Hearst noted that although ‘Israel’ did consider the PKK a terrorist group, Yair
Golan, a former deputy chief of the Israeli army, told a conference in
Washington that he personally did not. "When you look at Iran in the east, when
you look at the instability in the region, a stable and unified Kurdish entity
in the middle of this swamp is not a bad idea.”
In this context, the British writers said that for public consumption, Saudi
King Salman stood four square behind the unity of Iraq.
"Behind the scenes the Royal Court dispatched a series of emissaries to
encourage Barzani in his project to split the Iraqi state and question the
territorial integrity of Turkey and Iran.”
"A secret visit by the Saudi minister for Gulf affairs, Thamer al-Sabhan, to
Raqqa in Syria raised eyebrows.”
Source: Middle East Eye