The Kurdish Issue in The Israeli Newspaper Davar (1970-1975)

Abstract

Davar newspaper is one of the most important Israeli newspapers since its founding in 1925, which devoted a large amount of space to the Kurdish issue. This is done using information from various sources, such as the Associated Press, or the media channels of the Iraqi government and the Kurdish revolution, including the Voice of Iraqi Kurdistan. Sometimes the newspaper's correspondents in European and American capitals and in the Middle East, such as Beirut and Tehran, prepare press reports on the subject. To this end, important work has been done by the newspaper's writers and correspondents, such as Ehud Yaari, Sovir Davar, Jack Murray, Dietrich Strootmann, and Poror Sheinberg. The importance of this article is that it presents the Kurdish issue from the perspective of the best-selling newspaper in Israel. During this historical period, the country was in a political and military conflict with Arab countries in general, and especially with Iraq and Syria, which included part of the Kurdish regions within their borders. The reason for writing the article is the lack of any scientific research on the position of the Israeli press on the Kurdish issue, at a time when the issue was of great importance to the international press during this historical period. It is clear that in this study we are working to answer a question, which is the consequences of the political position of the Israeli press on the Jewish community, especially the Kurds in this country, many of whom were originally from Iraqi Kurdistan after 1948 and moved to Israel.