Retort to 'The Kurdish Connection: Israel, ISIS and U.S' by Sarah Abed

Omar Sindi | Exclusive to iKurd.net
Washington

Retort to “The Kurdish Connection: Israel, ISIS And U.S. Efforts To Destabilize Iran” Article by Miss Sarah Abed; Anti-Kurdish Aspirations.

This type of pejorative writing of Kurdish phobia is not journalism, this is activism, and there is a vast right wing group of fascism and chauvinism in the Middle East; people who are against the Kurdish people’s freedom, liberty, and universal human rights. There are over 40 million Kurds that are living in a coherent area with their own language, history, and heritage that don’t have a voice in the United Nations, while there are many other nations whose populations are less than a million that are represented in the UN.

At the end of World War I, the State governments created in the middle East, such as Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and many others weren’t formed out of struggles or people‘s revolution. Antithetically, they were set up by the British and French colonial powers, to serve their interests and pursuant with their own immediate occurrences. However, if the British and French governments wanted to create an independent Kurdistan, they would’ve set one up. The detested “Sykes – Picot Agreement” in 1916, betrayed the Kurdish nation, arbitral divvy Kurdistan. Overnight, villages, cities, and families were disunited, and were divided among the so called newly created states by the British and French colonial powers in the Middle East.

Miss Abed, your malevolent article is purely against the Kurdish people’s liberty; it seems your anecdotal narrative blames all of the Middle East’s ills on the Kurdish people; the Kurdish people are not anti-Arab, anti–Turks, nor anti-Iranian. Kurds have sought a peaceful solution to their rights, and the Kurdish people are fighting for their survival on their land. They have not occupied nor transgressed on anyone‘s land. On the contrary, they have been occupied by their neighboring countries, and these countries have no peaceful solution for Kurdish people‘s issue; but one has to understand that the Kurdish people’s rights cannot be denied forever.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” The root cause of the current catastrophic upheavals in the Middle East, particularly in Syria and Iraq should go to the misguided policy of the Middle Eastern dictators and their tyrannical roles for generations. The Anti-Assad regime started the uprising in Damascus, the capital of Syria, not in the Rojava Kurdistan. Looking back, many of your narratives have yet to find any solid evidence that has any sympathy or empathy for the Kurdish people’s cause, or indicating that Kurds have been mistreated at the hand of various chauvinistic regimes in the Middle East, including, but not limited, to chemical weapons attacks, forceful deportations, etc. In March of 1988, the city Halabja was put under a chemical attack by Ba’athist regime. Over 5,000 people lost their lives. In summer of 2014, the city of Shingar was attacked by the terrorist organization, the nihilistic ISIL/ISIS “Daesh” under the banner of Islamic religion. The truth is, it was and it is under a bunch of Arab chauvinisms, and still over 3,000 Yazidi Kurdish people are missing.

In Syria, the infamous man Mohammed Talib Hilal enacted an ethnic cleansing with the goal of destroying and eliminating the Kurdish people as a nation to exist in Syria: “In a detailed secret state document entitled ‘A Study of the Jazira Province From the National, Social and Political Aspects’, Hilal (1963), Hasaka region’s chief of Political Police, proposed a twelve-point plan to Arabize the Kurdish region:

1. ‘Batr’ or dispersion and transfer of the Kurds to the interior,

2. ‘Tajhil’ or obscurantist policy of depriving the Kurds of educational institutions because they have produced the opposite results,

3. ‘Tajwi or ‘starvation’ policy of leaving the Kurds unemployed to make them prepared to leave the country,

4. ‘Extradition’ of the Kurds of Turkey who took refuge in Syria after the suppression of the uprisings in the 1920s,

5. A ‘divide and rule’ policy of setting Kurds, especially those claiming to be of Arab origin, against Kurds,

6. ‘Hizam’ or Arab Belt similar to the one proposed in 1962, to be instituted,

7. ‘Iskan’ or “colonisation” policy involving the implementation of “pure and nationalist Arabs” in the Kurdish regions so that the Kurds could be ‘watched until heir dispersion”,

8. Proclaiming the “Belt” a military zone where army detachments supervise the settlement of Arabs and the expulsion of Kurds,

9. A ‘socialisation’ policy of creating collective farms, mazari’ jama’iyya, for the Arabs who will be resettled in order to train and arm them like the Jewish frontier colonies,

10. Disenfranchising anybody ignorant of the Arabic language,

11. The Kurdish ‘ulama’ (clergymen, mullas) must be deprived of their religious authority and replaced by pure Arab clergymen; “the Kurdish ‘ulama’ may also be transferred to the interior for their assemblies are literally Kurdish assemblies and not of a religious character; and

12. Launching a vast anti-Kurdish campaign amongst the Arabs (based on Nazdar 1980:216-17 and, a more detailed description of the plan, Vanly 1968a:27-99)”

Miss Abed, do you really think the annihilation of a nation or people are justifiable, as the dreaded man, Mohammed Talib’s vile project of ethnic cleansing tried in 1963?

The vile accusations of “the Kurdish connections Israel, ISIS And U.S. Effort to destabilize Iran”, when a country or political party ignores law and order, the hierarchy uses demagoguery politics, refuses to be transparent, and sets itself on a dictatorial path; then it imposes itself on the status of a destabilization stage, whether the root cause of the destabilization is internal or external.

As long as:
a) People like you continually write biased stories (one of your previous writings contained: “Bashar Assad was democratically elected with 88.7% against two others.” Do you really believe that?)

b) Mohamed Javid Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, keeps denying (as was stated in his recent UN trip) that the Assad regime used chemical weapons against civilians,

c) Nuri al-Maliki keeps denying the Kurdish Peshmerga’s heroic resistance against a much more superior enemy in previous battles, (and in 2014 his son, Ahmed, was arrested in Lebanon for transferring $3 billion US dollars to a Lebanese bank over the period of a year, as reported by a Lebanese Magazine, while at the time, ordinary Iraqi people didn’t have grid power for more than three to four hours a day)

d) People like Saadi Youssef (a so called poet who called Kurdistan the land of monkeys) keep attacking Kurdish history and aspirations,

e) People like Assad al-Zubi (who called the Kurds terrorists), keep denying the Syrian Kurdish people’s right to participate in the political process,

f) Erdogan’s security goons keep beating and kicking unarmed people because they disagree with his policy (as observed in Washington D.C.),

Then the future of Middle Eastern countries will continue to look gloomy and hopeless, people will continue suffer, and the anomaly will continue to exist.

“And it is not just any ideology. It is an ideology whose view of the world is shared by virtually every group hostile to the life of the mind, in particular, to freedom of thought. Who are these groups? Choose your pick: Islamists of various stripes, Ba’thists, Arab nationalists, communists, Turkish chauvinists, even devotees of sheer terror and human degradation, otherwise known as ISIS” Dr. Sabah Salih– Ekurd.net

“- In those wretched countries where a man cannot call his Tongue his own, he can scarce call anything else his own.” – Benjamin Franklin.

Omar Sindi, a senior writer, analyst and columnist for iKurd.net, Washington, United States.

The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author.