BAKIR LASHKARI: Building friendship between Kurdistan and Israel | The Jerusalem Post

The Kurds historically have been deeply sympathetic to the Jewish people and the State of Israel. The friendship dates back centuries, as Kurdistan was home to thousands of Kurdish Jews who were forced to migrate to Israel by the central government in Baghdad in the 1950s. Right now, many countries in the Middle East are united against Israel, But with an independent Kurdish state Israel might have a genuine friend in the region for the first time. Second, Kurdistan could serve as a buffer zone between Turkey, Iran, Syria and Iraq.