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Really? Did you even bother to read them? No where in them did it say Israel wanted to divide Iraq..
The Guardian article says theTurks believed Israel did want to divide up Iraq...
"...By supporting Kurdish separatists, Israel also risks alienating its Turkish ally and undermining attempts to create a stable Iraq. "If you end up with a divided Iraq it will bring more blood, tears and pain to the Middle East and you will be blamed," a senior Turkish official told Mr Hersh. ...
...Intel Brief, an intelligence newsletter produced by former CIA chiefs, noted early this month that the Israeli actions are placing increasing stress on their relationship with Turkey, which was already strained over the war. "The Turks are increasingly concerned by the expanding Israeli presence in Kurdistan and alleged encouragement of Kurdish ambitions to create an independent state." ....read
Israelis 'using Kurds to build power base' | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
Intel Brief, an intelligence newsletter produced by former CIA chiefs noted that the Israelis actions in Kurdistan was straining it's relationship with Turkey. ....
Hersh's article contains an excerpt from the privately circulating intelligence newsletter 'Intel Brief' that reads: "Turkish sources confidentially report that the Turks are increasingly concerned by the expanding Israeli presence in Kurdistan and alleged encouragement of Kurdish ambitions to create an independent state…The Turks note that the large Israeli intelligence operations in Northern Iraq incorporate anti-Syrian and anti-Iranian activity, including support to Iranian and Syrian Kurds who are in opposition to their respective governments." ....read
Turks.US Daily News - Israel Enlarges Support of Northern Iraqi Kurds
Israel's trained proxy Kurdish commandos on Irans border probably doesn't set well with Iran anymore than it does the Turks. With this latest attack in Najaf by a Shiite cult faction, it is getting difficult to determine who is allied with whom. For instance, the Soldiers of Heaven are Shiite extremists who are allied with Sunni Bathists who are allied with Kurdish Shiite who are allied with Hizbollah who are allied with Syria who is allied with the Kurds who are allied with Israel who is allied with the US who is allied with.....Saudi Arabia who is allied with Arabs who are allied with the Palestinians who are allied with Hamas who are allied with Sunni Kurds who are allied to SCIRI who is allied with Iran who is allied with Russia and China. Or something like that.