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Palestine is a microcosm of the world: on fire, stubborn, fragmented, dignified. While a settler colonial state continues to inflict devastating violence, fundamental truths are deliberately obscured—the perpetrators are coddled while the victims are blamed and placed on trial. How we see Palestine reveals how we see each other; how we see everything else. Masterfully combining candid testimony, history, and reportage, Perfect Victims presents a powerfully simple demand: dignity for the Palestinian.

Hundreds of thousands of Kurds were murdered under the tyrannical regime of Saddam Hussein. Some four thousand Kurdish villages were destroyed. Betrayed again and again by the nations of the world, the Kurds were as decimated as any people in history. Then came the Kurdish Miracle, that combination of ancient wisdom and modern economic genius that is now making the Kurdish homeland one of the most prosperous places on earth.

We spent two weeks in Iraqi Kurdistan in order to gain a better understanding of ISIS and the war against it. Our research involved interviewing Kurdish security officials, peshmerga commanders, intelligence officers, and Kurdish prisoners who had joined ISIS. We learned more about the conditions that take someone away from his or her home, family, and friends to the so-called caliphate.

Any U.S. policy toward the Kurds must contemplate the wide-ranging implications of Kurdish autonomy rather than simply viewing the group as an instrument in the fight against ISIS.

"Turkey, Sending More Tanks into Syria, Steps up Pressure on Kurds" is from the August 25, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Ceylan Yeginsu and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

"Syria's Kurds Fear the U.S. Will Betray Them, Again" is from the September 01, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Tim Arango and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"Syrian Kurds Hope to Establish a Federal Region in Country's North" is from March 16, 2016, World section of The New York Times. It was written by Anne Barnard and narrated by Kristi Burns.

"Syrian Rebels Threaten Territory Held by Kurds, in a Clash of US Allies" is from the August 29, 2016 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Anne Barnard and narrated by Caroline Miller.

In this urgent and timely book, Patrick Cockburn writes the first draft of the history of the current crisis in the Middle East. Here he charts the period from the recapture of Mosul in 2017 to Turkey's attack on Kurdish territory in November 2019, and recounts the new phase in the wars of disintegration that have plagued the region. The ground battle with the caliphate is perhaps over, but was this the end of the conflict that has scarred these nations for decades?