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.
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