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Originally Posted by blankall
Well I disagree w/ you about the details of that. Especially the thing about the Hashemites. They were semi-autonomous, but not in control of anything outside Saudi Arabia. Basically to avoid a massive power struggle, they were arbitrarily given control of Jordan, Syria and Iraq despite the fact their lineage clearly came from Saudi Arabia and many of those areas were home to other ethnic groups besides sunni Arabs (hence the current trouble in Iraq).
Anyway, that's not really the point. Yeah I agree the lines for countries in the middle east were drawn very arbitrarily. I would, however, stress much more importance on the need for sovereignty. Especially for a group that has been through as much as the Kurds have in the last century or so. I do, however, think that if their is any intention to create a "Kurdistan" of some sort it needs to be done very cautiously. More specifically it needs to be done w/ the cooperation of Turkey and Iran.
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Ah, I actually didn't know that about the Hashemites; I was just going by what I could remember of the history of the various states. It would be really great if there was an opportunity to redo that post-Ottoman border-making all over again. A lot of things could have been done better (particularly in regards to kurdistan and palestine/israel).