TY - JOUR
T1 - A historical inquiry into early Kurdish-Israeli contacts
T2 - The antecedents of an alliance
AU - Abramson, Scott
N1 - Funding Information:
This author, as a recipient of a 2017 ASMEA Research Grant, acknowledges with pleasure his obligation to the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, by whose generosity the research for this article was made possible.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2018/10/2
Y1 - 2018/10/2
N2 - This study traces the progress of the contacts between Israelis and Kurds-two non-Arab regional minorities intent on selfgovernment and encircled by enemies-in their earliest stage of development, from the two peoples’ first flirtations to the preliminaries of the Israeli-Kurdish entente against Baghdad in the 1960s and 1970s. Irregular in occurrence and anticlimactic in outcome, these early contacts unfolded over three decades in the form of unrequited overtures, dud proposals for cooperation, and stillborn bids for an alliance. Yet for all of these dead-ends, the path along which these early contacts proceeded was, as this article establishes, pursued by the very same Israelis and Kurds, impelled, in turn, by the very same strategic logic, that would lead the two peoples in due course into an alliance.
AB - This study traces the progress of the contacts between Israelis and Kurds-two non-Arab regional minorities intent on selfgovernment and encircled by enemies-in their earliest stage of development, from the two peoples’ first flirtations to the preliminaries of the Israeli-Kurdish entente against Baghdad in the 1960s and 1970s. Irregular in occurrence and anticlimactic in outcome, these early contacts unfolded over three decades in the form of unrequited overtures, dud proposals for cooperation, and stillborn bids for an alliance. Yet for all of these dead-ends, the path along which these early contacts proceeded was, as this article establishes, pursued by the very same Israelis and Kurds, impelled, in turn, by the very same strategic logic, that would lead the two peoples in due course into an alliance.
KW - Iraq
KW - Israel
KW - Israeli-Kurdish relations
KW - Kamuran Badr Khan
KW - Kurds
KW - Minorities
KW - Morris fisher
KW - Reuven Shiloah
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U2 - 10.1080/21520844.2018.1548920
DO - 10.1080/21520844.2018.1548920
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85060010784
SN - 2152-0844
VL - 9
SP - 379
EP - 399
JO - Journal of the Middle East and Africa
JF - Journal of the Middle East and Africa
IS - 4
ER -