The Case for Kurdish Statehood
11th July 2016
Why has the West been so supportive of Palestinian nationalism, yet so reluctant to support the Kurds, the largest nation in the world without a state?
Perhaps because the Kurds aren’t making it a policy to blow up Jews and other pro-Western people.
With an estimated worldwide population of about 35 million (including about 28 million in the KRG or adjacent areas), the Kurds are the fourth-largest ethnic group in the Middle East (after the Arabs, Persians, and Turks), and have faced decades of persecution as a minority in Turkey, Iran, and Iraq.
That’s the point. A Kurdistan would take parts from Iraq, Iran, and Turkey, all of whom would scream bloody murder.