The Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) sells itself in Washington at pro-Western and as an ally of the United States. Let’s put aside the tendency of the KRG to sell information about American troops to the Iranians. On page six of today’s Hawler, the organ of Masud Barzani’s Kurdistan Democratic party (KDP), it lists support for Israel as a defining feature of enmity toward the Kurds. I wonder whether Masud Barzani raised this in his meeting with Sen. Joseph Lieberman or at the event Ken Pollack sponsored for Masud at Brookings or whether, like Yasir Arafat, Barzani simply says one thing in Washington and hopes no one will notice what his party preaches in Kurdish to its home audience.