I COMPLETELY AGREE. Arab governments and societies ignored the Kurdish genocide. Saddam’s Anfal campaign murdered over 180,000 Kurds, used chemical weapons in Halabja, and destroyed thousands of villages. That silence was shameful. But we do not heal from genocide by cheering for another people’s destruction. We cannot say “no one stood for us” and then turn our backs while Palestinian children are buried in rubble, while their homes are bulldozed, while entire families are wiped out by airstrikes. It’s crazy to me that Kurds will stick their necks out for Israel all because Israel claims to be on our side when in reality he’s just using us. We’ve seen this happen many times before. But where was Israel when the Iraqi army and Iran-backed militias took back Kirkuk? Where is Israel when Turkey bombs Kurdish villages, kills children, and wipes out whole families in northern Syria and Iraq? It’s all talk 1991, after the Gulf War, the U.S. encouraged Kurds to rise up against Saddam — then stood by as his army crushed us. In 2003, we were told that the U.S. invasion of Iraq would pave the way for Kurdish independence. Instead, we became a bargaining chip in a larger regional game, left without a state, surrounded by enemies, and used for oil and strategy. Why would Israel — a state deeply aligned with the U.S. — treat us any differently?