Re: "No such entity as the Kurds" Really, S? One of your blind spots, perhaps? NOM Archived Message
Posted by Subhi on January 9, 2019, 6:01 pm, in reply to ""No such entity as the Kurds" Really, S? One of your blind spots, perhaps? NOM"
no, there are Kurds, in 4 flavours kurmanji, sorani, palewani and the zaza-gorani speakers, but even each flavour is not "the Kurds", as they are and always have been deeply divided, very tribal love their leaders as they say too too much, why would you think I have a blindspot, I remember when Israel was sold as a socialist paradise in the savage east, anyway I've never known a Kurd who didn't speak Arabic and they like the Druze have always been fully integrated into the region having been there upwards of 1000 years, as Hassoun says we all have links to each other, enough of that.. (mine are weirdly enough chenchen through my grandfathers distant mamluk ancestry and my grandmother was a bedouin of distant Hijazi descent and we are all Egyptians and Arabs...its how its always been out east check the history, check the history of Syria..you don't think it's time after 200 hundred years of fairly intense slaughter and destruction directed at us from the West for it to stop making countries in the Arab world and adopting fanciful 'socialist experiments' to cede a third of Syria ....look at South Sudan..one we made earlier..it's not being covered because it is now an Israeli and Gulf state charnel house. it occurs to me that with respect to yourself and Ians "rosy picture" and "I'll look in to it" and 'blindspot' for someone like me those responses all come out of the Imperial lexicon, I have heard them or variants of them for the last several decades during rather more stressed situations..ennui prevents me from addressing them directly..not meaning to be rude I favour a sober analysis based on a knowledge of the region, the whole region, it's culture (it's actual culture) and history including recent history, that's all...its like you don't hear much from Syrians in all this, is there a better source? one less likely to dissimulate? or more deserving a say? I mean we never really hear from Iraqis, have you been following the KRG and what is going on, 40 years of war, sure look in to it, as long as you know how to do so. In my experience both professional and personal despite nearly 20 years of constant war westerners now know less about the Arab world and Islam than previously, that's probably the ennui again...Murray Bookchin and Ocalans evolving long dure historical perspective is really worrying it will lead to more catastrophes. Imperial mythology has a siren power maybe be I am blind and perhaps we are unduly rosy about our "culture" but we retain the right to defend ourselves nonetheless.
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Message Thread:
- Syrian Kurds. A discord for our little echo chamber. - George Brennan January 8, 2019, 12:21 pm
- Re: Syrian Kurds. A discord for our little echo chamber. - Bluefool January 8, 2019, 12:51 pm
- thought-provoking - west virginia January 8, 2019, 2:32 pm
- IS was always a US proxy - Keith-264 January 8, 2019, 4:22 pm
- Re: thought suppressing - Subhi January 8, 2019, 8:35 pm
- "No such entity as the Kurds" Really, S? One of your blind spots, perhaps? NOM - Rhisiart Gwilym January 9, 2019, 7:33 am
- Re: "No such entity as the Kurds" Really, S? One of your blind spots, perhaps? NOM - Subhi January 9, 2019, 6:01 pm
- Re: thought suppressing - Ian M January 9, 2019, 4:25 pm
- I misread that for a moment .. - Shyaku January 8, 2019, 6:48 pm
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