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Kurdish president calls for statehood, new Middle Eastern order
Arutz Sheva ^ | 23/5/16 | David Rosenberg

Posted on 05/23/2016 3:32:20 PM PDT by Eleutheria5

Speaking on the 100th anniversary of the Sykes-Picot Agreement last week, President of the Iraqi Kurdistan, Masoud Barzani, declared that the old Middle East created by European imperialism was dead – and that an independent Kurdish state must be part of the emerging new order.

Referring to the secret arrangement by the Allied Powers in World War I to divide the Middle East into “spheres of influence”, Barzani blasted the Sykes-Picot Agreement, saying that it denied the rights of the inhabitants and carved up populations with arbitrary lines. The agreement served as the basis for the establishment of the modern states of Syrian, Iraq, Lebanon, and Jordan.

“Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Sykes-Picot agreement. This agreement led to the carving up of the region following the First World War, disregarding the opinion of the peoples of the region and of the geographical reality in the region. It was a great injustice on the peoples of the region, especially the Kurds.”

"The consequences of this agreement were first and foremost detrimental to the people of Kurdistan in the state of Iraq. An Iraqi state that was originally established to be based on partnership between Kurds and Arabs, in fact decided to marginalize the Kurds. Successive Iraqi regimes have since denied Kurds their rights and have committed great tragedies against the Kurdish people.”

While the divisions established in the Sykes-Picot Agreement have held for a century, Barzani claims that the new reality of Islamic terrorism has effectively rendered the boundaries of states like Syria and Iraq null and void.

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Barzani, friend, don't wait around for the International Community. Do your own thing. Declare statehood, and let them react to it however they wish. They're as irrelevant and obsolete as the Sykes-Picot agreement. What's new and happening is EMA, the Eastern Minorities Alliance, and nobody even knows it exists yet. But by birth, as part of an Islamic ethnic minority, you are a member of it, along with Islamic religious minorities such as Suffis and Ibrahimists, as are we Jews in Israel, Hindus and other non-Islamic religious groups in India, Tibet and Nepal, and Christian states and enclaves from Africa to Pakistan. The International Community cannot be asked to accede to changes that are contrary to the order of which they are the authors. They will not defend us from poison gas or a campaign of beheadings, any more than they defended the Armenians in 1915, or the Jews in the 1940s. Unless we band together and make them notice us, they will continue to ignore us for the sake of their respective, still-imperialistic agendas.
1 posted on 05/23/2016 3:32:21 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

Sykes-Picot was definitely a complete con job by the Anglo-French.

The eradication of those artificial creations may just stabilize the area at least more than where it is now.


2 posted on 05/23/2016 3:34:30 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: VanDeKoik

A new world order, pryed from the charred, smoldering fingers of ISIS/DAESH.


3 posted on 05/23/2016 3:56:42 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Let the Kurds have their way ...


4 posted on 05/23/2016 4:04:53 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (JFK Wanted To Send Man To Moon - Obama Wants To Send Man To Ladies Room)
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To: Eleutheria5
If they are willing to take it from ISIS, then it should be theirs. Let them have it and keep it.


5 posted on 05/23/2016 4:05:32 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Forgive but don't forget)
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To: Eleutheria5

the gope neoleft and saudis don’t care about “imperialism.” the’re not the old school commie left.


6 posted on 05/23/2016 4:19:08 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: Eleutheria5
Israel News Flash ‏@ILNewsFlash 29 Nov 2015

RESPECT: 16000 Kurdish WOMEN stayed behind to fight ISIS, While millions of fighting age Syrian/Iraqi men fled to EU


7 posted on 05/23/2016 4:28:11 PM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (We cannot allow Hillary Clinton to become the next Angela Merkel)
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To: Eleutheria5
(Sykes–Picot Agreement)

It always helps to know the 'players'.....The Sykes–Picot Agreement /ˈsaɪks pi.ko/, officially known as the Asia Minor Agreement, was a secret agreement between the United Kingdom and France,[1] with the assent of the Russian Empire. The agreement defined their proposed spheres of influence and control in Southwestern Asia. The agreement was based on the premise that the Triple Entente succeed in defeating the Ottoman Empire during World War I. The negotiation of the treaty occurred between November 1915 and March 1916 [2] and was signed on 16 May 1916.[3] The deal was exposed to the public in Izvestia and Pravda on 23 November 1917 and in the British Guardian on November 26, 1917.[4][5]....and thus begins another chapter in the history of what possibly ails the world.....some of it anyway.

8 posted on 05/23/2016 4:33:45 PM PDT by yoe (Quantitative Easing For People.......your gov.$$$$at work...look it up.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Interesting insights, but how do you stabilize a part of the world that has know nothing but instability for all recorded history and even before?


9 posted on 05/23/2016 4:44:54 PM PDT by imfbi (my posting name is geography not an occupation.)
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To: Eleutheria5

The U.S. Senate did not approve the Treaty of Versailles, the League of Nations or the partition of the Ottoman Empire.

According to the principles expressed in the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, government is to be based on the consent of the governed. Practical considerations limit the application of the principle of consent of the government. But, an identifiable people in an identifiable place would seem to qualify, especially in the face of a failure of the established government to safeguard to those people their peace and human rights.

The U.S. should be willing to consider the formation of a democratic Kurdish Republic spanning the northern tier of present day Iraq and Syria. As for Sunni-eastern Syria and Sunni-western Iraq, a new democratic Sunni Arab Republic might be recognized if the Sunni Arabs could get their act together and, with our support in terms of air power and such, kick the sh*t out of ISIS. But, they, not us, have to do the job.

Syria and Iraq have failed to defend the people of those places. In the case of Iraq, the corrupt Shia have betrayed us as well as the Sunnis of western Iraq. In the case of Syria, Assad is more than corrupt, but is evil.


10 posted on 05/23/2016 4:48:13 PM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: Byron_the_Aussie

Give those ladies all the arms they need and let them declare independence.


11 posted on 05/23/2016 4:48:29 PM PDT by hawkaw
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To: VanDeKoik

It would be cool if it could happen. Kurdistan could be another Israel the from the USA.


12 posted on 05/23/2016 4:48:59 PM PDT by 13foxtrot
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To: Redmen4ever

“The U.S. should be willing to consider the formation of a democratic Kurdish Republic spanning the northern tier of present day Iraq and Syria.”

Agree; but I think it’s important to get the Russians on the same page and dicker out some economic/energy benefits for them, they’ll have a stake in helping maintain stability. Barely informed opinion, open to correction ;)


13 posted on 05/23/2016 4:55:29 PM PDT by BiggerTigger
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To: Redmen4ever

It’s also only right and fair to demand that Iran and Turkey permit their Kurdish enclaves to transfer their loyalty and land to the Kurdish homeland. They both have oppressed and waged war against their Kurds off and on over the past century at least.


14 posted on 05/23/2016 4:57:07 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: imfbi

I don’t know. It’s congenitally unstable. I do know that if you wait around for someone else to stick up for you in this region, you’ll be in for some unpleasant inevitabilities. Looking for a super power to be your sugar daddy is not the answer, either. So whom do you turn to? People on the same boat as you. Not for stability, but for common defense.


15 posted on 05/23/2016 5:01:19 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Byron_the_Aussie

Ooo! Little Miss Muffets!


16 posted on 05/23/2016 5:02:03 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Kurdistan could be the ‘safe zone’ Trump was talking about.


17 posted on 05/23/2016 5:05:58 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Eleutheria5
No thanks. No more islamic terrorist states. As soon as the Kurds get their own state they are gonna be shooting Christians. Screw that.

No more muslim countries. If you want some new countries in the Middle east, make some for the Copts, Iraqi and Syrian Christians. You know, the people that were there before the muslim plague came.

18 posted on 05/23/2016 6:56:27 PM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

Re Copts, etc., that’s the idea. States for all of them, too. Kurds in Iraq for all intents and purposes have their own state, and they’re shooting ISIS, not Christians. Also, raising the idea of a new state for the Kurds shows all these Islamic states before the world as hypocrites, and puts the lie to their racist bromide “two states for two peoples”.


19 posted on 05/23/2016 8:53:35 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Eleutheria5; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Kurdistan should declare statehood, and the US (and Israel) should immediately recognize it -- but the EU probably can be counted on to NOT recognize it. Thanks Eleutheria5.

20 posted on 05/24/2016 5:19:35 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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