Title: The New War in Iraq: No Safe Place for the Arabs and the Kurds – Kurdistan and the Kurdish diaspora
Author: Deniz Gökalp
Release date: October, 2014

The world has been shocked by the “two monumental crisis”, the “twin plagues of Ebola and #ISIS# ”, UN High Commissioner of Human Rights, Zeid Raad al-Hussein stated recently. It is not that the international public sees Africans dying or Middle Easterners being massacred en masse for the first time, but the west represented by the UN with a humanitarian face feels threatened by the real and potential repercussions of the two terrifying man-made disasters for their self-interests. The “twin plagues” before they infect the land, people and interests of the western world should be contained wherever they originate from by any means.

The US and British concerns about the uncontrolled expansion of “Islamic State” (IS) in the Middle East reached an alarming level in August, not necessarily because unprotected civilians including the Yazidis were brutally attacked by IS (civilians being murdered is a daily routine in Iraq since 2003), but because IS was making advances into the Kurdistan region of Iraq (KRI), the only safe haven in Iraq since 2003. The KRI started sharing a border with “Islamic State”, when IS took over Mosul and the arms left behind by the Iraqi army in June.[1]