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Imagine For One Moment
6.9.2007
By Gerald A. Honigman, eKurd.net Contributing Writer
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September 6, 2007
-Gerald A. Honigman, (ekurd.net)
…that instead of Iranian artillery indiscriminately
shelling Kurdish civilians across the border in
Iraq, it was Israeli artillery doing likewise to
Arabs in Gaza.
Let’s step back a bit.
For weeks now, Iran has been shelling Kurdish
villages in Iraq, supposedly because it fears that
Iranian Kurds, who wish for autonomy in Iran, are
taking refuge across the border. Iran says PEJAK--a
breakaway faction of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)--launches
attacks from Iraqi bases.
For some time now, Turks and Iranians have been
collaborating in ways to deal with their Kurdish
“headaches.” In this, they’re soul mates with Arabs
as well. All have worked to deny over thirty million
Kurds--who pre-date Arabs and Turks in the region by
millennia and who are there at least as long as
Iranians--political rights in a nationalist age. |
Gerald A. Honigman is a Florida educator who has done extensive
doctoral studies in Middle Eastern Affairs. He has created and
conducted counter-Arab propaganda programs for college youth, has
lectured on numerous campuses and other platforms, and has publicly
debated many Arab spokesmen. His articles and op-eds have been
published in dozens of newspapers, magazines, academic journals and
websites all around the world. |
And it’s worse than that. All three have killed many
hundreds of thousands of Kurds, subjugated living
ones, and denied them even their own culture and
language over the past century.
While the world demands a 22nd state for Arabs
(their second, not first, one in “Palestine”…Arab
Jordan sits on 80% of the latter), Kurds are still
only referred to as separatists, terrorists, or the
like when this subject comes up for them. The AP
story on September 2nd was the latest to do this
(“Iranian Shelling Angers Iraq,” by Yahya Barzanji).
And consider the following as well. There are
millions of Arabs in Iran’s own western, oil-rich
Khuzestan province--so many that even Iranians have
called it Arabistan for centuries. It was the main
reason Iraq and Iran fought their bloody war several
decades ago. Why not create Arab state 22
there--especially since the province did trade back
and forth between Arab and Iranian rule over the
centuries?
Answer…Won’t happen because the Iranians are total
hypocrites.
Iran brutally suppresses Arab, Kurd, Baluchi, Azeri,
and so forth when it comes to the question of Iran’s
own unity and national security, yet it’s quick to
point the finger at Israel about the latter’s
reluctance to cave in to Hamas, Fatah, and other
Arabs who still have the Jew of the Nations’
destruction as their end goal.
So, let’s return to the beginning of this article.
Over two years after Israel totally withdrew from
Gaza, Israel’s south is still being bombarded
indiscriminately by Arab rockets and so forth from
Gaza. One of the latest hit near a day care center,
damaging a home next door and sending 12 young
children to the hospital. Another exploded on a
street in the center of the city. In their
statements to the press, the Arabs called the
attacks a "gift" for the new school year.
Could you imagine the world-wide outcry,
condemnations, editorials, and so forth if--in
response to this barbaric, deliberate assaults on
the most innocent--Israel merely repaid Arabs in
kind?
Folks, if I was running the show, best believe
they’d get a mega dose of their own medicine--and
with just a slight bit of hesitation. I’d probably
first issue sufficient warnings that such equal
treatment will soon be coming…and then exponentially
with each new Arab “revenge” attack.
Sorry, lefty, suicidal, liberals (and I’m an old
fashioned Liberal, in many ways, myself…but a very
different breed from the “new” species)--especially
the head-in-the-sand Hebrew types.
Let Arabs see what it’s like when they’re subjected
to random, indiscriminate bombardment like they dish
out…perhaps afterwards they’ll think twice about
allowing the deliberate murder and attempted murder
of Jews from being launched from their lands. And,
if not, the other way didn’t work either. When
you’re outnumbered 300 million Arabs to 5 million
Israeli Jews, perceived weakness and inaction is
suicidal. Tit-for-tat responses don’t work under
these circumstances.
Yeh, I know, the world would be screaming about
“Nazi Jews” and such…the same world that watches
Israel’s Sderot daily targeted and victimized and
says nothing.
Whoops--sorry, I’m wrong…the world does say that
Israel must cave in even more.
So, being “nice” hasn’t worked. Again, unilateral
withdrawals and such are simply seen by Arabs as
weakness and incremental victories towards their
destruction-in-phases plans for Israel.
Jews try to do it right and get shafted anyway.
Israel tries its best to target the exact
perpetrators--yet when the latter hide amidst their
own populations (against the Geneva Conventions),
civilians at times get caught in the
middle…especially since Arabs love to use their own
kids to retrieve rocket launchers after firing
missiles at Israel. Sick…but again, no world outcry.
Now, given this situation regarding expectations of
Israel to pinpoint targets as it responds to Arab
terror, why is it that Iran feels free to attack
Kurdish civilians at will because of its quarrel
with Kurdish “separatists?”
Why is there no worldwide outcry for the plight of
Kurdish victims and refugees--let alone the absence
of support for Kurdish political aspirations? Where
are editorials, nasty sermons and demands from the
American State Department, and such?
While I’m not endorsing PKK or PEJAK attacks on
innocents if and when they occur, please understand
that neither Arabs, Turks, nor Iranians have granted
Kurds anywhere near the rights that Israel has
already conceded to Arabs which seek its very
destruction …including partitions of the land
itself. Why is the latter a must for Israel, but
autonomy (at the least) and political rights for
suppressed Kurds unspeakable?
Shortly, Mr. Bush’s Fall Summit to shove a Fatahstan--the
Arabs’ second state in Palestine--down Israel’s
throat will commence--despite the fact that Abbas’s
allegedly “moderate” Arafatians have as much or more
Jewish blood on their hands--and the same end goals
regarding Jews--as Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Just
visit all of their websites, for starters.
Is it not time for the plight of tens of millions of
Kurds--who seek no one else’s destruction, but just
a slice of political rights themselves which has
been denied them up until now--to also move onto the
front burner of the world’s moral conscience?
eKurd.net,
Copyright by Gerald A. Honigman. You may reach the
author via email at: honigman6 (at) msn.com .
Gerald A. Honigman is a Florida educator who has
done extensive doctoral studies in Middle Eastern
Affairs. He has created and conducted counter-Arab
propaganda programs for college youth, has lectured
on numerous campuses and other platforms, and has
publicly debated many Arab spokesmen. His articles
and op-eds have been published in dozens of
newspapers, magazines, academic journals and
websites all around the world. Visit his
website at
http://www.geraldahonigman.com/
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