by Gerald A. Honigman
Kurdish Soldiers Qameshli, Syria. Photo by Yan Boechat/VOA – Voice of America, Public Domain, Wikipedia
Well, The Donald’s done did it, and I was truly hoping I’d be proven wrong, and that he would not repeat what President George H. W. Bush shamefully committed against America’s most loyal allies in the Middle East (besides Israel) during the first Gulf war in 1990-1991.
After a ceasefire went into effect, he ordered General “Stormin’ Norman” Schwarzkopf to merely stand down and watch as thousands of Kurds were ruthlessly massacred by Saddam’s Arab forces.
The General was haunted by this until his death…
https://www.mideasttruth.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11086
It was a horrific national disgrace, adding insult to injury, since years earlier, as described below, Secretary of State Kissinger had mockingly committed a similar deadly “number” on them after the long Arab Iraqi-Iranian war came to a close in the late 1980s.
Ironically, Kissinger correctly assessed that modern Syria was an artificial state comprised, like Iraq and the former Yugoslavia, of antagonistic ethnic groups which could only be held together by an iron-fisted regime: Marshal Tito in Yugoslavia, Saddam in Iraq, the Assads in Syria, and now the new jihadi al-Qaida leader in suit and tie in Damascus as well
See below, because President Trump has now once again decided, like Bush I, to make America act very naively if not outright stupidly with his cruel decision to once again turn the Kurds and other Arab oppressed ethnic groups over to the very genocidal jihadis which we ourselves have been fighting, and who the embattled Kurds have courageously and effectively fought for decades—suffering numerous thousands of dead and wounded as a result.
Not a way to treat a true friend, for sure.
Contrast this to the outstanding words of President Trump’s first term Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo. who recently became the first major American leader to call for Kurdish independence…
“Other regional actors offer rhetorical friendship, but the Kurds demonstrate theirs through action and sacrifice…
Kurdish fighters have consistently battled America’s worst enemies—jihadist groups like ISIS, al-Qaida, and others—sparing American blood and treasure…
Unlike many other partners in the region, the Kurds have never engaged in anti-American terrorism…never wavered in their friendship. Their loyalty has delivered exceptional returns on just a modest investment in contrast to the trillions spent on other Middle Eastern conflicts…”
https://nypost.com/2025/05/20/opinion/kurds-deserve-better-how-us-can-support-an-allys-freedom/
The Donald somehow couldn’t find a place for Mike Pompeo in his second term.
I think I have an inkling why…and it’s not embellishing for The Donald.
Unfortunately, while Trump did some amazing things in the Middle East during his first term, for now, the lure of big business ventures with Arab trillionaires trump ethics and morality where he, his family, Witkoff, Kushner, and other tycoons are concerned. And I state this as someone who voted for him twice as a NPA Independent, not as an anti-Trumper, and as someone who has done advanced doctoral work in the area of study.
His new policies regarding Israel reflect this as well.
Hamas has rearmed, regrouped, and reasserted control over much of Gaza because The Donald did his Hamas- enabling Qatari, Islamist Turk, and Saudi’s bidding in forcing Israel to forgo its hard won momentum and accept a one-sided mediocre hudna ceasefire instead
Israel had Hamas “on the ropes” until he did this
When America fought brutal enemies in WWII, it didn’t accept anything other than total surrender.
Israel is microscopic compared to America and is surrounded by hundreds of millions of hostile Arabs and other enemies who wish it dead. Hamas’s charter calls for total destruction of the sole, beleaguered, resurrected nation of the Jewish People, and the murder of all Jews everywhere.
Ergo, the only solution acceptable to anyone in an Israel, which requires a magnifying glass to locate on a world globe’s predicament, is..
Returning to the Kurds, keep in mind that these are 41 million TRULY stateless people who, unlike Arabs, don’t already possess almost two dozen states on over six million square miles of land, including one on almost 80% of the original 1920 Mandate of Palestine and known as Jordan today. Additionally, most of those states were gained via the forced conquest (STEALING ) of other native indigenous peoples’s ancestral homelands.
Note that, unlike any Arab nation, besides Israel, Syrian Kurdistan is the most democratic and pro-woman rights region anywhere in MENA…Ditto for an improving Iraqi Kurdistan as well:
As we witness the current bloody clash in the Islamic Republic of Iran between Arabized Aryan Islamists led by Twelver Shi’a mullahs, who care nothing about Iran’s proud, ancient, pre-Arabized past, the earlier Iraq-Iran war of the ‘80’s represented a clash between modern Arab and Aryan/Iranian nationalisms with an overriding dose of Shi’a Islamist ideology added to the mix.
And in some ways it was like King Cyrus the Great of ancient Persia fighting King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon over hegemony in a very important region of the world again.
In reality, however, that war was largely fought over possession of oil-rich land in Iran’s Khuzestan province in the west…
So many Arabs (millions of Ahwazis today ) had come to live there since the days of the original 7th century colonizing jihadi invasions from the Arabian Peninsula that the territory had come to be known alternatively as “Arabistan” instead, and was ruled by an Arab sheikh for centuries until Rezah Shah Pahlavi regained it in the early 20th century.
Millions of Kurds, Azeri Turks, Baluchis, and other ethnic groups make up about half of Iran’s population.
America’s ‘80’s and ‘90’s abandonment resulted in over 300,000 thousand dead Kurds in the Arabs’s Iraqi ANFAL Campaign and other atrocities afterwards.
This was/is largely due to the State Department’s traditional antisemites’s (fought President Truman’s decision to recognize Israel Reborn in ‘48, etc.) additional antipathy and use and abuse policy towards Kurdish aspirations for independence (promised after WWI) in order to not anger the black African slaving autocratic Arab petro-potentates and Big Oil, the Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO) and the “Seven Sisters” in particular.
As occurred in Arab Iraq, supremacist Sunni Syrian Arabs had a similar murderous history with the indigenous Kurdish, Yazidi, Assyrian, Chaldean, Druze, Jews, Armenians, Alawi, and other ethnic groups as well.
Professor Ismet Cherif Vanly’s 1968 book, “The Syrian ‘Mein kampf’ Against the Kurds” is a testament to this jihadi Arab treatment of non-Arab or rival Arab religious groups going on to this very day, as corroborated by the recent slaughter of thousands of Druze, Assyrian and other Christians, Kurds, and others by President Trump’s new good buddy, ISIS and al-Qaida’s own product, Ahmed al-Sharaa.
During the First Gulf War era, repeated disgraceful treatment by America (meaning State Department and Big Oil collaborators) of a much used and abused indigenous people, who lived in their Mesopotamian and Anatolian ancestral homelands as Hurrians, Kassites, Medes, and Gutian conquerors of an earlier Babylon for millennia before any alien invading Turk or Arab ever arrived from elsewhere (Guti-Gurti-Kurd), led Pulitzer Prize winning NYTimes William Safire to pen his “Sellout of the Kurds” series as a result.
In earlier times, after World War I, when various empires collapsed, including that of the Ottoman Turks, which had possessed most of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), the Allies gained control of much of the region.
The Brits had already installed themselves in Egypt prior to the war (the Franco-British 19th century Suez Canal enterprise,etc.).
Afterwards, as a result of imperial shenanigans and territorial trading, and somewhat conflicting promises to the region’s various peoples, who subsequently saw a chance to obtain independence in the new age of nationalism, during the Cairo Conference of 1921, the future of MENA was largely drawn up.
France had already taken much of North Africa and received Mandates in Lebanon and Syria. The Brits gained the Mandate of Palestine and the much larger Mandate of Mesopotamia, in which London had promised Kurds independence in the northern mountainous areas of their and their Assyrian and Chaldean ancestral homelands. The Kurds, however, outnumbered all the rest by far.
But bowing to a collusion of British petroleum politics and Arab nationalism. after receiving a favorable decision on the Mosul Question from the League of Nations in 1925, the Brits did to the Kurds what President Trump’s America is repeating right now…denying scores of millions of Kurdish friends and loyal allies any hope of freedom and independence from their supremacist, genocidal Arab oppressors.
Twenty three million Kurds pre-date and live in Turkey where their own language and culture have been outlawed, and they have been renamed “Mountain Turks” to deny them their own identity
Shame on all parties involved in this abhorrent treatment.
Just imagine if Israel had done likewise to its Arab citizens. Instead, Arabic was made the second national language, and there are Arabs in Israel’s parliament (Knesset) who openly side with Israel’s genocidal enemies.
In 1922, Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill lopped off almost 80% of the original territory of the 1920 Mandate of Palestine (denying Jews most of their 4,000 year old ancestral homelands in Judaea and Samaria as earlier promised in the 1917 Balfour Declaration), and handed it over to Arabism’s cause with the creation of Transjordan, today’s Jordan.
Jews and Kurds have thus both been repeatedly shafted as a result of this alliance of Big Oil, Arabist domination of sycophantic kafir Infidel nations, imperialism, and ARABISM’s self-centered agenda which allows for no other justice but its own.
The result has been that no one else’s cause or aspirations have effectively been addressed on the international arena for over well over half century—except that of Arabism’s quest for a 22nd or 23rd state to be created via the forced suicide of a minuscule Israel.
Billions of dollars of Arab oil money have greatly impacted academia, the media, international institutions and organizations, and so forth.
Most students know more about the Little Miss Muffet nursery rhyme curds than Kurds—and this is not by accident.
Far too many professors still know who butters their bread and deliberately exclude subjects and sources which will anger Arab and Turk university trillionaire benefactors. I witnessed this firsthand in my studies and in visits as part of my later consulting work on dozens of campuses
Bringing this to a close, the latest news regarding the Kurds, is, once again, that America, instead of reinforcing its bases in Syria and increasing support for the only democracy besides Israel anywhere in the region—Syrian Kurdistan—Trump is now withdrawing all American forces, just at a time when his friend, the new jihadi ruler of Syria, has resumed slaughter of the Kurds, supported by Trump’s other pal, the jihadi-supporting Turkish leader as well.
A more astute leader would opt for the following instead and take advice from his wonderful, knowledgeable first term Secretary of State, as seen above, Mike
Pompeo…
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