Kirkuk is a real thorny issue, just as Jerusalem is for Israel and the Arab and Muslim world. Personally, I think that there should be a way to find a compromise. Other parts of Kurdistan are rich with oil, so that economically speaking the KRG will not be hurt too much if it can find a way to compromise. In the past, a long war revolved around this problem and the Kurds seem to be too wary to start another one. It is true that their bargaining power is much better now than in the past...
The Israeli people are mostly sympathetic to the Kurdish people. The Israeli government does not have a clear-cut policy toward this issue. Ideally there should be no contradiction between its relations with Turkey and that of the Kurds. For theoretically speaking, as Turkey does not perceive any contradiction between its relations with Israel and that of Palestinians, the same rule could hold also for relations between Israel, Turkey, and the Kurds. But in real life this truism does not hold...
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[b]OFRA BENGIO[/b], PhD (Tel Aviv University, 1994) Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies. Professor, Department of Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University. Fields of specialization: contemporary Middle Eastern history, modern and contemporary politics of Iraq and the Arabic language.
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Hevpeyvîn: Prof. Ofra Bengioya, Pispora Rojhilata Navîn a Îsraî