Popular Mobilization Unit fighters flash the victory sign as they advance through the streets of Tal Afar, west of Mosul, Aug. 26, 2017. (AFP)
Iraqi Kurds, long accused of covert and cozy ties with Zionist Israel are looking on with amazement as Israel defends allegedly hostile Arab countries. Normalization between Arab countries and Israel is changing geostrategic realities for them.
After the occupation of Palestine in 1948 and as Arab hostility toward constant Israeli aggression intensified, the occupying entity tried to reach out to non Arab communities in West Asia.
It found an opening with Iraqi Kurds who had a dream to separate from the central government in Baghdad.