The Kurds looked to the US for help – the US played them, they looked to the Soviet Union for help – the Soviets played them, they looked to Iraq for help against Iran, Iraq played them, they looked to Iran for help against Iraq, Iran played them. So the Israelis, smart as ever, have jumped in. Israel too, is playing them. It will be another rough lesson for the Kurds. And they will get no help from Arab nor Persian, neither of whom is interested in Kurdistan as anything but a vassal province.

But you are right that the Palestinians do not need my advice. Instead, I take THEIR advice. A long time ago I went to Palestine, the first day I sat in a Jerusalem cafe with a Jewish professor of Hebrew University. He was polite for a while, but then eventually admonished me that I should not be doing the research I had intended to do as I did not have the permission of the Israeli people. Surprising myself with my own quick retort, I replied that I did not need such permission – I had the permission of the Palestinian people. (Literally true, as per a written document in my pocket!) He was silent, I imagine him doing a slow burn. The idea of Palestinians making their own decisions had never occurred to him.

So if I am meddling in the Middle East, it is with the kind permission of the Palestinian people. Of course, that does not give me permission to muck about in Kurdistan, but then again, I don’t imagine that you have their permission either.

So, while Mahmoud Ahmadinejad might not be good for world anti-imperialism, his country is not just “opposed by the United States,” it has been under serious U.S. attack and faces a continuing threat of escalated violence. It should be first-order business of a left and supposed campaign for peace as well as democracy to oppose this threat. But with Ahmadinejad a demonized target and Iran’s allegedly sham election of June 12 utterly discredited, the CPD’s willing participation in that whole process (in contrast to Honduras, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia) provides first-class service to the imperial powers.

Great lines to show that CPD CAN NOT BE TRUSTED. CPD IS A FRONT.

Deadbeat:

As I have pointed out many times in the past that CPD can not be trusted. Chomsky has signed many of their petitions. I just spotted an article by Edward Herman where he is saying the same thing. Please read this article as soon as possile to see why ‘left’ and ‘progressive’ in the West are so confused and divided.

http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/22109

Good! You should start with Jeffrey Blankfort.

You know shabnam sometimes I am afraid that you will get all worked up and burst a vein, and then again sometimes I am afraid you might not

What an absolute joke.

I don’t like No’am Chomsky. He’s a traitor to the Jewish people (though Soros and Kissinger are far worse and deserve a far more painful punishment for their actions), but worse, he is an intellectual bully who blocks the publications of linguists who dare disagree with him.

Nevertheless, I almost feel like looking him up and e-mailing him some of the comments made here. I almost spit up the water I was drinking on the screen reading them.

And no one is saying the Kurds are angels – they ARE however, people deserving the same rights as all others – and to say that Kurdish nationalism is worse than Zionism says to me you’d be willing to military occupy Kurdish regions in the name of one state or another.

BTW my boys in the Persh Merga would love to sit down with you and have a real dialogue on Kurdish inderpendence.

You go with the latter and I will go with the former. Iranians are living together, including Azeri, Balouch, Kurds and others, for thousands of years. Please stop this nonsense and tell the Zionists they cannot separate us. People should honor togetherness not separating them into many pieces. There is already a fierce fight between Barezani, a puppet of Israel, and Talebani in north of Iraq where may split into two pieces. You must listen to people’s voices in the region that regardless of ethnic or religious divide everyone agrees on one thing, WE DO NOT WANT ANOTHER ISRAEL. You do not have any idea about Kurdish nationalism which is worse than Zionism. They have already started to act against not only Arabs, Christians, Turkmen but also against Azeri. There is a fierce fight between Azeri and Kurds of Iran on who is a ‘guest’ on this piece of land (north east). Stop dreaming B99 and no one should support Kurdish terrorism and must bring it to the fore for others to see. If Kurds can live in the US or Sweden and proudly wave their foc**ng passport to call themselves Americans, or Swedish then they certainly can live with the rest of Iraqi people where have lived for centuries. If those hypocrites who claim ‘I am a citizen of the world’ then they should fu*k off and try to live with people in the region in peace and not to be a PAWN of Zionism and imperialism to expand their TRIBE.

Yes, the purpose of the ‘peace process’ is to buy time until all of Palestine is absorbed. This is why the Palestinians must insist all the way on the entire WB&G and East Jerusalem which is what EVERY F**KING INSTITUTION in the world supports on paper or in reality – as opposed to what? Your solution? What is the damn mechanism of your solution and how many institutions do you have behind it? You don’t even have Hamas for Christ sake. You don’t even have a way of operationalizing it. Nothing but an emotional position. And it just gets the Palestinians killed.

Erakat said that because he wants to hang that possibility over Israel – because he knows every Israeli dreads such an outcome. They will give up all of WB before they submit to one state with Arabs. You know they won’t give in on this.

So I am for a Palestinian state even as you stall until they dry up in the desert. And I am for a state in Kosovo too.

I am not going to act AS A ZIONIST ENABLER by cooperating with their project the ‘greater Israel’ for the region. Iran lost half of Azerbaijan to brutal Russians in 19th century and since then the enemy of Iran wants to partition Iran. The Zionists like Michael Leeden and Schifer, Israeli agent, are very active among opportunists. Please stop dreaming B99,

You still sow a son and dog

http://www.freehaleh.org/2007/05/22/biden-chomsky-and-cole-free-haleh/

[And Chomsky continued denial of Zionism influence of U.S. Foreign policy and its increasing influence of the American political economy.]
Thank you for your post. As you know during the cultural cold war, according to Frances Stonor Saunders, the CIA penetrated and influenced many cultural organizations though its front groups. Many intellectuals were funded and promoted including Irving Kristol, Melvin Lasky, Isaiah Berlin, Stephen Spender, Sidney Hook, Daniel Bell, Dwight MacDonald, Robert Lowell, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, and numerous others in the United States and Europe.
Now, CIA is doing the same thing through its organizations related but not limited to ‘Human Rights’ organizations. NED is funded by the US government and is the center to train agents for the targeted countries. They fund ‘intellectuals’ who are willing to cooperate to spread the empire’s influence around the world and in return these agents will train and direct NGOs in the targeted countries. US have brought many Iranians to the center who are willing to cooperate with NED. Haleh Esfandiari, a monarchist, who left Iran with her husband Shaul Bakhash and has adopted her husband religion, Judaismm, was invited to NED in 1995 and closely cooperated with ‘The institute for the Near East policy.’
Ms. Esfandiari number of times travelled to Iran and in 2007 was detained for few weeks to be questioned. All of sudden many from the ‘progressive’ and ‘left’ were demanding her immediate release. Chomsky on her behalf wrote:

[I would like to join Human Rights Watch and the Middle East Studies Association in strenuously condemning the persecution and now imprisonment of Haleh Esfandiari. These actions are deplorable in themselves, and also are a gift to Western hardliners who are trying to organize support for military action against Iran. Now is a time for diplomacy, negotiations, and relaxation of tensions, in accordance with the will of the overwhelming majority of Americans and Iranians, as recent polls reveal. The intolerable treatment of this highly respected scholar and human rights activist severely undermines the efforts of those who are seeking peace, justice, and freedom in the region and the world.]
Mr. Chomsky was not alone. Joe Biden and Juan Cole were demanding her release as well. Please review Haleh Esfandiari background to know why she is A CIA AGENT to many people.

http://www.peakoil.org.au/news/index.php?esfandiari.htm

I am aware of the non-Semitic (and non-Turkish) roots of the Kurds. They must be considered cultural cousins, if not brothers, of Persians.

Iran has every right to protect its borders (which of course do not include Iraqi Kurdistan) up to and including building atomic weaponry. I don’t propose sending the Jews to hell – only back to their pre-67 borders.

It is not too late for you and Iran to reverse the course of events in Kurdistan vis a vis Israel – but you have to do it based on cultural affinities – as fellow regionalists, fellow Muslims, fellow Aryans, even. You have to do it with aid, trade and cultural exchanges – maybe even defense agreements. What is Iran offering Kurdistan now? Squat. Less than squat. You are giving Kurdistan to the Israelis. Israel already has working agreements with Turkey – so Iran, given a change in government, may be next. It has happened before.

So why don’t you pull the rug out from under Israel and push for an independent Kurdistan and a Palestinian state in all of the WB&G as Fatah and Hamas propose? Or you can just let Israel pick the region apart and curse them to hell.

Iran does not believe in ‘self determination’ where is pushed by NED agents and destabilization plan design by Oded Yinon to establish ‘greater Israel.’
Iran, China, Russia and other countries should have a destabilization plan for the United States and you will see US comes into, as least, 20 pieces in NO time.
The Zionist/imperialist talk of ‘self determination’ means sh*t when we are told about ‘disappearance of borders’, or ‘disappearance of sovereignty.’ due to ‘globalization.’ Well, we as Iranians do strongly believe in our borders and sovereignty. No wonder Iranian people have led so many movements and revolutions while others engaged in empire building and killing everyone comes in between with no question asked.
We are determined to protect our borders from Zionist/imperialist aggression at all time. Palestinians have a right to their land, thus there is no solution except one country for all.

[Contrary to your wishes, but in accordance with what you already know, Kurdistan is rife with Israelis. The sooner Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia come to terms with an independent Kurdistan and start making overtures]

This is exactly the Zionists want. This is exactly the reason where they took over the US government and let it into a Zionist war to partition Iraq and then go after other states including Iran, Turkey, Syria, and so on and so forth. In world war I the Zionist Jews did exactly the same meaning actively cooperated in Committee of Union Progress (CUP) for demise of Ottoman empire since Abdulhamid did not allow Herzl and his folks to put their fu**ing foot on Palestine. We as the people of region do anything to stop the Zionists’ dream of ‘greater Israel’ and send them to HELL.
Kurdistan is the first step for the zionists but not the last. The ‘greater Israel’ is not only against interests of all people in the region but also is a threat to world peace. All Arabs, Turks, Greeks, and the rest are united against ‘greater Israel’ and tell you and people like you ‘WE WILL NOT ALLOW ANOTHER ISRAEL.’ ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

Iraqi Kurdistan is NOT part of Iran and has not been part of Iran for centuries – as you know from your outline of Ottoman/Persian history. Besides, the Kurds of Iraq are not petitioning to join Iran and are not joining you in shouting ‘We are all Iranians.’

Whether Shabnam believes in the UN is less important than the fact Iran is a member of the UN and a signatory to its documents, thus Iran believes in the right of people to self-determination. The UN needs to be overhauled so that the Security Council is eliminated – however, UN ideals are sound (if we grant the state system) and Iran has no international forum outside of it. In any case, it is Iraqi Kurdistan we are discussing.

Contrary to your wishes, but in accordance with what you already know, Kurdistan is rife with Israelis. The sooner Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia come to terms with an independent Kurdistan and start making overtures – the better.

You and me both know that there will be no *one country for all* in our lifetimes – in Palestine. The Jews knew how to get Palestine. They went from zero to 100% one piece at a time. The Zionists accepted all partition offers (not without internal argument) as a means to launch the next quest. (They accepted 55% – the UN 1947 unwise recommendation, over ran an additional 23% in 1948-49, and over ran the remaining 22% in 1967.) I suggest that we all accept the Palestinian position as it is now, the entire West Bank (incl. East Jerusalem) and Gaza. The long term goal is to return to all of Palestine. But the one-state position at present is nothing more than an intellectual exercise.

i wld have to reread these and rea dother books by chomsky to find out if he ever affirmed or denied ‘jewish’ influence in US foreign policy.
curioso is also that, if my memory serves me, he also never discussed or mentioned right of return.
if he had not, silence on this most salient aspect of the conflict, signifies what?
he has not, as far as i know, ever renounced his anarchism. Such people are asocialistic.
to me, his sayings of the last few yrs, indicate that he had chnaged his position significantly.
in any case, as i have already said, he’s not a socialist. Has he renounced the ‘higher quality of being’ called “jewishness” .
if not, he then rejects his humanity as well!
thus, not much good can be expected from him and the ‘jews’ on DV who condemn others believing they can stifle free speech. tnx