Syrian Exposes Media Lies :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0EwGEZKWvA
the Kurdish government in northern Iraq and Kurdish militia in Syria openly discriminate against Christians. This narrative of discrimination is nothing new, but a continuation of centuries of prejudice.
In 1261, historic Assyrian Christian communities in the Nineveh Plains of northern Iraq were forced from their homes by a mass migration of Kurds from the mountains of Turkey. In a powerful parallel with events that followed the rise of Islamic State in 2014, Christian families from towns such as Qaraqosh, Bartella and Karemlash fled to the ancient walled citadel of Erbil to seek safety. Many of those that did not escape were massacred, while the homes they had left were looted by the invading Kurds.
In the ensuing decades, Kurds repeatedly attacked Christian communities. When the Mongols conquered Iraq they enlisted the help of Kurds to capture Erbil. The city fell on 1 July 1310 and the Kurds set about slaughtering the Christians.
Kurds also played a central role in genocide of Armenians and Assyrians in Ottoman Turkey, which peaked in 1915. Sometimes acting on their own initiative, and sometimes employed by the Turkish government, Kurds slaughtered Armenian and Assyrian Christians who had been deported from their homes and forced to walk through the desert. Kurdish armed gangs acquired a reputation for targeting the ragged convoys of starved Christians.
American Ambassador Henry Morgenthau, who campaigned against the genocide, recorded how Kurds would sweep down from the mountains and rob men, women and children, taking everything from them, including food and even their clothes. They would also “freely massacre, and the screams of women and old men would add to the general horror.” The Assyrian genocide, known as the Seyfo (sword), lasted 30 years, during which time up to 750,000 were killed, while an estimated 1.5 million Armenians perished between 1914 and 1923.
Kurdish militia in northern Syria have kidnapped young Christian men for use as conscripts in the Kurdish YPG (People’s Protection Units) militia’s ongoing war with Turkish forces in north western Syria, while Christian properties have been sprayed with graffiti to mark them for confiscation by the self-proclaimed administration of the YPG.
Christians in Iraqi Kurdistan also face discrimination and have even been the targets of violence in recent years. A Kurdish mob attacked Christian-owned businesses in Dohuk in December 2011. The violence took place after Friday prayers when young men were reportedly incited to attack the Christian community by Muslim clerics.
In June 2018, the Kurdish regional government began requiring shops and businesses in Ankawa, a predominantly-Christian neighbourhood of Erbil in Iraq, to pay an extra fee when they renew their business licences. The tax was also imposed in Semel, another Christian-majority town. Christian residents and businesses owners have also reported that they are charged an extra tax when selling properties and also face discrimination and harassment from KDP political police.
Sadly, there is documented historical precedent for Kurdish persecution of Christians. But the discrimination against Iraqi and Syrian Christians enacted by Kurdish authorities taking place today is largely ignored and underreported. If history is not to repeat itself, the rights of vulnerable, shrinking Christian communities in Kurdish-controlled areas of Iraq and Syria must be protected.
https://globalchristiannews.org/article/christians-in-iraq-and-syria-still-at-risk-in-kurdish-controlled-areas-after-centuries-of-persecution/
Kurdish militia in north-east Syria are spraying graffiti onto Christian properties to mark them for confiscation.
A recently released video shows Arabic writing spray-painted onto the wall of the house of a Christian Armenian family in Qamishli. The inscription reads: “Seized by the Executive Committee of Qamishli” – the Committee is the self-proclaimed administration of the Kurdish YPG militia, who control the region.
Christian men from in Qamishli have already been abducted for use as conscripts in the Kurds fight against Turkish forces, part of what Christian community representatives have stated is a programme of intimidation.
“It has confiscated many more buildings like this … They are confiscating rather than protecting our homes in the Qamishli and Hassake areas and they are even occupying entire villages … They are treating us like second-class citizens … employing various tactics to frighten and subject our people with the aim of taking possession of our final remaining properties and lands, thereby transforming our ancestral homeland into an autonomous Kurdish region.”
https://globalchristiannews.org/article/kurdish-militia-mark-christian-properties-in-syria-for-confiscation/
Christians businesses are are being discriminated against by the Kurdish Regional government by being charged an extra tax.
https://globalchristiannews.org/article/kurdish-government-penalises-christians-with-extra-tax/
https://www.assyrianpolicy.org/post/krg-imposes-new-discriminatory-regulation-on-assyrians-in-ankawa
Kurdish militia in north-east Syria are kidnapping Christians to use as forced conscripts.
“They are being conscripted with the intention to send them to the battle zones in or near Afrin [where Turkish forces are currently attacking the YPG], because these people consider themselves the new rulers of our region.”
The Christian negotiator who helped secure the release of the majority of the group abducted on 19 January states the forced conscription of young people is part of a wider pattern of intimidation by Kurdish forces who “want us to abandon our homeland so that they can seize more of our properties and land.”
https://globalchristiannews.org/article/kurdish-militia-kidnap-syrian-christians-as-conscripts/
This October 2017 article by award winning author Jonathan Cook focusses on the unspoken Israel-Kurdistan relationship. “There has been co-operation, much of it secret, between Israel and the Kurds for decades. Israeli media lapped up tributes from now-retired generals who trained the Kurds from the 1960s. Those connections have not been forgotten or ended. Independence rallies featured Israeli flags, and Kurds spoke of their ambition to become a “second Israel”.”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/how-kurdish-independence-underpins-israels-plan-to-reshape-the-middle-east/5611934
- Largely autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan is a Sharia-based society, per its own Constitution, (Articles 6 & 7): This Constitution confirms and respects the Islamic identity of the majority of the people of Iraqi Kurdistan. It considers the principles of Islamic Sharia as one of the main sources of legislation… It is not allowed to enact a law inconsistent with the provisions of the fundamentals of Islam. (Articles 6 & 7)
*the current prevailing conditions for the tiny vestigial remnant population of mixed “Jews” of Kurdistan, forced to “practice” their faith surreptitiously, as reported by Rudaw: “They call us ‘Ben Jews’ or ‘Sons of Jews’ because we are mixed Jews, Kurds, or other ethnicities.” . . . They keep their Jewish identity hidden for fear of persecution. They meet for Shabbat – the holy day – at a different home every week. Religious celebrations like Hanukkah and Passover are often celebrated privately inside the home of someone within the community. The event on Friday was organized by many people from the community, but “they didn’t want to give their name or picture because of the dangerous situation.”
*Anti-Defamation League (ADL) 2014 polling data from Iraq on the prevalence of extreme Antisemitism, are entirely consistent with the reported self-protective behaviors of Kurdistan’s Jews seeking to avoid persecution from the overwhelmingly Kurdish Muslim population…. In an overwhelming majority of the countries/territories polled, the samples are fully nationally representative. The bottom line: 92% of Iraqis exhibit extreme anti-Semitism, the world’s second highest rate of this hatred after the Palestinian-controlled areas.
Mid-nineteenth century northern Iraqi “Kurdistan” [Jews as “property”, i.e., slaves of the Muslim Kurds]
The Jews scattered here and there [in Kurdistan], and forced to remain at the places assigned to them, are in the true sense of the word, surrounded by tribes of savages. One often finds five, ten, or even twenty Jewish families the property of one Kurd, by whom they are burdened with imposts, and subject to ill treatment. Heavy taxes are imposed upon them, which for the poorest, amount annually to 500 piastres. Finally, they are compelled at different periods of the year to perform serf-service, to cultivate their master’s field, without receiving or being entitled to demand the smallest compensation for their labor. This is really an awful state of affairs and with heart and soul do we sympathize with our distressed coreligionists and we felt deeply grieved that it was not in our power to help them. . . . The [Kurdish] master has absolute power of life and death over his [Jewish] slaves; at his will he can sell them to another master, either in whole families or individually. [p. 658, The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism]
Late 19th/early 20th century Kurdish depredations against Jews rendering Kurdish areas of Turkey effectively Judenrein
According to the American Jewish Yearbook, almost eight thousand Jews emigrated from Turkey to the United States between 1899 and 1912. Alliance Israelite Universelle reports further indicate that Jews living in rural eastern Anatolia suffered severely throughout this period due primarily to Muslim Kurdish depredations (From p. 108, The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism):
In Diyarbarkir, Urfa, Siverek, Mardin, and several other cities of this region, Kurds continuously attacked Jewish communities, forcing them to pay taxes and contributions in addition to those already exacted by the Turkish authorities. The slightest tendency to resist was immediately suppressed with blood. Jews were crushed with scorn and had to accept all sorts of humiliations. Thus, for instance, when rains were delayed in spring or late in autumn, Kurds went to Jewish graveyards, dug up newly buried corpses, cut off the heads and threw them in the river to appease Heaven’s wrath and bring on rain. In spite of the complaints of Jews to Turkish authorities, the perpetrators of such misdeeds remained, as was to be expected, undiscovered. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the insecurity of the Kurd[ish] country was so great that Jewish peddlers could no longer venture outside the cities. The communities of the vilayet [province] of Diyarbarkir fell into misery and diminished year after year. Thus, whilst in 1874 the town of Siverek situated on the Urfa road counted about fifty Jewish families, three decades later Joseph Niego, entrusted with a mission in Asia Minor by the Jewish Colonization Association, found only twenty-six household, totaling about 100 persons. Similarly, the 500 Jews who, according to Vital Cuinet, constituted the community of Mardin toward the end of the nineteenth century, were all gone by 1906. At that time, there remained in this town only one Jew, who had the task of guarding the synagogue.
In 2015, the Financial Times reported that Israel had imported as much as 77 percent of its oil supply from Kurdistan in recent months, bringing in some 19 million barrels between the beginning of May and August 11. During that period, more than a third of all northern Iraqi exports, shipped through Turkey’s Ceyhan port, went to Israel, with transactions amounting to almost $1 billion, the report said, citing “shipping data, trading sources, and satellite tanker tracking.”
In 1966, Iraqi defense minister Abd al-Aziz al-Uqayli blamed the Kurds of Iraq for seeking to establish “a second Israel” in the Middle East. He also claimed that “the West and the East are supporting the rebels to create [khalq] a new Israeli state in the north of the homeland as they had done in 1948 when they created Israel. Interestingly enough, history is repeating itself with their present-day relationship – the existence of which is only acknowledged in passing by either side for fear of retribution.
Perhaps no other group of people in modern times has been as romanticized in the Western conscience as the Kurds. Consistently portrayed as “freedom fighters” who are eternally struggling for a land denied to them, the Kurds have been frequently utilized throughout history by other countries and empires as an arrow and have never themselves been the bow.
In today’s case, the Kurds are being used by NATO and Israel to fulfill the modern-day colonialist aim of breaking up large states like Iraq into statelets to ensure geopolitical goals. When nations are divided into smaller statelets, they are easier to conquer by foreign entities. This is a signature move that powerful imperialist nations use for the purpose of colonizing smaller and less influential nations. The Kurds have been utilized as pawns in this “divide and conquer” strategy throughout history and continue to allow themselves to be used by colonial powers.
**https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-kurds-washingtons-weapon-of-mass-destabilization-in-the-middle-east/5599207
Interestingly, recent research has shown that genetic connections between Jews and Kurds are more pronounced than those between Jews and Arabs.
https://www.meforum.org/3838/israel-kurds
Ultimately, their goal is not only to destabilize Iraq and Syria and divide them into statelets, but also to weaken Iran’s global presence – objectives that are being pursued with the help of the Kurds.
The people closest to the Jews from a genetic point of view may be the Kurds, according to the results of a recent study by Hebrew University.
The Kurds are allied with Syria’s fiercest enemy – Israel – whose planned Greater Israel project coincidentally aligns almost perfectly with the Kurds’ plans for “Kurdistan.” In the Oded Yinon plan, which is the plan for a “Greater Israel,” it states the imperative use of Kurds to help divide neighboring countries in order to aid in their plans for greater domination. Interestingly enough, Kurds brush this alliance off as being just another step in achieving their ultimate goal of creating an autonomous Kurdistan.
Every major Kurdish political group in the region has longstanding ties to Israel. It’s all linked to major ethnic violence against Arabs, Turkmens and Assyrians. From the PKK in Turkey to the PYD and YPG in Syria, PJAK in Iran to the most notorious of them all, the Barzani-Talabani mafia regime (KRG/Peshmerga) in northern Iraq. Thus it should come as no surprise that Erbil supplied Daesh (ISIS) with weaponry to weaken the Iraqi government in Baghdad. And when it becomes understood that Erbil is merely the front for Tel Aviv in Iraq, the scheme becomes clear.
But what doesn’t get reported is how the movement has carried out kidnappings and murder – not to mention its involvement in trafficking narcotics.
Pato Rincon, a U.S. military veteran, recently wrote about his experience training with the YPG in Syria. Although initially interested in their desire for autonomy, he soon got to know a different side of the group:
While they are a direct ideological descendant of the Soviet Union, their take on Marxism has a much more nationalistic bent than that of their internationalist forebears. At their training camp that I attended, they constantly spoke of their right to a free and autonomous homeland–which I could support. On the other hand, they ludicrously claimed that all surrounding cultures from Arab to Turk to Persian descended from Kurdish culture. One should find this odd, considering that the Kurds have never had such autonomy as that which they struggle for. All of this puffed-up nationalism masquerading as internationalism was easy to see through…not only was their idea of Marxism fatuous, their version of feminism was even worse.”
Accounts such as this will certainly not make it to mainstream media, as they do not fit the narrative that the Kurds and their sponsors promote.
The Kurds are ethnically cleansing Arabs from Raqqa en masse in order to pave the way for the city’s annexation to their unilaterally declared “Federation” after its forthcoming capture.
The Syrian government considers separatist Kurds to be just as dangerous as Daesh and other terrorist groups in the country. Their plans to destabilize the country are more dangerous than those of Daesh, especially since the West provides them with moral support, weapons, training, financial aid, armed vehicles and even air support.
A Kurdish diaspora of an estimated two million people is concentrated primarily in Europe, with over a million in Germany alone. These migratory wanderers never possessed their own country at any point in their history
The version of events that the Kurds present is in staunch contrast with the account that is supported by most historians. This has proven to be a point of contention between the Kurds and the citizens of other countries.
The Kurds claim to have been conquered and occupied throughout their history, for instance. Here is an example of their attempt to rewrite history to fit their narrative: “The Kurdish region has seen a long list of invaders and conquerors: Ancient Persians from the east, Alexander the Great from the west, Muslim Arabs in the 7th Century from the south, Seljuk Turks in the 11th Century from the east, the Mongols in the 13th Century from the east, medieval Persians from the east and the Ottoman Turks from the north in the 16th Century and most recently, the United States in its 2003 invasion of Iraq.”
Documents leaked by WikiLeaks in 2010 suggested that Israeli Mossad Chief Meir Dagan wanted to use Kurds and ethnic minorities to topple the Iranian government. The Israeli spy service was aiming to create a weak and divided Iran, similar to the situation in Iraq, where the Kurds have their own autonomous government, the spy chief told a U.S. official.
**https://www.mintpressnews.com/kurdish-connection-israel-isis-destabilize-iran/229745/
In fact, it can be cynically suggested, the large-scale population exodus taking place in Raqqa is actually a deliberate ethnic cleansing of the majority-Arab population of the city on a much larger scale than any of the similar crimes that the Kurds have been accused of before.
To get back to the urgent issue at hand – the ethnic cleansing of over half of Raqqa’s majority-Arab population – this is a “godsend” to the Kurds’ plans to “Balkanize” Syria through the expansion of their “federation”. It’s extremely doubtful to imagine that Arabs of any political disposition would rather live in a Kurdish-dominated statelet as second-class citizens than as equal ones within the Syrian Arab Republic, so the chances of the Kurds peacefully annexing Raqqa into their “federation” via a plebiscite are close to nil. However, if the Arabs were forced out of their homes due to egregious war crimes by the US such as indiscriminate bombing and the widespread use of chemical weapons, then it becomes much easier to “hack the vote” and create a public/international pretense of “legitimacy”.
The proportion of Arabs in the city would dramatically drop, which could comparatively increase the ratio of Kurdish inhabits which choose to stay. Moreover, many of the fleeing Arabs might be replaced by settler Kurds from the north, which could come to Raqqa to colonize it or simply do as emigrated Albanians frequently resort to in the Republic of Macedonia and arrive only long enough to vote before departing once again. Either way, the ethnic cleansing of Arabs from Raqqa works in favor of the Kurds’ geopolitical designs for Syria, which in turn advance the joint American-“Israeli” Yinon Plan of dividing and ruling the Mideast along a modified “Identity Federalism” form of Ralph Peters’ 2006 “Blood Borders”. Most fleeing Arabs would naturally feel unsafe reentering to their home city and living as second-class apartheid citizens in a minority-dominated “federation”, so they’ll probably relocate elsewhere for their own safety and make the Kurdish colonization of Raqqa a fait accompli.
Apart from that, the “Kurdistan” and “Israel” models are identical and they also serve the same grand strategic goals of promoting unipolarity in the tri-continental pivot space of West Asia.
There’s no “delicate” way to say it – what’s happening in Raqqa right now is the large-scale ethnic cleansing of the city’s majority-Arab population through chemical weapons and indiscriminate bombing in order to create the on-the-ground conditions for “legitimizing” the expansion of the Kurds’ “federalized” statelet (the “second geopolitical ‘Israel’”). The Mainstream Media is holding back from openly announcing the obvious in a frail attempt to obscure its grand strategic plans until the day arrives when they’re undeniable, but also of course out of the self-interested pursuit to avoid being implicated in worsening the Immigrant Crisis.
Sadly, what this translates to in reality is that the Arab cleansing of Raqqa will probably go unnoticed in most of the global media, though it might emerge as a politicized subject after the campaign is completed. For now, however, it seems like both the Mainstream and Alternative Medias are content with only discussing the US’ chemical weapons use and indiscriminate bombing during this campaign, which is interesting to note because Western Mainstream Media usually never talks about such truths. Therefore, this in and of itself should be a glaring indication for all observers that the West is desperately trying to deflect from the ongoing ethnic cleansing that’s happening on the ground, though hopefully, Alt-Media will call them out on it sooner than later.
https://www.globalvillagespace.com/the-kurds-are-ethnically-cleansing-arabs-from-raqqa-and-the-world-is-silent/
Every major Kurdish political group in our region has longstanding ties with the usurping Zionist entity, from the PKK in Turkey to the PYD/YPG in Syria, PJAK in Iran to the most notorious of them all, the Barzani-Talabani mafia regime (KRG/Peshmerga) in northern Iraq, and thus, shouldn’t be trusted even one scintilla. So there should be no gasps or confused looks on the faces of anyone now that the revelations have finally come to light: Erbil supplied ISIS with weaponry to weaken the Iraqi government in Baghdad. And when it becomes understood that Erbil is merely the front for ‘Tel Aviv’ in Iraq, the scheme becomes as clear as the ocean on an unpolluted coastline.
Instead of tangling with Daesh indeed, the Peshmerga has spent much of its time since the Takfiri group’s takeover of Mosul massacring and ethnically cleansing Sunni and Shi’a Arabs as well Shi’a Turkmen, the most recent attack being in oil-rich Kirkuk just last week. In fact, the only time that the Barzani-Talabani regime has EVER clashed with ISIS is when the Wahhabi gang got a lil’ bit too close to Erbil along with any other important “Kurdish” territory, or, when the American regime needed a hasbara-filled public relations “victory” like Sinjar, where the oppression of Yazidi men, women and children still rages on. Erbil, for the record, is known by many in Iraq as “Isra’eel al-Asghar (Little ‘Israel’)”, as it’s overrun with 100 some odd Mossad-linked Zionist firms in various sectors and ‘Israeli’ businessmen of all sorts looking to colonize Iraq. There’s even occupying Jewish terrorists training the Peshmerga to this day and providing personal security to the dictator Massoud Barzani himself. These Zionists have bought up agricultural lands along with energy fields and, also, let us not forget that ‘Israel’ is buying nearly $1 billion worth of “Kurdish” (read: stolen Iraqi) oil, the majority of the enemy entity’s petrol.
Again, in both Syria and Iraq, the name of the game for the Kurds is EXPANSIONISM.
Kurdish political groups are taking advantage of the Zionist-NATO-GCC-bred chaos to rack up the territorial gains and build their state, which, ultimately, is only a means to an end for the REAL goal of all this madness: ‘Greater Israel’. Since the usurping Jewish filth putrefying Palestine couldn’t establish this project with its own cowardly, colonizing army–thanks to Hizbullah killing it dead with the liberation of Lebanon on May 25th, 2000–‘Israel’ now seeks to achieve its aims by proxy. Verily, ISIS, as it slaughters and terrorizes every living, breathing thing in our region, is only one facet of the chess game the dirty ‘Israeli’ entity is playing. While Daesh spreads throughout the region in a fashion akin to its cancerous Zionist puppeteer, the Kurds expand their territory, speeding up the process of carving up the Zionists’ greatest enemies and ultimately weakening them for a future death-blow. And don’t look at me as the source, apart from the aforementioned Yinon paper and the 1996 neocon “Clean Break” plan, genocidal maniac Ayelet Shaked, the ‘Israeli’ Minister of ‘Justice’, recently spelled it out for the world in no uncertain terms: “We must openly call for the establishment of a Kurdish state between Iraq and Syria that separates Iran from Turkey, one which will be friendly towards ‘Israel’.” Can it smack you in the face any harder?
Getting down to brass tacks, if we’re being the epitome of serious, there isn’t even a such thing as a Kurdish homeland. It’s a mythos. Nothing more. Politically incorrect to say so? Offensive? Insensitive? Couldn’t care less. There is no “Kurdistan”. This is the reality and the suffering of too many Syrians and Iraqis of all different backgrounds is being swept under the rug to accommodate these bigoted, egotistical, chauvinistic Zionist tools. Kurds are originally from the mountains of Iran. Their language is an offshoot of Farsi. And because they don’t want to come out and admit these historical truths, they make up legends about the mythical land of “Rojava” in addition to other places and even have their own narratives about where they “REALLY” come from, i.e. they’re actually descendants of majestic jinn (true story, go read the book, “Children of the Jinn: In Search of the Kurds and Their Country”, by Margaret Kahn, a Zionist Jew no less).
The only reason why Kurdish political groups have the notions of a “homeland” is because the ever-satanic, perpetually-dividing, Rothschild-financed Brits gave them the idea in the first place during the early years of Sykes-Picot and this colonial British legacy is carried on today by ‘Israel’. The Zionists have been in bed with the criminal Barzani family since the 1950s and their relationship only gets closer by the day. This toxicity is the root cause of so much pain and destruction in our region. Much can be said about the incompetence and corruption of the Iraqi army, but the unequivocal truth is, Mosul and much of the Nineveh Governorate as a whole fell because of the duplicitous game being played by the Kurdish regime in the name of the Zionist entity’s schemes. Thank God Almighty for the Syrian Arab Army, the Hizbullah-trained NDF and the Assyrian militias in Syria’s Al-Hasakah. For if it wasn’t for these heroes, a Mosul-like scenario would have played out in this important province, especially considering the devilry of the PYD/YPG.
I wonder what would happen if the Assyrians wanted independence, and their ancestral homelands? Or even their present homeland, which Wikipedia describes as ‘part of today’s northern Iraq, southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran and northeastern Syria. Which sounds almost identical to the Kurdish homeland.
**http://mouqawamahmusic.net/kurdish-regime-gave-weapons-to-isis-cause-the-kurdish-regime-works-for-israel/
*Now, a KRG official has said that it might not be a Kurdish interest to defeat ISIS. Hiwa Afandi, a managing director in the KRG Department of Information Technology, tweeted, “Strategically, it’s a huge mistake to eliminate ISIS before we are done with Hashd militiamen. They represent a much bigger danger to Iraqis.”
https://www.newsweek.com/why-have-kurds-supplied-isis-weapons-452673
*Since the Kurdish population are not a majority in the areas PYD are trying to annex, the past few years have revealed that PYD/YPG are not beyond carrying out ethnic cleansing of non-Kurdish minorities in an attempt to achieve a demographic shift. The main threat to Kurdish ethnocentric territorial claims over the area are the other large minorities, the Arabs and the Assyrian Christians.
Salih Muslim, the leader of PYD, openly declared his intention to conduct an ethnic cleansing campaign against Syrian Arabs who live in what he now calls Rojava. “One day those Arabs who have been brought to the Kurdish areas will have to be expelled,” said Muslim in an interview with Serek TV. Over two years since that interview he has fulfilled his word, as YPG begun burning Arab villages around Al Hasakah Province hoping to create a demographic shift. It is estimated that ten thousands Arab villagers have been ethnically cleansed from Al Hasake province so far. The villages around Tal Abayad have suffered the most as Kurdish expansionists seek to connect the discontiguous population centres of Al Hasakah and Al Raqqa. “The YPG burnt our village and looted our houses,” said Mohammed Salih al-Katee, who left Tel Thiab Sharki, near the city of Ras al-Ayn, in December.
*YPG have also begun a campaign of intimidation, murder and property confiscation against the Assyrian Christian minority. The YPG and PYD made it a formal policy to loot and confiscate the property of those who had escaped their villages after an ISIS attack, in the hope of repopulating Assyrian villages with Kurds. The Assyrians residents of the Khabur area in Al Hasaka province formed a militia called the Khabour Guard in the hope of defending their villages against ISIS attacks. The Khabur Guard council leaders protested the practice of looting by Kurdish YPG militia members who looted Assyrian villages that were evacuated after ISIS attacked them. Subsequently, the YPG assassinated the leader of the Khabur Guard David Jindo and attempted to Assassinate Elyas Nasser. At first the YPG blamed the assassination on ISIS but Elyas Nasser, who survived, was able to exposethe YPG’s involvement from his hospital bed. Since the assassination YPG has forced the Khabour Guard to disarm and to accept YPG ‘protection.’ Subsequently most Assyrian residents of the Khabour who had fled to Syrian Army controlled areas of Qamishli City could not return to their villages.
*The Assyrian Christian community in Qamishli has also been harassed by YPG Kurdish militia. YPG attacked an Assyrian checkpoint killing one fighter of the Assyrian militia Sootoro and wounding three others. The checkpoint was set up after three Assyrian restaurants were bombed on December 20, 2016 in an attack that killed 14 Assyrian civilians. Assyrians suspected that YPG was behind these bombings in an attempt to assassinate Assyrian leaders and prevent any future claims of control over Qamishli.
*It would be foolish to ignore the signs that more widely spread ethnic cleansing campaigns may occur if Kurdish expansionists are supported, especially since other ethnic groups are not on board with their federalism plans. It has only been 90 years since the Assyrian genocide which was conducted by Turks and Kurds. This history should not be allowed to be repeated. Assyrians have enjoyed safety and stability in the Syrian state since this time. Forcing the Assyrians to accept federalism is not going to ensure their safety. Establishment of a federal Kurdish state in Iraq has not protected Assyrian villages from attacks by Kurdish armed groups either. The campaign of ethnic cleansing against both Assyrians and Arabs in Al Hasakah has already begun and may now only escalate.
*In addition, the Kurdish factions are not simply oppressed people demanding equality; they are a mix of fanatical Muslim fundamentalists and radical communist “revolutionaries,” all of which have been ready to commit atrocities and commit genocide in order to reshape the areas they have conquered.
**https://www.activistpost.com/2017/07/lgbt-brigades-syria.html
**http://www.globalresearch.ca/why-a-kurdish-enclave-in-syria-is-a-very-bad-idea/5519109
Kurdish People’s Protection Units [YPG] reportedly burned at least five Arab-majority villages in the rural heart of Al-Hasakah province earlier this week after winning control of them from the Islamic State [IS] just weeks before.
The burnings are the latest of what activists in Al-Hasakah call a series of targeted attacks by the YPG against Arab villages.
Some of the villages were “totally destroyed and wiped off the face of the map,” says Siraj al-Din al-Hasakawi, 28, a Hasakah-based citizen journalist.
Al-Hasakawi, who also works with several pro-opposition news organizations, is part of a team of Arab activists documenting alleged human rights abuses by the YPG in Al-Hasakah.
The YPG, and by extension the PYD, “are not just hostile to the Arabs, but are enemies of the people and the revolution in its entirety,” al-Hasakawi tells Syria Direct’s Ammar Hamou.
The media hasn’t been shy in reporting on the subject, and what has been published on social media sites is the reality, not a figment of the imagination. The policy of expelling [residents from] Arab villages shows the characteristics of a plan for changing the demographic map and the distribution of the Arab residents who represent an overwhelming majority in the province.
The burning of villages is not a new phenomenon, nor is it an isolated one as some members of the YPG leadership have claimed. At one point, [Arab] villages partially bordering [the YPG-controlled city of] Qamishli were subjected to a [YPG] attack in which 15 villages were burned, some of them totally destroyed and wiped off the face of the map and turned into a burning heap.
For example, the regime is supported by the YPG, which is attacking the village of Tel Hamees [and the surrounding villages] with support from the international coalition and its air cover.
The villages have been burned under the watch and with the cover of the international coalition, which means that the coalition is a participant in the forcible expulsion and burnings in Tel Hamees, although there are those among them who deny it. However, the recorded witness statements and the video clips don’t lie.
Today, with the aid of the US-led international coalition [strikes], they have been able to expel the Arabs that constitute the overwhelming majority of the population. Thus, they are carrying out a demographic change of the region in order to pave the way for a political enterprise, its goal being the partitioning of Syria into weak micro-states.
10,000 Arabs driven out by Kurdish ethnic cleansing in Syria
Thousands of civilians have fled their homes in northern Syria as Kurdish forces carry out what appears to be a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Sunni Arabs.
Assyrian Military Commander assassinated by YPG, tells American Mesopotamian Org. (AMO)
https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=256_1431537234
Assyrian Federations Accuse YPG Kurds of Assassinating Assyrian Military Leader
A joint statement issued by the Assyrian Federation of Germany and the Assyrian Federation of Sweden claims the assassination of an Assyrian military commander in Syria was carried out by members of the People’s Defense Units (YPG), a Kurdish military group in eastern Syria.
On April 22nd commander David Gindo and Elias Naser were shot (AINA 2015-04-23). David Gindo was killed immediately. Elias Naser was critically wounded and left for dead, but he survived. He is unable to speak because one bullet hit his throat.
According to testimony from Mr. Naser, written while in hospital a few days after the attack, the assassins were members of the YPG. He specified the pseudonyms of three of them.
http://www.aina.org/news/20150522205619.htm
Ron Paul on the Kurds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML84CP-rk9s
The PKK may embrace beautiful utopian goals of democratic confederalism but it is, at its heart, an organization dedicated to establishing Kurdish self-rule—and, as it turns out, not only on traditionally Kurdish territory, but on Arab territory, as well, making the parallel with Labour Zionism all the stronger. In both Syria and Iraq, Kurdish fighters have used the campaign against ISIS as an opportunity to extend Kurdistan into traditionally Arab territories in which Kurds have never been in the majority.
The only people pleased with this plan were the PKK, the Israelis and the Americans.
Having pledged support for Kurdish rule of northern Syria in return for the PKK becoming the tip of the US spear, the United States is “providing “small arms, ammunition and machine guns, and possibly some nonlethal assistance, such as light trucks, to the Kurdish forces.” [25]
Ethnic Cleansing
“Large numbers of Arab residents populate the regions Kurds designate as their own.” [28] The PKK has taken “over a large swath of territory across northern Syria—including predominantly Arab cities and towns.” [29] Raqqa, and surrounding parts of the Euphrates Valley on which the PKK has set its sights, are mainly populated by Arabs, observes The Independent’s veteran foreign correspondent Patrick Cockburn—and the Arabs are opposed to Kurdish occupation. [30]
Kurdish forces are not only “retaking” Christian and Muslim Arab towns in Syria, but are doing the same in the Nineveh province of Iraq—areas “which were never Kurdish in the first place. Kurds now regard Qamishleh, and Hassakeh province in Syria as part of ‘Kurdistan’, although they represent a minority in many of these areas.” [31]
The PKK now controls 20,000 square miles of Syrian territory [32], or roughly 17 percent of the country, while Kurds represent less than eight percent of the population.
In their efforts to create a Kurdish region inside Syria, the PKK “has been accused of abuses by Arab civilians across northern Syria, including arbitrary arrests and displacing Arab populations in the name of rolling back Islamic State.” [33] The PKK “has expelled Arabs and ethnic Turkmen from large parts of northern Syria,” reports The Wall Street Journal. [34] The Journal additionally notes that human rights “groups have accused [Syrian and Iraqi Kurdish fighters] of preventing Arabs from returning to liberated areas.” [35]
The PKK has struck a bargain with the United States to achieve its goal of establishing a Kurdish national state, but at the expense of Syria’s efforts to safeguard its independence from a decades-long US effort to deny it. The partition of Syria along ethno-sectarian lines, desired by the PKK, Washington and Tel Aviv alike, serves both US and Israeli goals of weakening a focus of opposition to the Zionist project and US domination of West Asia.
The Kurdish population of Al Hasakah has also been heavily inflitrated by illegal Kurdish immigration from Turkey. Kurdish immigration to Syria began in the 1920’s and occurred in several waves after multiple failed Kurdish uprisings against Turkey. It continued throughout the century
Since the Kurdish population are not a majority in the areas PYD are trying to annex, the past few years have revealed that PYD/YPG are not beyond carrying out ethnic cleansing of non-Kurdish minorities in an attempt to achieve a demographic shift. The main threat to Kurdish ethnocentric territorial claims over the area are the other large minorities, the Arabs and the Assyrian Christians.
Salih Muslim, the leader of PYD, openly declared his intention to conduct an ethnic cleansing campaign against Syrian Arabs who live in what he now calls Rojava. “One day those Arabs who have been brought to the Kurdish areas will have to be expelled,” said Muslim in an interview with Serek TV. Over two years since that interview he has fulfilled his word, as YPG begun burning Arab villages around Al Hasakah Province hoping to create a demographic shift. It is estimated that ten thousands Arab villagers have been ethnically cleansed from Al Hasake province so far. The villages around Tal Abayad have suffered the most as Kurdish expansionists seek to connect the discontiguous population centres of Al Hasakah and Al Raqqa. “The YPG burnt our village and looted our houses,” said Mohammed Salih al-Katee, who left Tel Thiab Sharki, near the city of Ras al-Ayn, in December.
YPG have also begun a campaign of intimidation, murder and property confiscation against the Assyrian Christian minority. The YPG and PYD made it a formal policy to loot and confiscate the property of those who had escaped their villages after an ISIS attack, in the hope of repopulating Assyrian villages with Kurds. The Assyrians residents of the Khabur area in Al Hasaka province formed a militia called the Khabour Guard in the hope of defending their villages against ISIS attacks. The Khabur Guard council leaders protested the practice of looting by Kurdish YPG militia members who looted Assyrian villages that were evacuated after ISIS attacked them. Subsequently, the YPG assassinated the leader of the Khabur Guard David Jindo and attempted to Assassinate Elyas Nasser. At first the YPG blamed the assassination on ISIS but Elyas Nasser, who survived, was able to expose the YPG’s involvement from his hospital bed. Since the assassination YPG has forced the Khabour Guard to disarm and to accept YPG ‘protection.’ Subsequently most Assyrian residents of the Khabour who had fled to Syrian Army controlled areas of Qamishli City could not return to their villages.
The Assyrian Christian community in Qamishli has also been harassed by YPG Kurdish militia. YPG attacked an Assyrian checkpoint killing one fighter of the Assyrian militia Sootoro and wounding three others. The checkpoint was set up after three Assyrian restaurants were bombed on December 20, 2016 in an attack that killed 14 Assyrian civilians. Assyrians suspected that YPG was behind these bombings in an attempt to assassinate Assyrian leaders and prevent any future claims of control over Qamishli.
It would be foolish to ignore the signs that more widely spread ethnic cleansing campaigns may occur if Kurdish expansionists are supported, especially since other ethnic groups are not on board with their federalism plans. It has only been 90 years since the Assyrian genocide which was conducted by Turks and Kurds. This history should not be allowed to be repeated. Assyrians have enjoyed safety and stability in the Syrian state since this time. Forcing the Assyrians to accept federalism is not going to ensure their safety. Establishment of a federal Kurdish state in Iraq has not protected Assyrian villages from attacks by Kurdish armed groups either. The campaign of ethnic cleansing against both Assyrians and Arabs in Al Hasakah has already begun and may now only escalate.
Israel wants to establish a Kurdistan, as a Sunni-Iranian rival to Shi’ite Iran. They hope such a Sunni state will block Iran’s access to Syria and will also prevent Lebanese resistance against Israeli invasion. This was all outlined in Israel’s Yinon Plan published in 1982. Israel is an extension of US influence and hegemony in the region, the Israeli lobby holds much sway over US politics. Strengthening Israel in the region will strengthen US influence over the region, once again shrinking Russian influence and pushing the nuclear power into a corner. Journalists who show a sense of confusion about the reason the West is supportive of Kurdish expansionism should consider this point.
Finally, a designated ‘Kurdish area’ in Syria is deeply rooted in ethnocentric chauvinism. A US state strictly designated for Hispanic, White or Black ethnicity would be outrageous to suggest and would be considered racist. But the use of ethnicity as a means to divide and conquer is the oldest and most cynical form of imperialism. Syria must remain for all Syrians, not just for one minority. Voices who oppose this should be discouraged. The Syrian Constitution should continue to resist all ethnocentric religious-based parties. If there is a change to the Syrian constitution, it should be the removal of the word Arab from Syrian Arab Republic. In spite of the fact that the vast majority Syrians speak the Arabic language, the majority of Syrian are historically not ethnically Arab. All sections of Syrian society should be treated equally under the Syrian flag.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/why-a-kurdish-enclave-in-syria-is-a-very-bad-idea/5519109
The Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government, in which the Peshmerga are the security forces for, has undertaken a campaign of Kurdification in which Assyrian identity has been attacked religiously, linguistically and at a cultural level.
In June 2013, it was reported by The Assyrian Universal Alliance that in Rabatki in Northern Iraq, an ethnic Assyrian village that has never had a Kurdish population, was attacked by seven car loads of Kurdish men armed with guns. They attacked the village and were told that if anyone attempted to produce a crop, their farms and houses would be burned to the ground.
However, as recently as less than two weeks, six Assyrian organisations issued a joint statement on human right violations by the YPG in North-East Syria. It states that its main cause of concern is the illegal seizure of properties, forced enlistment into the YPG, and threats, pressure and targeted killings of Assyrians by the YPG. The YPG are the military wing of the Partiya Yekitiya Demokrat (PYD).
Senior Crisis Advisor at Amnesty International, Lama Fakih, states: “By deliberately demolishing civilian homes, in some cases razing and burning entire villages, displacing their inhabitants with no justifiable military grounds, the Autonomous Administration is abusing its authority and brazenly flouting international humanitarian law, in attacks that amount to war crimes.”
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/questioning-kurdish-secularism/
Just as in the 1910’s and 1920’s where Kurdish tribesmen helped Ottoman forces drive out the Armenian and Assyrian indigenous populations where they were the majority, a gross demographic change is slowly occurring in northeastern Syria and across the border in Iraq’s Nineveh province.
Qamishli is a testament to this demographic change when one considers the city was established in 1926 by Assyrian survivors of the genocide, yet less then 100 years later, it is now a Kurdish majority. Why is this the case? Settlement projects across Turkey, Iraq and Syria that predate Israeli settlements in the West Bank has seen Armenian and Assyrian historical and cultural areas turned into bastions of the now Kurdish majority.
But with the YPG having women pose in photos next to revolutionary flags, this will once again be swept under the carpet by Western media, Western left wing trendies and Kurdish activists. It will mostly be as if nothing happened at all. I
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/revisiting-kurdish-tolerance-ypg-attacks-assyrian-militia/
The Hybrid War drama surrounding the Kurds occupies considerably less media attention than Daesh, but it’s no less dangerous to the stability of the Mideast. In fact, while Daesh has been on a years-long killing spree trying to construct an “Islamic State” in the Mideast, the militant Kurdish organizations mentioned in this article have taken to doing something similar and to a much lesser degree in advance of their shared objective of creating a transnational “Kurdistan” political entity. This goal has lately manifested itself through the intended formation of a stateless (con)federation of Kurdish communities between Syria, Turkey, Iran, and Iraq, as per the “post-state” and “Neo-Marxist” ideology of relevant groups in the first three aforementioned states.
As for the Iraqi Kurds, although they’re not “Neo-Marxists”, they are in support of either “federalization” or outright separatism, and would naturally develop their own independent relations with their other Kurdish political counterparts if they succeed in their map-changing schemes. Even though linguistic and historical differences would likely prevent the creation of a unified Kurdish ‘superstate’, the tangible effect of the aforementioned could quickly lead both to the dissolution of the multiethnic states that this demographic is a part of and the de-facto rise of a “second geopolitical ‘Israel’” in part of this space, or in other words, a unipolar-supported polity carved out of the stolen territory of other countries. This eventuality would naturally destroy the incipient Tripartite of Great Powers and also symbolize the successful completion of ‘Israel’s’ 1982 Yinon Plan of manufactured state fragmentation all along its Muslim periphery, basically ensuring that Tel Aviv becomes the undisputed power in the Mideast.
Much of what the Kurds claim as their own unique culture is actually borrowed from older cultures, such as the Assyrians, Armenians and Suryoye. In fact, much if not all of the land in Eastern Turkey that the Kurds claim as their own once belonged to the Armenians. It is hardly surprising, then, that the Kurds assisted in the Turkish genocide of Assyrians [1] and the 1915 genocide of Armenians [2].
Also known as “Shato du Seyfo,” or the “Year of the Sword, ” this genocide targeted Christians in the Ottoman Empire during World War I, mainly in 1915 [3]. The size of the Assyrian population was reduced by as much as 75 percent as a result.
On the Nineveh plains of northern Iraq, the Kurds dwell in cities such as “Dohuk” (formerly known by the Assyrian name of Nohadra). But these cities are “theirs” only in that they have established a relatively recent presence there.
Employing the criteria of cultural identity and thousands of years of historical authenticity, these lands are, and have been, uniquely Assyrian. The Kurds were essentially “given” these lands in the early 1970s as a means of drawing their eyes away from the oil-rich lands in and around the Iraqi city of Kirkuk. To this end, there were large migrations of Kurds into Dohuk which displaced, often forcibly, Assyrians who had far greater legal and historical claims to these lands.
“Despite the oppression the Kurds have suffered at the hands of the Turks, they have not learned to be tolerant. In the Kurdish autonomous of North Iraq, The Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) are acting in the same way as the Turkish government has for 90 years against Kurds and Assyrians. Reports of systematic abuses against Assyrians within the Kurdish autonomy in Iraq are constantly increasing in number. There is organized harassment, sanctioned by the Kurdish authorities. The aim is obviously the same as that of the Turks, to assimilate or expel the Assyrian indigenous people who have lived in these parts of the country for more than 7,000 years.” Augin Haninke wrote in her article The Kurds: Victims and Oppressors with Assyrian [4]
As explained in the video above, Kurdish security forces in Syria tortured and murdered Assyrian military commander David Jindo after a false invitation under the pretense of cooperation. This was a move reminiscent of Kurdish leader Simko Shikak’s 1918 assassination of Assyrian Patriarch Mar Shimun XXI Benyamin, which took place when he invited the patriarch into his home.
In 2011, imams in Dohuk encouraged Sunni Kurds to destroy Christian churches and businesses. In response, shops were attacked and clubs were besieged by mobs of people numbering in the hundreds. Hotels and restaurants were attacked with small arms fire [6].
In recent years, Kurds have continued acting disingenuously towards Christian minorities, including Assyrians, and even Yazidis. Their abuses have gone far beyond historical revisionism – an example of which can be seen in the picture below. This was also seen when they took refuge in northern Syria in the early 19th century and proceeded to drive Arabs and Armenians out of numerous towns.
In July 2014, as Daesh began its incursion into Iraqi territory, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) began its systematic disarmament of Assyrians and several other ethnic groups so that it could use their weapons in its own struggle.
Notices were circulated threatening severe punishment for noncompliance. Assurances were given that the Peshmerga would provide some degree of protection.
But as Daesh advanced, the Peshmerga took the weapons and fled, following the same example as the Iraqi Army.
This left the Assyrians and Yazidis with no means to resist or defend themselves against Daesh. Reports even surfaced of these same Peshmerga gunning down Yazidis who tried to prevent them from fleeing with all the weapons.
Haydar Shesho, a Yazidi commander who managed to procure weapons from the Iraqi government, was then arrested by KDP authorities for organizing an “illegal” militia.
This scene was repeated elsewhere throughout the country, as 150,000 Assyrians were forced to flee the Nineveh plains, their ancestral land.
These actions can only be seen as a deliberate ploy by the Kurdish leadership to allow foreign forces to violently cleanse these areas of all non-Kurdish residents and then, with the help of their U.S. allies, retake and “liberate their lands.”
On April 13, 2016, Kurdish security forces blocked hundreds of Assyrians from participating in a protest outside of the Kurdistan Regional Government Parliament building. The protest was planned in response to the ongoing confiscation of Assyrian land by Kurds in northern Iraq.
Many testimonies have surfaced, such as a statement given to the UK Parliament by Yazidi ex-captive Salwa Khalaf Rasho, in which it is said that the Peshmerga, eager to flee first ahead of Yazidi civilians, has refused requests to stay and protect Yazidis or at least leave them their weapons. They had even reassured the Yazidis that they should return to their homes, where they would be defended.
In light of these horrors, it should easily be understood why the Kurds would have a vested interest in claiming Arab, Assyrian or Armenian history as their own. Failing in that endeavor, they often resort to destroying any relevant history altogether. In this aspect, they operate in a similar manner to Daesh.
Every time the Kurds failed in an attack against Turkey, they would migrate to Syria and try to claim Syrian land as their own. For instance, they tried to claim the Syrian city of Ayn al Arab, naming it “Kobani.” The origin of the name is the word “company,” a reference to a German railway company that built the Konya-Baghdad railway. The Kurds also claimed Al Qamishli, another Syrian city, as their illegal capital and renamed it Qamishlo [8].
Most of the have fled to Germany, where their numbers are about 1.2 million, a little less than the number of Kurds living in Syria. However, they do not seem concerned about seeking autonomy there. They only seek it in the Middle Eastern countries that have provided them with refuge all of these years – these are the countries they want to stab in the back instead of thanking them for their hospitality.
Amnesty International’s many refutable allegations against the Syrian government and the Syrian Arab Army cannot be taken at face value in the absence of other corroborating reports [9]. In some cases, however, they do report truthfully, such as when they released a report in 2015 accusing the YPG, the militia of Syria’s Kurdish population, of a range of human rights abuses [10].
“These abuses include forced displacement, demolition of homes, and the seizure and destruction of property,” the group wrote. “In some cases, entire villages have been demolished, apparently in retaliation for the perceived support of their Arab or Turkmen residents for the group that calls itself the Islamic State (IS) or other non-state armed groups.” Amnesty International has also documented the use of child soldiers, according to Lama Fakih, a senior crisis advisor for the group.
The Kurds claim that their “Kurdistan” is “multicultural and multireligious,” which is disingenuous when you consider that those additional cultures consist of people now dwelling amongst a Kurdish majority in lands the Kurds took by force. These people will be faced with the prospect of casting meaningless votes on Kurdish independence since, even if they all voted “no,” they would nonetheless be outvoted by the Kurdish “yes” majority and as a result would still find themselves subject to a Kurdish government and agenda.
According to Rûdaw, in an article written in 2014, “Last year Ahmed Turk, a Kurdish politician in Turkey, declared that the Kurds have their share of ‘guilt in the genocide, too,’ and apologized to the Armenians. ‘Our fathers and grandfathers were used against Assyrians and Yazidis, as well as against Armenians. They persecuted these people; their hands are stained with blood. We as the descendants apologize,’ Turk said.” [14].
The Kurds have a centuries-long history of persecuting minority groups, having committed genocide against them with alarming frequency. Historical accounts of acts of genocide by the Kurds from 1261 through 1999 are documented in Genocides Against the Assyrian Nation.
In A.D. 1261, in what was referred to as “the coming of the Kurds,” thousands of Assyrians fled the Nineveh plains villages of Bartillah, Bakhdida (Qaraqosh), Badna, Basihra and Karmlis, moving toward the citadel of Arbil to escape a substantial Kurdish emigration. King Salih Isma’il had ordered a great number of Kurds to move from the mountains of Turkey to the Nineveh plains. Assyrian villages on the plains were looted and the thousands of Assyrians who were not able to escape to Arbil were butchered by the Kurdish newcomers. A monastery for nuns in Bakhdida was invaded and its inhabitants brutally massacred. A New York Times article from 1915 addressing the mass slaughter of Christians at the hands of Turks and Kurds.
Kurdish tribes in Turkey, Syria and Iran conducted regular raids and even paramilitary assaults against their Christian neighbors during World War I. The Kurds, acting in accordance with a long-standing tradition of a perceived Kurdish right to pillage Christian villages, were responsible for many atrocities that were committed against Assyrian Christians. A Kurdish chieftain assassinated the patriarch of the Church of the Aast at a negotiation dinner in 1918, the aftermath of which led to the further decimation of the Christian population.
The Armenian genocide was carried out during and after World War I and implemented in two phases: the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacres and subjection of army conscripts to forced labor, followed by the deportation of women, children, the elderly, and the infirm on death marches leading to the Syrian desert [15]. Driven forward by military escorts, the deportees were deprived of food and water and subjected to periodic robbery, rape and massacre.
Other indigenous and Christian ethnic groups, such as the Assyrians and the Ottoman Greeks, were similarly targeted for extermination by the Ottoman government in the Assyrian genocide and the Greek genocide, and their treatment is considered by some historians to be part of the same genocidal policy that targeted the Armenians. Most Armenian diaspora communities around the world came into being as a direct result of the genocide.
In the eastern provinces, the Armenians were subject to the whims of their Turkish and Kurdish neighbors, who would regularly overtax them, subject them to brigandage and kidnapping, force them to convert to Islam, and otherwise exploit them without interference from central or local authorities.
Egged on by their Ottoman rulers, Kurdish tribal chieftains raped, murdered and pillaged their way through the southeastern provinces where for centuries they had co-existed, if uneasily, with the Armenians and other non-Muslims. Henry Morgenthau [16], who served as U.S. Ambassador in Constantinople at the height of the bloodshed, described the Kurds’ complicity in his chilling 1918 memoir Ambassador Morgenthau’s Story:
“The Kurds would sweep down from their mountain homes. Rushing up to the young girls, they would lift their veils and carry the pretty ones off to the hills. They would steal such children as pleased their fancy and mercilessly rob all the rest of the throng…While they were committing these depredations, the Kurds would freely massacre, and the screams of women and old men would add to the general horror.” [17].
Finnish investigative journalist Bruno Jantti described his experience working in Iraqi Kurdistan while investigating Daesh:
“When working in Iraqi Kurdistan, I was struck by the prevalence of regressive attitudes, including racism and sexism. I returned recently from Iraqi Kurdistan where I spent a couple of weeks investigating the Islamic State (IS) group. Working mostly in the vicinity of Sulaymaniyah and Dohuk, I could not help but notice a great many societal and cultural characteristics that somewhat surprised me.
In another city, a police chief was astonished and disappointed that my colleagues and myself were applying for a permit to work in a camp inhabiting Syrian refugees. The police chief stated: ‘But these are Syrian refugees!’ There was no shortage of contempt in his voice.
I had been fully aware that Kurdish nationalism flirts with highly questionable portrayals of Arabs, Persians and Turkish people. In Iraqi Kurdistan, I was surprised at how prevalent some of those attitudes seemed to be.” [23]
an image that Stephen Gowans recently critiqued in “The Myth of the Kurdish YPG’s Moral Excellence.” [25].
What they actually seek to create is an illegal autonomous state carved out of existing sovereign countries. The freedom they seek is to be brought about by means of slaughtering natives in the countries that they want to Balkanize and divide on sectarian lines [26]. They have set about vacating areas of indigenous people, utilizing fear and forceful tactics that are supported by their sponsors but that are in violation of globally accepted human rights. To agree with their cause is to agree with genocidal actions that, in essence, tear people away from their homes and lands while fitting conveniently into the imperial views of Western nations.
Up until recently, Kurds with separatist ambitions were seen in a positive light. But their hidden agenda has now been exposed and their true intentions revealed.
Regardless, here are a few salient points one should bear in mind about the Kurds which the hand-wringers conveniently ignore in their hagiographies:
— Kurdish predatory mass killings of Christians and Yazidis are well-characterized and went on for centuries. Grinding persecution continues to this day, as can be gleaned from detailed reports by both Assyrian and Yazidi organizations (here; here; here)
— Kurdish “region(s)” were ethnically cleansed of Jews by the late 19th/early 20th centuries in a series a pogroms, compounded by constant grinding persecution including enslavement of Jewish families handed over between generations of Kurds as “family property” (p. 658; p. 108)
— The Kurds of Turkey, brutally oppressed (here) by Ataturk’s ugly ethno-racist Turkish supremacist state (here), since the 1920s, ongoing, evolved their own brutal (here) Marxist terror organization, the PKK, to combat this oppression. Those Marxist PKK elements are the fighting backbone of the Syrian Kurds whom the U.S. is now claimed to be “abandoning”
— Kurds of Iraqi “Kurdistan” have enshrined the Sharia (“This Constitution confirms and respects the Islamic identity of the majority of the people of Iraqi Kurdistan. It considers the principles of Islamic Sharia as one of the main sources of legislation… It is not allowed to enact a law inconsistent with the provisions of the fundamentals of Islam,” Articles 6 & 7) and even apply it to Kurdish conscientious objectors to Islam who escape their Kurdish Muslim paradise and flee to the West. (here; here)
— 50% of Kurdistan’s women undergo FGM, sanctioned by the Sharia
Johny Messo is head of the World Council of Arameans. In 2014 Messo issued this statement when Israel’s Minister of Interior, H.E. Gideon Sa‘ar, signed a document that recognizes “Aramean” as a distinct national identity in Israel’s population registry:
We greatly commend Israel for being the first state in the world to recognize our people in keeping with international law. This fantastic news has had a major impact on the global Aramean population. It encourages us to continue our legal struggle for recognition by our home countries of Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon”
Messo, was quoted from this story published today (10/10/19) from about the depredations and duplicity of the Kurdish Marxist brigades operating within Northern Syria:
“The PYD/YPG is threatening Syriacs and still forcibly detaining some children to join them,” Johny Messo, head of the World Council of Arameans (Syriacs), told Anadolu Agency on Thursday. Telling how the terrorist PYD/YPG fought other terrorist groups only to pursue its own territorial aims, he explained: “The aim of the PYD/YPG in its struggle against Daesh was to seize their territories and integrate them as part of the autonomous Kurdish region envisaged by them.” The U.S. had enlisted the PYD/YPG to fight Daesh, while Turkey objected that using one terror group to fight another makes no sense. Messo said the PYD/YPG and Daesh are both terror groups, differing only in aims, and sometimes even working together. “For example, the BBC showed that the PYD/YPG signed an agreement with Daesh. And, according to our own sources, the PYD/YPG took former Daesh members with them,” he added. Messo said it is the PYD/YPG — the Syrian branch of the [MARXIST] terrorist PKK….
Kurds, on the other hand, invaded Ras al-Ayn, 90 percent of whose population is Arab. Ras al-Ayn is an ancient Assyrian town named Rish Ayno. but the YPG-led Kurds call it “Sere Kaniye” today. So even when Kurds did not establish a legally-recognized government in Syria, they started Kurdifying the names of the towns in the region. This shows how much they disrespect and degrade the ancient heritage of northern Syria.
Free of the Middle East’s Antisemitic baggage, clear headed about Turkey, and experientially knowledgeable about the fanatical Marxist Kurdish militias of the Syria-Turkey border areas as well (here; here; here; here; here; here), Johny Messo and his indigenous Christian organization are ideally suited to weigh in on the Trump Administration decision to withdraw troops from the (70+-year ongoing) Syrian morass.
3) The PKK and the PYD/YPG Kurds, who control the SDF, are two sides of the same coin. The communist ideology and violent nature of these nationalist organizations discredit democratic and liberal values. These ‘heroes’ have oppressed vulnerable Arameans, taken their innocent lives, Kurdified their lands and still use a tiny Christian group as their mouthpiece to represent Kurdish interests. The resentment against the YPG among the locals is prevalent, yet underreported. In due time, their authoritarian governance would likely lead to an ISIS 2.0 among the local Arabs, who outnumber the Kurds, mainly among Arab nationalists and among conservative Arab and Kurdish Muslims.
“the Kurds, the vast majority of whom are orthodox Sunni muslims”
The theme of Islam is not very prominent or popular when it comes to writings about theKurds. Political analyses of Kurdish nationalism tend, almost as a matter of definition, todownplay religious aspects, which the Kurds by and large have in common with PoliticalIslam among the Kn ethnic factors like language that mark off the Kurds.1
http://home.hum.uva.nl/oz/leezenberg/PoliIslamKurds.pdf
POLITICAL ISLAM AMONG THE KURDS
Michiel Leezenberg University of Amsterdam
Paper originally prepared for the International Conference ‘Kurdistan: The UnwantedState’, March 29-31, 2001, Jagiellonian University/Polish-Kurdish Society, Cracow,Poland
Ongoing Kurdish Terror Attacks Against Aramean Christians in Syria
https://wca-ngo.org/wca-news/press-releases/547-ongoing-kurdish-terror-attacks-against-aramean-christians-in-syria
https://wca-ngo.org/wca-news/press-releases/589-kurdish-ypg-asayesh-forces-kidnapped-more-aramean-christians-in-northeast-syria
https://wca-ngo.org/wca-news/press-releases/591-video-shows-christian-property-in-syria-confiscated-by-kurdish-forces
https://wca-ngo.org/our-work/un-geneva/597-37hrc_coisyri
https://wca-ngo.org/wca-news/press-releases/613-ypg_illegal-closure-aramean-armenian-schools_syria
https://wca-ngo.org/wca-news/press-releases/614-dawronoye-failed-murder-attempt-on-isa-rashid
http://www.meri-k.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Christian-Report.pdf
https://www.usip.org/sites/default/files/The-Christians-Perceptions-of-Reconciliation-and-Conflict-Report.pdf
http://www.meri-k.org/publication/the-christiansperceptions-of-reconciliation-and-conflict/
Nightly cries for help, caused by the rampaging of Kurdish thieves, made the Christian population’s vulnerability plain to the researcher as well.
Oh yes, they had heard. They had heard about what happened to the Christian village of Salah. They had heard how the village’s Muslim village sheriff Hasso, at the urging of the great city of Midyat’s governor, had called on the Kurdish clans, incited them against the village’s Christian population, and along with soldiers wiped out the entire Christian population of the village. They had also heard that Midyat’s Christian population had begun to acquire weapons and make preparations to defend against the enemy. They had heard, they knew, they were hoping…
“I have, along with Asmar Sewalla, kept our eyes open and listened around a bit,” Yusuf continued, “and Kurds from the village of Derhab have begun to gather in the village of Estrako. We’ve heard gunfire and screams. God help our brothers and sisters in Estrako. Something has happened, they’re planning something, I’m sure.”
The Kurdish men from the surrounding villages around Zaz had now surrounded the village. They waited more men before they would strike. The Christians had taken refuge in the Church of Mor Dimet and the two mansions in the village. Osmane Sille and the other Kurdish beys (chiefs) each had leadership over their men. Osmane Sille and his men committed themselves to storm the church while Latif Bey, son of Chimo and Hitto of the Haydari family, would capture the mansions. Osmane Sille, who held counsel with the other beys, was furious that they had not organized themselves quickly enough.
In the village of Estrako there lived twenty Christian families at this time, while the remaining part of the village consisted mainly of Kurds, numbering over two hundred families. The Kurds in the village had, under the leadership of Latif and Osmane Sille, gathered on July 3rd, the feast day of the apostle Mor Thomas, a holiday for Christians in Tur Abdin. They gathered all the poor, terrified Christians around the village square. They had been taken there by barbaric violence. The battered and helpless poor creatures were then subjected to an indescribable and merciless slaughter. The slaughter was going on the whole time during the Kurdish women’s cries of joy. Those who just a while ago were their neighbors and friends. It was rumored that there were only about a dozen or so youths who managed to survive.
By wiping out the Christians, Osmane Sille could take over their estates and arable land. That was why he called the other Kurdish beys to him, all of which were his friends and all of which thirsted for the blood and estates of the “infidels”.
And the Kurdish men began to pour down from all directions shouting “Allah u Akbar, Allah u Akbar!” They came from the mountains, plains and slopes and had soon filled the entire village.
It was not long before the young, elderly and women from the Kurdish villages around Zaz followed their men’s footsteps. They came by the hundreds with their carts, donkeys, mules and horses. Now that their armed men were inside the village and the Christians in their fortresses, they could roam freely in the village and loot the houses. They entered house after house and took everything they came across: pans, lamps, oils, beds, pots, chickens, cows, goats, sheep, cabins and everything else. The crosses, bibles and other books of saints they came across in the houses were gathered in a separate pile that they formed within sight of the church.
Sara had been crying all night, her eyes were swollen and you could never believe that this woman could shape a smile on her now so melancholy face. She mourned her husband, like everyone else in the church mourned their husbands, fathers and relatives who had all fell victim to the Kurds’ slyness. Did they live, were they dead or injured?
For several days, they had been promised safe conduct from the village by the Kurdish leader Osmane Sille if they surrendered. He had sworn an oath on the Qur’an, the Prophet, his children and his marriages that he did not intend to hurt them, if only they left. Of course, it was their estates he wanted to get hold of.
“Leave the village and you will get to live!” he said again and again.
The Suryoye did not think much of these promises, the battles in the evenings and nights had already claimed its victims on both sides. Blood had flowed and blood feud was more the rule than the exception. But did they have any choice? The scorching summer heat was unbearable and the women and children who were in the mansions had also become a burden. Many of the men made their way to the shadowy places and lay there, seemingly lifeless.
Necessity forced the Suryoye out of the mansions where they were quickly surrounded by Muslims. They were taken to the waterholes of the village to let them drink water first. In accommodating them they wanted to show that they were serious about their promises and thus avoid chaos, while at the same time hoping that this trick would attract out the others from the church as well. Then began the march out of the village. When they had come to a place outside the village called Pergume, hell began to break loose. At a given signal from Osmane Sille, armed men began to emerge from all sides. The Christian Suryoye were rounded up, surrounded by the armed men, and the slaughter began.
Soon they lay there, the dead, side by side and on one another, in their own blood. An old woman who tried to get up collapsed on the ground, pale and emaciated. Some of the more beautiful women were gathered together and guarded by a few chosen men. Two men escaped death, Hanna Meryam and Yusuf Asmar. Hanna Meryam escaped and managed to miraculously get to the church in Zaz where he informed the Suryoye of the events, and Yusuf Asmar fled to the village of Hah’s mansion. The number of murdered Suryoye was reported to be 366 people during this dark day. Later it turned out, after a couple of days when the Muslim villagers went there between the corpses, that Hazme and her son Isa had also survived. They took them to the village and in that way they survived. Strangely enough, they had not been killed.
The condition of the Suryoye became increasingly difficult and unbearable because of the lack of water and the scorching summer sun. The Church of Mor Dimet was suddenly stormed by the Kurds who managed to get into the courtyard and immediately began to, with sparkling teeth, annihilate the Suryoye completely. A man who had taken a nap at the entrance to the courtyard was surprised by the attack and woke up to the Kurd Musek’s gleaming dagger at his throat. With an appealing look he asked his former neighbor and “godfather” Musek to spare his life, only to receive the answer:
Just like everywhere in Tur Abdin, severe disturbances arose in Midyat as well in conjunction with the Kurdish tribes’ aspirations for independence during the 1830s and in the late 1800s. The city was sacked several times and set on fire, and some priests met a violent death. After a short period of calm, World War I came with extensive destruction. About a third of the population was killed.
To investigate the Kurds’ report and its truthfulness, the Ottoman authorities in Midyat sent a major with large, heavily armed troops, artillery with cannons and an observer to the village of Zaz.
The Ottoman forces arrived in the village of Zaz, set up their artillery with cannons and started shooting at the church. But despite many shootings, no counterfire came from the church. Thus the major understood that everything that the Kurds had said was a lie. He came to the church door and asked for permission to enter the church. The Suryoye opened the door for him without resistance, and when he came in, he got their permission to search everywhere in the church. He was met by a horrible sight. He saw the poor people’s suffering, the hunger and thirst appeared in everyone’s eyes, as well as sickness and death. When he was finished with his examination, he turned to the Suryoye and said:
“Everything you were accused and blamed for by the Kurds is a lie. You don’t need to be anxious and afraid, from now on, you are under my protection. Submit yourselves to my honor and my conscience and I’ll take you to safety.”
When the Ottoman soldiers had come to the rescue of the Suryoye and they came out of their fortresses, many Kurds had gathered outside. Many Suryoye did not yet know what fate they would meet. The concern was great.
The surviving Zaz residents lived in misery around the Tur Abdin region. Of the entire village’s Christian population of just over two hundred families, about a hundred people had survived the genocide. Many had died by the Kurd’s dagger, some by the many hardships such as fever and other painful circumstances.
Seyfo 1915 — Sold for a hen
Authored by Behcet Barsom and produced by SOUF—The Syriac Orthodox Youth Association of the Archdiocese of Sweden and Scandinavia (www.souf.nu)
https://medium.com/@SOUF/sold-for-a-hen-dc2e0e4d29ff
The Kurds and Assyrians: Everything You Didn’t Know
http://www.aina.org/news/20160331123112.htm
Genocides Against the Assyrian Nation
http://www.aina.org/martyr.html
Over the last decade, the KRG has steadily worked to undermine the influence and political authority of Assyrians and other minorities that have remained independent of KRG patronage, and has endeavored to flood the Nineveh region with Kurdish citizens and security forces. The dominant Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), which rules the portion of the Kurdistan Region adjacent to the Nineveh Plain, has pursued and implemented a number of systematic strategies (that will be described in the later sections of this report) with the aim of dividing minority groups, weakening their solidarity, and quashing their political will in order to make possible the KDP’s annexation of the Nineveh Plain. A new report, The Christians: Perceptions of Recon- ciliation and Conflict published by the Middle East Research Institute in September 2017 highlights the issue and its resulting impact: “Another branch of Christian dissatisfaction is in relation to KRG’s polices in the Nineveh Plains in general. Particular participants believed that the major Kurdish political parties politicized and divided the Christian community after 2003. They pressured existing Christian political parties to fall under their control, created new Kurdish-affiliated political parties, and alienated those who rejected Kurdish policies in the region. Moreover, the fact that the Peshmerga forces and the Kurdish Asayesh forces controlled security in Nineveh Plain while its administration was managed by the Central Government of Iraq (CGI) also contributed to deepening divisions as both actors pursued conflicting agendas regarding the future of the area.” 5 According to Human Rights Watch, “KRG authorities have relied on intimidation, threats, and arbitrary arrests and detentions, more than actual violence, in their efforts to secure support of minority communities for their agenda regarding the disputed territories.” 6 It is this harmful approach—which jeopardizes the future of minorities—that this report will address.
ERASING ASSYRIANS How the KRG Abuses Human Rights, Undermines Democracy, and Conquers Minority Homeland by Reine Hanna and Matthew Barber Assyrian Confederation of Europe September 25, 2017
http://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/4ec518_18285c91d7924250aa1c52b0b4c7da9f.pdf
But the Kurds know how to fight,… And, as I said, they’re not angels. They’re not angels, if you take a look … The PKK, which is a part of the Kurds … is probably worse at terror, more of a terrorist threat in many ways, than ISIS… I’m not going to get involved in a war between Turkey and Syria, especially when, if you look at the Kurds, and again I say this with great respect, they’re no angels.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/10/trump-kurds-angels-dubs-pkk-worse-isil-191017081803445.html
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/10/trump-kurds-not-angels-pkk-worse-than-isis.html
80 verletzte Polizeibeamte und 13 beschädigte Fahrzeuge Schwere Ausschreitungen beim 20. Kurdenfestival in Mannheim 8. September 2012
Mannheim/Rhein-Neckar, 08. September 2012. (red/pol) Das 20. Kurdische Kulturfestival in Mannheim mit 40.000 Teilnehmern steht unter dem Schatten der Gewalt. 80 Polizeibeamte wurden von einem wütenden Mob verletzt – 13 Fahrzeuge beschädigt. Es gab zwei Wellen der Gewalt und über Stunden eine Art Belagerungszustand. Auf dem Maimarktgelände skandierten rund 1.000 aggressive Kurden PKK und Parolen, vor dem Gelände sicherten rund 700 Polizisten das Gebiet. Gegen 15:20 Uhr kam es zur ersten Eskalation, kurz darauf folgte ein zweiter Angriff – erst gegen 19 Uhr begann sich die Situation zu entschärfen…
https://rheinneckarblog.de/08/schwere-ausschreitungen-beim-20-kurdenfestival-in-mannheim/15818.html
15.10.2019 Türkisches Café und Kiosk angegriffen Kurden-Demo in Herne eskaliert – fünf Verletzte!
https://www.bild.de/regional/ruhrgebiet/ruhrgebiet-aktuell/tuerkisches-caf-angegriffen-kurden-demonstration-in-herne-eskaliert-65350942.bild.html
Nie vergesse ich, als mein Maoisten-Mann einen kurdischen Studenten angeschleppt hatte, der, Anfang der 1970er, in unserer Bude in Berlin mit Gitarre hockte u. kurdische Lieder sang, den Refrain in deutsch, mit einem bösen Lächeln im Gesicht: „Dabei schärfte er sein Beil, dabei schärfte er sein Beil.“ Ich fand es zurecht „kriegerisch u. blutrünstig“, wofür er mich auslachte u. genußvoll den Refrain wiederholte. KURDEN SIND GENAUSO UNFRIEDLICH, WIE ALLE ANDEREN MOSLEMS!
http://www.pi-news.net/2019/10/tuerken-gegen-kurden-eskalation-nicht-ausgeschlossen/
TÜRKEN & KURDEN BETRÜGEN UNSERE SOZIALKASSEN, sie kauften schon in den 1990ern ganze Straßenzüge auf, etwa die Kurden in Celle:
https://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/archiv/1999/Heroin-Waffen-Immobilien-Die-schmutzigen-Geschaefte-der-PKK-in-Deutschland,erste7184.html
„18-Jähriger stößt 17-Jährigen aus Lehrte ins Gleisbett
Ein 17-jähriger ist am Freitagnachmittag von einem 18-Jährigen am Ahltener Bahnhof ins Gleisbett gestoßen worden. Der Tat war ein Streit vorausgegangen, weil der mutmaßliche Täter mit der Beziehung seiner Schwester zu dem Opfer nicht einverstanden war.
Großer Polizeieinsatz am Bahnhof in Ahlten am Freitagnachmittag: Ein 17-Jähriger wurde von einem 18-Jährigen ins Gleisbett gestoßen und dabei verletzt.
Nach Angaben der Polizei war die nicht akzeptierte Liebesbeziehung des Opfers mit der Schwester des 18-jährigen die Ursache für die Attacke. Bei dem Opfer handelt es sich um einen 17-jährigen Inder, der in Lehrte lebt. Der 18-Jährige mutmaßliche Täter lebt in Ahlten und ist kurdischer Abstammung.
15 junge Männer lauerten dem Opfer auf
Laut Polizei wollten sich die beiden jungen Männer am Freitag gegen 15.45 Uhr zur Aussprache am Bahnhof Ahlten auf dem S-Bahnsteig treffen. Der 17-Jährige erschien in Begleitung seines Zwillingsbruders. Der 18-Jährige aus Ahlten brachte 15 Begleiter mit, die in Fahrzeugen versteckt auf die beiden 17-Jährigen warteten.
Als die Zwillingsbrüder am Bahnhof auftauchten, wurden sie zusammengeschlagen – von wie vielen Personen ist derzeit laut Polizei unklar. Der 17-jährige, der mit der Schwester des 18-jährigen Hauptbeschuldigten liiert sein soll, wurde anschließend von dem 18-Jährigen ins Gleisbett gestoßen.
https://www.haz.de/Umland/Lehrte/Lehrte-18-Jaehriger-stoesst-17-Jaehrigen-ins-Gleisbett
The Syrians do not share this love. They view the Kurd fighters as brutal ethnic cleansing US mercenaries.. ‘One Israel is more than enough’, say the locals who are mighty pleased with the forthcoming defeat of the “New Israel”, the Kurdish entity of ‘Rojava’, or ‘Syrian Kurdistan’. … the Kurdish YPG was a Syrian subsidiary of a veteran Kurdish terror organization in Turkey that killed tens of thousands of Turks over forty years of activity. The Turks weren’t amused when fighters and weapons began to flow from Syria to the terrorists in Turkey… Not only the Kurds entered into a close alliance with the United States and Israel, but they also carried out violent ethnic cleansing of the local Arab population, trying to create a “Syrian Kurdistan”… The Kurds try to preserve what they can. Their supporters speak of impending “ethnic cleansing” – although until now the Kurds were the ones who carried out ethnic cleansing.
Israel sides with the Kurds for they aren’t Arabs. The Kurdish entities and movements enjoyed Israeli support, received Israeli weapons and instructors, as they were supposed to create a ‘New Israel’ on the regained ground. The creation of Syrian Kurdistan, and before that – Iraqi Kurdistan, and if you were lucky – also Kurdistan in Anatolia and Iran – was always a Zionist plan. Pro-Israeli forces in Europe and America play for the Kurds, replaying their old cliché. “Why Arabs can have 22 states, and Jews/Kurds can’t?” – they ask. They demand the creation of Kurdistan under the Israeli-American protectorate, having cut it from Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq. The implementation of such a plan is fraught with ethnic cleansing and can raise a wave of refugees in the tens of millions of people, which, of course, would be ok with Israel: it does not accept refugees. As opposed to other forces, Israel would be satisfied by ruining the region. Defeat of Kurd clients and success of Erdogan, this sworn enemy of the Jewish state, is a huge blow for Israel.
Kurds are the Albanians of Anatolia. A recently-unified ethnicity, in the past only reputed for banditry and being bashi-bazouks, most infamously in the Armenian-Assyrian genocides. Then they go kvetch that they’re discriminated against, which is what they fully deserve
indeed the massacres of 1915 were perpetrated by Kurds, and the Kurds inherited houses and fields of Armenians. Diyarbakir was an Armenian town, now it is a Kurdish city.
Israelis consider Kurds, including Kurdish Jews, exceedingly dumb. ‘Ana Kurdi’, “I am a Kurd” is a sort of explanation of a stupid mistake one made.
Turks were organizers: Kurds were opportunistic mass-murderers, thieves, looters, abductors of Christian children (after murdering their parents…..). Kurds never had the brains nor the organizational skills to organize the Genocides. They still don’t have the brains nor the organizational skills to have their own country, despite being around 30-35 million strong in the region.
https://www.unz.com/ishamir/cautious-optimism-on-turks-and-kurds/
The cozy relationship between the Zionist state and the various Kurdish groups centered at the intersection of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria goes back as far as the 1960s, as Jerusalem has consistently used them to undermine its enemies. It is not by chance that their respective interests overlap to a near tee, between the founding of a Kurdish protectorate and the Zionist plan for a ‘Greater Israel’ in the Middle East which includes a balkanization of Syria. Mossad has openly provided the Kurds with training and they have learned much in the ways of the ethnic cleansing of Arabs from the Jewish state in order to carve out a Syrian Kurdistan.
The ties between the YPG and the PKK are undeniable, as both groups follow jailed leader Abdullah Öcalan’s teachings which merge Kurdish nationalism with the theories of ‘democratic confederalism’ from the influential Jewish-American anarchist philosopher, Murray Bookchin. While the PKK may have been initially founded as a ‘Marxist-Leninist’ organization in the early 70s, a widespread misconception is that it still follows that aim when its ideology long-ago shifted to that of a self-professed and contradictory ‘libertarian socialism’ theorized by Bookchin who was actually a zealous anti-communist. Not coincidentally, the Western anarchist icon was also an avowed Zionist who often defended Israel’s war crimes and genocide of Palestinians while demonizing its Arab state opponents as the aggressors, including Syria. Scratch an anarchist and a neo-conservative will bleed, every time.
https://www.unz.com/article/how-the-pro-war-left-fell-for-the-kurds-in-syria/
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