The Kurdish angle a paramount part of any Middle Eastern debate

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  1. alan131210

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    ‎ 3.9.2013

    Bashdar Ismaeel — Ekurd.net

    The much heralded “Arab Spring” has swiftly morphed into an Arab nightmare. The successive lauded popular uprisings across the Middle East were to an extent only the end of the beginning and not a quick-fire solution to the complex network of Middle Eastern disputes.

    The aftermath of the Arab Spring has been far bloodier, protracted and troublesome than many expected. The new Middle Eastern horizon has brought with it new crises and new rules. One in which the US and the West are struggling to take a view on.

    The uprising in Syria has unearthed a deadly civil war that has directly or indirectly sucked in most players of the Middle East. The short-lived euphoria over the ousting of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt has been replaced by social turmoil and a deep-rooted battle over political Islam that threatens to send Egypt into full blown conflict. The removal of Colonel Gaddafi in Libya was seen as reality straightforward by the West but his removal has witnessed more instability and violence. In Tunisia, an oppositional leader has been assassinated in renewed friction.

    All the while in Iraq, sectarian violence threatens to return to levels not seen since the peak of 2007.

    The rapid plunging of the Middle East into conflict has drawn many analysts to the roots of conflict, the role of Western powers in sowing the seeds of today’s strife in the aftermath of the First World War and historical vendettas.

    But while typically the arguments point to the artificial boundaries of Middle East and sectarian fault-lines, the greatest travesty of the Middle East is often ignored – the failure to give the Kurds, the fourth largest nation in the Middle East, a nation of their own.

    Too often the recent Middle Eastern fault lines are ascribed to Sunni-Shiite sectarian conflict and secular versus political Islam; somewhat replacing the old focus on the Arab-Israeli struggle.

    Conflicts in Syria and Iraq are narrowed to sectarianism. The polarisation of Turkey is generalised as between Islamists and those who uphold the mystical secular foundations of the republic.

    Yet it is the selfish and ruthless carving of the Kurdish lands that will always serve as a critical destabilisation factor in the Middle East. The ethnic angle of the Middle Eastern conflict is not just between Jews and Arabs. It’s a travesty that in the 21st century that the Kurds have the unfortunate distinction of been the largest nation without a state.

    It’s remarkable that the Kurds have to struggle for even “minority” rights in the lands of the forefathers, yet so much of the world’s focus is on Arab strife and Islamist positioning in governance. The Arabs view the lack of a 22nd state in Palestine as a great injustice whilst the Kurds are often viewed suspiciously or as overreaching when seeking rights. This sums up why equitable dealing of arguments or disputes is non-starter in the Middle East.

    Syria is viewed as a confrontation between the Alawite minority and Sunni majority, whilst the Kurds who were roped into the state boundaries are often overlooked.

    The redrawing of the Middle Eastern map is not just a necessity but a natural unravelling that would always happen at some point. Iraq is the starting point for such unravelling, with Kurds finally able demonstrate strategic and political clout in terms of new geography.

    Yes, the new Middle East is hardly the advert for harmony and communal peace, but all that has been done is to let the cat out of the bag. All the problems and ingredients for conflict where always there, but they were caged and held tightly by dictatorial regimes supported by the West.

    The Middle East is at an acute cross road, unfortunately with players intent on resolving differences the region knows all too well – conflict.

    Ironically, as the West has found out bitterly in Iraq and Egypt, democracy and religion is not always the perfect tonic. What happens when the people select a party or system of government that the West never wants or fears?

    It will take decades for the dust from the new Middle East to settle, but contained for so long it won’t be easy for such a crisis zone filled with high emotion, history and natural resources to take its new shape.

    But let there be no doubt – the Kurdish question is central to any prospects of real peace and stability in the new Middle East.

    Bashdar Pusho Ismaeel is a London-based freelance writer and analyst, a regular contributing writer for Ekurd.net website. Ismaeel whose primary focus and expertise is on the Kurds, Iraq and Middle Eastern current affairs. The main focus of his writing is to promote peace, justice and increase awareness of the diversity, suffering and at times explosive mix in Iraq and the Middle East. Most recently he has produced work for the Washington Examiner, Asian Times, The Epoch Times, Asia News, The Daily Star (Lebanon), Kurdish Globe, Hewler Post, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), KurdishMedia, PUK Online and OnlineOpinion. He has achieved seminar recommended readings for Le High University (Pennsylvania) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work has been republished extensively elsewhere on the Internet. He is a longtime contributing writer and columnist for Ekurd.net. You can visit Bashdar's website at (www.bashdar.co.uk) and reach the author via email at: bashdar@hotmail.com

    The article also appeared on Kurdish Globe.

    Copyright © 2013 Ekurd.net.
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  2. DennisTate

    DennisTate Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Personally….. I think that this is correct….. I do believe that the Kurdish people should be given their own nation.

    I suspect that page one of this discussion could give you some ideas that might help you to make this happen:


    http://www.politicalforum.com/political-opinions-beliefs/322565-gods-peace-plan-holy-land.html


    God's Peace Plan for the Holy Land
    I read this intriguing plan for peace in the Middle East twice already! It is about fifty pages and well worth your time to consider!


    http://www.godspeaceplan.org/

    (Scroll down to the link: Click Here to Download Your Copy of the Peace Plan).

    Here is a review by an Islamic scholar:……...
     
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    Not to worry.
    Allah wil take care of the Kurds ,just after Assad's fall.
    Syria will be devided into small countries, one to the Sunni, One to the Alawites and other to the Kurds.
    Kurds are nice people , they don't use dirty politics like the Palestinian wall of lies.
     
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    Yes….. I have been fascinated by the Kurdish people ever since I read an article about their situation in Readers Digest back in the early '90's!
     
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    I was going to post this as a separate thread, but it appears to be appropriate here]

    Assad Winning Civil War in Syria

    Why is nobody in the American MSM covering this? I read at least a dozen articles every day about how the Russian-backed government is beating back rebels receiving pittances of support from the US and Saudi Arabia. Is it because they are part of al Queda or other “radical” groups? And, Hamas seems to be strengthening in the region as Assad can give them more assistance. :roll:

    I know this is going to sound weird, but Assad returning to power will stop the slaughter of innocent Christians and might even help the Kurds. Read more @ http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/4/15/syrian-army-entershomsneighbourhoods.html
     
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    Unfortunately Syria requires stability before everyone within in it can get a fair deal and the war has also spawned new hatreds which will continue even after hostilities cease.
    And that stability will have to come from Assad rather than the numerous factions that have emerged.

    It seems more likely that the peace may break Syria before the war does.
     
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    Longknife…. in your opinion am I too naive to feel that this ancient Islamic prophecy about the deserts of the Islamic nations being turned green in the "latter days" has the potential to transform the relationship between Syria and the western democracies?

    …..I personally feel that a plan to turn the deserts of many Islamic nations green through desalination of ocean water on a large scale for irrigation of many crops (one of them certainly would be hemp for hemp oil and other products), would be a great way to get the Islamic nations involved in a project that will give them something in common with the western democracies.

    Everybody in New Orleans, New Jersey, along Canada's Bay of Fundy, Holland and in every place in the world at low sea level should be very interested in this plan that is based on an ancient Islamic prophecy?!


    http://www.angelfire.com/moon2/koran/index.blog?topic_id=1021110

    One of the first Islamic nations that should be offered the opportunity to go green should be Jordan!

    A plan for peace between Israelis and Palestinians that does not include Jordan is likely to fail!
     
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    I know almost nothing of the prophecy and didn't think of it when posting.

    For all his evilness, Assad was someone who managed to hold together a highly splintered country created after WWI. It is the rebels who appear to be committing the most severe atrocities, although Assad's forces have clearly done their share.
     
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    Assad is one of many Arab butchers.
    Muslim Arabs cannot handle democracy, they treat their women like dogs, they live by the sword and most of them support violence actions against Jews and Christians.
     
  10. DennisTate

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    It fits really well with Isaiah chapter 35.

    Isa 35:1

    The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose………
    Isaiah 35:6
    Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
     
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    Somewhere, several years ago while conducting research for a novel set in Vienna toward the end of the Cold War, I came across a very secretive religious group in the northern part of what was once Kurdistan - something about Seven Angels - that had a similar belief.

    Drat but I wish I had that at hand. :frown:
     
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    There is also a possible link between the rebuilding of the Jerusalem Third Temple complex with stabilization of the climate.


    http://www.politicalforum.com/relig...ay-least-expensive-way-stabilize-climate.html

    Rebuilding of Jerusalem Third Temple may be least expensive way to stabilize climate?
    I am fairly certain that this verse in the Jewish Bible is certainly not advocating that in the era of Moshiach that every body has to go to Jerusalem to observe the Festival of Tabernacles, merely that nations allow their Jews and Noahides to freely travel to and back from Jerusalem in order to observe Tabernacles.


    Zechariah 14:17 "And it shall be, [that] whoso will not come up of [all] the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain."

    As more of us come to the realization of how dangerous the melting and cracking and sliding that is going on in Greenland and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet really is, we will be more inclined toward supporting the Jewish people in their desire to rebuild their Third Temple.

    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090205142132.htm

    Collapse Of Antarctic Ice Sheet Would Likely Put Washington, D.C. Largely Underwater

     

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