20 October، 2017
In this week’s dialogue, some inquired: will the wrong decision of the Iraqi Kurdish leaderships bring scourge on their long-suffering people? Alternatively, are the Iraqi rulers always cruel and criminals? Anyway, this description does not apply for Dr. Haider al-Abadi, whose lasting balance and wisdom are agreed on by everyone. Some see that the Kurds of Iraq, as citizens, enjoy the best freedoms and rights as equal as the rest of the components, while their peers in the neighboring countries struggle to gain part of their rights. Some agreed that the Kurdish movement in Iraq is the oldest and most mature in the region and has an ambition of leading the Kurdish affairs regionally. They also see that the Peshmerga forces are too smart and wise to put themselves in the shoes of ISIS terrorist organization or to be out of the Iraqi constitution.

 

The interlocutors frankly said that reducing the current crisis to the person of Mr. Masoud Barzani is “a desperate counterproductive attempt on the Kurdish issue”. Simultaneously, some emphasized that the Kurdish public opinion did not consider the Arabs as enemies, even during the era of “Anfal”; therefore, it does not consider them as enemies in the meantime.

 

Conclusions:

 

·         The civilianism and wisdom of the decision maker are what silences the incitement voices, which defines the urgent priority of self-control by everyone.

 

·         The spreading of the phenomenon of the benefiting elites who compromise the gains, gamble the rights of people and employee all the financial resources and the empowerment of people to serve some political senior officials.

 

·         There is an absence of the state of citizenship, non-application of the constitutional provisions, relative weakness of the legislative authority, and non-application of the law equally on the individuals of Iraqi people.

 

·         The formation of any type of federalism based on a national or doctrinal basis is the true meaning of tearing Iraq up and dividing it on sectarian and ethnic basis, which will weaken Iraq regionally and eliminate its unity.

 

·         Today, there is nothing called “struggle” of Iraq’s Kurds as they are no longer subject to hegemony and injustice by Baghdad, in addition to their strong participation in the political decision making in Baghdad on the levels of the three authorities in the central government.

 

Recommendations:

 

·         The self-control in itself is not enough, and everybody must make initiatives and gesture of goodwill, as the current situation really needs the political factions in Iraq to turn the page.

 

·         It is the national and ethical duty of all elites to stand by the people and work to employ their potentials and skills to demand the rights of people and take advantage of their proximity to the political leaderships to put pressure on them in order to achieve this.

 

·         All efforts must focus on the application of the constitution and the activation of the judicial authority, and support it to implement its fair provisions equally on all Iraqis, regardless of their political affiliation, in order to achieve a state that provides security to all segments of society.

 

·         Most of the Iraqi political parties are based on sectarian and ethnic foundations so that they consolidate the language of components in the constitution. Therefore, these parties must be restructured. In addition, the constitution must be amended so that it expresses the equality among all the components of Iraqi people.

 

·         Iraq’s Kurds must work to solve their problems and disputes with the center through the constructive dialogue that focuses on the pillar of participation in the homeland.

 

Names of some participating members during the week:

 

(1)   Dr. Abdul Hakim Khasro

 

(2)   Mr. Husam Al-Ghazali

 

(3)   Dr. Ali Al-Dabbagh

 

(4)   Dr. Farhad Alaaldin

 

(5)   Dr. Azzam Alloush

 

(6)   Mr. Thaer Al-Dulaimi

 

(7)   Sheikh Muhammad Al-Hindawi

 

(8)   Mr. Yaseen Taha

 

(9)   Mr. Karim Al-Nouri

 

(10)  Dr. Qusai Mahbuba

 

(11)  Mr. Rafea Abdul Jabbar

 

(12)  Mr. Amer Al-Musawi