What Trump’s Withdrawal From Syria Means For The Kurds - And For Israel

[Guno צְבִי]

There are 30 million of them, divided among four countries and two languages, with barely two million of them in Syria, which brings us to our third point: From Trump’s standpoint the Syrian Kurds are no longer useful, and he has zero sentimentality to spare for a brave and beleaguered Middle Eastern nation that is fighting for its survival. Once the Syrian Kurds, working in close alliance with the US, had defeated ISIS in Syria, they no longer brought Washington “benefit”.

Trump “gave” Syria to Erdogan in an earlier phone call many months ago. Today the Syrian Kurds may have a right to feel betrayed, but they should not be surprised.

At the end of the day, there are two basic lessons here for Israel and its supporters. For anyone who has entertained doubts about the need for a state for the Jewish people, the Kurds represent a tragic reminder. They are consistently being abandoned to an ugly fate because they don’t have a country.

The second lesson is that Israel cannot and must not depend on Trump. The cries of alarm in Israel in recent days about a looming security threat do not only reflect lessons drawn from Iran’s (or one of its proxy’s) spectacular attack on Saudi Arabia’s energy infrastructure. The alarms also reflect concern over the precedent set by Trump’s refusal to get involved militarily after Washington’s Saudi ally was the victim of naked aggression from Iran.

From that standpoint, America abandoning the Syrian Kurds is just icing on the cake of Trump’s Middle East non-strategy.

https://forward.com/opinion/432783/w...nd-for-israel/

[Bill]

Simple betrayal & not surprising...

Sympathy is reserved for the highest bidder/most useful until the money or need runs out........

Gee, they have around 70,000 isis related prisoners & 50 men watching them..... Hopefully they are not called up to the front lines to protect the homeland from the turkish barbarians coming to rape & kill again......