Editing Foreign relations of Israel (section)

==== Kurdistan Region ====
{{Main|Israel–Kurdistan Region relations}}

In 2006, President of [[Kurdistan Region]] [[Massoud Barzani]] said: "It is not a crime to have relations with Israel. If Baghdad established diplomatic relations with Israel, we could open a consulate in Hewlêr (Kurdistan)." Israeli television broadcast photographs from the 1960s showing [[Mustafa Barzani]] embracing then Israeli defense minister [[Moshe Dayan]]. In 2004, Israeli officials met with Kurdish political leaders. In 2006 the BBC reported that Israel was training Kurdish militias in Iraqi Kurdistan.<ref name="Israelis 'train Kurdish forces'">{{cite news|title = Israelis 'train Kurdish forces'|url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/5364982.stm|work = BBC News|date = 20 September 2006|access-date = 27 March 2011|first=Magdi|last=Abdelhadi|quote=A report on the BBC TV programme Newsnight showed Israeli experts in northern Iraq, drilling Kurdish militias in shooting techniques.}}</ref> In April 2012, it was alleged that high-ranking Kurdish officials had collected the revenues of Iraqi oil that had been smuggled to Israel via the [[Iraqi Kurdistan|Kurdistan Region]].<ref name="AAN">{{cite news|title = Baghdad welcomes all relations but rejects ties with Israel: Iraqi PM|url = http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/07/01/223801.html?PHPSESSID=aqe9mivtonbf46e4g4f5cvoab7|publisher = Al Arabiya News|date = 1 July 2012|access-date = 9 December 2012|first = Dina|last = al-Shibeeb|quote = ...the presence of documents that prove the smuggling of Iraqi oil to Israel via Kurdistan, and that the revenues were collected by high-ranking Kurdish officials.|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140721030944/http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/07/01/223801.html?PHPSESSID=aqe9mivtonbf46e4g4f5cvoab7|archive-date = 21 July 2014|url-status = dead|df = dmy-all}}</ref>