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Why is Israel supporting Kurdish secession from Iraq? (Kurds pushed away…
Why is Israel supporting Kurdish secession from Iraq?
Lamis Andoni
Palestinian journalist
VERY critical towards Israel
"Brutal military occupation and apartheid"
"Colonisers"
"Zionist state"
Iraqi Kurdistan referendum (sept.)
92% yes
Unconstitutional, non-binding (most Arab states)
Dilemma
Support Kurdish right to self-determination (prevent break)
Accept Kurdish-Israeli relationship
Support from Israel
Oil
Depend on 77%
No access to Gulf states natural resources
Pro-Israeli entity
Cuts through Arab World
Leverage >< Iran, Iraq, Syria
// Oded Yion's 1982 plan
Split up of AW along ethnic and sectarian lines
Strenghten Israel
Expand hegemony
// Ben Gurion's alliance of peripheries strategy
Kurds/Israelis
Non-Arab minorities wanting independence
Propaganda?
Erasing // with Palestinian struggles
Barzani visited Israel twice
Kurdistan is NOT a second Israel (and never will be)
Peshmerga // PLO
60-80s
< ISIS
Kurds pushed away from AW
Tyranny of Arab states
1991 no-fly zone in Iraq
Israeli influence
2003 US-led invasion
Segregation (Sunni/Shia/Kurdish)