Thursday, April 7, 2005
That according to this post by neo-neocon about newly selected Kurdish President of Iraq, Jalal Talabani.
Talabani, the Kurds, and the Jews
...According to Rubin's article, written before the Iraq war that deposed Saddam, many Kurds were already expressing approval of Israel and studying the country as a model for their own autonomy and liberation. Victims of persecution and genocide themselves, they could identify. What's more, they despised the Palestinians for their support of Saddam. The older generation of Kurds remembered the absent Iraqi Kurdish Jews fondly, and even the younger generation were able to listen to Israeli radio, watch Israeli TV, and access Israeli websites, unlike the inhabitants of the rest of Iraq...
More here.
See my comments and links there as well at Roger's site.