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Kurdistan: More Like Israel, Less Like Iraq

GATESTONE by Lawrence A. Franklin December 25, 2014 Like Israel, Kurdistan is more democratic than any of its neighbors. Like Israel, Kurdistan is surrounded by enemies that wish it did not exist. Like Israel, Kurdistan looks West. And like Israel, … Continue reading

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Historic Justice: A Kurdish State Now

ARUTZ SHEVA by Dr Mordechai Kedar October 23, 2014 The Kurds have a right to independence. Their lack of it until now is an unjust and tragic accident of history. The borders of most of the Arab countries east of the … Continue reading

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Welcome, Kurdistan

WASHINGTON TIMES by Daniel Pipes September 9, 2014 A Kurdish state begins to emerge Before welcoming the emerging state of Kurdistan in northern Iraq, I confess to having opposed its independence in the past. In 1991, after the Kuwait War … Continue reading

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Defending New Kurdish Borders with the PKK: The Battle For Iraq [CLICK FOR VIDEO]

VICE NEWS August 29, 2014 After conquering large swathes of Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State is now tearing up the near century-old map of the region and drawing new boundaries. The ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq … Continue reading

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Kurd party leader to ‘Post’: US keeping us from independence

JERUSALEM POST by Ariel Ben Solomon July 1, 2014 The head of a Kurdish political party told The Jerusalem Post that he thanks Israel’s leaders for their support for an independent Kurdistan and that the US is keeping the Kurds … Continue reading

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Turkey ready to accept Kurdish state in historic shift

FINANCIAL TIMES by Daniel Dombey in Ankara June 27, 2014 Turkey’s ruling party has signaled it is ready to accept an independent Kurdish state in what is now northern Iraq, marking a historic shift by one of the heavyweight powers … Continue reading

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Kurds edge towards statehood, with Turkish, Israeli help

FORTUNE by Geoffrey Smith June 20, 2014 The age-old dream of a Kurdish state is on the verge of being realized as the authority of Iraq’s central government frays. The world may be focusing on the looming battle for Baghdad between … Continue reading

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Israel to Get First Batch of Oil from Disputed Kurdish Pipeline

ARUTZ SHEVA by Ari Soffer June 20, 2014 Israel will receive its first delivery of oil from a disputed pipeline in Kurdistan, in a sign of growing relations between the Jewish state and the autonomous Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in … Continue reading

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Why the Kurds are a beacon of hope in the Middle East

JNS.ORG by Ben Cohen June 13, 2014 During the war in Iraq, when I was still living in London and coordinating news coverage of the overthrow of Saddam Hussein for various international media organizations, I was in regular contact with … Continue reading

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Surprising Ties between Israel and the Kurds

MIDDLE EAST QUARTERLY by Ofra Bengio Summer 2014 In 1966, Iraqi defense minister Abd al-Aziz al-Uqayli blamed the Kurds of Iraq for seeking to establish “a second Israel” in the Middle East. He also claimed that “the West and the … Continue reading

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