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Years ago, noting that Kurds—the largest ethnic group in the world without their own country—were involved in every major story he covered in Iran, Israel, Turkey, Lebanon, and Iraq, veteran reporter Jonathan Randal decided to produce this first-hand report on Kurdistan, a shocking, tragic account of diplomacy and politics in the Middle East, and a gripping adventure story about being a war reporter in the 1990s.Throughout the Kurds' history, world powers have promised to help them achieve autonomy, and each time the Kurds have been betrayed. But they are also masters of betrayal: Randal, recording their talent for vehement internecine warfare and their gift for friendship, takes us behind the headlines to the inner story of power politics in the Middle East. His sympathetic knowledge of Kurdish history and his unparalleled access to Kurdish leaders and to diplomats, ministers, intelligence agents, warriors, and journalists makes him the only writer able to get this story for us and discover the truth.
- Sales Rank: #1374899 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Westview Press
- Published on: 1998-12-10
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .97" h x 6.03" w x 8.96" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 368 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
Amazon.com Review
Their homeland was divided out from under them, scattering them across Iraq, Iran, Syria, Turkey, and the former Soviet Union and denying them long-awaited acceptance and peace. Saddam Hussein gassed them; Stalin deported them; Turkey tried to rob them of their own language and today has them engaged in a bitter guerrilla war. Assassinated in Iran, suppressed in Syria--even among their own kind the Kurds are victims of betrayal as one Kurdish faction wages war on another. This is the bitter truth of journalist Jonathan C. Randal's book, After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness?, an account of his decades-long fascination with the Kurds.
After he was evicted from his apartment by a band of Kurdish mercenaries during the Lebanese civil war, there was no looking back for Randal; for almost 30 years he has roamed the Middle East following the Kurds' fate. In addition to accounts of these travels, Randall also delivers a scathing indictment of U.S. involvement in--and betrayal of--Kurdish interests. Randal details every breach of faith, starting with Henry Kissinger's acquiescence in the Shah of Iran's massacre of thousands of Kurdish fighters supported by the U.S. in their war against Iraq right up to the Bush administration's abandonment of a Kurdish uprising against Saddam Hussein it had initially encouraged. Whether it is the treachery of outsiders or the perfidious behavior of the Kurds themselves, After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness? explicates the terrible history and bitter future of this ancient people.
From Booklist
After spending years covering the volatile Middle East, veteran journalist Randal realized that the Kurds figured prominently in almost every minor skirmish and major political and military confrontation that plagued the region. Fascinated by the contradictions and the complexities of the Kurdish question, Randal ventured into remote areas of traditional Kurdistan in order to gain insight into an ancient and often mystifying culture. The fourth largest population group in the Middle East and the largest ethnic group in the world without their own country, the Kurds are essentially a people in search of a nation. Beset by catastrophe and betrayal as one rebellion after another has been brutally quashed, they have nevertheless persevered and survived in the harsh, mountainous regions of Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Syria that constitute their historic homeland. Fiercely proud and rabidly nationalistic, the Kurds have also been hampered by a lack of organization and bitter dissension within their own ranks. A superb analysis of the people of an often misunderstood Middle Eastern hot spot. Margaret Flanagan
From Kirkus Reviews
A veteran journalist's engrossing take on the Kurds, a people who pose a constant difficulty for governments throughout the Middle East and the largest ethnic group in the world (25 million) without its own country. Before focusing on the latter-day misfortunes of the Kurds, Washington Post foreign correspondent Randal offers background information that helps put them in clearer perspective. An Indo- European people whose traditional homeland (Kurdistan) encompasses roughly 200,000 square miles in the mountains of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, the Kurds have been history's victims since time out of mind. Conquered over the centuries by Arabs, Mongols, and Turks, they slipped from notice until the Ottoman Empire's breakup. Randal offers first-hand reportage on how the US-led coalition left Kurdish forces in the lurch after its Gulf War triumph. Doubling back, he sorts out how Israel, the UK, the USSR, and other powers have used Kurds for their own geopolitical purposes. Covered as well are Saddam Hussein's genocidal assaults on Iraqi Kurds, the shah's perfidy (which was abetted by the Nixon administration's Henry Kissinger), Turkey's far from benign treatment of its sizable Kurdish minority, and the flawed chieftains (Mullah Mustafa Barzani, Abdullah Ocalan, Jalal Talabani, et al.) who lead, or have led, significant Kurdish factions. By the author's vivid account, Kurds have made a name for themselves as outside agitators. While one can support their cause (self-determination and regional autonomy, if not independence) and deplore the betrayals they have suffered, he makes clear that the Kurds are far from endearing. Indeed, Randal asserts, they're quarrelsome, typically factional, frequently duplicitous, and all too apt to lose at the bargaining table what their fighters have won on the battlefield. An effective, affecting portrait of a resilient, dispossessed people who continue to believe that they shall overcome some day. -- Copyright �1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
best book on subject bar none
By Jonathan Randal
This is the first and remains the best book on the Kurds' long struggle for dignity. I should know since I wrote it. For doubters, please consider that the State Department made it mandatory reading before W's invasion of Iraq in 2003 in order to acquaint its diplomats with repeated U.S. skullduggery at the expense of the Kurds. Now that Iraqi Kurds are oil-rich and fascinated with emulating the material wealth of Dubai, this book explains their elders' more elevating struggle for Kurdish nationalism's very existence. Jonathan Randal
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Report on the Kurdish People
By Nick and Lauren
After reading A Road Unforeseen: Women Fight the Islamic State by Meredith Tax, I wanted to continue my acquisition of knowledge on the Kurds. I’ve had Randal’s book in my library for at least a decade. No idea why but I’m glad I kept it through all the purges.
Randal actually traveled to Kurdistan, at great peril, several times, during the 90s. As a seasoned journalist for both the New York Times and the Washington Post, he undertook this adventure with a practiced eye for detail. It shows. His ability to get close to key players in the events of the 90s (including the Gulf War) make this story part-history, part-adventure story. Randal gives the reader a simple but thorough history of the Kurdish people, and includes, in no uncertain terms, the constant conflict, betrayals, and lost chances for autonomy. He doesn’t take sides. All players are equally to blame. The Kurds themselves are often both victim and perpetrator. Randal is a clear, concise, and thorough writer, excellent for both the academic and the amateur.
My only regret is that this book was published in 1999 – and I’m interested in Randal’s thoughts on the current situations, nearly 20 years later. But, given he was in his 40s and 50s during this book, it is unlikely he would undertake the same journey in his 70s. This is unfortunate, as his practice eye and experiences would bring to light stories we aren’t going to hear otherwise. While it doesn’t include current events, those events are directly related to what Randal describes in the book. And to understand the present condition of the Kurdish people, one must look to their past.
Recommended for anyone interested in some of the roots of the current condition in the Middle East, particularly those that pertain to the Kurdish situation, and the war in Syria.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
A good history of the modern Kurdish cause
By AMR
This book provides a good overview of the kurdish cause in the last fifty years but it doesn't give much detail on the long and very old history that Kurdistan has. The book provides good detail on the genocide commited by Iraqi forces in operation Anfal and the other abuses in and betrayels by Iran, Turkey, the Soviet Union and the United States. The book will aslo displace the opinions held by by many Americans that the US always stood for global equality, it also tells how the Americans supported Saddam Hussein for many years and armed him to the teeth and also supported Turkey who also commited acts which are also considered genocidal.
In criticism of this book the author, Jonathan C. Randal, in several places throughout the book does seem to be trying to boost his ego by going into great detail describing how he reached Massoud Barzani and Talabani in their mountain save havens. Much of his detail describing his trips through Kurdistan serve no puposes in many cases other than to promote Randal's image of himself - as a brave journalist reporting the injustices of the world.
The author does tell the story in an incredibly unbiased and impartial way even when describing the terrible atrocities committed by the Iraqi forces in the Anfal campaign. The book should convince any neutral that the Kurds have been treated atrociuosly by the international community and are among the worlds longest suffering and most suffering people.
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