria, and the he is known for ties to guess who... Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah, that is, IRAN.
So, we have here a photo that was dressed up by Hezbollah to undermine the war against Iran’s ally Syria and promoted by a French conspiracy theorist on a Russian news site ... that just happe s to distract the press and everyone else from inquiring about what is right in their face...who else is in the photo and why it matters. This Alamoudi was the founder of the Muslim chaplain program for the US military in Bill Clinton’s time. He was working hard to put his hooks in both political parties.
population growth will win the day Something Israel might have a problem with as their arab population growth increases and something already a problem in California, Minneapolis, Dearbornistan and other american places.
I’ve seen an unlabeled pic but this is the one I pulled for the FReeper. Thank You. Do you have the original picture so I can post to the FReeper who asked? You’ve done great research. Again, thanks for your answer.
And so we saw that in action. As you seem to say the Jewish population isn't going to get much bigger and the Arab population will.
Our tour guide (Steve Ray) used a Catholic Palestinian Arab (Roman Catholic) as our go-between. I still can't get that phrase "Catholic Palestinian Arab" into my brain.
So in order for Israel to "work" all three faiths must work together. They all do have their country in common and it's my opinion that all three want Israel to succeed.
When Arabs come here they have to behave or they'll get the s**t pounded out of them. Most Arab immigrants are successful. I attribute that to having family and having family work with them. They also know that their children WILL have a chance to be safe and succeed in life.
Maybe I'm dead wrong.
Hard for me to imagine Arabs in winter clothes. Does anyone throw snowballs at them? Lol. Just kidding.
Amen.
We have enough drug traffickers on our southern border.
The demographic demise of Israel is based on old trends. Arab birth rate is falling, Jewish birth rate is rising and will continue to do so as the religious population is gaining percentage-wise.
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israeli-ultra-orthodox-jews-5-lessons-from-an-expert/
https://www.israeltoday.co.il/read/israeli-birth-rates-on-the-rise/
thanx
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