KingA said:
It is better to be used as pawns when you get paid for your "pawns work" than doing nothing, which resultes nothingess. You got my point? you have to do best of what you offer and have. Kurds are weakest of major nations in ME, yet they managed to use strong Israel, why did not we use them before Kurds? Who are our real friends in ME ? I think we should be realistic and be pawns self.
No, we shouldn't be pawns. Kurds are being used as Cannonfodder by Israel. Do you want to become cannonfodder yourself? Secondly, in the future, Arabs and/or Israel will probably use us against Kurds or Turks.
There's nothing wrong with asking another country for aid but it's a different story if you know they're helping you just for their own benefit entirely.
Kurds have been used as pawns since the middle ages. The biggest ME user of the Kurds were the Ottomans who moved the Kurds from Iran and Azerbaijan into our homeland in order to create a buffer against the Persians.
The Turks forced us to move into the mountains while they gave the Kurds that land. Kurds were nomadic, they were only loyal if you gave them what they wanted. Ottomans pretty much gave them autonomy so long as they monitored the Persian borders.
If you want another example of that, it's like when the Greek Byzantines used the Armenians as a buffer against the Persians.
I'm just reiterating, Israel doesn't actually support Kurds on any ethical or ethnic grounds, it's entirely political because since the Yom Kippur war, Israel realized that they can't always military dominate the Arab nations, so their only method is destabilization and/or making allies.
I'm 100% sure that the Israel-Mossad considered us but they skipped over us because we have no real power or influence in the Middle East at all.
Especially considering most Assyrians in Iraq chose to leave instead of move to the North in Nineveh Plains. The fact that they moved showed that they had money which could've been used in the Nineveh Plains but you can't change history, only learn from it.
We should never be pawns because being a pawn means that we're only in that position to be cannonfodder.