If Kurds overwhelmingly trust the Jewish state over the U.S., part of the reason may lie with the Israeli brigadier general who helped build their army.
Read more on Mida: http://mida.org.il/2014/08/14/israelis-ones-kurds-trust/
Building Kurdish Strength https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/uncategorized/2014/08/building-kurdish-strength-2/
About the author: Amnon Lord is an editor and columnist at the Israeli newspaper Makor Rishon and an editor at the online magazine Mida. His books (in Hebrew) include The Israeli Left: From Socialism to Nihilism (2003) and, most recently, The Lost Generation: The Story of the Yom Kippur War (2013).