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- Erasing the Jews: Vance, BBC and others forget what Holocaust Remembrance Day is about
- Anti-BDS Bill Poised for Passage in Illinois Legislature
- "We demonize those who disagree with us. Worse than that, most of us have chosen to live in virtual ideological safe zones in which we’ve declared those who disagree may not enter on peril of being “defriended"
- With Israel having one of the highest daily infection rates per capita in the world, there are only two nations where Israelis can currently travel without being forced into quarantine upon arrival or return
- "U.S. planes have moved within the region, several countries including the United States have urged nonessential personnel to leave the region and Iran briefly closed its airspace on Wednesday night"
- "The recent surge of antisemitism on both the left and the right suggests that we are entering a new chapter of the Jewish relationship to political power in America"
- “Trump’s full-time haters are incapable of considering the possibility that, like any U.S. administration, this one might get some things wrong and some things right”
- Fatah leader calls for Israel’s destruction
Tag Archives: Kurdistan
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
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East
Tagged Erbil, Islamic State, Kurdistan, Kurds, Pershmerga
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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
Posted in Israel & Middle East
Tagged Balfour Declaration, Iran, Iraq, Kurdistan, Kurds, Syria, Turkey
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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
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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Tagged Iraq, ISIS, Islamic State, Kurdistan, Kurdistan Workers Party, PKK
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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
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
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
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
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
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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