Lion in a Cage said:
I'd like to point out some mistakes in this post:
There is no country, city or place called "Kurdistan" in the world.
Arabs and Jews descended from the same race, so it's very natural that some words are similar.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here, I guess you mean that it's their birthright to own that land. If so, it'd mean that the true owners of America are Indians, middle Asia belongs to Turks, Anatolia belongs to Sumerians, etc. In that case, we'd have a huge task of relocation job which is impossible and irrational in practice. If you want to trace it all back to the origins you might as well go and claim the egyptian land as that was your true domain and surely you have more relics there than anywhere else. The belief that Israel is your promised land remains supersubjective especially given the global age where the world has become one melting pot. Don't expect anybody else to respect this belief as the belief itself lacks any respect to others. Throughout history land was conquered by wars and although it's understandable for you to fight for your country, it's equally understandable for the Palestinians to fight for it as well.
Dear Lion
I perfectly understand what you`re saying, but I have to admit it looks as if you choose to interpret it superficially.
It`s a well knowen fact thats even visable to turkish ears, that arabic and hebrew are rooted both in aramaic. Fair. But you chose to emphasize this fact and not to examine the idea that the names of places here had incarnated form hebrew--> to arabic ---> back to hebrew (after the return).
This I said in order to explain the process that this country have gone through in the past 200 years.
As for the kurdish issue, I would like to ask you then, where did the kurd culture began to evolve and why would anyone call an area in the world kurdistan, if now you clain that it dosent exsist.
If you chose to say it`s an imaginary region just because it spreads round eastern turkey and north-west iraq then, well, I see why you`re saying that.
you might as well say that israel dose not exsis really because it`s just a part of cannan, same to palestina, which was only a narrow part of grand-syria to the ottoman empire, ruled by Jamal pasha, right arkadash?
Its all in who you look at it.
now, regarding the latter issue, what you`re saying here is seriously true and correct. It could also be part of reality if the jewish people and the rest of the monotheist people in the world, would ignor their beliefes and the fact that the mistory proves that that these people both belong to this place (and that facts bolds out that jewish people always kept their treditions where ever they lived, weather if it`s Rotterdam or Adana, their prayers had always faced Jerusalem since the days it was the only monotheist beliefe you see?
you`ll have so distinguish this fact and find that it`s not exsisting in teh case of any other nation that migrated to other places, and then changed its treditions of geography (you Could claim that islam is such for reffering Mecca, and christianity for reffering jerusalem and rome or the vaticn but these religions are multinational for their missionary character. Such caracter dose not exist in judaism..).
So, you could say that this view is unrealistic because other nations have gone though a similar process but the idea is that these other nations had different cultural values and their migrations have chamged most of their characters. If judaism were going through such process too, then we could agree about the issue
Just so end up my answer, I agree. it`s understandable that the arabs living here has a right to fight for freedom, but time will tell how can a nation have two countries, Jordan (which inclu. 73% palestinian people) and palestine and for how long will this could exist.
lets hope for the best for everyone and understand that peace here will arrive only with a painful yet fair compromise.