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Israel Schemes in Kurdistan
By Les Blough, Axis of Logic
Sep 3, 2009
On August 12, 2009, Radio Netherlands announced, “New Israel-Kurd magazine surprises Arab world”. The article is republished below for the reader’s convenience. Axis of Logic correspondent, analyst and writer,Cherifa Sirry writes from Egypt:
“The obvious question is ‘What are the real reasons this new magazine, the ‘Israel-Kurd’, has been created in the first place?’ This is quite strange considering the amount of money spent by ‘the Jewish state’ on attracting Jews and now even ‘converts’ to emigrate to the ‘Jewish state’. Demography is one of Israel’s worst enemies. So what is the objective of this new magazine?”
Cherifa raises a good question. Perhaps the following conditions provide some context for understanding this push to build “Israeli-Kurd bridges”:
The U.S./Israel war objective is to break up and remap Iraq into 3 entities which gives the Kurds U.S.-controlled “autonomy” in Northern Iraq.
The Kurds’ cross-border raids from Northern Iraq into Southern Turkey have resulted in Turkey’s bombing of PKK targets inside Northern Iraq.
There has been a push for Turkey to open trade with Northern Iraq and Turkey has been reluctant to do so.
We can’t be sure what the specific goals of the U.S. and Israel are for the new magazine, for this planned emigration and for their pretext of strengthening relations between Israel and the Kurds. As Cherifa says, there are reasons to doubt their pretext of sending Kurdish Jews in Israel back to Kurdistan, Iraq. The article argues that this mission is for “building bridges between Israel and Kurdistan”, to re-establish the history of Jewish Kurds and to protect Israel from Arab influence in Kurdistan. All these reasons beg credibility. On a cynical note, the author adds that the Kurds have a “right to return to their country of origin”, which is obviously stated in the face of the Palestinian’s claim of “right to return”, which is scornfully ignored by Israel.
More probable explanations for sending a few Kurdish Jews from Israel into Northern Iraq involve military objectives and money:
This migration plan allows Israel to create cover for Mossad’s covert operations in Northern Iraq and eventually, an overt military presence in the region.
The Israelis seek to gain control of the petroleum in Northern Iraq and to position themselves for doing business in the region. “Business” would include one of their most lucrative exports – weapons.
The Turkish government has always been unprincipled in choosing it’s trading partners, motivated by the greed of the ruling elite. Turkey’s government has been a whore for trade with Israel since they signed atrade pact in 2000 and between 2002 and 2008 their trade volume with Israel went from $1.4 billion to $3.3 billion, increasing 36% in 2008. Israeli-Turkish trade pact was launched with a contract for Israel to modernize M-60 tanks for $668 million, 300 military helicopters for $57 million. Three other contracts to modernize Turkey’s war jets landed Israel $850 million.
The problem Turkey has with this Faustian pact can be summed up in “the people”. Like all capitalist governments, Ankara operates not in the interest of the Turkish people but in the interest of their leaders and corporate-led special interest groups. Ankara criticized Israel’s slaughter in Gaza in 2008-2009 and Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan stormed out of the Gaza session in Davos for one reason only – to pacify the vast majority of Turks who support the Palestinians and flatly reject doing business with the Jewish state. In 2006, 50,000 Turks rose up in protest against one Israeli assault on Gaza in which 12 Palestinians were killed and many more wounded. On January 2, 2009, thousands of Turks again protested Israel’s killing of over 1,300 defenseless Gazans. The general population, some opposition party members, intellectuals, 19 bar associations and other groups demanded that Turkey cut military and trade relations with Israel. Their government responded with empty words of condemnation but no concrete action against Israel, ignoring the demands and simply telling their people that cutting military and trade ties would not stop Israel’s attacks on Paestinians.
The new Jewish migration scheme gives Israel an official, overt presence in Northern Iraq, seeping into Turkish Kurdistan and Iranian Kurdistan, threatening Turkey, destabilising the region and building military and economic power for the Jewish state. Meanwhile, Radio “Netherlands”, namesake of a Mossad stronghold in Europe, wraps the new “Israel-Kurd” magazine in worn out slogans of “freedom of expression … interest in the history of Kurdish Jews … building bridges” and of course, with a mission to save the Jewish State, known for its narcissism-victim syndrome, from persecution by those nasty Arabs.
Source: http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_56841.shtml
