Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for the self-determination and statehood of a Middle Eastern people who have for long been persecuted and denied their national, linguistic and political rights. That group is not the Palestinians occupied by the regime he leads, but the Kurdish people of Iraq, thousands of kilometres away. In pure colonial fashion, Netanyahu declared that the Kurds of Iraq were “worthy of statehood”, saying that an axis of cooperation with what he called “moderate forces” in the region was needed.
While it may sound like a foolish declaration, it is a dangerous sign that the Israeli regime that thrives on turmoil among its neighbours, is willing to extend its support to further fragmentation of the region to protect its narrow and supremacist interests. While there is no doubt that the Kurdish people have suffered and been denied their rights, no new state that emerges with the support of and in alliance with such a regime as Israel can ever be an honourable or respectable state. Such a state will be tainted at its inception and it will share the fate of those it chooses to ally itself with.
