I actually never understood why Palestinians should have their own state and not the Kurds, so I really enjoyed reading this:
“The World’s Pornographic Interest in Jewish Moral Failure” by Jeffrey Goldberg, 06 Jan 2009:
Okay, yesterday I was depressed. Today, I’m just pissed off. It’s absolutely astonishing to me how interested the world is in Israel’s failings. This is the source of a bitter but hilarious observation I once heard a Kurdish leader make: He was complaining to me that his people were cursed, and I asked him what he meant: Cursed by geography, cursed by their proximity to Kurd-hating Arabs, what? He said the Kurds were cursed because they didn’t have Jewish enemies. Only with Jewish enemies would the world pay attention to their plight. (…)