When Have The Arabs Ever Treated The Kurds Fairly?

They persecuted them, and under Saddam Hussein, killed nearly 200,000. No Arabs anywhere, inside or outside Iraq, uttered a syllable of protest at this. They never allowed Kurdistan to receive a reasonable share of the oil revenues generated by the oil under the Kurdish areas of Iraq. They moved in, by the hundreds of thousands, to “arabize” villages that had been entirely Kurdish — while Kurds in those villages were driven out or killed. Now, under a regime that is supposed to be more advanced than that of Saddam Hussein, agreements with the Kurds have been systematically ignored. Why should the Kurds continue to stay in the Iraqi Parliament, when they are promised so little, and even the promise of that little so seldom upheld?

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