From Eyal: "Yossi Werter, a chief political columnist for Ha'aretz, ridicules Yair Lapid for his argument in favor of the the Iraqi-Kurdish bid for secession. Lapid had stated it would be beneficial to have another Arabic state that's friendly towards Israel. But, this ignorant and
utilitarian racism of Lapid's is not the issue here. Werter points out that a Kurdish state will not be an Arab state, since Kurds are not Arabs. But that also isn't the issue. The point is Werter's additional
comment on Lapid's conflation of Kurds with Arabs. Werter writes: "The Kurds hate the Arabs even more than the Jews hate the Arabs, and for the Kurds there is no greater insult than to be called an Arab.""
