Betrayal Times Two: Arabs and Kurds

Steve Russell
6 min readOct 28, 2019
Map of the Treaty of Sèvres on the day of its signing (August 10, 1920). English trans. Thomas Steiner Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.

The Brits betrayed the Arabs and now we betray the Kurds.

The Kurds field some all-woman combat units in a region not known for it (Israeli Defense Force excepted) and the women as well as the Kurdish men are fierce. They’ve had to be; they live in a rough neighborhood.

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Steve Russell

Enrolled Cherokee, 9th grade dropout, retired judge, associate professor emeritus, and (so far) cancer survivor. Memoir: Lighting the Fire (Miniver Press 2020)