What we are seeing with ISIS (and why are these acronyms usually letters for words in the English language) is actually a civil war between the Sunnis and Shiites.
The borders of the Mid-East Nations were artificially set initially with the 1915 McMahon–Hussein Correspondence and refined with the 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement. Israel regained their ancestral lands with the 1917 Balfour Declaration. In 1941, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem met with Adolf Hitler. From the Jewish Virtual Library:
In 1941, he fled to Germany and met with Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Joachim Von Ribbentrop and other Nazi leaders. He wanted to persuade them to extend the Nazis’ anti-Jewish program to the Arab world.
Needless to say, this has been stewing since Biblical times.
Iraq is being broken up into its various tribal components, it will emerge as no longer a unified Nation but an area with shifting tribal boundaries.
That being said, the Kurds are not engaged in these ongoing hostilities and have been the scape-goat of both Sunni and Shiia (when there is not a convenient Jew to kick around).
From Oil Voice:
Kurdistan: the newest oil producer?
The world might be on the cusp of seeing a new oil producer: Kurdistan.
According to a Bloomberg report, in the last 48 hours Deutsche Bank AG said that Kurdistan oil is “poised to gain acceptance” following the apparently successful sale of an initial cargo of oil for $93M. According to Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Taner Yildiz, four tankers in total have loaded cargoes of Kurdish crude in Ceyhan.
An analyst’s report from Deutsche Bank AG said “We expect trading houses to become increasingly comfortable handling Kurdistan Region of Iraq crude and steady-state exports to emerge.”
Very cool - neither the Kurds nor the Turks are sponsors of terrorism and have vibrant culture and a growing economy. They are living in modern times but retain those parts of their culture that they revere. Women have a voice in their culture and religion is a practice of joy and faith, not a strict dogma.
