“In the current situation and the chaos we are living in, the only ones who can offer guarantees are the United States or the coalition,” he added in a rare interview from Hasakeh province, which is still under Kurdish control.
Hamo denied that the YPG was receiving support from Iran or Russia, while suggesting a hope that Israel would intervene on behalf of Syria’s Kurds.
“Of course, we consider Israel a powerful state in the region with its own agenda. We hope that the same stance taken by other countries in the region towards certain minorities in Syria will be extended to the Kurds as well,” Hamo said.
Asked if he was referring to Israel’s stance towards the Druze minority last summer - when Israel carried out air strikes on the defence ministry, near the presidential palace in Damascus and on Syrian troops advancing on Druze cities - Hamo said, “of course.”
I kind of feel for the Kurds for getting wrecked by Sykes-Picot. But at the same time they’re such incredibly useful idiots for the Western empire doing exactly what Sykes-Picot was made for (creating endless infighting by drawing the nation lines through ethnic groups, and so divide-and-conquer’ing the region) that I’m having a very hard time caring.