Abstract:
Since the expansion of ISIS in the summer of 2014, Israeli leaders have increasingly proclaimed the Kurds’ right to an independent state in Iraqi Kurdistan. So an important question is raised. What is Israel`s main objective towards to Kurds and their efforts for independence? Based on the «peripheral strategy», what could be place of the Kurds in Israel’s strategy in the Near and Middle East? If does Israel consider the Kurdish issue as vital component of its priorities in the foreign policy or see it just as a temporary benefit in its regional security considerations? Relying on the various comments and opinions, our study uses the contextual analysis for finding the facts and presenting the impartial final analysis. Our analysis is shaped and developed by the facts reported and discussed by the experts as well as by real strategic considerations of the players. I try to shape my argument based on two pivotal considerations, first ethnical debate and second Tel Aviv`s long term strategy in the region. Based on both of them, the Kurd issue will be a marginal not main concern for Israel. Tel Aviv seeks to abuse the Kurdish independence emotions, and it is and will be a half way comrade for Kurdish people, nothing more
Machine summary:
A rough estimate by the CIA Factbook records Kurdish populations of 12 million in Turkey, 6 million in Iran, 5 to 6 million in Iraq, and less than 2 million in Syria, which comes to a total of approximately 28 million Kurds, who reside in Kurdistan and the adjacent regions.
Israel has identified the Kurdish minority as a buffer against common adversaries, while the Iraqi Kurds see the Jewish state as a potential ally in order to legitimatize their political independence and an economic partner to alleviate internal instability (Liga.
The operations conducted by the Israeli intelligence agency in Northern Iraq were of particular significance for Israel because the Iraqi Kurds were pounded not only by the Iraqi troops but also by the regular army of Syria, another Arab state ruled by the Baath party.
However, after the end of the new US military operation against Iraq in 2003 from which the Kurds probably benefited most, the Turkish press reported that one of the Kurdish leaders was a Jew, and as a result “Israel will soon establish close ties with the de facto Kurdish state in Northern Iraq”.
According to him, “the Islamists claim that Israel wants to use the ‘Kurdish card’ and establish a new Jewish state from the Nile to the Euphrates including the Kurdish regions in Northern Iraq and South- Eastern Turkey; this is coincident with the traditional Turkish fears about the plans to dismember Turkey”.
SEP 26, 2007 Kurdish- Israeli military relations http:// israel kurdistan network.