Can't agree with the statement about the Kurds, Druze, and Israel being one. Israel is a people, separate and distinct. That being said, the Kurds obtaining a country, driving the Turks insane would please me. Interestingly enough, this Kurdish professor's proposal for Kurdistan's boundaries do not interfere with Israel's eventual goal. So, no skin off our noses if they get it. We have cooperated with them before. So, why not? https://esseragaroth.substack.com/p/kurdistan
Of course Israel is a separate and distinct people as are each of the Kurds and the Druze. What he meant was that we want the same thing -- to live in our own traditions, free from harassment and worse.
Reminder, I Kurdish professor made the map. It is from historical research. He does not buy into the self-serving UN or British slicing up the Middle East, and revisionist histories.
The modern borders of the states surrounding Israel were drawn up relatively recently by Europeans. The people who live there are very tribal, and many tribes can form a nation. But when this happens, the existing states must give up land to form those nations. This will always be met with resistance if the group is small, but a coalition of Druze and Kurds makes sense, and I have been a longtime advocate for a Kurdish State. Adding the Druze and Circassian elements makes them even better neighbors.
Great, informative article: you've outdone yourself and set a very high standard!
Turkish objections were always the main obstacle to a free Kurdistan and they had to be taken seriously because Turkey was a valued NATO ally during the Cold War. No longer, NATO allies Romania, Bulgaria and Greece can control passage out of the Black Sea as effectively as Turkey and they have no ties to Muslim Brotherhood terrorists.
The Druze and the Kurds-Some of histories most forgotten people and yet most deserving of a state of their own.
I hope so, but counterpoint:
https://open.substack.com/pub/technium/p/the-druze-buffer-zone
But Samer is a Druze himself and he is working toward Druze autonomy together with other minority groups in Syria. It is not an Israeli initiative.
Can't agree with the statement about the Kurds, Druze, and Israel being one. Israel is a people, separate and distinct. That being said, the Kurds obtaining a country, driving the Turks insane would please me. Interestingly enough, this Kurdish professor's proposal for Kurdistan's boundaries do not interfere with Israel's eventual goal. So, no skin off our noses if they get it. We have cooperated with them before. So, why not? https://esseragaroth.substack.com/p/kurdistan
Kind-of weird map.
Of course Israel is a separate and distinct people as are each of the Kurds and the Druze. What he meant was that we want the same thing -- to live in our own traditions, free from harassment and worse.
I got that.
Reminder, I Kurdish professor made the map. It is from historical research. He does not buy into the self-serving UN or British slicing up the Middle East, and revisionist histories.
The modern borders of the states surrounding Israel were drawn up relatively recently by Europeans. The people who live there are very tribal, and many tribes can form a nation. But when this happens, the existing states must give up land to form those nations. This will always be met with resistance if the group is small, but a coalition of Druze and Kurds makes sense, and I have been a longtime advocate for a Kurdish State. Adding the Druze and Circassian elements makes them even better neighbors.
Yes
Great, informative article: you've outdone yourself and set a very high standard!
Turkish objections were always the main obstacle to a free Kurdistan and they had to be taken seriously because Turkey was a valued NATO ally during the Cold War. No longer, NATO allies Romania, Bulgaria and Greece can control passage out of the Black Sea as effectively as Turkey and they have no ties to Muslim Brotherhood terrorists.
Turkey's time controlling this issue is past.
It’s only me, but I think the Druze and the Kurds should have their own nation states. But what do I know.
I agree.