The Middle East has been spinning in the same dark cycle for fourteen hundred years. Beginning in 639, the Umayyad reign that transformed Arab reaction into political-Islam, which began with Muawiya's governorship of Syria, and the bloody page opened by Yazid in Karbala, have flowed through the ages under different masks until today. Governments have changed, regimes have collapsed, borders have been redrawn, but the politics of ruling by making peoples turn against each other has never ended. In this geography, the same game scene still continues. One hand distributes weapons, one hand incites sects, one hand pits identities against each other.
Although the identities of the forces circulating in Syria today look different, their essence is always the same. Smugglers, Religious militias, Racist-Kafathist gangs, betrayal networks disguised as the Left and all of them create an enemy to grow their own darkness, unite around it and breathe with that enmity. The Middle East has turned into a marketplace for these powers, where everyone sells their poison. But in the midst of all this turmoil, there is a truth, and those who ignore it fall victim to their own blindness.
The plan for the Arab-Kurdish conflict in Syria, which has been staged for years, seems to have collapsed. Because the old Syria no longer exists. A new reality has emerged in the bosom of Syria, ROJAVA. The Kurdish people, whose identity, language and culture were once banned, have today turned into a subject where the most fundamental issues of the Middle East are discussed at the table. This is not only a political achievement, but also a historical threshold where centuries of denial and de-identification have been broken. Kurds are now at the table, with their own name and their own will.
Millions of Kurds have risen up both in their homelands and in the diaspora. Diplomacy is no longer practiced only in the dim rooms of palaces, but in the streets, squares, marches and rallies. The historical accumulation created by the armed struggle has turned into a political power that is now being brought to the table. Right-wing and left-wing pencil pushers who cannot see this power are laughing under their mustaches and popping champagne, thinking that the Kurds have been defeated. The attitude of racists and bigots is understandable, but where do we put the enmity of those who call themselves socialists against the Kurdish people?
Their problem is to cover up their own past dirty relations, interest calculations and tender fights. Their empty slogans merge with the fears of the Religious and Racists. Because they are a handful of marginal petty bourgeois organizations that defend the Alevism, racism and fake leftism of the system. They can hide their enmity against the Kurdish People neither from their past nor from their present stance. Their enmity against the Kurdish people strengthens Ümit Özdağ's lane. That is why they cannot grasp the essence of the partial agreement reached between the Syrian government and the Kurdish forces.
Because it is not possible with a narrow mentality to understand a historical threshold in which national problems move from weapons to the table. This table will play a decisive role in the redesign of the Middle East. Without this table, the democratic and existential rights of the Kurdish and Palestinian peoples and their problems in the depths of history, the problems in the Middle East cannot be solved, and the contradictions between global capital and local collaborators will become visible here. At the heart of all this historical transformation is the fact that Rojava is a Women's Revolution and this Revolution model is the fact that Women are both a social and class object.
This revolution is not just a line of defense, but a social and societal revolt against the roots of all kinds of dominant powers and the statist mentality. This experience of freedom created by Kurdish women and youth is a new light in the darkness of the Middle East. This process, which moves out of the shadow of the gun and into the light of negotiation, heralds a new possibility and a new future for the peoples. The fate of the Middle East is no longer being written in the shadow of tanks, but on the table, in the power of the word, under the leadership of women. This time history seems much closer to flowing in favor of the peoples.