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Video: A Negotiated Route to Kurdish Independence
(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Dore Gold - Dore Gold told the Valdai conference in Moscow on February 19, 2018: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that the Kurds are deserving of self-government. The Kurdish quest for political independence began at the same time as the Jewish national movement. We both appear in the treaties after World War I, where the international community made commitments to Jewish self-government and to Kurdish self-government. If I can give the Kurds some friendly advice, it is always tempting when you're frustrated to go the route of unilateralism. But a negotiated route to independence, as difficult as it is, is a far better course of action than doing it yourself. Amb. Dore Gold is president of the Jerusalem Center and a former director-general of the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs.