[El Gato]

My high school social studies,(World History and Economics,among other things, who was BTW, one strange bird, always used the Kurds as an example of a people who should have a country, but don't. He used them as a counter example to the Palistinians, who aren't a single people, and shouldn't have a country, and also to some extent as a counter example to the Balkans.

The Palis were a problem even back then in the dark ages, which stradled the '67 "Six Day" war.

That was before Mr. L quit teaching, opened a restaurant in a small town, and then went really 'round the bend. He had some holes in his background that led some to suspect he may have been OSS or CIA, but I guess we'll never know for sure. I will say he was quite pleased when I showed up 3 years after graduation, in my AF ROTC uniform.

[forkinsocket]

I like Kurds & Jews in general like them. My Armenian boyfriend hates them, though, as they betrayed Armenians during the Turkish massacres.

One time he went to buy a car & the salesman was Kurdish. After finding out that he’s Armenian, the Kurd said, “Kurdistan, Hayastan* - brothers,” in an attempt to ingratiate himself with my boyfriend. He sneered & turned away.

lol @ our Middle Eastern ethnic hatreds!

*Armenia.