A historical explanation of the Middle East Civil Crisis at conference's 1st session  

BEIRUT

The first session of the Civil Crisis and the Way towards Democratic Modernity in the Middle East Conference held in Beirut, Lebanon began with a lecture entitled "Historical Reading within the Middle East Civil Crisis" which is divided into two axes, the first is entitled, " Civil Crisis and its effect in Middle East" which was presented by the co-chair of the Executive Body of the Democratic North-Syria Federation, Fawza Youssef.

The second is entitled "Where Can We Place the Capitalist Modernist Domination in that Central Civil System? What Role Have It Played in Our Area during the Last Five Centuries in General and the Last Two in Particular?," and it was delivered by the activist in Women for Peace Organization, the member of the Transnational Rescue Fund and the journalist Nazan Aston Dag.

'Our present is hidden in our past, and our past is hidden in our present'

Fawza started her lecture saying, "The present is hidden in our past and our past is hidden in our present. It is a phrase that expresses the daily reality we live in our area. Sometimes we feel that history is witnessed today and sometimes we feel that our present is hidden in our past."

Pointing out at the same time that in order to find out the reasons of what we are witnessing of such devastating war in our area, we must return to history and analyze the history of the area fairly, neutrally and in a critical manner carries the importance of life to get out of this terrible crisis that we are live within.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that one of the reasons for the tragedies in our region is due to our misreading of our history

Fawza added, "Historians are convinced that all the essential elements of material and moral culture that are necessary for the transition towards the civilization were created in the Fertile Crescent between the years 6000-4000 BC and achieved major developments in the Religion, God, Art, Science and Technology, and the most important is the domination of a life in which the women's affairs were considered. History confirms that for tens of thousands of years, there was a natural society where ethics instead of courts, love for God instead of fear, language of poetry instead of lies and tricks, societal rather than selfishness were prevailed so the revolution of agriculture, the revolution of language and the revolution of science realized."

Fawza pointed out that the first conversational contradiction of the civil lies in the bondage of the gradually rooted woman, and from the authoritarian breakthroughs of the King-God. The struggle of the slave and the master will also derive from that basic contradiction. That is, society would be subjected to the conflict and the relationship that are generally held between the slave and the master, and history is in this sense the massacre of man.

Noting that the state is turning into a form to legitimize the seizure of surplus, and the need of the societies for public administration uses masks to legitimize the countries.

'Authoritarian societies are societies of man's control and rule'

Fawza Youssef made clear that the authoritarian societies as societies of male's domination and rule. While the female administrations of the Neolithic period symbolize production, security and procreation. The rulers of power in the civil societies aim to exploit and wage war internally and externally. They attach first-order importance to the war and power technology and see the environment as a permanent arena for invasion.

'Middle East societies suffered because of repression and exploitation of Central Civil'

Fawza noted that the Middle Eastern societies have remained human societies that have suffered more than others from crises and problems throughout history, and that the main reason for this lies in the fact that they have always had to endure the oppression and the overwhelming exploitation of the Central Civil for nearly 5,000 years. This kind of repression and intensive and long-term exploitation has not been witnessed in any part of the world.

Fawza said, "The culture of the Middle East lost its authenticity after it entered the stage of collapse between 1000 and 1500. From that time until now, it has not been wandering in the dark and repeating itself as a futile spiral."

Then, Fawza Youssef mentioned a paragraph of the leader of the Kurdish people Abdullah Ocalan in his analysis about the reality of the current crisis in the Middle East, where he said, "How it is sad to take the role of the mother and create everything for humanity since fifteen thousand years, and then fall into the position of a slave with no power and no strength!  And the homeland where you born in be the first deities, and create all what the humanity needs and then you be thrown in the corner as a piece of cloth used, and create all professions that saturate the world, and remain hungry later ..! And build homes everywhere, and remain homeless later ..! Be a candle that illuminates the path of everyone, and do not escape the darkness later ..! Be a voice for all people and compose poetry and music, and then become deaf..! Create science, technology and respect for everyone and remain ignorant later ..! Build palaces and squares for everybody and need an inch of land later ..! The Middle East civilization is the name of this great tragic contradiction."

Fawza added, "We finally conclude from all these that history has not started with monopoly, the city, the state and the authority, but there has been a 10,000-year-old Neolithic society in which the characteristics of women prevailed. It did not begin with the Sumerians, but the Sumerians sprang from Neolithic society and the West descended from the East. The history is not the history written by the masters, but the history of the resistance of women and oppressed peoples as well which can be seen clearly in the paintings, in the symbols and drawings engraved on the walls, statues and legends that recount great truths."

'To restore what we lost a mental, moral and scientific revolution must be achieved'

Fawza concluded her lecture saying, "In order to restore what we  have lost, our history and present instruct us to achieve a mental, moral and scientific revolution. All that require a new oriental personality that draws on its scientific and philosophical heritage and the heritage of the current European civilization to create a new platform away from tradition and self-denial. Everything calls for this breakthrough, and we have to march confidently in this way."

Then, the activist of Women for Peace Organization, the member of the Transnational Rescue Fund and the journalist Nazan Aston Dag presented an improvised lecture in Turkish on the Middle East crisis. She focused on the need to consider the reasons of the crisis in depth and noted that the dominant regimes in the Middle East try to expand and digest small groups from one hand, and those that are not digested with them would be eliminated as Turkey is trying to do with the Kurdish people.

Nazan stressed that the leader of the Kurdish people Abdullah Ocalan deepened in the analyzing this crisis and said that the modern imperialism in Europe is the new form of the conflicts witnessed in the Middle East, and she noted that the application of Ocalan's theory in the democratic nation is one of the solutions to the crisis and the salvation of peoples.

After Nazan lecture, the way was open to hold discussions and give opinions on what have been proposed in this meeting, where discussions were held by a number of cultural and political figures who participated in the conference from several countries to express their opinions on the content of the lectures, agreeing on the necessity to depend on peace and fraternity of peoples to extract the racist spirit planted by the dictatorial regimes among the peoples of the region, asserting that what are applied in the north and east of Syria as a model of the democratic nation suggests that it could be a solution to all the Middle East crises characterized by their ethnic, sectarian, national and religious diversity.

In those discussions, the first session concluded.

ANHA