20 September 2017
According to the magazine
Israel-Kurd based in Erbil, the
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu and Massoud Barzani, the
self-appointed President of the future independent Kurdistan, have
reached a secret agreement.
Tel-Aviv is committed to installing 200 000 Israelis of Kurdish origin in Kurdistan.
The announcement has been widely repeated in the Turkish, Iranian and
Arab press.
The plan to create a South Sudan and a Kurdistan has been an Israeli
military objective following missile development at the end of the
nineties. These territories, largely administered by the Israelis, have
enabled a rear attack on Egypt and Syria.
Out of the 8.5 million Israelis living in Israel, around 200,000 are
of Kurdish origin. In March 1951, “Operation Ezra and Nehemiah” (named
after the biblical persons that organized the flight of the Jewish
people from Babylon) permitted 11,000 Jewish Kurds to emigrate from Iraq
to Israel. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee of New York
funded this operation. The planes used for this air lift were made
available by the Cuban dictator, Fulgencio Batista.
The Barzani family that governs the Iraqi Kurdistan with an iron
fist, is historically connected to Israel. Mullah Mustafa Barzani,
father of the current president Massoud Barzani, was one of Mossad’s
high official.
The Israeli Prime Minister is the only head of government to have
publicly declared his support of the creation of an independent
Kurdistan outside the historic Kurdish territory (which would also be to
the detriment of the indigenous populations).
Despite the prohibition declared by the Iraqi Constitutional Court, a
referendum will take place on 25 September 2017 with a view to
declaring this new State.
Translation
Anoosha Boralessa