Al-Rantawi: There is a consensus on the need for a common future between Arabs and Kurds

 The percentage of Arab and Kurdish voices calling for the development of cooperation between Arabs and Kurds in the region is increasing in order to confront common threats, especially the Turkish ones, whose neo-Ottomanism project aims to occupy areas in Syria, Iraq and southern Kurdistan.

 Director of Al-Quds Center for Political Studies, Oraib Al-Rantawi, said about this: "We are fully aware sensitive moments may have negatively affected the future of Arab-Kurdish relations, but our confidence is greater in the commonalities between the Arabs and the Kurds."

 Al-Rantawi added, "We are confident that the common history is capable of dispelling these outstanding problems. We are also betting more on the future, allowing for fruitful cooperation and people-to-people exchange on the cultural, economic, social and other levels."

 Al-Rantawi touched on the meetings and conferences held during the last period on Kurdish-Arab cooperation and dialogue, including a press conference under the title "Dialogue is the way to the future", in which a number of Arab and Kurdish political, intellectual and cultural figures from Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Turkey and Iran participated.

 At the time, according to Al-Rantawi, the conference focused on the future of Arab-Kurdish relations in an attempt to build on historical commonalities, and in an attempt to aspire to a common future that is not governed by prevailing stereotypes, whether among the Arabs for the Kurds, or for the Kurds for the Arabs.

 A few days ago, the Kurdish-Lebanese Dialogue Conference was held in Beirut, in which the participants called for strengthening relations between the two peoples to face these challenges.

 The conference pledged to work to establish a culture of acceptance and recognition of all national, cultural and ethnic identities, considering it a source of richness and diversity, stressing that the way to resolve issues and contradictions rooted in Lebanon and the Middle East is through dialogue, not through wars or armed conflicts.  Accordingly, it stresses the necessity and importance of adopting the "Democratic Nation and Citizenship State Project" as a basis for building a promising future for the region, based on peace, democracy and freedom.

 The conference aimed to protect and develop the common cultural, democratic, social and political values ​​of the peoples of the region, stressing the need to strengthen the cultural dialogue rooted throughout history among the peoples, identities, cultures and beliefs that exist mainly in Lebanon, and recommended the formation of a committee of elite male and female intellectuals for this purpose.

 Al-Rantawi stressed that, through these events and conferences, it became clear to them that "there is a consensus on the need for a common future between Arabs and Kurds, and that the path to that is dialogue, and there is no alternative to dialogue."

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