Iraqi Kurdistan is set for a referendum on independence on Monday. It is widely assumed that the vote will overwhelmingly pass, with the Kurds having long sought an independent nation and now seemingly having the means to effect the establishment of one in northern Iraq.
President Massoud Barzani says the referendum will go on as planned, despite warnings from across the region to stop it. Barzani says the Kurds are “never going back to Baghdad.” This also seems to indicate he expects a victory.
Barzani, whose family has been driving Iraqi Kurdistan toward secession since the US occupation, insisted that the “partnership” with Iraq’s central government is over, and they seem determined for that to be a permanent split.
The big question will be what happens after the referendum. Iraq has opposed the referendum, and neither Iran nor Turkey seems any more supportive. Likewise, the US has opposed the idea of secession, and the only real public supporter has been Israel. This may make the logistics of a landlocked independent at least somewhat problematic.
Kurds have absolutely no right to Iraqi land. the reason they are spread out in the area is because wandered there. They are nomadic tribes from “Kordistan” in Iran. Some settled not so long ago and some remain nomads.
That’s something you won’t hear in western msm. Other not so flattering facts are that they have the biggest percentage of honor killings and that 70% of Kurdish woman in Syria (elswere, even in Germany 50%) have their genitals mutilated. ( yes the very according to MSM same “amazons” that are fighting for Eretz Israel now).
The main problem for the US (israel) is how they are gonna get all that stolen Syrian oil out of Syria. The short answer is they won’t but Pentagram have a hard time admitting it…
Addendum: female genital mutilation is non existent elsewhere in Syria.
If the women have been mutilated we must mutilate the boys in the family too in the same way otherwise this is sex discrimination . And we can’t have discrimination in the USA . A law demanding this might help as the Muslim men should be lot less prone to rape too . We have a rule that what’s good for the goose is good for the gander . They can’t live in this country If they can’t follow our laws
I wonder if we should not check the Muslim school girls in Minnesota . to see if the Muslims are following our laws or their laws . If they are not following our laws they should be fined or have their citizenship taken away . Our schools have forced vaccinations but FSM is illegal in the USA . I would not think we should bring in people that don’t follow our laws
Israel supports this for the trouble it will cause, not least for the Kurds.
Israel seeks the disruption of the region, to be a villa in the desert it makes around itself. A Kurdish state will cause the same sort of trouble that destruction of Syria caused. More of the same.
Exactly!!
Israeli meddling in this issue has little relevance. Unflattering factoids about the Kurds have no relevance. The Kurds have legitimate national aspirations, long brutally suppressed by neighboring powers. They have as much right to declare an independent state as Israel or the US did.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People TO ALTER OR TO ABOLISH IT, and to institute new Government…”
President Wilson’s high minded meddling in the Balkans after WW1 only proved that not every ethnic state is really in the best interests of its people.
It also showed that there are legitimate regional interests to keep everyone safe, that ethnic group and everyone else too.
The seed for another civil war.