The Kurds have been treated horribly. Like Jews, they are a religious and secular ethnic group that stands outside the official Christian and Muslim world. They are neither Sunni nor Shia. They are sandwiched between Turkey and Iran, who cannot abide the fiercely independent Kurds. And like the Israelis, they are divided, fractious, and argumentative.
It should not be hard to convince Washington that it is right and moral to begin the process of carving out a Kurdish homeland, especially since the nations which hold the 50 million Kurds are unfriendly to the United States and have at times called for its destruction or have turned its back on the United States.
I saw the mass graves of Yazidis murdered by ISIS. It was a genocide and Israel should recognize it.
After the tyrannical period of former dictator Saddam Hussein’s rule, Kurdistan became the most prosperous, secular part of the new Iraq, in a close working relationship with the West. It welcomed modernity as much as the historical conditions made it possible.
Yazidis, a historically persecuted non-Muslim people in the Middle East, are yet again fleeing for their lives — this time from Turkey — backed jihadists invading Afrin in northern Syria.
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