Haz
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No, we cannot give them autonomy what so ever, they represent a very small fraction of the total population, why on earth would we give them that? Especially when most of Hasakah province is majority Arab, what sense would that make? The Kurds are only the biggest group around Qimishli city, Ayn Al-Arab city (Kobane) and some surrounding villages, and those still have large Arab populations too. These are two very small enclaves separated by a huge distance, we're not giving them an entire autonomous province where the majority has always been Arabs just to appease them.We need to think longterm here. If the SDF cultists (for now) can be confined to Al-Hasakah alone mostly and be cut off from the rest of Syria, after their SDF cult project, which was in the works for 10 + years, went up largely in smoke within a few days, that should be celebrated for now given what the situation looked like just 10 days ago.
Consolidate the new gains fully and in a permanent manner while steadily building up to retake Al-Hasakah which is home to a very large Arab and Assyrian community. It is, if I recall, also the main area of the Armenian community in Syria. We are talking about a province of around 2 million people.
Most of the province borders Al-Nineveh province which is majority Iraqi Sunni Arab. The same people like in East Syria and the same Arab clans and tribes.
You have Turkiye in the north as well that should actively help prevent any stupidity from emerging (SDF cultistan or something similar).
US pressure should be dealt with by Arab allies and Turkiye. Zionist daydreams of an imaginary corridor composed of some imaginary Druze entity/country (people forget that Druze are Arabs - Southern Syrian Arabs - it is a religion that they have turned into an imaginary ethnicity - similar to how they do with Christian Arabs in Jordan and Syria (who are mostly of pure ancient Arab stock - often Bedouin going back to the Lakhmid kingdoms and Palmyrene Empire or predating them) that is being linked to an imaginary "Kurdish entity", is IMO just that, daydreams. It has no historical, demographical, political etc. support. Not even US direct military intervention can impose this reality long-term.
From what I am aware of and recall, Damascus has already proposed the Kurds an autonomy (some degree at least) in Al-Hasakah province and they have, unlike the Al-Assad regime, acknowledged the Kurdish language and even the existence of Kurds which until recently was not even the case under the Al-Assad regime.
They cannot ask for more given their realities in Turkiye next door and Iran. BTW this game can also be played the other way around, give the local Arabs, Assyrians and others autonomy in Al-Hasakah, let alone in KRG in Iraq where almost 50% of the population is non-Kurdish and this number is only increasing each month.
BTW just to make it completely clear, I have absolutely nothing against non-hostile Kurds. They have been a community in the Arab world for a very long time and been intermarrying to various degrees with Arab communities near them. Even Saladin's (ra) family (Arab-Kurdish mixture during his time) and descendants mostly live in KSA, Jordan and Syria for a reason. As have other prominent Kurdish historical families.
Al-Ayoubi family - Wikipedia
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Ibn Taymiyyah (ra) reportedly had a Kurdish mother for instance.
Ibn Taymiyya - Wikipedia
In many ways, the Kurds of Iraq, Syria and the wider Arab world are Kurdish/Arab mixtures which DNA and ancestry also confirm. The local Kurds in Syria even wear Arab traditional attire often and it is hard to distinguish at times.
All I can say that people in KSA have only known historical Kurdish families that settled in Arabia in the past 1400 + years and those Kurdish Hajis throughout the past 1400 + years that have ended up settling and intermarried and now are a part of the society and part of us like any other community.
Whatever grievances Kurds can rightly or wrongly have with Arabs, those are mostly aimed at the Arabs of Syria, Iraq and Turkey (and possibly even the Arabs of Iran). Anything else makes no sense.
Al-Sharaa and Damascus is well aware of all this which is why they have always reached out their hands to the Kurds in Syria that make up around 5% of the Syrian population.
I am not a Syrian so it is not for me to decide but if I am Al-Sharaa I would offer the Kurds in Al-Hasakah, if not autonomy, at least a large degree of self-rule, provided that they will remain loyal to Damascus and respect the territorial integrity of Syria.
And the worst part of doing that, is that now every small minority community will demand the same. You set the precedent of giving them autonomy, then you'll soon have the Alawites and Druze fighting for it too, and maybe the Christians. We won't have a functioning country if all minority groups had an autonomous region of their own, we'll forever be balkanized and weak if that happens. That was never going to be an option.
The Kurds have had grievances with the previous Syrian regime because Assad's Baathist was explicitly focused on the Arab identity as a core defining feature, they were pan-Arab socialists, not because the Syrian people themselves wanted to mistreat them. That regime is gone, and now they will have the same rights, and a few extra ones too, where they will be treated as equal citizens, in addition to officially acknowledging their rights to their language, culture and identity, as well as the other special accommodations that were agreed to yesterday.
This entire fight is against the SDF/YPG terrorist and their very foreign cultish ideology, they claim to be fighting for Kurdish rights and independence, but really they are only using it as an excuse to justify their own power and greed over the areas they control.
