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Title: The Little-known History of Israel and the Kurds
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URL Source: https://providencemag.com/2019/10/t ... story-of-israel-and-the-kurds/
Published: Oct 18, 2019
Author: Kassy Dillon
Post Date: 2020-01-05 20:11:27 by BTP Holdings
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Comments: 1

The Little-known History of Israel and the Kurds

By Kassy Dillon on October 18, 2019

In the fallout of President Trump decision to essentially abandon our Kurdish allies in Syria, one seemingly unlikely country offered the Kurds support: Israel.

Days after President Trump’s tweet of U.S. withdrawal, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israel was prepared to give humanitarian assistance to the “gallant Kurdish people.”

At first glance, the likelihood of Israel being somewhat allied with the Kurds seems bleak. Kurds are citizens of three countries that are openly hostile to Israel, namely Iran, Iraq, and Syria, and one country, Turkey, who’s relations with Israel is lukewarm at best.

But in reality, the Kurds are natural allies of Israel and have been so for the past six decades. The ties between the two groups are historical, political, and economical.

More than 200,000 to 300,000 Jews of Kurdish origin exist today and mostly reside in Israel. Many Kurdish Jews were among the first Jews to make the return to Israel in the 1890s.

There are even ancient Jewish-Kurdish legends that claim the Kurds are descendants of the Jews from the time of King Solomon. The story claims Solomon sent his servants to retrieve 500 beautiful women from Europe, but when the servants returned, Solomon had passed. His servants are said to have reproduced with the women who gave birth to the Kurdish nation. Recent research has also found that Jews and Kurds share more genetic connections than Jews and Arabs.

Ties between Israel and the Kurds first started in the 1960s when the Kurds helped smuggle the remaining Jews out of Iraq after decades of rising anti-Semitism, which included Pogroms, public executions, and discriminatory laws.

Kurdish leaders directly played a role in smuggling Jews out, according to Zvi Zamir, the former head of the Mossad. According to Yossi Alpher in his Periphery: Israel’s Search for Middle East Allies, Zamir once recounted the story of a Jewish woman meeting Kurdish leader Mulla Mustafa Barzani on her journey out of the region. The woman attempted to give Barzani a necklace of appreciation to which he instead directed her to give it to the Prime Minister of Israel. In the same interaction, Barzani said, “[Israel] is the state of the Jews. There is no other country to which we Kurds owe so much.”

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The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

There was no Israel in 1890, only Palestine, and it was under Turkish rule. ;)

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The Kurds are of Iranian origin. Those were Iranian Jews. There are hundreds of thousands of Iranian Jews living in the US, mostly in California.

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