July
11, 2009
Finally, at long last, another native people,
besides Arabs, is staking its claims to a slice of
the justice pie in the Middle East--a region
proclaimed by Arabs to be solely their own, despite
the presence of scores of millions of native,
non-Arab peoples in those lands.
A story by Sam Dagher in the July 10th New York
Times
reported that Kurds were going ahead staking
claims to the huge fossil fuel deposits sitting
under land in northern Iraq on which they have lived
for thousands of years before an Arab ever arrived
there. It was land promised to Kurds as an
independent state after World War I,www.ekurd.net
but was aborted on
behalf of Arab nationalism in collusion with British
petroleum politics--especially after the League of
Nations' Mosul decision in 1925. A united,
Arab-dominated Iraq arose instead in the British
Mandate of Mesopotamia, with the oil of the Kurdish
north attached to it. The British military helped
suppress the Kurds' response to this.
As I have written for years now, while the dreams of
a viable, federal Iraq looked good on paper, in
reality, they were most probably merely American
pipedreams--as well-intentioned as they were.
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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. |
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Long ago, Arab
nationalism won out over a multi-ethnic Iraqi
nationalism in the land, and hundreds of thousands
of Kurds have been slaughtered by Arabs. Arabs have
spoken of any Kurdish independence as the creation
of another Israel; i.e., how dare anyone but
themselves stake any political claim in the region.
Keep in mind that one half of Israel's Jews were
refugees from so-called "Arab"/Muslim lands.
The Times reported that Susan Shihab, a member of
Kurdistan’s parliament, said she no longer had faith
that the rights of Kurds under the federal
constitution from 2005 would be respected.
She has a lot of company in this line of
thought--including anyone who has objectively
followed the quest of non-Arab peoples for any
semblance of respect and equality in "Arab" lands.
Berbers in North Africa are now being told that they
must name their children with Arab/Islamic names,
and both they and Syrian Kurds are not even allowed
to use their own non-Arab languages --as just a few
of too many other examples of this blatant Arab
racism. And the same United Nations still having
hissy fits over Israel's security fence (designed to
keep Arabs from murdering its kids), continues to
act deaf, dumb, and blind about the Arab subjugation
of tens of millions of non-Arab peoples.
The West and the current and last several American
administrations in particular are and have been
determined to create the Arabs' state #22, their
second one in the original 1920 Palestine Mandate.
Jordan was created from the lions' share of the land
after 1922.
That that new Arab state, run by Mahmud Abbas and
his "moderate" Fatah, will no doubt be hostile to
its tiny Jewish neighbor and sees "negotiations"
only in terms of its earlier, openly-professed
Trojan Horse and destruction-in-phases scenario
planned for Israel is a given. Hamas, to its credit,
is simply more honest and won't even indulge in word
games regarding the acceptance or rejection of
Israel.
Despite this, the world is intent on shoving what
will likely be yet another Arab terror base down
Israel's throat--but this time, Tel Aviv, Israel's
Parliament, main airport, main seaport, Jerusalem,
most of its population in its narrow nine to fifteen
mile wide waist,www.ekurd.net
and so forth will become
the main Arab targets (this time courtesy of
American arms)--not more remote areas like Sderot in
the south, after Israel's withdrawal from Gaza
several years ago. Recall the ten thousand rockets
and mortars launched from Gaza against Israeli
civilian centers after that withdrawal. There's a
lesson to be learned from that by anyone with
functioning neurons...
Unlike Arabs vis-a-vis "their" kilab yahud Jew dogs,
Kurds don't want to deprive Arabs of their own just,
due rights and have never terrorized Arabs. The
problem has always been that most Arabs define their
rights in terms which negate any at all for
everybody else.
Where, for example, is it written that Arabs are
entitled to have sole claim, with the exception of
Iran, over all of the region's fossil fuel deposits?
The oil in the region around Kirkuk sits on Kurdish
land. It is as Kurdish as the Arabian Peninsula's is
Arab. That Saddam and his Sunnis forcibly Arabized
the area earlier did not change this.
The Kurds have learned their lessons from the
not-so-distant past regarding America, the Brits,
and their Arab neighbors. Both the Brits and America
used and abused Kurds repeatedly for their own
interests--then abandoned them to Arabs who
slaughtered them en masse soon afterwards.
Shi'a Arabs have recently been more tolerant towards
Kurds than their Sunni counterparts because they
needed Kurds as a counterweight to Sunnis who
repeatedly blow the Shi'a apart. But, thanks to
America's overthrow of Saddam,www.hawlati.net
the Shi'a are now in the
ascendancy, and they too have no intention of
granting any non-Arabs their just due. Kurds know
this, and hence the current developments as reported
in The New York Times.
If the world's roadmap insists that Arabs must have
a 22nd state, then it is certainly well overdue for
thirty-five million truly stateless Kurds to at long
last gain their one.
Anything less--despite the potential problems (and
there won't be problems creating a latter-day
Arafatian Fatahland or Hamastan?)--will be sheer,
nauseating hypocrisy.
On January 5, 2010,
my book dealing with this overall topic will be
released for the new book year. It is titled, The
Quest For Justice...The Arab-Israeli Conflict In
Greater Perspective.
Please watch for it. It is not just another book
about the Middle East.
Copyright by Gerald A. Honigman. eKurd.net, July
11, 2009. 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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