The
currently stateless Kurds sit astride the Iraq-Syria border on land
blessed/cursed with oil, other resources, and geopolitical
significance. Is it any wonder that mega-corporations and their
client states are looking to use the Kurds, stoke conflict, and
exploit the situation?
by
Whitney Webb
Part
6 - The role of Israeli ties in pushing the partition plan
The
Trump administration’s close ties to Israel may also be a factor in
Trump’s willingness to consider Iraq’s partition. Though the U.S.
is clearly driving partition in both Iraq and Syria, it is not alone.
Israel stands to gain greatly from a partition of Iraq and has
worked, like the U.S., to engineer sectarianism there and strengthen
the Kurds. The Kurds have received weapons, training, and more from
Israel — well before the rise of Daesh, with ties dating back to
the 1960s.
Israel
has also directly supported the Kurds’ economy. In 2015, despite
warnings from Baghdad, Israel was importing as much as 77 percent of
its oil supply from Iraqi Kurdistan, funneling much-needed money to
the cash-stripped Kurdish regional government.
Israel
has long recognized the potential role of the Kurds in dividing
countries it and its allies seek to weaken. It is hardly a
coincidence that Israel’s Greater Israel project aligns almost
perfectly with “Kurdistan.” In the Oded Yinon plan, or the plan
for a “Greater Israel,” the use of the Kurds is considered
imperative as a means for dividing neighboring countries in order to
aid in Israeli plans for greater domination and territorial
expansion.
In
addition, Israel considers the Kurds an important part of its
long-standing goal to destabilize Iran. For instance, WikiLeaks
revealed in 2010 that Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad had
expressed interest in using the Kurds and other ethnic minorities to
topple the Iranian government by manufacturing the country’s
division. Given that the partition of Iraq would isolate Iran from
Syria, Israel – like the U.S. – views partition as serving
multiple goals, ultimately enabling Israel to dominate the entire
Middle East.
Source,
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http://www.mintpressnews.com/geopolitics-corporate-profits-push-iraq-syria-towards-partition/230830/
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