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Why the US does not support an Independent Kurdish
State, but Supports the establishment of the
Palestinian state
29.8.2007
By Dana Berzinjy - eKurd.net contributing writer |
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I Was Wondering Why The United States Of America
Does Not Support An Independent Kurdish State, But
Supports The Establishment Of The Palestinian State.
August
29, 2007
Sydney, Dana Berzinjy, (eKurd.net), -- As you
know the population of Palestine is very small in
comparison with the population of the Kurds. Kurds
have been living in the Middles East thousands of
years before the arrival of Arabs as you like
(Muslims) under the manner of Islam. The Kurds never
acted terrorist activities against the United States
of America and no American solders ever were hurt by
the Kurds.
Kurds received the Jewish faith in the 1st century,
and in the past the Kurds had supported the Jewish
people against Roman invasion. During Islam
incursion to the Kurdish homeland and Jewish, our
people were forced to convert to Islam and they were
forced to leave their land for the Arab Muslims. |
Dana
Berzinjy |
Jewish and the Kurdish
people were forced by their oppressors to pay tax to
Muslims. According to a new research that has done
by a group of scientists which consisted of
Israelis, Germans and Indians proved that the Kurds,
Armenians and Jewish people have a closer genetic
relationship to populations in the northern
Mediterranean than other nationalities.
The population of the Arabs in Palestine was
1,135,269 in 1947 and it was 1,380,000 in 1948 but
the Jewish population was 650,000 in 1947. The
general population of the Kurds is over 40,000,000
million, but still the Kurds are struggling for
their rights to be recognized by their oppressors.
Even the United Nation has not played any role in
order to protect the Kurds in these countries, for
instance, Iran, Syria, Turkey, Lebanon and Armenia.
Kurds in some countries are not recognized as a
first citizen, for example in Syria Kurdish lands
have been occupied by Arabs and forced them to leave
the cities and live somewhere else. In addition to
that, the Syrian Government still calls them
foreigners, and they are not entitled to buy or sell
lands, they can not travel, and they are not granted
Syrian Citizenship or Passport.
I would like to provide another example in regard to
this issue, for instance in Turkey there are more
than 25 million Kurds which live in Turkey, but the
Turkish Government still calls them “Turkish Kurds”
even this term can not be found in a dictionary. The
authorities try to brain wash the Kurds and make
them exclude themselves to be called Kurds, for
instance the Turkish fabrication has made any
possible attempt to call Kurds bad names, for
instance, they are told if you live in a village you
are a Kurd, but if you move to a city you will
become Turkish. For centuries the Kurdish parents
are not allowed to name their children Kurdish
names, the names have to be Turkish or Islamic
names, even some of the Kurds are not Muslim they
are Yazidis, but the Turkish or Islamic names are
their fate. They are enforced to use them, and they
have to attend a court if you named your children
Kurdish names, according to the Turkish authorities,
it means that they have committed crimes against the
sovereignty of the Turkish state. This is the
“Democratic System” of Turkey if you like to call
it. The sweet Kurdish mother tongue is not allowed
to be used in education system as well. Which rights
do the Kurds have in the Middle East under the power
of the Islamic or undemocratic countries?
The Kurdish fate is getting worse in Iran under the
rule of the Iranian Republic of Islamic regime.
Their rights are not recognized by any meaning, for
instance they are not allowed to have their
representatives in the Iranian Parliament, and the
Kurdish language is not allowed to be taught and be
used in education system or in public sector. Two
months ago the Iranian regime tried to band the
Kurdish people from watching Kurdish channels which
broadcast from Europe and from Kurdistan of Iraq.
Iranian government does not want Iranian people to
see the different world except the Imams, and the
regime’s men tried to confiscate their satellite
dishes. Is it this strange behavior and the
harassment by the Iranian government is the only way
to run a country of over 60,000,000 million people?
The Kurdish way of living is not better than the
other states that Kurds live in it. The population
of the Kurds in Lebanon is about 500,000 but their
rights are not recognized either, and they have not
got a single member of the parliament to represent
theses people. Why the United Nation keeps a blind
eye on this important issue, even George Bush the
President of the United States of America can not
see this matter as a vital issue in the Middle East
besides the Palestinian issue. The President of the
United States George Bush tries hard to establish a
state for the Palestinian Arabs next to the Israel’s
State. I feel sorry for Mr. President of the United
States of America, because he follows the steps of
the Arabic leaders in the Middle East. He listens to
the Arabic countries, so that is why he does not
allow to establish a state for the homeless Kurdish
people in their lands, to become a refugee in your
own country is terrible. Is that not a big disaster
for the humanity dear Mr. Gorge Bush? For how many
centuries do the Kurdish people have to be abused by
the Arab countries and their rights to be
jeopardized? Why the Kurdish children have to sing
and admire their oppressors?
I was wondering for how long our land has to be kept
and to be occupied, and our resources like gold,
oil, steal, water, gases, cements and many more have
to be stolen by our occupiers, and to be sold
locally, and in the international markets. The
capitals from these viable resources have to be used
against our wishes. Our oppressors use these
powerful economic to buy tanks, artillery, war air
crafts to destroy our villages, country towns,
cities and kill our people. These recourses have not
been used for the welfare of the people. Our land
has billions of barrels of oil reserves, not just
the Arabic countries have oil. We want to use this
significant resource to develop and build our
country, and to share it with the Western World in
order to make and have a better Global Economic
World, and for the welfare of our nation, and the
welfare of the other nationalities, in order to have
a better World.
The Kurdish oil fields in Syria have been used by
the Syrian authority to kill innocent people in
Kurdistan and in Iraq. The explosions in Kirkuk a
few weeks ago can prove my argument, because the US
army, Iraqi Army, and the local Kurdish Police
Stations had captured a group of terrorist that had
linked with Syrian government, and all the supports
were given by Syrian authority. I want to ask the US
government this, who has sent arms and other
explosions in the past and now to Lebanon to
assassinate Lebanese politicians such as the former
Prime Minister Rafik Al-Hariri? Except Syria. Who
sends guns and other explosions to Lebanon to
support the terrorist Islamic party to attack on
Israel, and Lebanese government to kill innocent
people? Who sends road side bombs to Iraq to kill US
soldiers? Your government is well aware of these
games and knows that the Iranian government supports
and supplies these groups by everything in order to
jeopardize the democratic system that the US
government tries hard to achieve. Despite all the
negative factors that I have mentioned, your
government still supports to create another state
for Palestinian Arabs, but the Kurdish people are
still not entitled to have an independent Kurdish
State. Is this not a “Hypocrisy” of the American
Policy if you like, or you can call it “Double
Standard Policy” I believe the reality and the truth
should be part of the White House’s political arena.
I
deeply believe the “American Policy” should be on
the bases of the equality not on the bases of
favoritism. I want to tell even the party of Hamas
that won the election sometime ago is a terrorist
organization according to the United States, and the
other countries. Even Hamas’s leadership sometime
ago committed crimes against humanity, and the
people of Israel by sending suicide bombers to
Israel to kill innocent Jewish people. The United
States of America knows that Hamas’s organization
has been supported by Syria and Iran, financially,
politically, emotionally and they have also supplied
guns and other explosions that this terrorist
organization needs it.
Even in Lebanon the Fetih Allah of Islamic party
gets support from Syria and Iran to attack the
Israel, and Lebanese Government in order to
jeopardize the sovereignty of those countries, and
to stop the peace process in those countries. I want
to know who killed the former Prime Minister of
Lebanon Mr. Rafik Al-Hariri, and the other members
of the Lebanese Parliament, and some of the
Christian Lebanese journalists. I want to know who
was behind the assassination of the Kurdish
spiritual and national leader Mr. Shekh Maashooq in
Syria, except the Syrian regime. Are these
undemocratic governments and the terrorist states
are supportive for the democratic system in the
Middle East, and for the rights of other
nationalities? Of course not. They are just
obstacles in the way that democratic proceeds and
they are against the rights of people, and creating
chaos in the Middle East. The population of Egypt is
more than 80,000,000 million people according to the
old census, and more than 20% of this population is
Christians and this country is not originally Arabs,
but they are approximately (Pharaonic). What rights
do this people have under the Egyptian regime? Do
the Christian people have had a state? Does the
government of Egypt have an opposition leader or it
does have a democratic system? The answer of all
these questions is not. So if this is the case, it
means that the people are not free and there is no
freedom in Egypt such as freedom of speech, freedom
of religion, freedom of movement, and freedom of
association. When Husnni Moobarek elects himself for
an election for the head of the government for sure
he will get 99% of the votes. So Mr. President, this
is the type of democratic system that you support in
the Arabic countries. Look at (Algeria) my dear
president George Bush, its population is about
33,333,216 million people, they are not all Arabs,
almost half of Algeria’s population is Berber in
origin, but the rights of these people are
jeopardized, because they are not Arabs. This people
live mostly in the mountains region of Kablie east
of Algeria.
The Berbers lived in North Africa long time before
the arrival of the Arabs, and their culture possibly
dated back to more than 4,000 years. Berber states
known as Mauritania and Numidia existed in classical
times. Between the 11th and 13th centuries, two
large Berber rulers the Almoravids and the Almohads
which controlled big parts of Spain, as well as
north -west Africa. There are significant Berber
populations in Morocco and Algeria, plus smaller
numbers in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. In Morocco,
about 40% recognize a Berber identity, though many
more have Berber heritage. Berbers are well-known
primarily by language, but also by traditional
customs, and culture, for instance the
distinguishing music and
dances.
Morocco regards the Berbers as backward people,
mainly because their culture is very strong in the
rural areas. Many of the children in these areas are
dropped out of school because they are taught in a
foreign language like Arabic. The language remained
is the biggest barrier for this people particularly
when they are dealing with administrative system.
Berber is not formally recognized in Morocco. Berber
belongs to the Afro-Asiatic group, and has many
dialects. The three main dialects are Tachelhit,
Tamazight and Tarifit in Morocco. Berber is still
basically a spoken language, and it needs to be
accepted for a written form. Berber Alphabet
probably originates from the olden Punic writing.
The Berber language has existed for more than 2,500
years. The olden Berber culture is extremely rich
and assorted, with a diversity of musical styles.It
is also in Turkey, the rights of these nationalities
for instance Kurds, Armenians, Greeks, Arabs are not
recognized partially. What is the reason behind the
American policy? Is it just because Turkey is a
strong ally of the United States of America, and a
member of the NATO? What can you tell these
nationalities in Turkey, and the world about the
Turkish abuse to human rights? Did the United States
of America get help from Turkey during the
liberation of Iraq? Did your Government get support
from Turkey against the terrorist organization of
al-Qaeda in Iraq, or in any other countries? If the
answer is not for all these above questions, so why
Mr. President do you sacrifice all the nationalities
for the Turkish government’s sake? Is it fair to
people, the way they were treated by the Turkish
government? The American strategy in the Middle East
needs to be reviewed to give a better chance to
these nationalities to enjoy the rights of freedom
and democracy.
Do you think the USA and the NATO have to tolerate
the Turkish aggressive and hostile behavior to kill
the innocent Kurdish villagers, and destroy their
villages, because the Turkish government has got a
strong tie politically with the USA and a member of
NATO? I believe this is discrimination in your
policy against these people, and indirectly your
government is participating and supporting this
crime against humanity.
The Jewish people also in the past during the
occupation of Islam had been genocide and 800
families from the tribe of (Baniy Kooreiyze) at that
time were slaughtered. The Muslims dug a big hole in
the front of the shops in the middle of the city,
and all the men were forced to come around the hole,
then one by one, they were beheaded, and threw them
in the hole, and afterward the Arab Muslims put soil
on the top of the hole. Then, their assets, wives,
and their children were taken by the Arab Muslim
leaders. One of the most beautiful women among the
Jewish women was given to the Prophet Mohamed; her
name was (Rihana). Unfortunately, after the genocide
of the Jewish people by the Muslims nothing was left
for her only the way to marry him, because her
parents, brothers, sisters and her husband were
included in the genocide.
In the same way in year 1987-1988 200,000 men, women
and children were slaughtered by the regime’s of
former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, and some of
these captured women from this group were taken by
the Iraqi leaders, and the majority of these women
raped. It was also some of these women which were
forced and sent to the Arab countries including
Egypt, and they were forced to work in night clubs.
The ages of some of the girls were about 9, 12, 14,
18 and etc. Their relatives have been waiting for
almost 20 years to see these girls; there is still
no trace of these people. The Egyptian government is
also not willing to co-operate and return these
abducted girls to their families. During those dark
days that the Kurds faced, the Arab Muslim countries
did not condemn this genocide of the Kurdish
civilians. They were telling us that the Kurds are
the agents of the West and Israel. The point is
because; we are asking for our rights to be
recognized as human beings. Do you think Mr.
President these countries deserve to have another
state? I want you to be honest, the honorable Mr.
President George Bush, who deserves to have an
independent state, the Kurds or the Palestinians?
Despite all the negative aspects and behavior by the
Arab countries towards Israel, European and the
United States of America, they were rewarded by the
American government for instance Egypt will be given
millions of $US and the Palestinians was given
hundreds of million $US. Don’t you think Mr.
President this financial support might fall directly
or indirectly in Hamas’s hand, and it will be used
later on against the state of Israel? Saudi Arabia
will get US aircrafts, helicopters tanks and army
ocupments. In addition to that, Saudi will also get
40 million $US. What ever you give to the Arab rich
countries still they call America is Imperialism,
and unbelievers. In 1994 Taliban did rise by support
from Saudi and Pakistan, the majority of Taliban’s
fighters were Arabs from all the Arabic countries,
but despite all this support from Saudi to Taliban
extremist Islamist fighters, still Saudi Arabia is
very popular by the United States of America. The
American government always put pressure on Israel
for more rights and for an independent state for
Palestinian, but you never asked Turkish, Iranian,
Syrian dictators for a Kurdish independent state.
Your government does not support that Iraq should be
split in to three states within the Iraqi Federal
Government; even the people of Iraq would like to
have three states to share the power instead to have
a central government. As you know at the moment
there is a civil war between Shiite and Sunni
Muslims, because they can not live together any
more. Sunnis are the supporters for the Arab Bath
Socialist Party and the former Iraqi dictator Saddam
Hussein. Sunnis still want to rule Iraq by
themselves, but this is not going to happen, because
Kurds and Shiites have had enough of the Sunni
Muslims. In addition to that, the US government
supports the Jordanian government as well, and in
the past the Jordanian government has received
millions of American Dollars.
The Jewish and Kurdish nations were genocide in the
past, according to the Muslim leaders that these
nations are unbelievers. We are still facing the
same matter even in the 21st century. For example
the Arab countries are still against the State of
Israel, and still Israel is not recognized
officially by the Arab countries as a state of
Israel. Israel was attacked many times in the past
by the Arab countries for instance, in 1948, 1967
and 1974. We are still subject to be killed and to
be beheaded by the radical extremist. For instance,
so many Kurds were killed by the suicide bombers in
Mandely, Tuz Khoormatoo, Mosul and the other
provinces in Iraq. Again on Tuesday 14th August in
the Kurdish villages of Sheikh Khidir and Beaasheqe
in Shingal around the province of Mosul 500 innocent
civilians were killed, and almost 400 people were
injured by the Arab Muslims. Even in the past many
innocent citizens from Israel were killed by the
Arab suicide bombers. I still remember Mr. President
that you said; you will deliver democracy to the
darkest corner of the world. Do not you think these
nationalities are still live in the darkest corners
of the Middle East? Do not they deserve to have
their own states and to enjoy the freedom of
democracy, like the American citizens? Do we have to
wait to be wiped off again by our hostiles in the
surrounded countries, such as the Turkish
government? Because Kurds were slaughtered in the
past by the Ottoman Empire. These years 1915-1918,
1925, 1930, and 1937-1938, Kurds were genocide
savagely by the Turks and the governments used
poison gas, bombardment which ended in a tragedy by
slaughtering many hundred thousands of Kurds in
Turkey. This aggressive behavior extended beyond the
Kurds, and then the shattered Ottoman Army used
Armenian revolution as an excuse to attack on
Armenians in 1915. The consequences of this
genocide, and the massacre, over 1 million Armenians
were killed, and their cities and villages were
destroyed.
The Hamas and Palestinian Fetih need to recognize
Israel as an official state for the Jewish people
before they ask for an independent Palestinian
state. Finally, I want to say that Mr. President you
should never listen to the Arab leaders, or follow
their foot prints, because they never want to
recognize Israel as an Independent Jewish state.
Arabs still think that they lived in Middle East
before the existent of the Jewish and the Kurds, but
they are wrong. The Kurds and the Jewish people
lived and existed in the Middle East thousands of
years before the arrival of the Arabs and the
Muslims. In addition to that they never want the
Kurds to have an independent state, because they
think we are going to take their lands, but they
should know very well that they are occupiers of our
lands, and they have taken our lands, and our
independence and freedom. How much do they hate
Israel, and hate the Kurds as well? The Arab
educated writers and politicians during the Kurdish
genocide in 1987 and 1988, never spoke out against
the former brutal Iraqi president, and never wrote a
word against all the sufferings that the Kurds faced
in the past, they must have been deaf or blind.
Although the Kurds were betrayed in 1975 by the
American government by supporting the Algerian
treatment, which involved Algeria, Iran and Iraq, in
order to stop the Iraqi former government to be
collapsed. Our Kurdish national Leader Barzani under
this savage conspiracy, he was forced to give an
order to the Kurdish Armed Peshmerge forces to stop
the struggle against the former Iraqi dictator. But
despite this, the entire Kurdish nation is still
supporting the coalitional forces, especially the
American Army in Iraq. They have started fighting
hand in hand since 21st March 2003 and toppled the
former Iraqi dictatorship until now. We call America
the best friend for Kurds. We appreciate what the
American Army has done to liberate the Iraq, and the
Iraqi Kurdistan. We call American soldiers are
liberators, and they brought smiles to the faces of
orphan children. The American soldiers indeed will
stay in the hearts of the Kurdish people for ever
for supporting to liberate the Iraqi Kurdistan, and
to keep the Kurdish people united.
The American martyrs are very much appreciated by
our nation. The collapse of the Iraqi former
dictator was impossible without the American and
coalitional forces. But the American
responsibilities are not finished yet; the American
mission is long, difficult and needs more sacrifice
and patient by American people in order to bring the
democracy to the Middle East, and to protect our
nation from the hostile, atrocious, and inhumanity
countries that occupied our homeland. The American
government and the American people have to be proud
of what the American and coalition forces have
achieved so far in Iraq and especially in Iraqi
Kurdistan. The American Army has done a lot and
worked very hard to discover a place that was
welcomed by the indigenous Kurdish people. I believe
that only the place in the Middle East that the
people have opened their arms to hug the American
Army, freedom, liberation and the democracy. God
bless our forces in their battle in order to deliver
their mission to Middle Eastern people and for the
entire humanity.
Dana Berzinjy,
a freelance writer,
Sydney/Australia,
August 29, 2007, Exclusively for eKURD.NET
©. You may reach the author via
email at: dara_dar (at) yahoo.com.au
About the Author: Bachelor of Teaching (Secondary)
Faculty of Education {University of Western Sydney
macarthur} 2001-2002. Postgraduate Diploma in Adult
Education (Teaching English of Speakers Other
Languages) Faculty of Education {University of
Western Sydney macarthur} 1999-2001. Postgraduate
Diploma in Business ( Employment Relations Law)
Faculty of Business ( University of Technology
Sydney) 1997-1999. Bachelor of Business (Commerce
and Human Resource management) ( Southern Cross
University) 1992-1996 Lismore
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