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No Arab groups should settle in South Kurdistan not
now not ever
12.2.2007
By Steve Tataii, eKurd.net Contributing Writer, recent
U.S. Senator Candidate
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February 12, 2007
ekurd.net
Related to President Talabani's idea in the news; to
settle some Palestinians in South Kurdistan:
Palestinian Refugees should not be settled in South
Kurdistan (Kurdistan region - Iraq) not now not
ever. Arabs have fought against Kurdish nation in
the past 87 years since the unjust partition of
Kurdistan into 4. Not a single Arab nation stood up
against this injustice against a whole nation of
peaceful and proud Kurds, the largest nation without
a country individually or in their total of over 50
million Kurds.
Worse than that: The settlement of any Palestinian
group in South Kurdistan will bring in their
problems with Jews into Kurdish land, and before you
know it Kurds will be dragged into another war
within their own war they have nothing to do with,
and want to have nothing to do with while Kurds are
trying to survive as an occupied nation under attack
themselves. |
Steve Tataii, author of several books on Kurds and
Kurdistan and recent U.S. Senator Candidate |
When, and where did the late Chairman Arafat spoke
up against “ANFAL” or the Chemical Bombing of
Halabja or the massacre of 8000 Barzani Kurdish
members or the massacre of Faili Kurds or the
systematic Ethnic Cleansing of Kirkuk and Mosul
Kurdistan, and the list goes on? When? Where? How?
The answer is; that even if he did, he did not
officially do so, and we all have noted his close
relation with Saddam as one of his close allies. Did
he not know what Saddam had done against Kurdish
civilians? He did.
As a Kurd living in Diaspora I have personally
experienced Palestinian opposition indirectly when I
was trying to raise the travel funds to go to
Washington, D.C., and raise my objections against
allowing Saddam use Helicopters in 1991 right before
the Kurds exodus to their mountains, but a longtime
“intellectual Palestinian Arab” had spoken against
my request made to a Human Rights group. It was a
non-Arab member, who told me “He killed your
proposal to the committee by speaking against
Kurdish cause, and undermining its critical state“.
There are many other examples I can give you, but
let me make it short, and remind President. Talabani;
that if he allows this settlement idea take into
reality; he will be responsible for the consequences
of creating an unwanted dilemma for Kurds the entire
world has not been willing nor able to resolve but
Kurds themselves so far, and that is “the
Palestinians’ own war of Liberation“. How can we,
the Kurds, start helping other struggles for
Liberation while all the players in these conflicts
have not yet full heartedly supported our struggles
for Liberating Kurdistan? We would then certainly
loose what we have gained in South Kurdistan before
it has completed its final steps in getting
international recognition as an official state.
There are 22 Arab states, and if Palestinians need a
home of Refuge; then any one of or several of these
22 Arab states, with full Diplomatic concessions
given to them by UN, and member states, should take
them in as Refugees not Kurdistan, herself still
struggling to secure an official status. We are
kind, and generous, but we are not naïve nor will
our Kurdish nation fall in these “model traps” we
have fallen into since 1920.
It seems; that this may be a part of a vicious plan
to drag Kurds into Arab-Jewish war over Palestine,
and cash in on the great Kurdish land, and prestige
once again. Respectfully I add: Hasn’t history
taught Mr. Talabani, a Kurd himself, about the
plight of Kurds? Or is he simply being “NICE” as one
of our Kurdish traits usually has been? Why not
focusing on De-Arabization or Reversing the recent
Ethnic Cleansing of Kirkuk, and Mosul cities, and
their Provinces? And what about a serious inquiry
into the blatant air assaults on our Peshmarga
forces last week in Mosul, and again also in 2003,
not mentioning the bombing in Erbil student housing?
Certainly these air assaults on Peshmarga, and
Kurdish civilians after Saddam can not all be just
“Friendly fire”. As perpetrators of these murderous
crimes against Peshmarga, caught unguarded, occurs;
there seems to be an element of enemy within,
infiltrating into U.S. units, wearing U.S. military
uniform, and this seems to be well organized,
hitting its targets sporadically both time wise, and
strategically within Kurdish map, but hitting its
targets accurately nevertheless. Doesn’t the task of
an “official immediate inquiry” into the killing of
our Kurdish Peshmarga have a higher priority over
any other news making piece? What about the
completion of Article 140? Isn’t he supposed to see
to it we have secured Kurdish cities, towns, and
villages for its original, and existing Kurdish
inhabitants? Or does he find this task a difficult
one as well?
We, the Kurds, have a handful in securing Freedom,
and Independence for one out of Four pieces of our
homeland. The Arab regimes in Baghdad, and Syria;
The Turkish regimes in Ankara since 1920s; the Farsi
regimes in Tehran since the Kurdish Republic of
Mahabad have all placed us under attack. Each one of
these 3 ethnic groups are attacking us on daily
basis. International community has not objected to
these crimes against humanity enough or
significantly, while most nations have never
objected.
United States government holds most of the military
might in the region, and the world, but it is still
incapable of supporting us to declare an official
Independent South Kurdistan, while its recent
U.S.S.R. counterpart declared more than 12 nations’
outright independence in 1989. His name was
President Michael Gorbachev. Doesn’t this give us
the clear indications; that Kurds themselves must
now be up in arms to try their best to focus on
Liberation of their homeland as they have done since
1920s?
They just killed 9 of our proud Peshmargas, and
called it “friendly fire“. Who are the perpetrators
to this crime, and why haven‘t they still been
arrested, and brought to military courts for
decisive, and swift punishment by firing squads?
Have they been given a free passage, and left
Kurdish Jurisdiction still under President
Talabani’s command, yet under the honorable
President Massoud Barzani‘s leadership? This is
President Talabani’s duty to act on, given the fact;
that a Revolutionary Constitution is still in effect
under the defunct and manufactured “Iraq”, which has
hampered down President Barzani’s authority in
dealing with the guest U.S. Forces in Kurdistan. I
will never forget U.S. Senator Brownback’s ultimate
insult to our Kurdish nation; when he recently
replied to the question of Kurdish Peshmarga‘s
participation per Mr. Talabani‘s orders in mediating
between Arab Sunni-Shia Sectarian violence. The
Senator disgracefully replied: “I talked with
President Barzani, and asked him to send Peshmarga
forces to help in the Sectarian violence, but he did
not send the core of the Peshmarga, and only a small
number”.
First of all, Senator Sam Brownback, running for
Presidency of the 2008 elections has no
understanding of the word “Peshmarga”, and what he
has said in the news, and on worldwide TV, and
American people or voters should never vote for this
kind of candidate, prolonging our war in the region,
but particularly for Kurds. He obviously can not
comprehend the war for Liberation of Kurds, while
Arabs, Turks, and Persians each have independent
states. He calls 4000 Peshmarga a small number? And
why should Peshmarga be ordered to get involved in
Sectarian violence between Arab Shia, and Arab
Sunni, when for decades the members from these two
Arab groups, the same ethnic group, but different
sects, have been fighting, and killing innocent
Kurdish civilians over the past 87 years?
I have said it before, and say it again: If this is
what some U.S. Senators or Reps can say or do in the
region; these few bold ones should not be allowed to
travel to Baghdad nor Erbil, because all they can do
is creating more, and new problems for Kurds, and
others with what appears to be no less than negative
subliminal, and perhaps subversive activities. I
hope president Bush as the Commander in Chief will
bar these “would be” Presidents or some of the other
similarly situated minded confused U.S. Officials
from going to the region at the tax payers’ expense,
and paid by U.S. Congress. If they’re abusing these
tax payers’ funds to travel there as part of “Get
Away” Vacation trips; then they should be exposed,
and perhaps disciplined or impeached by their
constituents or Congress, or the appropriate
authorities.
In closing, I respectfully ask President Talabani or
his officers to Please write your answers to these
questions, and comment by submitting them in an
article. This is a Kurdish website, and your
critical efforts will be for our Kurdish people’s
progress in their bloody ongoing wars sir. Thank you
Respectfully.
* Steve Tataii, author, and recent U.S. Senator
Candidate. Special for eKURD.NET
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