by Gerald A. Honigman
I was recently alerted to an important essay dealing with America’s 40 million truly stateless allies in the Middle East, who have far less negative moral “baggage” than most of the Arab states and Turkey, which we have long standing relations with, but who’ve been brutally massacred and have had their own native language and culture outlawed by some of those nations mentioned above—including gassing to death and otherwise slaughter of over 200,000 in the Anfal Campaign and on other occasions in Arab Iraq alone—the Kurds. Professor Ismet Cherif Vanly’d book, “The Syrian (Arab) Mein Kampf Against the Kurds,” needs no additional explanation.
Channel hopping, on. June 9, 2025 I lucked into catching former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, author of the above mentioned essay, being interviewed on Fox News.
To my knowledge, he was the first major government official, even if now not serving in that capacity, to publicly take up the cause of these much beleaguered friends of America. And he’s also the person President Trump should have picked to be his main “point man” in the Middle East and elsewhere, not the real estate developer he chose instead.
Pompeo’s positions in the United States Congress, as director of the CIA, West Point officer, Harvard Law School grad, and Secretary of State made him light years more ready than Trump’s personal buddy, Steve Witkoff. Here’s a brief look at his amazing contributions to America:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pompeo
Regarding the topic of Pompeo’s essay, my own extensive doctoral work dealing with the struggle of the Kurds and other largely Arab, Turkish, and Iranian oppressed peoples in the region of MENA and adjacent areas has been on Paris’s acclaimed Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) recommended reference list since 1982. My forever timely book and other publications covering this and other related topics are now in use in numerous universities and other institutions of higher learning all around the globe.
The first part of the Foreword to “The Quest for Justice in the Middle East: The Arab-Israeli Conflict In Greater Perspective” (http://q4j-middle-east.com ) is written by the President of the Kurdistan National Assembly of Syria. Major jacket comments are penned by the Amazigh/“Berber” publisher of Afrique-du-Nord.
Together the above two gentlemen represent some 80 million truly stateless peoples in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
A proud American with yesrs of experience in foreign affairs and relations, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is the man I hope some day will again hold high political office, perhaps even as president. Here’s his poignant essay on the struggle of America’s loyal allies, the Kurds…
https://nypost.com/2025/05/20/opinion/kurds-deserve-better-how-us-can-support-an-allys-freedom/
Needless to say, my admiration for Pompeo has been even more enhanced than it already was during his role in President Trump’s first term in office.
His contributions towards such things as getting the Abraham Accords signed and sending a message to the Islamic Republic of Iran’s genocidal mullahs that the days of Obama/Biden weakness were over and their oil revenues would be greatly curtailed were among many other accomplishments, like getting President Trump’s goal of getting America’s NATO allies to contribute more to their own defense.
The following are just some of many widely published, supporting analyses to Secretary of State Pompeo’s essay that I’ve penned over the decades trying to help alert the world at large, and academia in particular, to the fact that besides Arabs clamoring for a 22nd or 23rd state, there are still scores of millions of other native peoples in the region who have not yet had their own basic human, let alone political, rights addressed at all by most of an assortment of Arab oil-addicted hypocrites.
Such abused folks include Kurds, Copts, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Amazigh/Kabyle/“Berbers” (almost 40 million of them alone as well), black Africans, and so forth. Darfur and elsewhere in Sudan and sub-Saharan Africa are still a nightmare. And guess who the perpetrators of these mass atrocities are?
https://share.google/SUcIbOd7OKN5EoJ06
Regarding the Kurds alone, on the front lines combatting Turkey, Saudi, and Qatar supported ISIS, al-Qaida, and other oppressive jihadi forces in both Syria and Iraq, too often in the past America has disgracefully used and abused them, and only minimally armed them.
They have suffered numerous thousands of dead, wounded, and maimed in the process, and besides Israel, are the most democratic (with imperfections all peoples have) ethnic group in the region.
Below are just a sampling of my own analyses which most of academia never seems to be able to discuss with students, nor even takes an interest in.
If the “cause” isn’t for Arabs, most of whom still remain dedicated to the obliteration of the sole, minuscule, resurrected nation of the Jewish People, the subject rarely if ever even gets mentioned, let alone placed on a required course reading list.
Thus, for starters, please carefully review the following and consider sharing with others—because your offspring’s professors almost certainly won’t, whether the subject content is in my own analyses, academic journal articles, book on the subject, or wherever else this important content can be found:
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The Real Message of the Turks’ Invasion of Syria: The Birth of Kurdistan…
theinsightinternational.com
Reversing Kissinger, Realpolitik, and Henry Machiavelli von Bismarck
newenglishreview.org
Tricking The General–Or, When Norman Wasn’t Stormin’
mideasttruth.com
The PKK, Kurds, and Ankara’s Cultural Genocide of its ‘Mountain Turks’…
newenglishreview.org
American Bases In Kurdistan: “Out Of The Box,”….
theinsightinternational.com
Moving on…
As tens of thousands of know nothing, indoctrinated instead of educated students protest and demonstrate, often violently, and the world at large continues to demand a 22nd if not 23rd state for Arabs—their SECOND, not first, in the original 1920 Mandate of Palestine (today’s Jordan got the lion’s share in 1922)—it must be stressed yet again that 40 million Kurds still remain mostly ignored, without the media and the vast majority of academia even mentioning them in the classroom. This is not accidental.
Kurds, the Amazigh, Assyrians, Copts, and other Arab, Turk, and Iranian oppressed peoples are simply ignored in order to not anger Arab oil potentates who pump millions upon millions of dollars onto campuses and departments which deal with Middle Eastern history and politics, but in other areas as well.
Much of the trillions of dollars Qatar and Saudi Arabia recently pledged to President Trump, along with a half billion dollar new Air Force I, will pour into the American economy, a positive development.
See here…
Ankara’s Mountain Turk Headache & the Crocodile Tears of Academia
Such oil-tainted money (including from ARAMCO and other oil companies as well) too often winds up molding attitudes of naive students to the point of simply not even questioning such “truths.”
While numerous chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine exist, where is even one university which has a chapter of Students for Justice in Kurdistan?
Where are demonstrations, tent cities, and riots for this TRULY stateless people’s cause?
Or, Students for Justice of the Amazigh/Kabyle/“Berber” people—another 40 million truly stateless, pre-7th century C.E. Arab jihadi invasion ethnic group which had their own language and culture forcibly Arabized and Islamized and outlawed?
Who’s crying out about the tenuous situations of various Christian communities in the region, like the Assyrians, Chaldeans, Armenians—and other separate groups like the Druse—all targeted by the Islamist jihadis, whom only the Kurds and Israel have been fighting?
See also here:
Finally, Mike Pompeo was a priceless asset to President Trump’s first administration, and I don’t know why he wasn’t offered an important position this time around.
Hopefully, come 2028, that situation will change.
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