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@JoeTruzman: “When Israel advocated for Kurdish statehood a decade ago, it had to be mindful of the risks of exposing its national security interests vis-a-vis Iran or of upsetting Turkey. Now Israel is openly exchanging blows with the Iranians, and any semblance of face-saving diplomacy with Ankara has been trashed by Erdogan’s thuggish and antisemitic rhetoric. Carving a Kurdistan out of part of Iraq would support the empty idea of sacrosanct borders in a region where ethnicity trumps ink on a map, and in turn it will serve the Jewish state’s efforts to achieve defensible and recognized boundaries in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.” https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/11/09/its-leaders-should-no-longer-be-welcome-qatar-agrees-to-oust-hamas/