Kurdistan and The Kurds A Divided Homeland and a Nation without ...

do not desire it. How can they want the world to recognize
a Kurdish state if they themselves do not demand one!
Or saying that the situation of Southern Kurdistan does
not allow it because there is no access to the outside
world. Yet after the second Gulf war it occurred that not
only there is such access, but Iraq itself had access to the
outside world through Kurdistan and its border point of
Ibrahim Khalil. As for the great powers, we see that
they spend billions of dollars to protect Kurdistan since
1991, and we know that the West would not spend anything
without a reward or plans. Therefore they have an interest
in separating Kurdistan from Iraq. Is not that a green
light from the West to declare a Kurdish state, and even
it was not so, should not we take advantage of this
protection that surely would not last forever.
24) This made the French journalist René Maurice in
his book “Kurdistan or Death”, translated by the solicitor
Georges Fathullah into Arabic in 1988, written by him
after his visit to Kurdistan and witnessing the famous
battle of “Handreen” between the Iraqi army and the
Kurdish Peshmarga between 1 – 12 May 1966, after
mentioning the heroic actions of the Kurdish forces (3500
Peshmarga facing 35000 Iraqi soldiers armed with planes
and modern equipments and also accompanied with
thousands of mercenaries) and painting a very good picture
of that battle and how the heroic Peshmarga achieved
victory at last with an attack lasting only one hundred
and eighty minutes in an epical way. Rennet at the end
speaks painfully and in sorrow about wasting all this
heroism and sacrifices without asking for an independent
Kurdish state, saying: “Is there anyone in the world who
dares to regard the Polish people who were in the last
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