September 18, 2017 SnyderTalk #2: Pro-Erdogan Media in Turkey Inciting Antisemitism Over Kurdish Independence Referendum

“Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,” says Yahweh Sabaoth. (Zechariah 4: 6)

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The Algemeiner—Pro-Erdogan Media in Turkey Inciting Antisemitism Over Kurdish Independence Referendum:

As the impending referendum on independence for the Kurdish region of Iraq draws closer, pro-government media outlets in Turkey – which remains bitterly opposed to Kurdish self-determination – are energetically promoting conspiracy theories centered on the alleged relations between Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani and the Israeli authorities.

The latest antisemitic salvo in the Turkish press claims that Barzani and the Israelis have agreed on the resettlement of 200,000 Jews in territory controlled by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq following the referendum – currently scheduled for September 25. While Kurdish leaders are reported to be considering “alternatives” to the referendum given the international unease with the prospect of Kurdish independence, Barzani told a pro-independence rally on Saturday, “To this date, we still have not received the alternative that could take the place of the referendum, and therefore cast your votes on September 25, and take your decision.”

The Israel-related conspiracy theory appeared in a number of pro-government titles over the last week, including the magazine Yeni Safak – renowned for its fierce, unconditional support of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. All the articles cited the magazine Israel-Kurd, a journal published in the Kurdish city of Erbil that highlights the historically good relationship between the Kurdish and Jewish minorities in the Middle East. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, thousands of Iraqi Jews escaped persecution in Iraq by traveling through the mountainous Kurdish region accompanied by local guides affiliated with the Kurdish resistance in the country.

While new issues of Israel-Kurd do not appear to have been published since 2011, Yeni Safak described the magazine as “financed by the Mossad” after it was “opened by the Barzani family.”

“It is said that Massoud Barzani, who received support only from Israel during the referendum process, plans to strengthen his hand with help from Kurds of Jewish origin who have prominent positions in Israel,” Yeni Safak claimed. About 200,000 Jews of Kurdish origin live in Israel – the same number the pro-Erdogan media claims will descend on Kurdistan should the region declare independence.

The latest claim comes amid Turkish outrage following the comments of IDF Gen. Yair Golan, who said on a visit to Washington, DC last week that he does not regard the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) – based in the Turkish region of Kurdistan – as a terrorist organization. Subsequently, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu openly disagreed with Golan’s assessment of the PKK, even as he expressed support for Kurdish independence.

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SnyderTalk Comment:

Things are taking shape.

Russia supports an Iranian presence in Syria about 3 miles from the Israeli border with Syria in the Golan Heights.

Turkey is playing the anti-Semitism card at home and abroad.

Hezbollah is armed and ready.

Hamas and Fatah appear to be coming together politically.  I have a hunch that their arrangement is just posturing.  Leaders in both political parties have become filthy rich by pilfering donations flowing into Palestinian coffers.  Neither group will give up its gravy train without a fight, and neither group is trustworthy.

See “How far could the dangerous endgame in eastern Syria go?”:

The war against the Islamic State always promised to get messy in its final stages, as the militants retreat and rival forces converge from different directions. That moment has arrived.

World powers and their local allies are scrambling to control the remote desert province of Deir al-Zour in eastern Syria, in an accelerating race that is being compared to the fall of Berlin in 1945.

Under Islamic State control since 2014, the province is three times the size of Lebanon and consists mostly of empty desert. It also happens to contain most of Syria’s oil resources. But much more is at stake: the future contours of postwar Syria; Kurdish aspirations to some form of autonomy; and the competition for influence in the Middle East among the United States, Iran and Russia.

Keep your eyes on the TRIC nations: Turkey, Russia, Iran, and China.

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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)

See “His Name is Yahweh”.

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