AI English Translation, Pages 76-100
Summary of what took place in the session of the Chamber of Deputies held yesterday morning
Reconsidering the rulings of the martial law courts
His Excellency Al-Shabibi criticizes the Sa'idi ministry and His Excellency Saad Omar responds to him
How will the issue of the Jews of Iraq be solved?
The Chamber of Deputies held its session yesterday morning at ten forty, and after reading the summary of the previous session's minutes and the incoming papers, Deputy Hajj Shamdin stood up and thanked the Council for rejecting his resignation and said that he intends to perform his parliamentary duty to the fullest.
After this, the question of Deputy Mr. Khadouri Khadouri addressed to His Excellency the Prime Minister was read regarding his statement to a newspaper about the government's intention to reconsider the rulings issued by the martial law courts.
His Excellency the Prime Minister stood up and said that the statement referred to by the Deputy was not issued now, but rather was issued during the days of the previous ministry. Nevertheless, His Excellency clarified the matter and said that one of the ministers in the previous ministry had submitted a report on 1/12/1950 expressing his viewpoint on the issue, and that the previous Council of Ministers did not decide anything. Then His Excellency said that the rulings issued by the martial law courts are considered final from a legal standpoint and cannot be reconsidered. Nevertheless, His Excellency has instructed the Ministry of Justice to study the subject to take the necessary measures to serve the public interest and justice.
The questioning Deputy commented on the answer, thanking His Excellency the Prime Minister, then spoke about the condition of those sentenced by the martial law courts, saying it is bad, especially in Nuqrat al-Salman, as the materials sent to them by their families do not reach them, and he drew the attention of His Excellency the Minister of Social Affairs to this matter. The Deputy also suggested issuing a special pardon for the convicts as has happened on some occasions!
After this, Deputy Mr. Khadouri Khadouri requested to postpone the answer to his second question regarding the issue of arbitration in the income tax due on the Eastern Bank, which traded in a gold deal.
Then the question of Deputy Mr. Abdul Razzaq Hammoud was read regarding the frequent escape of Jews from Iraq. Addressed to His Excellency the Prime Minister, His Excellency said that he would like to draw the questioner's attention to the fact that this question should have been addressed to the Minister of Justice because he is responsible for the communities, and it also relates to security, which falls under the Ministry of Interior. There is a second aspect, which is a financial issue that the Ministry of Finance must look into. Nevertheless, His Excellency wanted to reassure the Deputy and said that the government is interested in this issue and is studying it for the purpose of resolving and treating it, and that the Council will be informed of those measures soon.
News - I have learned that the government has prepared a bill under which Jews wishing to leave Iraq will be allowed to travel, provided that their Iraqi citizenship is revoked, and that the traveler among them does not take more than travel expenses. It is expected that the bill will be presented to the Council in the coming final days.
The questioning Deputy commented on the answer, saying that this issue occupies the country far and wide, and even children talk about it, and my purpose with this question is to know what the policy of this ministry is and how it will confront this situation.
Then the Deputy expressed his regret because successive governments did not take a firm policy towards the issue, especially since some of the Jewish youth fit for military service have left Iraq. He said that the situation calls for speed in finding a solution.
After this, a discussion took place regarding the petition in response to the Speech from the Throne. A large number of deputies requested to speak about it, and the first to speak among them was Deputy Professor Izz al-Din al-Mulla, who began his speech with a request to the honorable deputies in which he said that
many of them had spoken about the ministerial program and clarified their views on reform, and here they are now wanting to speak a second time about the response petition, and in this there is a waste of the Council's time.
The Deputy then moved on to discuss affairs specific to the Erbil province, which he saw fit to present to the government because he did not have the opportunity to speak about the ministerial program. Among what he pointed out was the poor condition of the Erbil secondary school building. He also spoke about the Erbil municipality and concluded his speech by requesting the deputies once again not to be long-winded in their speech.
His Excellency Sheikh Al-Shabibi was the next speaker, and he referred to the request of Deputy Mr. Izz al-Din Mulla, saying that he found in the Speech from the Throne what made it imperative for him to speak about it.
Then His Excellency continued speaking about the Speech from the Throne and said that its authors had been biased in it against the people and the government during a certain period, meaning His Excellency the conditions of the days of the Wathba and what followed it. His Excellency denounced those who said in the speech that conditions were unstable and the country's entity had been exposed to the gravest dangers. His Excellency said that those who brought the speech fight everyone they see the people supporting.
He was followed by His Excellency Mr. Khalil Ismail, who spoke about the financial situation in the country and singled out the issue of arbitration between the government and the Eastern Bank with something. Much of his accusation, then some deputies spoke after him, as did His Excellency the Minister of Economy and His Excellency the Minister of Education, and the session was adjourned to be resumed this morning. Below is the text of the speech of His Excellency Professor Saad Omar, Minister of Education.
Gentlemen: I often, while listening to the speeches of some brothers, foremost among them His Excellency Al-Shabibi, disagreed with them on many of the opinions they expressed, and yet my concern was great to avoid responding and arguing.
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Remainder of the opening article
regarding the opinions I disagreed with them on, and since
a few moments ago His Excellency Al-Shabibi favored us with a
long speech about some issues he found in
the Speech from the Throne, and since some of those
observations had exceeded the limits of
mere criticism to the limits of causing pain and inflicting
harm upon the feelings of His Excellency's political opponents,
and considering that this intentional infliction of pain did not,
at any time, affect his political opponents as
His Excellency intended, I saw no need to speak
about it. But I heard opinions from His Excellency
Al-Shabibi that I admired immensely
as theories; however, I found it my duty to
offer the necessary commentary on them.
Gentlemen: How much a victim suffers when he sees
that the eloquent speaker of these beautiful theories is the cause
of him being a victim, while he repeats phrases
intended to promote a specific policy or to appeal to
the general class of people.
His Excellency repeated that Iraq is between two options,
seeing no third for them: either blatant dictatorship
or true democracy, and the third case
is the paralyzed democracy that will lead
the country to undesirable consequences. At this
moment, while His Excellency Al-Shabibi was speaking,
a series of thoughts and memories crossed my mind
about those blatant interventions
in the elections of this Council, which were actually intended
by His Excellency the speaker, and caused the discontent regarding
the elections that people complained about, including
His Excellency the orator, and I was one of its victims,
despite what appeared in the statements of
officials at that time about leaving those elections
free and refraining from interfering in them—those
interventions which actually resulted in discontent
to the point that this discontent spread among
the ranks of the officials themselves, leading to
the resignation of some of them.
As for the second matter I wished to comment
on, it is what His Excellency Al-Shabibi referred to regarding
some of the tendencies of His Excellency Mr. Nuri al-Said
who presented the Speech from the Throne. I, of course,
do not consider myself responsible for defending
this speech, but it is not permissible for
important comments from this Council to pass without
some deputies expressing their viewpoints on
those comments, especially if they were contrary
to the facts.
His Excellency Al-Shabibi said that His Excellency Mr.
Nuri al-Said is not pleased by the sympathy
surrounding the ideas he opposes, and that this
leads to using destructive ideas as a pretext to undermine
his opponents. Above all, I hope
the High Council knows that the majority of those affected by
the measures of His Excellency Al-Said were
Zionists; thus, I do not share His Excellency's view that they
are surrounded by sympathy as he said... Politicians
in Iraq are not without opponents, nor
are they devoid of rivalries, and officials
in all periods were defending the public order
and stability by various means.
I remember that His Excellency Al-Shabibi was among
those who shared responsibility during a certain period in
1941 - 1942, or among those who used the same
means and struck down his political opponents—those
opponents who absolutely do not resemble the opponents of
Mr. Nuri al-Said in recent times.
And I hope that whoever addresses these matters
is mindful of some of them at least, and
does not lean toward inflicting pain, which councils reject
most vehemently.
Newspaper: Al-Yaqza
Number: 724
Date: March 20, 1950
Untitled!
To the honorable owner of the
distinguished Al-Yaqza newspaper
Arab greetings, and thereafter: On the night of the 10th of last month
people were surprised while listening to the radio
by the announcer introducing the singer of Arabism (!) the Jewish
dancer Salima Murad, and we recalled what was written by
your newspaper about the relationship of this singer with the
broadcasting station, so we recalled that in relation to our Arab
governments' relationship with the people of this singer, and we
regret your wasted effort in cutting the relationship of
this singer with the broadcasting station. We assure you
that every attempt in this path is a failure, even if
all the nationalists in the East and West supported you,
those who are accustomed to reading your newspaper, because
the people are our people, as the late poet said of them
Ma'ruf al-Rusafi:
If you wake them, they sleep more
And if you rouse them, they sit in the lowlands
Glory be to Him who created the servants
As if the people were created as inanimate objects
And can an inanimate object be free of stagnation?
The readers of your newspaper have come to believe
that there is no hope or expectation in ending the Palestine ordeal
as long as we have these ethics and as long as we hate
to anger a Jewish dancer; for how can we hope
for us to anger the (Great!) State of Israel?
We are walking, rather running swiftly, towards extinction
just as the Assyrians perished, and history left of them
only remnants like our remnants. Yusuf Abdul Razzaq
Jews attempting to flee
to Tel Aviv
The police arrested yesterday morning - Tuesday -
Khanun Ezra, Daisy
Ezra, Habiba Abdullah, Jill Abdullah,
Violet Ezra, Washi Ezra, Isaac
David, and Isaac Shamil on King Faisal
II Street while they were carrying some luggage, and
they were waiting for a car to take them to Iran
via smuggling, and from there to Tel Aviv.
They were immediately taken to the Criminal Investigation
Directorate to conduct the investigation with them. We
suffice with this mention due to the secrecy of
the investigation.
Personal Affairs
Newspaper: Al-Shaab
Number: 1561
Date: March 20, 1950
Successful
Work
The war in Palestine had necessitated
placing some exceptional restrictions on
many transactions, a matter which
caused a contraction and shrinkage in activity
commercial in the country, and created a situation
difficult for the general public.. and ended
the war and this situation remained, which inflicted
long-term damage to our economies, the greatest damage
to the country's economies.. and despite
that most politicians and officials had
felt and were always declaring in
their councils, that this situation must
be placed on a firm basis, allowing those who
wish to leave Iraq to depart
so that those remaining may be reassured and conditions stabilize
and tranquility prevails, however none of
the politicians dared to take
the initiative and end this unstable situation,
until His Excellency Mr.
Salih Jabr, Minister of Interior, submitted a proposal
to the Council of Ministers to end this state
and remove the various exceptional restrictions that
were imposed since the Palestine war, and caused
the contraction of business and increasing stagnation in
the market, and the bill submitted by
His Excellency to the Council of Ministers and which was approved
by the Chamber of Deputies in the form that
the reader finds elsewhere, was
this bill the first step in liquidating
this situation.
In truth, this bill is a correct,
serious, and bold act by the government and by
His Excellency Mr. Salih Jabr in
particular.. and if all politicians and men of
governance were characterized by such boldness
and initiative in every action they believe to be right
and necessary, we would not now be complaining about
many of the existing evils. And
the present government deserves congratulations
on this step, and we hope that
this work will be an example for all politicians
so they do not hesitate to declare what
they believe to be right, and do not shrink from
the work in whose realization they see an interest
for the country.
And if we are to comment on
this work, we say that it will remove
the current lack of reassurance and end the state of
instability, and put an end to many
of the damages that are still befalling the country
since this exceptional state arose.
His Excellency Mr. Salih
Jabr expressed in the bold statements he made
in the Chamber of Deputies yesterday the truest
expression of the sincere feeling felt
by the general public of various opinions
and sects
confused
every day
his patriotism
treating the
from him
which requires
consideration
Newspaper: Al-Husun
Issue: 208
Date: March 2, 1950
An Organized Gang for Smuggling Jews in Basra
Headed by a Jew, a non-Iraqi Muslim, and a Dancer
We demand a thorough investigation to identify its leaders
We met with a friend of ours from the noble | You are trying in vain, as the Jews | and betrayed their homelands for a few dirhams,
people of Basra, and the talk branched out | cannot reach Israel | and I inform you that in Al-Ashar and specifically
to the issue of Jews and smugglers, Basra | unless they reach Iran, and they cannot | in the Saudiya neighborhood, there is a Muslim Arab
and Iran and their close link in reaching | reach Iran unless they receive | (non-Iraqi) who took his shop, in agreement
Israel. Our friend told us saying: | aid and support from those who sold their consciences | with a Jew and a dancer, as a den for organizing
the smuggling of Jews for a ransom of
(150) Dinars per person (arriving at
the border), and these three have
assigned one of them to go back and forth between
Baghdad and Basra every other day,
to bring Jews wishing to emigrate to
Israel. They receive assistance from
some police officers due to the
banquets and parties they host for them,
which include the three known types, and
sharing with their assistants the ransoms
paid by the Jews. We tried to obtain
the names of the aforementioned three from him,
but he refused, expressing his fear of this
gang, which can, with its various
capabilities, harm him. He advised us
not to expand on what we publish about
this gang, but we publish this
hoping that the competent departments will take interest and conduct
a thorough investigation to find the names of the three (scoundrels)
and bring them to court. We are
waiting for what the investigation reveals, and if we
do not find interest from the competent departments
in discovering the headquarters of this gang and identifying
its members, we will be forced by a sense of zeal
for the public interest to send one of
this newspaper's reporters secretly to investigate
and discover, and then we will publish what he
reaches.
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Second Year, Issue 491
14 Jumada al-Ula 1369
Friday, March 3, 1950
In the Chamber of Deputies session yesterday
Discussion of the bill to revoke citizenship for Jews wishing to travel
The Arab League Council...
Will it be just travel, evening chats, and a meeting?...
People learned the news of the Arab League Council meeting on the twentieth of this March. It is perhaps not surprising to say that Arabs in their various lands received this news with much lukewarmness and lack of enthusiasm—and we fear to say—lack of interest, as a result of the successive failures they have witnessed in these continuous meetings of the League Council and its political committee. This is because the method followed by the League in handling supreme Arab affairs is a method that can at least be described as neither frank nor bold, and not devoid of narrow regional interests that have not afflicted Arab causes with a disaster more terrible than them.
Statements of the speakers and His Excellency the Minister of Interior
At ten o'clock and fifty minutes yesterday morning, the Chamber of Deputies met. After reading the summary of the previous session's minutes and accepting them, the arrival of the draft law for the supplement to the Decree on Revoking Iraqi Citizenship No. (62) of 1933 was announced. It was also announced that a proposal had been received from the Minister of Interior to include the bill in the session's agenda and to deliberate on it urgently. The proposal was put to a vote and accepted.
His Excellency the Minister of Interior
Gentlemen: The government submitted this bill after it became certain that there was no escape from submitting it, given the abnormal situation that is noticed not only by the members of the esteemed Council but by all people. The abnormal situation prevailing among a section of Jewish citizens is what compels the government to submit such a bill for legislation.
My masters: You all know that the movement of some Jewish citizens fleeing began quite some time ago, and this movement has continued and is increasing little by little. While it used to have an individual character, and those working to help some of these people flee were few individuals, the movement did not exceed an individual status, whether in terms of the fleeing Jewish citizens or the workers and facilitators of the escape. But—unfortunately—this movement began to evolve over time into a development that it is not in the interest to remain silent about. Those who want to flee and leave Iraq permanently are no longer individuals as in the past, but in the dozens, and their number has exceeded hundreds in recent weeks. Those working to help these people have become gangs formed and organized to facilitate the escape of those who have decided to leave Iraq permanently, in an illegal manner and in violation of the laws in force. Perhaps many of you have noticed the centers—centers for selling household furniture here and there in preparation for liquidation and escape. These centers began selling furniture openly and blatantly, and those frequenting these centers are no longer counted in the dozens but in the hundreds. This was the situation when the current government took the reins of power, so we had to handle the matter with wisdom, deliberation, precision, and also with firmness. We contacted some wise men from this community and drew their attention to the current situation and the need to cooperate with the government to eliminate this provocative state and return to the provisions of the law. But it appears that ⟦...⟧ the gentlemen whom we asked to ⟦...⟧ the door—and I do not doubt that ⟦...⟧ was difficult as it appears. ⟦...⟧ to give something and prevent ⟦...⟧ illegal. Everyone knows the provocation inherent in the continuation of this situation on one hand, and the many damages on the other. By this—gentlemen—the government saw that it had no choice but to submit this bill because forcing some citizens to stay in Iraq—I say that forcing those who do not want to stay in Iraq for reasons I cannot go into ⟦...⟧ a subject now—⟦...⟧ that staying is not in the interest of the country ⟦...⟧ and behavior, nor by the long conditions ⟦...⟧ it would not be in the interest of the majority of the honorable members of the community ⟦...⟧ who decided to leave ⟦...⟧ that it is not in the interest of the majority of the members of the community for the government to force the section that does not want to stay in Iraq, given the problems and spiritual troubles that will result from that. For this reason, the government submitted this bill, and you will notice from its merits ⟦...⟧ a subject handled far from dependency, but in line with developments, and in implementation of the laws. This is an introduction that I hope has clarified to the esteemed Council the goal the government aimed for with this bill.
Faiq al-Samarrai
I wish the government had submitted the bill independently and not as a supplement to the citizenship revocation decree, because the Jewish problem must be treated fundamentally and basically, not just superficially. I even want us to expand on this subject; there are issues of transfers and the amounts that Jews take that must be limited. What happened in Egypt was, I think, 200 Dinars. We must confront the Jews who join Israel because it is not fair that our brothers in Palestine have their properties confiscated and their homes demolished, while the Jew who reaped the gains and was fed by the country's bounties and prosperity leaves and goes to Israel while he ⟦...⟧ the money of the country's sons. Then he said: As long as the Jews are finally leaving by the hundreds, circumstances may force us to amend the Basic Law to adjust the issue of Jewish representation in the Council.
Muhammad Salih Bahr al-Ulum
He said he supports this bill and mentioned that he has drafting notes, including that the bill gave the right to revoke citizenship to the Council of Ministers, while it should be given to the Minister of Interior who is responsible for implementing the citizenship law.
Yusuf al-Mulla
We explained that when the ministry drafted the bill, it avoided violence, while the Zionists followed the most heinous types of cruelty with the Arabs of Palestine, even though they did not wish to leave their country.
Then he requested that the phrase "the Council of Ministers" be replaced with the phrase "the Council of Ministers shall decide to revoke citizenship... etc." in Article One.
Ismail al-Ghanim
He said that this bill gave new privileges to the Jews, this element that betrayed the country and denied its grace and the state's corruptions to the extent that many politicians defend them publicly and consider them citizens.
Then he said: We support in principle solving the Jewish problem, but this bill must be in a different form; all Jews must leave, not just the young men and those of military age. And if their defenders want, let them leave with them.
Khalil Ismail
He spoke about drafting points in the bill, such as the positions appointed by the Minister of Interior and clarifying the form before him: who is this official? And of what grade? Then he spoke about the duration of the bill.
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Is there a way... to restore cooperation
Between the two Levant states?...
Damascus - By Telephone
Mr. Wael al-Qawam, head of Syrian manufacturing quality control, returned today from Beirut. We understood after his return that an agreement was reached between him and his colleague to coordinate efforts to raise the level of Syrian-Lebanese industries. It is said that this agreement has its value given the economic dispute between the two countries, and it is evidence of their desire to cooperate.
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Local Affairs
Royal Ceremonies
For the day of March 3, 1950
His Royal Highness the Regent, the Great Crown Prince, was honored by the meeting of His Excellency Dr. Abdullah Al-Damluji, the Ambassador of Iraq in Tehran, to offer his thanks to His Highness on the occasion of his appointment to his new position.
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His Royal Highness was also honored by the meeting of His Excellency Mr. Ibrahim Al-Khudairi, the Minister Plenipotentiary of Iraq in Beirut, to offer his thanks to His Highness on the occasion of his appointment to his new position and requesting permission to travel.
Official Statement
Regarding the Egyptian Plane Incident
The Iraqi government was astonished by the statement of His Excellency the Egyptian Foreign Minister, which he delivered at a press conference, stating that the Egyptian authorities ordered an Iraqi plane, which had been forced to land at Almaza Airport yesterday, to leave the airport immediately. It was extremely concerned by His Excellency's statement that this measure was taken because the Iraqi authorities had taken similar action against an Egyptian plane that had been forced two days ago to land in Baghdad during its flight from Cairo to Tehran.
Immediately upon learning of this statement, the competent ministry took rapid measures to find out the truth of the incident, and the investigation resulted in the following facts:
1 - The agreement concluded between the Iraqi and Egyptian governments allowed Iraqi Airways to travel from Baghdad to Damascus and Cairo and vice versa twice a week.
2 - It allowed Egyptian Airways to travel on the Cairo - Damascus - Baghdad route and vice versa on Monday of every week, and from Cairo - Damascus - Baghdad and from there to Tehran and vice versa on Wednesday.
And from Cairo - Damascus - Baghdad - Tehran on Saturday. This means that the Egyptian Airways Company enjoys an additional trip at a time when the Iraqi Airways Department enjoys only two trips.
On 1/29/1950, the Lufthansa Tourism and Transport Company in Baghdad, on behalf of Egyptian Airways, submitted a request to the Iraqi Airways Directorate to allow the Egyptian Airways Department another trip to Tehran. The company granted this based on the Iraqi government's initiation through diplomatic channels to consider such requests. On 2/2/1950, the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs referred the matter to the Egyptian government, and upon attention to the Iraqi Airways Department Directorate, the request was immediately referred to the Civil Aviation Committee for study.
On 2/8/1950, the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs referred the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs' memorandum to the competent authorities. The request in this memorandum included the Iraqi authorities' approval, first, to extend the Egyptian line to Kuwait via Baghdad and to extend the second MisrAir flight to Baghdad as far as Tehran, while enjoying the fifth freedom in Baghdad, meaning the right to transport from Baghdad as well. This approval was contested before allowing Iraqi planes their second weekly flight previously agreed upon from Baghdad to Cairo via Damascus.
Given the conditions contained in the Egyptian memorandum, especially its reversal of the ruling of the concluded agreement regarding two trips per week for Iraqi planes, the Civil Aviation Committee, in its meeting held on 2/13/1950, recommended waiting to accept the new Egyptian requests until the Egyptian government agrees to:
A - Iraqi Airways operating two flights a week between Baghdad and Cairo via Damascus.
B - Iraqi Airways operating a third flight between Baghdad and Cairo via Damascus or Beirut. This is in exchange for five trips made by Egyptian Airways, whether to Iraq directly or to Iraq and from there to Tehran or Kuwait.
On 2-15-1950, Egyptian Airways began - before receiving the approval of the Iraqi government - extending its routes to Tehran for a second time in the week according to its new program. An Egyptian plane actually went to Tehran on Wednesday, 2-15-1950. The Iraqi authorities also agreed, as a courtesy, for an Egyptian plane to make a trip to Tehran on 2-13 to transport students from the College of Law, and another trip to Tehran also on 2-18. The Iraqi authorities considered these two trips as incidental trips and overlooked these violations out of concern for brotherly and regular relations of courtesy between two brothers, hoping that the Egyptian government would respond to the Iraqi government's request addressed to it before this date. As for the incident referred to by His Excellency the Egyptian Foreign Minister, it relates to the Egyptian plane that was expected to arrive in Baghdad on Saturday, 2-25, but was delayed in Damascus due to bad weather conditions in Iraq, so it arrived in Baghdad on Sunday, 2-26. After its arrival for a few ⟦line⟧ Continued on page three ⟦line⟧
Affairs of the General Dates Association
A parliamentary question from His Excellency Deputy Abdul Latif Jaafar
His Excellency the Respected Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies.
I request that my following question be directed to His Excellency the Minister of Economy for him to answer in writing.
Article sixteen of the Dates Association Decree No. 6 of 1939 states the following:
The association may collect a fee of two percent of the ⟦illegible⟧ of exported dates in exchange for the services it performs for the purpose of export.
1 - What is the total amount of fees collected by the Exported Dates Association from March 1939 to the end of February 1950 ⟦illegible⟧ the subject.
2 - What is the amount of money currently in the association's treasury ⟦illegible⟧.
3 - What are the basic allowances, cost-of-living allowances, and additional allowances currently received monthly by each of the employees and workers of the Dates Association.
4 - What are the expenses incurred by the ⟦illegible⟧ Association for someone who traveled in its name outside Iraq since its establishment to this day.
5 - What are the expenses incurred by the Dates Association ⟦illegible⟧ board and holding its members' meetings in Baghdad instead of Basra, despite the fact that the members of the association ⟦illegible⟧ are from the people of Basra.
Deputy of Basra
Abdul Latif Jaafar
No. ( ) of 1950
Bill
Law Supplementing the Decree on the Forfeiture of Iraqi Nationality
No. (62) of 1933
Yesterday - as the reader will find in the minutes of the Chamber of Deputies - the Swedish Ministry submitted the bill for the law supplementing the Decree on the Forfeiture of Iraqi Nationality referred to below. His Excellency Professor Mr. Saleh Jabr ⟦illegible⟧ defended the Ministry's viewpoint in his capacity as Chairman of the Laws Committee in the Chamber of Deputies.
By proceeding with such legislation, the Ministry has responded to ⟦illegible⟧ the committee, and has put an end to the anxiety that afflicted citizens as a result of the infiltration of Jews and the migration of ⟦illegible⟧ and those who do not feel the right of citizenship, and proved the claim of the explanatory reasons for the text of this bill ⟦illegible⟧
Article One - The Council of Ministers may decide to forfeit the Iraqi nationality of an Iraqi Jew who voluntarily wishes to leave Iraq permanently after signing ⟦illegible⟧ before the official appointed by the Minister of Interior.
Article Two - An Iraqi Jew who leaves Iraq or attempts to leave it illegally shall have his Iraqi nationality forfeited by a decision of the Council of Ministers.
Article Three - An Iraqi Jew who has previously left Iraq illegally shall be considered to have left Iraq permanently if he does not return to it within a period of two months from the effective date of this law, and his Iraqi nationality shall be forfeited from the date of the expiration of this period.
Article Four - The Minister of Interior shall order the deportation of everyone whose Iraqi nationality has been forfeited under Articles One and Two, unless he is convinced, based on sufficient reasons, that his temporary stay in Iraq is a matter necessitated by judicial or legal necessity or to preserve the rights of others disposed of.
Article Five - This law shall remain in force for a period of one year from the date of its enforcement, and its ruling may be terminated at any time during this period by a Royal Decree published in the Official Gazette.
Article Six - This law shall be effective from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.
Article Seven - The Minister of Interior shall implement this law.
Explanatory Reasons
It has been observed that some Iraqi Jews have begun to resort to all illegal means to leave Iraq permanently, just as others had previously left Iraq illegally. Since the presence of subjects of this kind who harm the country and are forced to retain Iraqi nationality inevitably leads to results that affect public security and create social and economic problems, it was found that there is no alternative but to not prevent the desire of these people to leave Iraq permanently and to forfeit their Iraqi nationality. This bill was enacted to secure this purpose.
Baghdad Boxing Championship
The final boxing match will take place this evening - in all weights - between the winners to achieve the Baghdad championship for intermediate schools. As for the final competition for secondary schools, it will take place on the ninth of this month.
Beirut University Delegation
A delegation of male and female students from the American University of Beirut will arrive in Baghdad on the fourth of next April.
UNESCO Conference
The Council of Ministers approved Iraq's participation in the UNESCO General Conference to be held in the city of Florence, Italy, and the dispatch of both Dr. Khalid Al-Hashimi, the Cultural Attaché at the Iraqi Embassy in London, and Dr. Abdul Hamid Kadhim, the Dean of the Higher Teachers' Training College, to represent Iraq at this conference.
Forestry Expert
Dr. Laure, the French forestry expert at the International Food and Agriculture Organization, will arrive in Baghdad at the end of this month to review the state of forests in northern Iraq and submit a report on them to the Ministry of Economy in order to benefit from his expertise in developing and expanding forests in Iraq.
Rain in Sulaymaniyah
The Ministry of Interior received a telegram from the Governorate of Sulaymaniyah stating that heavy rain fell in all parts of the province in the last days of the past month.
Avicenna Festival
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs requested the Iraqi Legation in Egypt to approach the Cultural Committee of the League of Arab States and inform it of the Iraqi government's withdrawal from holding the special festival to commemorate the millennium of Avicenna, which was scheduled to be held in Baghdad.
Exchange of Cultural Books
with Iran
The Ministry of Education sent twenty packages containing literary books, laws, and Iraqi schoolbooks to Iran. The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote to the aforementioned ministry informing it that the Iranian Ministry of Education, while announcing its receipt of these collections, expresses its appreciation and thanks for this useful step toward unifying cultural ties between the two countries. The Iranian Ministry of Education has sent a similar collection of Iranian literary books to the Iraqi Ministry of Education.
Dates in International Trade Fairs
In the Toronto Fair
In the Toronto Fair, Mitchell Beck, one of the major American companies importing Iraqi dates, is represented. He took the opportunity to visit His Excellency Mr. Abdul Ilah Al-Qassab, the Director General of the Dates Association. Discussions were held regarding the date trade in the United States, increasing the export of Iraqi dates to it, organizing propaganda there, and participating in fairs and commercial markets.
It is no secret that the Mitchell Beck Company participated last year in the Toronto trade market, where it set up a special pavilion in which it displayed a quantity of Iraqi dates, which achieved great success. It is also interested in setting up a dates pavilion in the Toronto Fair this year as well.
Brussels Fair
The Directorate of the General Dates Association is interested in completing the necessary arrangements to participate in the Brussels International Trade Fair, scheduled to open at the end of April 1950. The Royal Iraqi Legation in the Belgian capital - at the request of the Association - has reserved an area of 24 square meters in a suitable location within the fair and has begun implementing a pavilion for dates. In this pavilion, alongside dates, various materials of Iraq's products and manufactures will be displayed, along with lighting and decoration with general pictures and drawings.
And the state emblem to give visitors an idea of the young, rising Kingdom.
At the same time, the Dates Association is preparing sufficient samples of excellent dates in various forms of pressing and gifting them to be sent to the fair, as well as preparing the necessary brochures for distribution there.
The Brussels Trade Fair is one of the well-known international markets, visited by visitors from all over Western Europe due to its central location, as well as tourists from different continents. It was held for the first time in 1920, and then its holding continued year after year until now, with the exception of the period of the last World War. The area allocated for it over a quarter of a century is estimated from 19,500 square meters to 105,000 square meters, and the number of exhibitors from 1,600 in 1920 to 4,061 in the past year 1949. As for the participating countries, their number increased from 14 to 30 countries. There is no doubt that the number of participating countries and exhibitors from individuals and commercial companies will increase further this year.
There is no doubt that participating in this fair will be the best propaganda for Iraqi dates in particular and for Iraq and its trade in general.
Wisdom of the Day
The Fake Counterfeit!..
It is from the barber's wisdom in his character to make a fake man counterfeit; if others do not expose him, he would be an exposer to himself!!
Voice of Life
God Willing...
I met more than one person today who said to me while I was discussing things we must do, "I will do that, God willing, and I will think about trying that, God willing..."
I understand nothing from this (God willing) except that it is a type of dependency that mixes with our blood, we Muslims and Arabs in particular, hindering us from achieving our simplest wishes and hopes for a free and dignified life. That is because it contains the spirit of this fatalism that has no limits or barriers and which overwhelms a person, leaving him no room for faith in himself and his ability to perform a decisive action in any aspect of life. Perhaps this is a manifestation of our misunderstood understanding of what the heavenly laws and messages intended.
It is very easy for those who delve into the nature of fate and destiny as brought by the laws to discern the great difference between what the laws intended and what we are doing now regarding fate and destiny.
The Holy Quran said, "And We have made for everything a cause," and said, "And that man has nothing but what he strives for," and said, "Say, then strive in its tracts and eat of His provision." It is clear that the command to strive to earn a living, then the clarification that the right to life belongs to those who strive for it and struggle for it, then the announcement that every phenomenon has a cause and every effect has a reason, are all clear verses that fate and destiny do not mean that we sleep in the sun until the shade comes to us; rather, they mean that we ourselves rise from the burning sunlight to the cool shade, and then fate watches this transition to see its goodness or lack thereof, encouraging one of them if the supreme wisdom intended it to be.
This is a point of distinction between one meaning and another, a point of distinction between the logical, realistic understanding of fate and destiny and the meaning of the hidden, idle understanding of fate and destiny.
This (God willing), we must change our understanding of it and take the best aspects of its interpretation so that we can earn life in the way that the messages of heaven intended...
Dr. Abel
Scouting Tour
to New Baghdad
The Ministry of Education approved the scouting troops in the Al-Mamouniya, Al-Mansour, Al-Faisaliya, Al-Tatbiqat, Al-Fayha, and Al-Mansour schools to conduct a scouting tour to New Baghdad to apply scouting drills in a general way on the morning of next Monday. The march will start from Al-Mamouniya to Al-Babouyin, where they will then be transported by cars to New Baghdad.
Cultural Film
The Ministry of Education wrote to the Ministry of Interior asking it to produce a cultural cinematic film about Iraq and record the landmarks of its urban, social, and educational renaissance for the purpose of showing it abroad and ⟦illegible⟧ a true impression for foreigners about the aspects of Iraq and its progress, ancient and modern. It suggested contacting the Ministry of Finance to agree with it on allocating the necessary funds for this film.
In Al-Faisaliya
Al-Faisaliya suffers greatly from the lack of a water supply system, which exposes the lives of the people to many diseases and injuries. Likewise, the city lacks an electricity project. Negotiations have now begun between those concerned to establish these two projects.
It is worth noting that the secondary school building has been completed.
Continuation of yesterday's Chamber of Deputies session
The Oil Battle in the Middle East
Continuation of an official statement
Abdul Rahman al-Jalili
He said that this regulation came to reassure only a small
part of the public opinion's desire, and that
the other part of the general desire must be reassured
sooner or later. This general desire
is to organize what is owned by the Jews in Iraq who
leave Iraq and those who want to
leave Iraq, for Israel has frozen
all the funds of the Arabs in Palestine. And we
had to follow even a small part of the plan
that Israel followed with the Arabs.
Nusrat al-Farisi
He objected to the haste in the discussion
and requested the referral of the regulation to a committee or a joint committee
to study it and complete the deficiencies in it, and said
that we made a mistake and we will face results we did not
account for, and among these matters are international models
and he objected to the phrase "to the Council of Ministers" in
the first article.
Minister of Interior
Gentlemen - I have listened carefully to what the
honorable deputies have presented and I declare briefly
regarding what was mentioned in their remarks.
Some wished that the government would present
a special regulation to handle the funds of Jews in Iraq
and freeze the funds of those who want to leave among them
and a group spoke of the necessity of studying the regulation,
and others went to the necessity of expelling all
Jews in view of the past incidents,
and the events that took place between Jews and Arabs
because of Palestine,
and the other group spoke about legal
remarks, so it would be better if the regulation was on
⟦illegible⟧
Will the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr be made a global port
instead of the Mediterranean Sea??
By: Abdul Redha al-Jili
Nusrat al-Farisi
I thank His Excellency and the Minister of Interior for his welcome
of whatever suggestions I may have, but
the reality is that I am not sure that
what I express covers all that may be in this
regulation of deficiency that must be amended. And that
is a natural matter because the time that passed for looking
into the regulation does not exceed a few minutes, and how
can I complete in a few minutes all
the remarks? Then he said: I repeat my saying that
it is more correct that this regulation be referred to the
Legal Committee or a joint committee until its study
is completed.
Daoud al-Saadi
He spoke about the regulation from a drafting perspective
and said that he scrutinized it and found in it many
expressions that could be omitted and mentioned that
he has seven suggestions to amend the drafting
deficiencies in the regulation and mentioned that it is
necessary to amend the regulation so that it can
be applied and said: If we assume that a Jewish woman
wanted to leave Iraq and renounced her citizenship
and left children, what do we do for her children while they
are Iraqis?
Muhammad Ridha al-Shabibi
He said: I have no objection to legislating
the regulation, but at the same time I support
what the brothers suggested, especially Mr.
al-Farisi, regarding referring the regulation to a
legal committee or a joint committee, and this is among the
very appropriate matters.
Abdul Razzaq al-Sheikhly
I favor the regulation from the physical side
and I share with colleagues the necessity of depositing the regulation
which is important and very important to a committee that studies
these provisions and what results from this regulation
of unorganized consequences.
My brothers - the colleagues directed some
questions to His Excellency the Minister of Interior, but
I did not hear any answer from him to these questions,
including the amount allowed for a Jew
to take abroad.
Slavery... the stigma of humanity in the twentieth century
Mr. Greenidge, the British member
of the "Slavery" Committee of the United Nations,
gave a statement in a press meeting held in
Lake Success in which he announced that slavery is more
common in underdeveloped self-governing countries
in the colonies of European countries, then he mentioned
that the region located between the Persian Gulf
and the Red Sea, which is the region that includes
Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Aden
subject to British protection, is considered one of the worst
regions regarding slavery, and added to
that he has statistics that can be trusted
indicating that a million slaves still
live in this region specifically.
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Announcement
The entirety of plot number 138 from district 4 Al-Tabbaj and the area amounting to
17 Donums - 12 Olks belonging to Mahdi and Ouda, sons of Hassan al-Kadhim, as a result of the auction
has reached twenty Dinars, and since the auction has temporarily ended to the Directorate of the Agricultural Bank and during the
suspension period, which is fifteen days from the date of the announcement, increments of three percent are accepted, and after
that the final referral takes place. Whoever wishes to bid should contact the Tapu Department and the herald Hajj
Ibrahim.
Tapu Officer of Kadhimiya
Announcement
The entirety of plot number 144 district 4 Al-Tabbaj and the area amounting to
23 Donums - 9 Olks which precedes the flow belonging to Mahdi and Ouda, sons of Hassan al-Kadhim, as a result of the
auction has reached ten Dinars and was temporarily referred to the Directorate of the Agricultural Bank and during the
suspension period, which is fifteen days from the date of the announcement, increments of three percent are accepted
and after that the final referral takes place. Whoever wishes to bid should contact the Tapu Department and the herald Hajj
Ibrahim.
Tapu Officer of Kadhimiya
Announcement
The registration of the share of land plots with sequences (681, 682, 683,
684, and 685) located in the Shamiya side belonging to the Suq al-Shuyukh district, Basra - Baghdad
railway in Tal al-Lahm will be carried out anew in the name of the Iraqi Government Treasury due to the absence of
its supporting documents within thirty days from the date of publishing this announcement, and therefore we proceeded to announce
the matter.
Seal and Signature
Tapu Officer of Suq al-Shuyukh
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Remainder of the Chamber of Deputies session
of the student to be left to the Iraqi, so there
is no justification for deleting the word "permanently" but
on the contrary, there is justification for the necessity of its remaining.
Abdul Razzaq al-Hammoud
He spoke of the necessity of approving his proposal because
the Council of Ministers must revoke citizenship
fearing that leniency might occur in the matter because
the matter is not a right of the Council of Ministers but rather it is
a duty.
Nusrat al-Farisi
I share His Excellency the Minister of Interior's view on the necessity
of keeping the word "permanently" but I suggest replacing
the phrase "for the Council of Ministers" with the phrase "the Council
of Ministers decides".
Daoud al-Saadi
These proposals are not political, they are
codification and technical, so I hope that the government accepts
what can make the application of the law, for example,
become paralyzed.
His Excellency the Minister of Interior
The respected deputy Daoud al-Saadi spoke and said:
If a Jewish woman left Iraq and left
children, what is the status of these children whose father abandoned them?
And he wanted an explicit text to address this case.
I was expecting from Mr. al-Saadi, who is
a legal expert who practiced law and practiced codification
also, to look at the same time at the Nationality
Law regarding the issue of an explicit text that children
follow the fathers or both parents together. So if
only the mother's citizenship is revoked, the young
children follow the mother. And there is in the Iraqi
Nationality Law what prevents the repentant. Because
the government has taken precautions for the matter. And it is not
in the government's intention to prevent this grant that
is given, and I ask the deputy to reconsider
to see the truth. As for the government not being
ready to hear proposals, we are
ready to hear any useful proposal and for the
High Council to approve or not approve in light of
the necessity of what the public interest requires. For example,
His Excellency Nusrat al-Farisi, during his discussion, mentioned
for example that he sees replacing the phrase "for the Council
of Ministers" with the phrase "the Council of Ministers decides"
and a moment ago I said that there is no objection
at all to the word "for the Council of Ministers" remaining because
it is inconceivable that the Council of Ministers would not decide to revoke
or prevent the revocation of citizenship after the
conditions are met.. and these two proposals I believe
they have the same meaning because "the Council of Ministers
decides" and "for the Council of Ministers" have the same
meaning and this is what we aimed for, but if
the Council approves this proposal
we have no objection.
Daoud al-Saadi
We are now devoting ourselves to a special issue, the case
is not a case of revocation but rather a case of dependency because
the child who follows his mother in the revocation of citizenship
can, after the eighteenth year, return
from that and say I am Iraqi. For this issue
it must be solved civilly. And if we neglect this
aspect, many problems will arise in the future.
Rejection of the two proposals
Then each of the two proposals was put to a vote
and rejected. And the first article was put to a vote
and accepted.
And the Council moved to the second article and it was read.
Nusrat al-Farisi
So this proposal, even if it does not ⟦...⟧
all that I want because we have created legitimate
ways for smuggling and this article legislates one
solution, but we must avoid keeping it because it
contradicts the explanatory grounds.
The mentioned decision
Then the proposals were put to a vote
and the second article was put to a vote
then other proposals were put forward regarding
the articles and were rejected and Article ⟦...⟧
the final one was put to a vote and accepted.
Then the session was adjourned for a break of ⟦...⟧
minutes and after that it was resumed and discussed ⟦...⟧
in its session agenda.
Resignation of the Jordanian Ministry
Jerusalem - His Excellency Tawfiq Abu al-Huda submitted the resignation of his ministry for health reasons and handed it
to His Majesty King Abdullah at the Musalla Palace in Shuna, and His Majesty accepted it and ordered the ministry to continue
running the wheel of work until a new ministry is formed.
His Majesty summoned His Excellency Samir al-Rifai to the Musalla Palace and entrusted him with forming the new
ministry in the presence of Abdul Rahman Khalifa, Chief of the Royal Court. Al-Rifai has begun his consultations
and it is expected that its formation will be completed in a few days.
() Danny Kaye Virginia Mayo ()
In the colored mystery
A Boy from Brooklyn
Translation on the same film
Continuous laughter, captivating beauty, graceful figure, wonderful coloring, dazzling shows
all gathered to present to you the story that will entertain you and make you forget your troubles and worries.
At King Ghazi Cinema
Showing from Monday evening 3/27/1950
Four daily shows at 4:30, 7:30, and 9:30. Morning shows every day at 10:30.
A proposal from Deputy Faeq al-Samarrai requesting
the addition of the phrase "and his funds shall be frozen" to the second
article before the phrase "by a decision of the Council
of Ministers".
His Excellency the Minister of Interior
I believe that adding this phrase to the article
causes many problems that are not easy, rather
it is not possible to accept this proposal
for many reasons. I believe that the proposing deputy,
if he reconsiders it, will find that it is not in
the government's ability to accept this proposal.
This is what I want to clarify to the High Council
briefly, and for the Council to decide
what it wants.
Faeq al-Samarrai
I reconsidered the proposal and found that
these same reasons necessitate freezing the funds of
the fleeing Jew because he committed the crime of fleeing
and voluntarily waived his citizenship, and the suspicion of
treason is not manifested in a hostile state, so if
he were not Jewish, would the government treat him
with this treatment? I meant the Jew who
leaves Iraq or tries to leave it in an
illegal manner, and the minimum penalty for this is
that his property be confiscated and his funds frozen. And
Israel has done that and frozen the funds of
refugees without any right, and the refugees sleep
where they sleep in Naqoura and other than Naqoura.
Nusrat al-Farisi
I know that everything I say is of no use (laughter)
but I say it for the record, I say that
this article is not necessary at all because it contradicts
the explanatory grounds upon which this bill was based,
so do we want to give a legitimate character
to smuggling?
Daoud al-Saadi
I suggest omitting the phrase "by a decision of the Council
of Ministers" at the end of the article because it is not necessary.
De'bel presents
Abu Nuwas
Free World
A free scientific study of the life of the poet of art and freedom
"I will not study Abu Nuwas under the light of ethics, nor will I study Abu Nuwas under the light of religion
if I studied him with any other feeling, because I want to study him under the light of his humanity, that humanity
which he achieved for us in honesty, frankness, and sincerity..."
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Roxy Winter Cinema
Presents Society Maids
Starring Loretta Young and Celeste Holm
Starting from Saturday evening, February 25, 1950. First show at 7:15
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For buying and selling new and used cars
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Opposite Semiramis Hotel near Al-Rusafa Hotel
And review with the brokers Abdul Jabbar Abdul al-Taya' and Sayyid Naji al-Tarustar Jassim Younis
Hussein al-Mawsili and al-Tarrad al-Ani on Friday at 10:00 AM
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Where means of comfort, excellent service, and complete cleanliness are available, the
guest finds in it everything that reassures the soul and rests the mind, as it is a hotel located in
an excellent spot with its climate and beautiful views, surrounded by lush gardens, one of which is designated
for families and furnished with luxurious furniture and entertaining programs for visitors. It has equipped its
luxurious winter salons and furnished them with the most luxurious furniture, upholstery, and electric heaters against the cold. It is,
in this state, not just a hotel, but the exhausted finds his rest and the troubled finds his peace of mind.
The hotel management has established Western-style bathrooms inside the rooms in the
modern style, and every room has become a compact house.
The hotel management has also taken into account the current financial crisis and made significant reductions
in lodging and alcoholic beverages of all kinds, and food especially, on a condition that pleases you,
dear traveler.
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Newspaper -: Al-Nabaa
Number -: 431
Date -: 12 March 1950
Depriving Jews wishing to leave Iraq of citizenship
8 pages 12 fils
His Excellency the Minister of Interior says: The interest of the country knows best those who want to stay in the country
Demanding the deprivation of citizenship for all Jews in Iraq, freezing their funds, and confiscating their property
The Chamber of Deputies approved yesterday the proposal of His Excellency Mr. Saleh Jabr, Minister of Interior, to deliberate urgently on the draft law supplementing the Citizenship Deprivation Law No. 62 of 1933. His Excellency prefaced this draft by saying: The government submitted this draft after it became certain that there was no escape from submitting it, given the observed abnormal situation prevailing among a section of the Jewish citizens.
Gentlemen: You all know that the movement of Jewish citizens fleeing has started quite some time ago, and this movement has continued and is increasing little by little, but it was characterized by an individual nature, and those working to help some of these to flee were a few individuals, so the movement did not exceed the individual status in terms of the escape of some of these citizens, workers, or facilitators of their escape. But unfortunately, this movement began to evolve over time into a development that is not in the interest to remain silent about. Those who want to flee and leave the country permanently are no longer individuals as in the past, but in the dozens, and their numbers have exceeded hundreds in recent weeks. Those working to help them have become gangs formed to facilitate the task of those who decided to leave Iraq permanently in an illegal manner and in violation of immigration laws. Perhaps many of you noticed the furniture selling centers in the city here and there in preparation for liquidation and escape. These centers began selling furniture publicly and overtly, and those frequenting these centers are not in the dozens, but in the hundreds. This is the situation, gentlemen, as it was when the present ministry took the reins of power. We had to treat this matter with wisdom, deliberation, accuracy, and also firmness.
We consulted some wise men from among this community and drew their attention to the current situation and the necessity of cooperating with the government to eliminate this provocative situation and return to respecting the laws. However, it appears that the task of these gentlemen whom we asked to cooperate - and I do not doubt the soundness of their intentions - was difficult, as it seems. They could not do anything to prevent this organized illegal escape, and everyone knows the provocation and many harms inherent in the continuation of this situation. Therefore, gentlemen, the government saw that it was inevitable to legislate the submission of this draft because forcing some
citizens to stay in Iraq for reasons I do not wish to delve into, and there is no room to delve into, is not in the interest of the country, neither in the short term nor in the long term. It may also not be in the interest of the majority of this community to force some who have decided to leave Iraq. We are certain that it is in the interest of this community for the government to force the section that wants to leave Iraq [to leave] because of the problems and troubles it causes for the group. For this reason, the government submitted this draft, and you will notice from its articles that it handled the subject with a treatment far from the narrow spirit seeking developments and acting in the implementation of the laws. With this introduction, I hope I have clarified to your high council the goal the government targeted from this draft.
Cancer!
Faiq Al-Samarrai - I wished the government had submitted this draft urgently and not as a supplement to a decree, because the Jewish problem must be solved fundamentally and radically, and for this reason, many deputies like to take things into account.
I wished the government had applied the issue of foreign transfer and the amounts the fugitive takes, as Egypt did, as it limited the amount to 200 pounds - as I recall. I wished the government would completely freeze the funds of those who join Israel, because it is not fair to find our brothers in Palestine whose funds and properties are confiscated and whose homes and villages are demolished, while the Jew whom the country fed and provided for and who has come to control its economy goes. He goes to Israel carrying supplies for this country and the public wealth. I hoped for a general, comprehensive treatment of the problem; indeed, circumstances might force us to amend the Basic Law so that parliamentary representation for this community becomes irrelevant - if what His Excellency the Minister of Interior expected is correct, that the number of fugitives exceeds hundreds, and after a while, it becomes thousands. Therefore, parliamentary representation for this community is not valid, and we will get rid of this cancer permanently.
The Right to Deprive Citizenship
Saleh Bahr al-Ulum - I am one of the supporters of issuing this law. But I see that the right to deprive citizenship [should belong] to the Minister of Interior, not the Council of Ministers.
The Fifth Column
Yusuf Lulu - We heard from His Excellency the Minister of
Interior that the government avoided the path of violence in this draft, as if you are passing over the brutal methods followed by the Zionists against the Arabs who did not want to leave their lands. It should have been stipulated in the draft (the Council of Ministers shall decide on the deprivation of citizenship) not to say to the Council of Min...
As for Article Three, I see that those who return should be considered part of the fifth column and treated as a spy is treated in war, because we are in a state of war with Israel.
Unanimous Expulsion!
Ismail Al-Ghanem - It seems to me that the draft grants new privileges to the Jews. This element that denied grace, corrupted the state, and many politicians began to defend them on the basis that they are citizens, while they fled, considered weapons, and fought us with them. I see that as long as we agree on solving this problem, its solution should be other than this way, and we demand that they all be expelled permanently; otherwise, we have no need to give privileges and grants to the Jews.
Some Urgency
Khalil Ismail - This draft is based on the logic of events, but it seems to me in the article that the official before whom the form is signed must be appointed by a Royal Will. I see that the decision of the Minister of Interior in solving the problems that arise from the implementation of the draft should be final.
Reassurance!
Abdul Rahman Al-Jalili - No doubt public opinion was eager for a law regulating the matter of the relationship of Iraq's Jews with the Jews of Israel. This draft has come to reassure a small part of the public opinion's desire, and no doubt the other part of the general desire must be met sooner or later, which is the regulation of the properties of the Jews who leave the country. You all know what Israel did when it froze all Arab funds. We should have followed to some extent Israel's plan with the Arabs.
Can we hear a reassurance that this draft will be followed by the government's follow-up in the near future to reassure the Council and public opinion?
Why the Urgency
Nusrat Al-Farisi - I agree with the government on the necessity of addressing the situation. But I do not agree with it in considering this draft by way of urgency, and I see referring it to a committee or a joint committee to study the draft and exchange views because I fear that we may face results we did not account for, not in terms of aspects related to us, but it may go to international aspects.
Iraqis are Equal
Minister of Interior - Some [suggest] that the government should learn from the draft especially to handle the matter of the Jews and freeze the funds of those among them who want to leave the country because the situation requires that, and other speakers went to the necessity of expelling the Jews.
Draft Law Supplementing the Citizenship Deprivation Decree
Iraqi No. (62) of 1933
Article One - The Council of Ministers may decide to deprive the Iraqi Jew of Iraqi citizenship who wishes, by his own choice, to leave Iraq permanently after signing a special form before the official appointed by the Minister of Interior.
Article Two - The Iraqi Jew who leaves Iraq or tries to leave it illegally shall be deprived of Iraqi citizenship by a decision of the Council of Ministers.
Article Three - The Iraqi Jew who previously left Iraq illegally shall be considered as having left Iraq permanently if he does not return to it within a period of two months from the effective date of this law, and he shall be deprived of Iraqi citizenship from the date of the end of this period.
Article Four - The Minister of Interior shall order the deportation of everyone deprived of Iraqi citizenship according to Articles One and Two unless he is convinced, based on sufficient reasons, that his temporary stay in Iraq is necessitated by a judicial or legal necessity or to preserve the officially documented rights of others.
Article Five - This law remains effective for a period of one year from the date of its enforcement, and its rule may be terminated at any time during this period by a Royal Will published in the Official Gazette.
Article Six - This law shall be effective from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.
Article Seven - The Minister of Interior shall implement this law.
Explanatory Memorandum
It has been observed that some Iraqi Jews have begun to use all illegal means to leave Iraq permanently, and whereas others have previously left Iraq illegally, and since the presence of subjects of this kind forced to stay in the country and coerced to retain Iraqi citizenship inevitably leads to results affecting public security and to the creation of social and economic problems, it has been found that there is no alternative but to not prevent the desire of these to leave Iraq permanently and deprive them of Iraqi citizenship. This draft was enacted to secure this purpose.
Or he wonders about the past incidents and the facts that were between the Arabs and the Jews because of Palestine, and the other section talked about supply observations. We do not want the draft to be in any other form than this to allow these gentlemen who were driven by this impulse - as I believe - for national motives or a feeling that it was perhaps inevitable for them to be enthusiastic and driven without distinguishing between the two types of Jews.
We must know that Iraq includes a large number of Jews, and these were recently citizens whose behavior was beyond reproach; indeed, frankly and as confirmed, it was the political incidents that happened and whose cause was Palestine, unfortunately, that drove a significant portion of the Jews to take this rough path and appear in a manner other than what the rights of citizens dictate, so they would be loyal Iraqi citizens to the country, not tied to the enemies of the country by political links, and not influenced by religious or other factors. We found a significant portion of them whose behavior was unsatisfactory, violating national duties and violating the public interest, harming and damaging it.
I do not want to talk much on the subject of form based on full knowledge, but we should distinguish these from the other large number against whom we have no case.
Iraqis are equal in the eyes of the law unless violations and incidents appear that dictate to those responsible that the public interest requires action regarding those who violate the law and act against the public interest. We must not consider all Jews - as one of the speakers demanded - as enemies of the country, or that the government must expel them and deport
the women with them and do what it does.
It is not fair to say that, or to act in that way, and it is not in the interest to be driven by this impulse; rather, we act as much as the necessity of the matter dictates, so we get rid of the sections that we believe their stay is harmful to the country, and this is what targeted. We will work to achieve it.
The draft was studied extensively, and there is nothing in it that will hinder the government's task in implementation or prevent application in issues mentioned by some.
Then His Excellency replied to the question of His Excellency Mr. Khalil Ismail about (the official) and said that the responsible minister who will undertake the implementation of the draft realizes to some extent the importance of this subject, so he delegates the matter to those he believes will implement it as required.
Discussions
The deputies followed in various aspects of the draft. Mr. Faiq Al-Samarrai said that the impulse of the deputies is with enthusiasm (preserving our entity) and said that he differs with His Excellency the Prime Minister in making the Jewish citizens into two types.
Mr. Daoud Al-Saadi submitted seven proposals to amend some articles, but they were all rejected. His Excellency Sheikh Muhammad Rida Al-Shabibi said that he has no objection to legislating the draft but supports and finds it preferable to refer it to the legal committee or a joint committee. Deputy Abdul Razzaq Al-Sheikhly said that he favors the draft in principle and joins the deputies in referring it to the committee.
Recitation of Articles
When the discussion on the principles ended
Truman does not visit Moscow in an official capacity
To negotiate with Stalin on consolidating peace
President Truman stated in his weekly press conference that he will not go to Moscow to conduct any negotiations, but the door for negotiations will always remain open in Washington itself. Then he said he is ready to cooperate for the sake of any project aiming to serve world peace, and that he does not oppose the project submitted by Senator McMahon in the US Senate yesterday, which calls for making giant efforts to prevent an atomic war before it is too late. President Truman indicated that he does not object to visiting Moscow personally, but he will not visit it as President of the American Republic, and he might visit it after his current term ends. President Truman gave this statement in response to a question directed to him at the press conference about the possibility of his visit to Moscow to discuss with Marshal Stalin the means to resolve the current international disputes. He said he would like to see Marshal Stalin in Washington, and he welcomes anyone coming to the United States of America.
Resignation of the Jordanian Ministry and charging Samir Al-Rifai with forming it - Jerusalem Radio reported that His Excellency Tawfiq Pasha Abu Al-Huda, the Jordanian Prime Minister, has submitted the resignation of his ministry for health reasons to His Majesty King Abdullah at Al-Shuna Palace this evening. His Majesty accepted it and ordered the ministers to continue their work until the new ministry is formed. His Majesty summoned Samir Pasha Al-Rifai to Al-Musalla Palace in Al-Shuna, where His Majesty King Abdullah entrusted him with forming the new ministry in the presence of the Chief of the Hashemite Royal Court. His Excellency may begin tomorrow conducting contacts for consultation to form the new ministry. It is expected that its formation will be completed within the next few few days.
Ratification of one of the articles of the Jerusalem internationalization system - In the session held by the Trusteeship Council in Geneva this afternoon, an article of the Jerusalem internationalization system was approved, which calls for placing the municipality of Jerusalem and the neighboring villages and places under international administration. United Press correspondent says that the mere approval of this article eliminates any possibility of radically amending the internationalization project as approved by the United Nations, despite the efforts of Mr. Garbo, the Council President and French delegate, and his Belgian colleague to postpone until a final decision is taken on the article. This article sparked a sharp discussion in the Council, but after long give and take, the members decided to keep it as approved by the United Nations. This article defined ⟦illegible⟧ the international zone in Jerusalem, which includes the Jerusalem municipality area as it was in November 1947, added to it the surrounding cities and villages. Observers say that in addition to everything, the Council took for the first time a decisive decision regarding the internationalization of Jerusalem and that it approved for the second time a UN decision opposed by Jordan and Israel. As for the borders of the city of Jerusalem itself, they are shown by a map attached by the Council to Jerusalem.
Amendment of the Jordanian-Israeli Armistice Agreement - His Excellency Mr. Bahaa al-Din Toukan, Jordan's Minister Plenipotentiary in the Iranian capital, denied reports of negotiations between Jordan and Israel to settle the Palestine issue and said there is a tendency to amend the permanent armistice agreement concluded in Rhodes in April 1949, as its fourteenth article allows for such amendments and holding a joint meeting to discuss them if there are reasons for them. His Excellency Tawfiq Pasha Abu Al-Huda, the Jordanian Prime Minister, reaffirmed to His Majesty that any communication of negotiations between Jordan and Israel does not aim to conclude a peace treaty despite the agency rumors about it, but rather aims to amend the current armistice agreement concluded in Rhodes.
The new Syrian budget is ratified - His Excellency Mr. Hashim al-Atassi, President of the Syrian State, approved the new 1950-1951 budget, which amounts to 142,800,000 Syrian pounds.
Talks to conclude an aviation agreement between Egypt and Jordan - The Egyptian government sent a memorandum to the Jordanian government saying it has appointed a delegate on its behalf to participate in the upcoming negotiations to conclude an aviation agreement between the two countries, and asks the Jordanian government to appoint the Jordanian government delegate from among its representatives in these talks. The talks may involve four copies of bilateral agreements concluded between Egypt and other Arab countries to regulate air transport and passenger transport between the two parties.
First meeting of the new British Ministry - The new British Ministry held its first meeting this morning chaired by Mr. Attlee and attended by 18 of its member ministers. It was understood that the main discussion dealt with the issue of responding to the Speech from the Throne which will be delivered next Monday at the opening of the new Parliament. 9 of the new ministers had gone that afternoon to Buckingham Palace where they received from His Majesty the King their appointment patents in their positions and swore the oath of allegiance. Today, another stage of the stages of opening the new British Parliament ended when members of the House of Commons met with the House of Lords to listen to the Royal Logic charging them with electing whom they want to be the Speaker of the House.
The conflict between India and Pakistan - The Speaker of the Indian Parliament today agreed to give members enough time to study cases of killing and looting to which Indian travelers on the railway between Pakistan and Calcutta were subjected. Another important issue the Parliament will discuss is the differences between India and Pakistan. At the same time, Timber reported in the Council that the Israel Indian News Agency in East Pakistan was prevented from practicing their profession and were subjected to insults. He added that these correspondents were forced to show their news to the Pakistani authorities before sending it to Calcutta. Researcher Timber mentioned that two of the Indian News Agency correspondents had been arrested last January, but one of them was released while the other remains detained.
And the principles, the first article was read.
Abdul Razzaq Al-Sheikhly - Bad waterfall, Mr. Speaker - Please, a council like this, no doubt.
Jiyad Al-Shaalan - Please, Officer Abdul Razzaq Al-Sheikhly - This is a Chamber of Deputies, not my Lord.
Among the proposals was a proposal by Deputy Al-Samarrai to stipulate freezing the funds of Jews. His Excellency the Minister of Interior said, "I believe that this addition to the second article causes many problems. It is not easy or possible to accept the proposal for many reasons."
Finally, the Council approved the draft as it came from the government.
Al-Suwaidi's Department reviews the staff list of Baghdad's scholars
The previous ministry had submitted to the National Assembly the draft law for the new Waqf structures
which was developed during the era of the Saidian ministry. When the present ministry assumed
responsibility for governance, this draft was among the legislations to which it gave its attention, and it is understood
that the draft will be withdrawn from the Chamber of Deputies to reconsider its articles which met with opposition
from the scholars of Baghdad and religious figures, who had explained it in their meetings with His Excellency Mr. Tawfiq al-Suwaidi,
the Prime Minister, and His Excellency Mr. Jamil al-Orfali and Mr. Khalil Kanna, the Ministers of
State.
His Excellency Mr. Camille Bey Chamoun
Will he succeed Azzam Pasha in the League's Secretariat?
Cairo - Exclusive - Arab circles in Cairo believe that some Arab governments
have nominated the well-known Lebanese politician, His Excellency Mr. Camille Bey Chamoun, for the position of Secretary-
General of the Arab League, succeeding His Excellency Abdel Rahman Azzam Pasha.
Banking Control Law Draft
Replaces the Banking Control Decree
We have learned that the Council of Ministers, in its meeting held last Tuesday evening under the chairmanship of
His Excellency Mr. Al-Suwaidi, has approved the Banking Control Law draft which will replace the decree
issued by the Ayubid ministry about a month ago.
His Excellency the Prime Minister had previously requested their Excellencies the Minister of Finance and the Governor of the
Iraqi National Bank, after the formation of the present ministry, to study the draft and submit whatever
opinions they might have regarding it.
Economic Negotiations between Iraq and Syria
The Iraqi Government cables welcoming Al-Dawalibi
It is understood that the Iraqi government has cabled the Syrian government welcoming the economic
negotiations expected to take place between Iraq and Syria soon to conclude a commercial treaty.
It is understood that the Iraqi government has left it to the Syrian government to determine the date of
the visit of Mr. Maarouf al-Dawalibi, the Syrian Minister of Economy, to Iraq.
Preparing Students for General Examinations
Exposing negligent teachers to severe penalties
The Ministry of Education had emphasized through general circulars to school principals the necessity of paying attention
to strengthening students in their lessons and taking full care in preparing them for general examinations to achieve
good results, and indicated that it will hold accountable male and female teachers whose students' failure rate
in general examinations exceeds 40%. The ministry has sent letters of thanks and appreciation regarding the reports
submitted by Mr. Fouad Jamil, the specialized inspector at the Ministry of Education, to each of Mr.
Ahmed Sami Rajab (Egyptian national), English language teacher at Al-Rusafa Morning Intermediate School,
for the certainty regarding the success and excellence of a number of his students whom you teach in the general examination
for intermediate studies for the past year, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Royal Iraqi Legation
in Cairo have been notified of this. And to Mrs. Sabiha al-Hashimi, principal of Al-Karkh Preparatory School for Girls, for
the excellent organization and management at her school this year and its results in terms of organizing grades and school
records for examinations and accuracy therein. And to Mrs. Macbeth (British national), teacher at
Eastern Preparatory School for Girls, for the outstanding success of her students in the English language in the general
examination for intermediate and secondary studies for the past academic year.
It also warned and drew the attention of male and female teachers who were found to have neglected the preparation of male
and female students, resulting in the failure rates mentioned, and requested school bodies to double efforts in
this regard and considered them jointly responsible.
Display for Iraqi Scouting Troops
Implementation of scouting drills in New Baghdad
The Ministry of Education decided that scouting troops from Al-Mamouniya, Al-Baroudiya, Al-Faisaliya,
Al-Tatbiqat, Al-Najiba, and Al-Mansour primary schools will conduct a tour to New Baghdad to implement some scouting
drills in a social manner on the morning of Monday, March 6, 1950. The scouting troops will meet at
Al-Mamouniya School and begin the march on Al-Rashid Street to Al-Batawin School, where each
troop will be transported by its cars and have lunch tomorrow in New Baghdad. Also, the cavalry troop from the
Islamic Charitable School will accompany the scouts.
A social gathering will be held in which the scouting troops will participate and they will all present a unified program. The
troop teachers were requested to contact Mr. Abdul Razzaq Nu'man, the Scouting Observer at the Directorate of
Physical Education, regarding everything related to the subject.
Mr. Al-Jawahiri
Nominated for an
International Prize for the Peace Partisans Conference
The great poet Mr. Muhammad Mahdi
Al-Jawahiri received a letter from the secretariat to the highness
Al-Jawahiri as a member of the High Committee for the Conference
that the High Committee for the Peace Partisans Conference decided
in its last meeting to allocate 3 prizes, each
one worth ⟦line⟧ francs for the best
artistic or literary work or cinematic production
that helps spread peace in the world. The
French scholar adds in his letter to the great poet
that the High Committee includes the world's leading writers from
various nationalities and countries.
There is no doubt that the nomination of Mr. Al-Jawahiri
to participate in this competition is a scientific appreciation for the Arab mind
and for the Arab lands.
World Youth Conference
Invitation for Iraq to participate in it
Mr. Abdul Razzaq Nu'man, Scouting Observer
at the Ministry of Education, in his capacity as head of
the Iraqi delegation to the World Youth Conference which
was held last year, received a letter from the secretariat of
the World Youth Association including an invitation to the representatives of
Iraqi associations and clubs to attend the next conference
which will be held in Istanbul between August 13
and August 30, 1950. The countries that previously
participated in the previous conference will participate in this conference.
As for the nature of participation, it will be of two types:
members from countries that have six official
institutions concerned with youth and adult affairs,
and as observers for other countries.
The invitation stated that private bodies in
Istanbul will take the necessary measures for the housing
and transportation of members. Special discounts were also decided
for delegations that will visit Istanbul next summer.
Commemorative Plaque
for the late Saad Saleh
The artist Mr. Sabri Shukri presented us with
the commemorative plaque for the martyr of the nation, the immortal leader
Saad Saleh, inside a frame crafted with artistry.
The magazine and the plaque can be requested from Mr. Yahya Jouda,
the newspaper vendor opposite the Parliament Hotel,
Jadid Hassan Pasha quarter.
Communication Roads Committee
The special committee formed in the Ministry of
Communications and Works to study the state of communication roads
in the country held a meeting last Tuesday
in which it discussed proposals from the Directors General
of whom the committee is composed, and matters related to
communication roads and the policy that must be followed
by the government in paving them based on their classification
and according to their importance.
Relocation of Hut Dwellers
The water level in the Tigris River has started to rise
since the beginning of this week until it reached
a high level that made the competent authorities feel the necessity of
acting quickly to relocate the hut dwellers from
the places they live in at present
to other locations far from flood dangers.
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Newspaper: Al-Nadhir
Number: 50
Date: March 2, 1950
56 Jews Attempting to Flee to Israel
Exchange of Fire Between Police and Smugglers
Arrest of Fleeing Jews and Killing of One Smuggler
At midnight last night,
two large vehicles were heading towards Abu
Al-Khasib carrying fifty-six Jews
attempting to flee to Iran and from there to
their foundling "Israel." Upon their arrival
at the Al-Khoura bridge, where there were
some police officers, these officers tried
to stop them for inspection and to see what was
inside these two vehicles due to their suspicion of them.
However, the two vehicles began to drive at a
high speed, making it impossible for the police to stop them.
The police officers were forced to fire
two shots at the vehicles, but they did not heed
the gunfire and continued on their way, where
they encountered a police patrol from the ranks of
Abu Al-Khasib. When the two vehicles arrived
at the village of Al-Saraji, they headed towards Shatt
al-Arab, and the passengers got out on foot where
a boat was waiting for them to transport them to Iran.
The patrol police force headed to the
location of the boat to track this convoy and found
the boat with the gang members on board
near the palace of Agha Jaafar. When they saw
the police force approaching them, they fired
two shots at them, forcing the police officers
to return fire. The police officers were then
able to arrest this convoy,
which numbered 56 Jews, after the killing of
one of the smugglers named Taha bin Dharb.
Early yesterday morning, His Excellency
the Basra Investigating Judge, the Assistant Police Chief of
Al-Ashar, and the station officer rushed to the scene of the incident.
The deceased was found there, and the necessary investigations
were conducted after the order was issued to detain
the members of the criminal gang.
"From Sawt al-Fayha"
56 Jews Attempting to Escape to Israel
Exchange of Fire Between Police and Smugglers
Arrest of Fleeing Jews and Death of One Smuggler
At midnight last night, the crisis occurred after the order was issued to stop
two large cars heading towards the members of the criminal gang.
Abu Al-Khasib, carrying fifty-six Jews "from Sawt al-Fayha"
attempting to escape to Iran and from there to
their foundling "Israel". Upon their arrival
at the Al-Khoura bridge, where there were
some police officers, these individuals tried
to stop them for the purpose of inspection and to know what was
inside these two cars due to their suspicion of them.
However, the two cars began to travel at a speed
so high that it was impossible for the police officers to stop them.
The police officers were forced to fire
two bullets at the cars, but they did not care
about the gunfire and continued their journey. They
encountered a police patrol from the ranks of
Abu Al-Khasib. When the two cars arrived
at the village of Al-Saraji, they headed towards the Shatt
al-Arab, and their passengers got out on foot where
a boat was waiting for them to transport them to Iran.
The patrol police force headed to
the location of the boat to track this caravan and found
the boat with the gang members on board
near the palace of Agha Jaafar. When they saw
the police force near them, they fired
two shots at them, which forced the police officers
to return fire. The police officers were able
after that to arrest this caravan
which numbered 56 Jews, after the killing of
one of the smugglers named Taha bin Dharb. Early
yesterday morning, His Excellency the
Investigating Judge of Basra, the Assistant Police Chief of
Al-Ashar, and the station officer rushed to the scene of the incident,
found the deceased there, and investigations were conducted.
Al-Hawadith
2149
1950 - March 4
Stripping Jews of Nationality
Its Echo in the Country and Its Expected Consequences
The Jews meet the law with joy and optimism
The Iraqi public opinion welcomed the wise solution reached by the Iraqi
government to put an end to the confusion of ideas and provocative movements in the country by
a group of Israeli citizens who live with their bodies in this country
but their souls live across the borders in Israel.
In fact, this solution was inevitable, if not today then tomorrow, after
we began to hear every day about the smuggling of Jews from Iraq to Israel via Iran
through Basra or Khanaqin, and the measures taken did not help
to stop this movement which violates the laws of the country, because the organization was tight and because
there are hidden hands managing the movement, and His Excellency the Minister of Interior described these
hands as (gangs) and the migration has turned from individual to dozens
and hundreds.
And we noticed in these two days a wave of joy overwhelming many of the members
of the community, especially the young men and women afflicted with (Israel) fever, and someone said that
these obsessed people welcomed Friday night with two holidays: the holiday of their release to travel to
the Promised Land, and the holiday of (the scroll), and hundreds, even thousands, of those who opened
their eyes in this valley and on this soil slept; they slept drunk with the ecstasy of meeting
with Ben-Gurion and those around him.
Iraq is not the only Arab country that allowed its Jewish citizens to migrate
to Israel; Egypt preceded us, then Yemen followed it, and after that the Jews
in Syria and Lebanon began sneaking across the borders as refugees to Israel. The Jews
in Iraq constitute a large number compared to the Jews in the Arab East, as their number reaches
more than one hundred thousand people. Conditions and facts have shown that the Jews of the East,
led by the Jews of Turkey, felt disappointed when they tasted the hell of life in
Israel, with a mixture of the world's Jews speaking 24 different languages, as they did not find
a place for themselves to live among them and returned biting their fingers in regret.
It is not possible to give an idea supported by figures about the extent of the desire of Iraq's Jews
to migrate to Israel. But it seems that a large number we might not imagine will leave
the country, leaving their nationality to receive the nationality of Israel. It was noted that those who fled
to Israel at the beginning of the recent movement were from the poor class, then the
middle class began to follow them, and the rich class began liquidating its transactions and financial
relationships, and brokers began roaming here and there to sell houses ready with their furniture.
It is rumored in the country's circles that many of the major commercial companies in
the country have liquidated their transactions in preparation for departure.
It is expected as a result of the Jewish migration that confusion will occur in the markets, and in
financial transactions and in many sectors, but all that will be overcome,
as the people of the country have the capabilities and potential to fill the gap
caused by the migration of the Jews.
And if there was a minority that lived luxuriously in this country, it is the Jewish minority,
but they were ungrateful for this blessing and rejected this bounty to replace it with the hell of Israel.
Al-Akhbar
2785
March 4, 1950
Margins
Jewish Migration!
Since the Palestine issue reached its
present state and the Arabs lost the first round in
their struggle to preserve the Arabism of
Palestine, everyone knew that the situation of Jews in
Arab countries was abnormal. In Iraq,
shortly before the abolition of martial law, they could not
perform actions that would lead them
to their goals. But as soon as martial law was lifted,
which was only declared to maintain
calm and tranquility in the homeland during
the war in Palestine, everyone began to feel
that a group of Jews in Iraq had
directed all their efforts toward one direction,
which is departing Iraq for Israel.
The unusual movement observed by Jews in Baghdad
is no secret to anyone;
they began selling their movable and
immovable property, an act that made their stay in
Iraq appear undesirable,
evidenced by this readiness and preparation for departure.
The day before yesterday, the Chamber of Deputies
approved the draft law that allows
them to travel, provided their nationality is revoked.
The explanatory memorandum stated: "The
existence of such subjects forced to
remain in the country and compelled to retain
Iraqi nationality inevitably leads to results
affecting public security and creates
social and economic problems. It was found
that there is no choice but to not prevent
the desire of these individuals to leave Iraq permanently
and revoke their Iraqi nationality, and
this draft was enacted to secure this goal."
The draft came after attempts
made to convince the Jews to cease their attempts
to escape through illegal methods, as
forcing some citizens to remain in
Iraq is not in Iraq's interest.
It is noted that the draft has handled the subject
in a way far from violence and was placed to keep pace with
necessities and to implement the desire of the Jews
through legal means. This
reminds us of the great difference between the
Arabs' treatment of Jews and the Jews' treatment of Arabs in
Palestine. Some honorable
deputies mentioned that our treatment of them is the opposite of
their treatment of our brother refugees, and this
demonstrates once again the good intentions of the
Arabs and their desire to solve problems through
peaceful means. This is another bright proof that
Arabs believe in the necessity of establishing peace in
the Middle East. It should not be forgotten that
the presence of Jews in Arab countries could have
sparked unrest due to their uncertainty about
the future and their lack of desire to remain in
the country, as the atmosphere of Israel makes them feel nostalgic
for it, and we should not lose sight of this.
This is while knowing that the behavior of some Jews in
recent times was unsatisfactory behavior
violating the simplest national duties and violating
at the same time the public interest and harming
it.
A final word we want to point out is
that the Jews' economic position in Iraq
is no secret, and their departure to Israel
will vacate their place in the market, which
may result in some consequences known to
all. We must approach the market with a
new spirit full of reassurance, good intent,
work, confidence, and seriousness. To start this, it is not allowed...
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for us to say that as long as the Jews will leave
the country, justice and fairness require us
to open our hearts to our brother refugees who
⟦expelled⟧ from their homes to settle in Iraq.
We are certain that the government
will be serious in implementing the provisions of the draft
in deporting the Jews, because the slightest mismanagement
will make Iraq feel its dire consequences. We hope
that matters are completed in a spirit that preserves Iraq's
interests, and that Jewish migration is not exploited
for personal greed. We must keep
before our eyes the interest of this homeland which
has suffered much woe in recent days.
There should be no leniency in monitoring Jewish
migrants, and we cannot address this
subject in a more detailed manner before
the government publishes instructions regarding the organization
of the migration granted to the Jews of Iraq.
Lebanon Facilitates the Smuggling of Syrian Jews
A strongly worded memorandum sent by Syria to the Lebanese Government
Damascus - Reliable sources have learned that
information has reached official authorities
in Damascus indicating that the Lebanese authorities
have begun facilitating for Syrian Jews the way
to escape to Israel via Lebanese territory,
even though these Jews are
wanted by the Syrian authorities.
It is expected that the government will proceed
to send a strong memorandum to the Lebanese
government in this regard, asking it to desist
from this matter which violates the agreements concluded
between the two countries.
In the Senate
Discussions regarding the annex to the decree revoking the citizenship of Jews wishing to leave Iraq
His Excellency Mr. Salih Jabr proves with logic and irrefutable argument the danger of forcing Jews wishing to leave Iraq to remain in the country
A successful round for the Sumerian Ministry ends with the Senate's approval of the new law and its final ratification after a stormy session that lasted four consecutive hours
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At half past ten yesterday morning, the Senate held its fourth session presided over by His Excellency Mr. Jamil al-Midfai. It opened with the reading of the minutes of the previous session, which were approved. Then the incoming papers were read, the last of which was the draft law for the annex to the decree revoking citizenship, accompanied by a proposal from His Excellency the Minister of Interior to deliberate on the draft as a matter of urgency. His Excellency al-Pachachi spoke on the subject, saying:
His Excellency al-Pachachi
Gentlemen - I do not recall that since the day of its founding until now, a draft law has been presented to the National Assembly as grave as this one. It is a draft in which many reasons and factors have converged that facilitate immediate problems and international research. It is difficult for a person, no matter how much knowledge and insight they possess, to determine the dangerous consequences generated by the policy contained in this draft in Iraq or in the Arab countries. Therefore, I cannot suppress my feeling of surprise that the current respected Ministry presents this draft and asks the Chamber of Deputies and this Council to handle it in a manner of urgency and improvisation. The issue is not related to a section of Iraqi citizens who wish to leave Iraq permanently, as they should be met with the same feeling and told to go permanently as long as you do not want to stay. The issue is not that simple, but rather one of what was stated in the explanatory memorandum shows you that the government itself believes that this case has an impact on international public security. I draw your attention to this expression and the meanings and objectives it contains, which inevitably leads to results that have an impact on public security - a case said to generate results on international public security and the Council is expected, as was requested of the Chamber of Deputies, to handle it in a manner of urgency and improvisation.
by laws and helping gangs to assist these people, and this means that the government wants to make these violations something legitimate. So it brought this violating draft and asked the Council to consider it urgently when it found that it was not able to prevent this violation committed by a clique that should be subjected to the harshest punishment.
His Excellency the Minister of Interior said in his statements to the Chamber of Deputies that he contacted some wise men of this community, but they were unable to do anything to prevent the organized escape - so the government decided that it had no choice but to present this draft because forcing those who wish to leave Iraq to stay in Iraq is not in the interest of the country and may not be in the interest of the majority of this community... I cannot help but express my deep regret for the Ministry appearing in this weak manner, indicating surrender and submissiveness before people who deserve nothing but punishment. If the government, as it appears, is unable to combat people who have flouted the laws and that it is unable to apply the provisions of the laws to them, then it has only one thing to do, which is to leave power.
I do not know if this draft is among the policies referred to by the Ministry in its program in Article Two of Foreign Affairs, where it said: Continuing efforts with Arab countries to find the best solution consistent with the interest of the Arabs in Palestine. Did the respected Ministry find that supplying a hostile front, whose danger and ambitions no one disputes - I say, did the Ministry see that supplying this front with Iraqi youth who strengthen its army and form a fifth column for it? Is this among the policies referred to in Article Two of Foreign Affairs?
Gentlemen - this draft will lead to many results as I said, and it is difficult for a person in an urgent manner to determine its danger because it involves, as I said, many international and Arab parties. But I point to some of the dangerous aspects that occurred to my mind in this regard, and this does not mean that the aspects I will point to are all the aspects or risks resulting from this draft.
Gentlemen - the majority of those who fled are young men who will be a force for the army of a hostile front whose danger we all know. These people who will go in large numbers to that hostile front that we are supposed to fight will create a major problem for Iraq because they will leave their money and families. You know that the presence of a clique of hostiles who remain in those countries and the objectives for a hostile mission will leave their affairs here, and you know the dangers that arise from this for Iraq because of the intelligence that will take place and the contacts that will occur.
Iraq's adoption of this policy will eventually force it - if international pressure occurs, and I do not doubt its occurrence - to facilitate the deportation of many other Jews who are related to those whose travel will be facilitated. Furthermore, regarding such an issue, the current government should have contacted the Arab countries and sought to achieve a unified and harmonious policy among all, given the dangers in this issue, including for Iraq.
The government, by this action, has done more than what the League of Nations Council requested for the delegates. Remember that a man named (Mr. Edwin Samuel), who is the son of Lord Samuel who was the High Commissioner in Palestine for a long time - this man, no one doubts that he is one of the strongest supporters of Zionism, who left Britain and came to Palestine to work as a citizen - this man wrote an article in the American Middle East Journal published in January 1949 in which he addressed what needs to be done regarding the issue of Jewish citizens in Arab countries. He believes that the interest of the front is to form a body under the supervision of the United Nations to look into the exchange of Jews with Arabs in Palestine and the liquidation of their property for the benefit of both parties. This man never, ever asked to facilitate the departure of Jews without this liquidation taking place for the benefit of the Arabs and refugees as well as for the benefit of the Jews. Was it not the duty of the government at least to adopt this view in its policy contained in this draft, ensuring that the Jews will be free to leave the country while you know that the smuggling of money will continue, while the Arabs cannot transfer their money in Palestine, which is frozen, their land occupied, and their farms exploited by the Jews?
Gentlemen - when we were in the Ministry, a specialized party submitted a proposal detailed in the articles of this draft, and it was recommended that it ⟦illegible⟧ the Prime Minister ordered the dismissal of this proposal and the postponement of the matter until a body from the Arab countries meets to discuss this issue and handle the solution to this problem in a general and comprehensive manner.
I do not know if the respected Ministry believes that the Palestine issue has ended? And that the efforts of the Arabs to recover it have become useless and futile? And has despair and despondency taken hold of it until it adopted the policy contained in this draft, which is to facilitate the removal of Jews so they can go to a hostile front and help strengthen hostile armies at the expense of the Arabs and Iraq?.. We must all not forget Palestine; our policy should be the effort to liberate Palestine, not to create imbalances and create difficulties before us. Yes, painful and regrettable incidents have occurred to the Arabs of Palestine, but this does not mean that the Arabs have despaired of Palestine and become prey to despair and despondency. Leaving Palestine to the Jews is a humiliation and shame for the Arabs to let Palestine go to the youth of the enemies. In view of these reasons I have explained, I believe it is in the interest for the government to withdraw this draft or at least agree to refer it to a committee to study it thoroughly and submit the necessary proposals that eliminate its dangers and harms as much as possible. Furthermore, if it is necessary to submit to the recklessness of the Jews, the government should - at least - ignore these smugglings and not come with a draft like this and ask the National Assembly to ratify it and postpone travel and smuggling so that these fugitives have no right, and if they return to their recklessness, then one article is sufficient for that, which stipulates that every Jew who flees is considered to have lost Iraqi citizenship. But the government apparently saw nothing but to adopt this draft in a manner of urgency, and therefore I submit a proposal in this regard.
to review it.
The respected Senator said in essence that the government yielded to the desire of those who flout the laws among the Jews, so it enacted this draft which facilitates their travel to a hostile party. He said that this hostile party will benefit from these people, and this benefit will harm the interests of the Arabs and Iraq - naturally - among the Arab countries.
Gentlemen: If you browse the draft, you will not find in it that these Jews will inevitably go to this hostile party intended by the respected Senator, nor is there anything in it that facilitates the departure of those whom the Senator described as young men to this party, but it is possible that some of them may leak to this party.
The respected Senator said that the government should have subjected these people to the control of the law and not allowed them to leave the country in this manner, and that the government was unable to subject these people to the control of the law and should have, after admitting its inability, withdrawn from power.
Gentlemen - I truly do not know how the respected Senator concluded that the government showed inability in subjecting a section of citizens to the control of the law. No, sir... the government did not show inability, but rather wanted to treat a problem in a way that harmonizes with the interest of the country and with the current facts and realities. The situation, gentlemen, as I said in the last session of the Deputies, is that this defunct situation was inherited from the government that preceded us - unfortunately - and it was expected of the respected Senator, who was firm against the organized smuggling I referred to, which was carried out by the Fath gangs for this purpose, which intensified during the time of the Ministry in which he was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs. I say it was expected that the government at that time would give its attention to the scope of this case in the way His Excellency believes is consistent with the laws or with the Arab policy he mentioned in his statement.
Since organized gangs and organized smuggling began during the time of the previous Ministry and following the abolition of martial law, as martial law was abolished on 12-17-49, and this escape began to intensify since the second or third day after the abolition of these provisions, and the leakage to neighboring countries began to appear clearly in Basra, Amara, Khanaqin, Kifri, and Mandali. The respected Senator must have seen at that time the reports and official books sent by the governors, and he must have seen the comprehensive report submitted by the Directorate of General Police. If the respected Senator believes, as he has shown, that the case is of such gravity that the government should have applied the laws to these people, why did His Excellency fail to apply this policy he aimed for, whether for internal or external purposes?
Gentlemen - I hope if we want to treat such matters that we be mindful and not forget our actions or our lack of concern in treating issues raised by others the next day.
The strange thing is that the respected Senator mentioned that the government stated in the explanatory memorandum that the draft has an impact on international public security.
Gentlemen - I ask His Excellency to reconsider the explanatory memorandum which is now before him, in which the phrase 'international public security' does not exist at all.
The respected Senator was kind enough to mention the many harms of the draft from international and Iraqi perspectives, and I truly wished he would point out these risks, especially the international ones. But I am sorry because I did not find in all that the respected Senator said that there are many great international and internal harms as he said, and that the points he kindly explained as harms, whether from the internal situation or from the external situation, where he said that the draft included facilitation for a clique known or recognized for flouting the laws.
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Royal Ceremonies
For the day of March 4, 1950
His Royal Highness the Regent and Great Crown Prince was pleased to delegate Mr.
Nuri al-Qarah Ghuli, Assistant Chief of Royal Ceremonies, to the home of His Excellency Mr.
Behjat Zainal to attend the Fatiha council held for the soul of his late mother and to convey to him
the condolences of His Royal Highness.
Cabinet Meeting
The Cabinet held its regular session
at five o'clock yesterday afternoon
and it lasted until nine o'clock, during which it decided
to study the items included in the agenda
of the meeting, and it also studied a number of important
legal drafts, approving some of them and postponing the decision
on others.
His Excellency Al-Suwaidi
and Bilateral Talks with Syria
Beirut - It was learned that His Excellency Tawfiq
Al-Suwaidi, the Iraqi Prime Minister, will visit
Damascus in the middle of this month to conduct
bilateral talks with Syrian officials
before his departure to Cairo to attend the Council of the
Arab League.
In the Ministry of Education
The Ministry of Education decided to transfer the services
of Mr. Muhammad Amin Tawfiq, the teacher at the
Institute of Fine Arts, to the primary education staff
in the Baghdad province. And to transfer Mrs.
Fakhriya Abdul Jabbar, Director of Mosul High School
for Girls, to the Central Preparatory School
for Girls in Baghdad.
It was decided to promote Mr. Hassan Mahmoud
Al-Hashimi, Administrative Clerk at the College of
Law, to the second grade and third class
with a salary of 21 Dinars.
It was decided to form two committees for selecting books
for libraries for both primary and secondary
studies from the following gentlemen:
For the Primary School Library Book Selection Committee:
The Chairman, Dr. Abdul Aziz al-Duri,
Director of Translation and Publishing, and the membership of:
Mr. Jamil Raouf, Director of Primary Teaching,
and Ahmad Abdul Baqi, Distinguished Inspector,
and Abdul Rahman Abdullah, Director of the
Al-Mamouniya School.
For the Secondary School Library Book Selection Committee:
The Chairman, Dr. Abdul Aziz al-Duri,
and the membership of: Dr. Ali al-Safi,
Supervisor of Industrial Education, and Ahmad Abdul Baqi,
Distinguished Inspector, and Ahmad Yaqub al-Shamsi,
Director of Al-Rusafa Intermediate School.
Royal Decrees
(Doctor in the Health Directorate)
A Royal Decree was issued appointing
Dr. Estifek Toukatlian as a physician
in the General Health Directorate.
And one was issued appointing Dr.
Ann Aranut as a physician in the Ministry of Social
Affairs.
(Distinguished Official in Social Affairs)
And one was issued appointing Ibrahim Ramadan,
the distinguished official in the Ministry of Communications and Works,
as a distinguished official in the Ministry of Social Affairs in
the second class of the Civil Service Law
categories.
(On the Secondary Staff)
And one was issued appointing Matta Naum Baynun,
the Income Tax estimator, as a teacher on the
secondary staff.
(Granting Guardianship)
And one was issued granting the right of guardianship over
the waqf of Haj No'man al-Pachachi in Baghdad
to Abdul Hadi Musa Kazim al-Pachachi,
jointly with the other guardian in managing
the mentioned waqf.
And the right of guardianship in the waqf of Al-Toubliya Mosque
and the Malez Mosque in Sulaymaniyah to Baban bin
Ma'ruf as a trustee.
Agenda
The Upcoming Session of Deputies
The Chamber of Deputies will hold its eleventh
session at ten o'clock on the morning
of Monday, the 6th of this month.
The agenda of the session will be as follows:
A question from Hassan Abdul Rahman - Basra -
directed to the Minister of Communications and Works
regarding the employees and workers of the
Railways (postponed from the last session).
And a question from Abdul Razzaq al-Hammoud
- Basra - directed to the Minister of Communications
and Works regarding keeping the Hull Bridge
which connects the two banks of the Shatt al-Arab.
And a question from Ja'far al-Badr - Basra -
directed to the Minister of Finance regarding the collection
by the Endor Pur company, which holds the monopoly on Basra light,
of consumption fees from property owners.
And a question from Khadouri Khadouri - Baghdad -
directed to the Minister of Finance regarding Iraq losing
some of its share of hard
currencies.
And continuing the discussion on the report of the
committee for drafting the reply to the Speech
from the Throne.
And determining the agenda items for the next session.
Senator Ezra Menahem and Constitutional Citizen Rights Between Abnormal Conditions and Exceptional Restrictions
The remainder of the Senate discussions published on the first page
The Honorable Senator Muzahim al-Pachachi
Not at all, but rather it did not include such facilities.
No, gentlemen, it only wanted to address
this situation, about which some explanation was given,
with a decisive treatment that agrees with the interest of
the country above all else. For the citizen who
does not want to stay in this country, it is
futile to force them to stay in it.
And whoever wants to leave the
country can seek the means to help
with that. A large number of
these people have sought means in full view and hearing of
the government that preceded us, and we were unable
to do anything.
My lords—it is futile to try to keep
a large crowd of citizens who want to
leave and emigrate for known reasons.
Keeping these people and forcing them to stay
is what might not be consistent with the general interest,
neither in the short term nor in the long
term.
The honorable senator was kind enough to say
that facilitating the travel of these people to a hostile
side would be a fifth column. Let his excellency permit
me to say that the fifth column does not mean
that unfaithful elements go to some side or another,
but rather the fifth column means
that a group of citizens remains who might feel a feeling
that is not consistent with the feeling of the people of the country in
this country. This is the meaning of the fifth column,
and it does not mean that they go and the
country is rid of their evils in the future, but rather
I ask the honorable senator to pay attention to this
point.
The honorable senator wished that
there would be a unified policy agreed
upon by all Arab countries to deal with this
matter.
It would be good, gentlemen, if the Arab countries
that the honorable senator means had thought
about this and worked for it together,
and I do not want to enter into the subject
of the policies of Arab countries in this
regard, but I say that Egypt
took a measure somewhat similar to this
measure, but I can confirm
that it is not like the measure we have proposed,
and from this the honorable senator will know
the big difference between the
two measures.
Egypt allowed those among them who wanted to leave
to leave with a travel
document (passport), and this passport
will make it possible for the traveler to return to
Egypt at any time he wishes. But here, the requirement of
this draft, which I consider—and I do not know
how I consider it—facilities for them, is that
according to this draft, Iraqi citizenship will be revoked
from these people and they will not
have the right to return as citizens in the future.
There is a difference between the two measures; this is
the difference between the two measures, and I do not know where
the facilities are.
And perhaps the honorable senator has heard of
the measures taken in Yemen, the details of which
I do not know, but I have learned that
a large number of these people have left Yemen.
⟦illegible⟧ It is good that we mention
Palestine from time to time and that we weep
over Palestine and that we feel pain for what befell the Arabs of
Palestine in terms of attacks, suffering,
and damage... but I do not know if we,
the suffering ones—and let the honorable senator permit me—
should ask at least why
we as a government are responsible ⟦illegible⟧
for the highest? I do not know if
the Palestine issue is solved by such discussion in
these drafts or in another way?
Therefore, gentlemen, it is not right
to discuss the Palestine issue on every occasion and without
an occasion, for we would be accused that the discussion of
the Palestine issue is for the purpose of propaganda only.
Isn't it better then to address the Palestine
issue in serious, practical ways that
help solve it fundamentally, and not
through emotions, enthusiasm, and so on?
And I do not claim that if we take this
appropriate stance to discuss the Palestine issue, but I doubt
that this is the appropriate time for discussions
like these.
The honorable senator was kind enough
to touch upon an article written by Sir Samuel
in the Middle East Journal and mentioned that this
Jewish man suggested some
suggestions for dealing with this issue, and as
I remember ⟦illegible⟧ he denied in it
this article, and the honorable senator was at
that time a official in the government.
If he believed that this suggestion had some
validity, why did his excellency not take it
and work to achieve it?
The honorable senator was kind enough to claim
that our proposal for dealing with such situations
was submitted by a party when his excellency was
in office, and he did not mention who this party was,
and I wished he would clarify who this
party was and what this proposal was, then his excellency
also said that he rejected the proposal.
It is true that his excellency Al-Pachachi,
in his capacity, has the proposals he believes are
harmful or inconsistent with the internal or
external policy he aims for.
That is true, but was he kind enough to find
a solution to this problem? We have not heard from
his excellency that he wanted to address this subject
with a real treatment in the way
he wants, whether negatively or positively.
As for if the honorable senator recommends
ignoring such a matter as his excellency has been doing
until now, in the future the government
made this draft, rather it leaves the matter
which has reached a state that led to
the smugglers' investigations clashing in an armed
clash with the police and blood being shed as
occurred in recent days. Yes, if the
honorable senator wants the government to ignore
the matter and leave the situation as it is, then let his excellency
permit me to answer that, as the government
cannot ignore a matter
like this, but must treat it in the way it
believes is consistent with the general interest,
and it has treated it in this way.
Sir—if the government ignored
the departure of these people in this illegal
way and remained silent about it, this would mean
exposing this country to the danger of these people returning
a second time, and perhaps if these people returned, or
the group he referred to as the youth, after
they go and perhaps get trained and practice many
things, if these people returned again
hiding behind their citizenship, then therein lies the danger.
So it was necessary for us to revoke the Iraqi
citizenship of these people, and we have revoked it.
This is the difference between ignoring
and silence and between the firm stance that
must be taken toward a matter like this.
I think one point remains—and I hope
the honorable senator will remind me if
I missed any of his observations so that
I may answer them—yes, one point remains,
which is the urgency. The honorable senator knows
that the internal regulations stipulate that
there are matters for which the government has the right to
request urgency in discussing them.
And perhaps it does not escape the honorable senator that
this draft is urgent given the surrounding
reasons that necessitate the government
hastening to take the measures implementing it.
And it cannot remain as the situation is,
where days and perhaps weeks pass over the current situation.
Therefore, presenting urgent drafts is a
legal right that the government can use
when it believes it is necessary, and I believe the High Council
will undoubtedly appreciate the necessity over others.
The followed procedures in this regard
are for the government to submit the request and for the Council
to decide it. Therefore, I hope that
the High Council will decide as it wishes. These
are the answers I wanted to use to comment
on the statements of the honorable senator.
Here, the proposal of His Excellency Al-Pachachi was read,
which included the government withdrawing
the draft, and in case of non-approval of
that, referring it to the specialized committee.
When the proposal was put to a vote,
it was rejected. Then the government's proposal was put
to include the draft in the agenda of the session
and to discuss it in this session as a matter of urgency,
and it was accepted.
The first article of the draft was read,
and His Excellency Senator Ezra Menahem spoke about it
and said:
Ezra Menahem
I have a word about this draft. There is no doubt
that the government, in view of what the condition of
the Jews of Iraq has reached in terms of a painful situation, has come forward
reluctantly with this draft with the aim of
limiting the disturbance resulting from
illegal migration, which has begun
to expand day after day, by stripping
Iraqi citizenship from those who wish to
leave the country permanently. This measure
addresses one aspect of the situation of the Jews of
Iraq, but what is the cure for hundreds of Jews
who do not wish to leave their homeland
permanently, but are loyal and performing all
the duties required of them according to the prevailing
laws and regulations, yet as a result of the
administrative measures that placed upon them
abnormal restrictions applied to them exclusively
among citizens, they have become deprived of
enjoying constitutional and legal citizen rights,
and they were treated with discrimination and narrowing of
their freedoms, dealings, livelihoods, and education.
Doesn't the government see that it is its duty
to reassure this large segment of
loyal citizens of its determination to lift
those exceptional restrictions so that reassurance,
confidence, and stability may return, a matter which undoubtedly
will result in public benefit for this beloved
homeland in all its aspects.
And since the Jews of Iraq are among the
original inhabitants of this country for nearly
2500 years, besides Iraq being the birthplace
of their great forefather, our master Ibrahim al-Khalil,
peace be upon him, it is hard for every Iraqi Jew
to leave his homeland and birthplace, which holds for him
the fondest memories, unless he is driven by
the most extreme necessity. Therefore, I do not think it is too much
for the esteemed government to reassure
the public with statements that would remove
the restrictions and burdens imposed
exceptionally. I do not wish to delve into the search
for the reasons for the lack of reassurance and stability
among the Jews of Iraq, as they are undoubtedly not hidden
from anyone, and history will reveal the real
reasons for this migration and will prove that
the Jews of Iraq have no connection to
the painful events of which our fellow
citizens complain.
His Excellency Al-Pachachi
Then His Excellency Mr. Muzahim al-Pachachi followed,
thanking the Minister of the Interior for his statements
which he gave, even if he did not agree with his excellency
on what was contained therein. He said that he noticed that nothing
appeared in his excellency's response regarding what he said
about the government yielding to what is wanted by a section
of Iraqis who disregarded the prevailing
laws and regulations. Then he said: He
wished for the government to combat
the gangs and force whoever's soul whispered to him
to violate the laws to submit to the control
of the law, while nothing appeared in the statements
of the Minister of the Interior regarding this point.
Then he said that this draft cannot
be interpreted as anything other than yielding to the reckless
members of this community. Then he touched upon the subject of the
party that proposed to the previous cabinet
something similar to what is in this draft,
saying: The party he meant was the specialized
committee, and that what came in its proposal aimed
to lift the restrictions imposed on the travel
of Jews and that he refused to approve it.
His excellency then moved to what the
Minister of the Interior referred to regarding a sentence of
His Excellency Al-Pachachi when he was in office,
and he read Sir Samuel's article about this
problem, saying that the issue of the journal in which the
article was published reached Iraq after he left
office, and that when he returned to office
two months or more ago, he was thinking about what
should be done in this regard. As for the
drafting party and the existence of a previous draft
more important than it, as the Minister of the Interior said,
regarding the existence of a draft more important than this one and touching
the interests of Iraq and all Arab countries,
then he thanked the Minister of the Interior for his refutation
of what constitutes a fifth column and said that he agrees with the
definitions provided by the Minister of
the Interior. His excellency continued and referred to
the subject of Palestine, saying that it is necessary for
every one of us to remember Palestine
constantly and not to forget it under all circumstances,
and that the occurrence of setbacks and errors
does not justify forgetting it and resorting to despair
and despondency. His Excellency Al-Pachachi concluded his speech
pointing out that the government's duty is
to combat the gangs that were smuggling
the Jews and to force those who disregard the laws
to submit to their rulings, not to come forward with a draft
that includes facilitating the mission of these people.
His Excellency Mawloud Mukhlis
It was the turn of Senator Mawloud Mukhlis,
who began his speech by pointing out that he does not see in
this draft anything that benefits or solves the dilemma,
and that everything in it gives the gain to the Jews
and puts the loss on Iraq. He said: He
disagrees with the Minister of the Interior on what was mentioned
in his speech that the Jews who will leave
Iraq are not necessarily heading for the
hostile front, and he said that he believes they will go
actually. Then he said: He believes that the first article
of this draft is sufficient. He then pointed out
that he speaks as a neutral citizen and not
as an opponent, and that he believes that this draft
is harmful because it allows Jewish youth
to leave Iraq and join the enemy,
and that he considers the Palestine issue not yet solved,
but rather it will be like the Crusades, which
ended in the manner everyone knows,
regarding a specific subject. He touched on the subject of
liquidation and said that he believes it is more correct for
the government to resort to final liquidation
to rid the country of the dangers that threaten it,
because the pain of the slain sleeps, but the pain of the cradle does not sleep.
He concluded his speech by pointing to the necessity of working
to combat the smuggling movement instead of this
draft.
His Excellency Al-Ayoubi
Then he was followed by His Excellency Senator Ali Jawdat
Al-Ayoubi, who said: His Excellency
Al-Pachachi and His Excellency Mawloud Mukhlis have sufficiently
responded to what was stated in the Minister of the
Interior's statements, but I hope the High Council will permit
me to respond to two points mentioned in the statements of
the Minister of the Interior. The first is regarding what
the Minister of the Interior pointed out that
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Expropriation of Jewish movable and immovable property and the demand to base the bill on the family unit
Remainder of the Senate discussions published on the second page
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Announcement
From the Agricultural Machinery and Equipment Department
There are no vacancies at the Agricultural Machinery and Equipment Department of any
kind, whether clerical or mechanical positions, or in the machinery, engines,
and automobile markets, etc. Applicants are requested to stop visiting and submitting
applications for this purpose.
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Ministry of Finance
Directorate General of Imported Goods
Announcement No. (29) for the year 1950
1 - All those registered in the Iraqi Chambers of Commerce of the first and
second classes who are actually engaged in importing must contact the Accounting Department in this
Directorate to obtain the (Merchant Identity Information) form, fill it out
properly, and submit it to this office within ten days from the date of its publication.
Anyone who fails to submit it within the specified period, their import applications will be ignored.
2 - It is not necessary to fill out the fifth field regarding the notes mentioned in this
form.
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Director General of Imported Goods
Great Opportunity
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday at three o'clock in the afternoon
and this coming Friday at nine o'clock in the morning
Will be sold by public auction
Various household furniture, silk furnishings, and excellent Iranian carpets
At the Al-Hadba auction located at Ras al-Qarya
The auctioneer and appraiser Mr. Abdul Karim - Contact Mr. Wissam Yusuf
Intestines Auction
The sale of intestines from Jewish ritual slaughter in Basra has been put up for auction for a period of
one year starting from April 1, 1950, until March 31, 1951. Those interested
should contact the administration of this community to learn the conditions, noting that the preliminary award will be
on 30-3-1950 and the final award will be on 28-3-1950. Telephone
number 395.
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Al-Safaa Car Showroom
Telephone 6587
For buying and selling new and used cars under the management of Mr. Saleh Abdul Sheikhi
Opposite the Semiramis Hotel near the Rusafa Hotel
Contact the brokers Abdul Jabbar Al-Shammaa, Sayyid Naji Al-Matar, Sattar Jassim,
Younis Hussein Al-Mosuli. The public auction is Friday morning at 10 AM.
Ezra Menachem Daniel
Addressed what was mentioned in the speech of His Excellency
Mawloud Mukhlis regarding his statement and repeated what he had said
previously regarding the conditions of Jews in Iraq.
He mentioned that he does not know what a Jew should do
after abnormal circumstances have closed for two years.
But now, the Jew does not enter
higher schools, nor is he allowed to study
at his own expense abroad, and he is prohibited
from being employed, and there are restrictions on him in trade.
So what is the guidance on the problem? Then he said,
were it not for the strict restrictions, the situation would not have reached
the level of escape on this wide scale.
He added that he believes that if the government
wants to do something to reassure them and make them
practice their business, it must lift the restrictions
and direct them toward work.
His Excellency Mawloud Mukhlis
said that the restriction included all Iraqis.
In this situation, we are all in the same state - the pressure did not happen
only to the Jews, but to everyone: to the
Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew. Everyone
is equal in the restriction.
His Excellency the Minister of Interior
Gentlemen - The High Council allows me
to make a simple, quick comment on
some of the observations made by
the members of the respected Council. I say in response or
answer to what the respected Senator
Ezra Menachem stated, that the government looks with an eye of
sympathy toward the loyal citizens,
who do not place themselves in situations
that conflict with the interest of the country and harm it.
We know, and the respected Senator Ezra Menachem
also knows, that there are a few Jewish
citizens who, unfortunately, committed acts that were not
consistent with the interest of the country. Not only this,
but they harmed the country and its interests with these acts. Perhaps among
the motives that caused a large portion of
the members of this community were political
and religious motives that were concentrated in the minds of these
people. But we, as a government, feel
that it is not in the interest to stand in the way of
the migration of these people to wherever they want,
those who do not want to stay in
this country and have decided to emigrate.
The bill came for such reasons, so that
their staying in the country becomes harmful. As for
other citizens, as I said, the
government considers them Iraqis, with no difference
between them and other Iraqis, whether
they are Muslims or Christians, as long as they
comply with orders and laws and act
according to the interest of the country, and do not place
themselves in suspicious situations that call for doubt
and caution. The Basic Law is sufficient
to guarantee these aspects, just as the
current laws guarantee that. But there is no doubt
that the respected Senator agrees with me
completely that no government is able
to overlook such elements
that I have alluded to. This is a brief answer
to the respected Senator Ezra Menachem, and I think
it contains what reassures the Senator about the
government's wise conduct in accordance with the laws
and the interest of the country.
Gentlemen - I did not say that the government
submitted this legislation because it has no
choice but to submit to the activity of smuggling gangs,
and that it is not capable of working
to combat the gangs that work on
smuggling. His Excellency the respected Senator
Muzahim al-Pachachi wanted to know this
point more clearly. In response to what he stated,
I say: The government saw that this policy
should be followed as it is a solution to address
an important issue, and it found that the best treatment for it
is to allow the departure of those who want to leave
the country, provided that their Iraqi citizenship is revoked,
and not to let them return to the country later.
The government believes that it is necessary to present this policy
in such an issue, not because it cannot combat
the matter of smuggling, but because it believes that
there is no benefit in combating smugglers or
fugitives. If the government wanted to
combat, it is capable of taking
the costs of these smugglers or fugitives
and returning them to where they came from. But
what is the benefit of this action? There is no
benefit in it; rather, the full benefit is in
getting rid of these elements which I said
will harm the country, whether in the short term
or in the long term.
Therefore, I hope a distinction is made between saying
that the government brought this bill to
facilitate the travel of these people,
and saying that the government
brought this bill wanting to revoke
the Iraqi citizenship of those who think of leaving
Iraq. So please pay attention to this
difference.
I hope His Excellency Muzahim
al-Pachachi remembers what I said. For I
did not say that the government was unable to
implement the proposal of the respected Senator.
I would have liked, if His Excellency Mr. Muzahim
al-Pachachi saw the necessity of working according to
this proposal, for him to have shown some
action toward its implementation. And perhaps he
tried, and I think he was stopped, and I have no
account of that. Also, I never said
that the government would revoke his citizenship.
To be clear - that Egypt... that the departure of
these people to Israel... rather I said that it
allowed those who want to leave, to
leave with a passport. The number of
those who left was not limited to some families
as His Excellency the Senator stated, but rather the door was open
and was not limited to a short period. And I,
as far as I know, the number that left
Egypt exceeded thousands, so I hope for the sake of
it to be established and heard that this
number exceeded thousands.
His Excellency the Senator asked whether the
Iraqi government contacted the Arab governments
to establish a unified policy on the matter.
I believe that the current government
is fully aware of its duties regarding
Arab issues in general,
and this topic may be general regarding
exchanges and so on. It is possible, if
this topic is discussed in the League, that
the current ministry will have its point of view
in this regard. I believe it is a matter of
being premature to discuss a topic like this
before the League meets and studies
Arab problems and what it can
do to solve these problems.
His Excellency the respected Senator Muzahim
al-Pachachi allows me to answer his statement, which is:
Did the Jews know more
than what this bill granted them?
Allow me to say that if
he examines it, he will find that what the Jews
wished to obtain was perhaps, rather certainly,
something else. It is other than the measure
that cuts their relationship finally with
Iraq and takes them out of Iraq to where
there is no return after that. It is possible they wish
to obtain passports with which they would soon
return to Iraq after they
go or contact other parties
and do what they do there.
Gentlemen - I appreciate with all appreciation
the overflowing feeling that overwhelmed the respected
Senator Mawloud Mukhlis, that feeling
which I do not doubt stems from sincere patriotism.
But allow me to say,
commenting on his answer regarding the necessity of a general
liquidation, that question or desire in which
His Excellency colleague Mustafa
al-Umari shared with him. We did not understand what the intent of
general liquidation was, and I wished that
this desire were clear and explicit so we could
answer it. If the desire is the
liquidation of all Jews, this is a desire that seems
to me difficult to achieve. It is not
fair - gentlemen - to treat
people whom we believe are innocent and that they have
no connection to the matters that make us complain
about them. Everyone knows that Iraqis
are equal before the law and before the constitution,
and their rights are one and equal, and as long as
no evidence is established of their tampering with these laws or
their working against the public interest,
we have no way against them.
Before, what will be the status of those
who went to Israel and joined the ranks of
the enemy army and fought us if they returned?
Gentlemen: We do not know who it is that
fought us, and until sufficient information
indicating that is available to us, we cannot
do anything. As for the statement made by
His Excellency Senator Mustafa al-Umari that he
wished the bill would come on a family basis,
so if one of its members wanted to declare his desire
to leave Iraq permanently, it was the duty
of the government to deport all
family members with him and revoke their Iraqi
citizenship. His Excellency the respected Senator,
who knows the laws perfectly, allows me to say that I
do not agree with him on that, because there is not in this
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From the General Police Directorate
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8-3-950, at 9 AM to supply (8500) two thousand six hundred and forty-eight
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Governor of Baghdad Province
The Nation
Iraqis are equal before the law and there is no way to prosecute those who have not committed what violates the laws
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Arabic and French translation on the same film
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The rest of the Senate discussions published on page three
In the third article and in these articles are provisions | of the general liquidation to direct, not to believe | so they said they wanted to regret and
clear for dealing with these cases, so His | and he interprets and answers that, and this is what | information reached us that many of
Excellency Al-Omari asked about the fourth point, which is the status of | calls for referring the bill to the committee for study | those who liquidated their businesses have fled
those who left Iraq under | in detail because here we cannot | ⟦illegible⟧ in his wars and some of them did not
(passports). I believe that those who | mention the important points, then he repeated | succeed ⟦illegible⟧ so staying may be imposed on such
left under passports, their | his demand regarding setting a plan to deal with the issue of | people in the country if they are able
treatment is normal, as whoever goes | Jewish property.
is allowed to travel for illness, interest, or trade
can return to Iraq under the law
unless it appears that this man or the holder of
the passport committed a violation, and if
that is proven, the provision of the law will be applied to him
and I believe that in this answer there is enough
to clarify this aspect. (And here appeared
on His Excellency the Prime Minister and others what indicates
the desire to finish the discussion
after the time exceeded one o'clock
and a half) His Excellency the Minister of Interior
continuing: And as I find the desire strong
to be brief, I do not want to leave what His
Excellency Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi mentioned of
the points that I believe are necessary to touch
upon, which is the point of facilitating the travel of Jews
and his saying that some countries prevented the migration
of Jews to Palestine, so why do we facilitate
this migration for them under the legislation.?
Gentlemen - the government did not facilitate
migration for the Jews under this legislation
and there is not a word in the bill referring to such
facilities at all, but rather it contains what drops
Iraqi citizenship from those who want to leave
Iraq permanently.
His Excellency al-Aiyubi mentioned that
the government, regarding the imposition of martial law,
took measures that prevent
the migration of these people and leaving Iraq or
preventing the smuggled difficulty points. Gentlemen -
it is possible that the government thought about these
measures or that it actually took them, but
I regret that I did not find a trace of such measures
that prevented the activity of smuggled valves or
the escape of these people. I did not say it is necessary to keep
martial law so that His Excellency al-Aiyubi takes
from this word a response to, but what I said
is that I agree with His Excellency on the necessity of
avoiding the implementation of exceptional methods
like martial law and others unless there is
an urgent need for that. If there is
an urgent need to declare martial law
in a solution, then it was for the executive authority
to take the declaration of martial law as a
means to maintain security and order in the country
and these laws are declared in difficult cases and times.
And we never opposed the idea of
abolishing martial law.
And I believe that there are no important points left
that I have not answered. And I suffice with these answers
as I feel that the time of the High Council
no longer helps to continue
talking about these topics.
Mustafa al-Omari
He pointed to the general liquidation and said I
would have liked His Excellency the Minister of Interior to ask us
The Prime Minister
Gentlemen - I do not wish to prolong
for the brothers. This bill
the government intended to address a special
situation and I believe its points are one point
of the dilemma that everyone feels;
and feels the need to address it with some
deliberation, wisdom, and firmness at the same time.
Then he said: And when we came to power we found
something people were grumbling about and we found thousands
saying that the market is stalled and confidence is lost
and fluctuation prevails in economic transactions
and even in commercial matters; and thousands
standing in front of the Directorate General of Passports. This
was the situation when we took responsibility
which required taking a kind of middle
solution, so we said if these brothers
Near East Station
For the day 5 - 3 - 1950
According to Baghdad time
Morning period
6:45 Reading from today's program 7 First
news bulletin 7:10 Physical
exercises by Mr. Baligh Safwat accompanied by
piano by Salah al-Din Morsi 7:20
The Holy Quran 7:45 Morning talk
by Mr. Mansour Rajab 8 Morning music and
songs 8:30 Second news
bulletin 8:40 Sonata music
7:45 Reading the program 9 Advertising
news bulletin 9:30 Conclusion.
Afternoon and evening period
11 Reading today's program 11:05
Listeners' corner 12 Western music
12:30 Children's program presented by Mrs.
Ihsan Shafiq; songs from the program
"Valley of Love" 1:20 Music from
Hussein Junaid's band 1:35 Song
selections 2 Sunday talk - by Pastor
Ibrahim Said 2:15 Umm Kulthum - songs
2:30 Third news bulletin and talk of the
world in a month by Urwa 3 Songs from
the film "Love and Revenge" 3:15 Al-Fajr Band
music 3:30 Listeners' letters
3:40 Various songs 4 Excerpt of melodies -
talk 4:15 Song "He tells me I am coming"
Jalal Harb 4:30 Fifth episode
of the serialized detective novel translated by
Ramzi Mazighit and directed by Subhi Abu
Lughod 5 Songs from the film Al-Primo 5:15
Music from Mahmoud Taha's band 5:25
Reading the evening program 5:30 Women's
program 6 Dance music 6:30 Fourth
news bulletin 6:45 Song "In
your eyes are dreams and wishes" Abdel Aziz
Mahmoud 7 Light songs 7:15 Advertising
news bulletin on 25
and 48 meter waves 7:15 Song "I am
in two drunks" Mary Tayourji 7:25
Evening songs 7:45 With the writer of the
Arabic story - interview with Mr.
Maroun Abboud 8 Selections from the opera
"Aida" and "The Blue Sins"
8:35 Dance songs - Medhat
Assem's corner 8:55 From the music of Aziz al-Shawan
9 Song "Lovers forgot me" Mary
Gibran 9:15 The Holy Quran -
Sheikh Farid al-Sindyouni 9:30 Fifth
news bulletin and talk of the world in a month
by Urwa 10 A Florentine Tragedy -
by Oscar Wilde, adapted and directed by Fattouh
Nashati 10:42 Songs by Abdel Wahab
11 Latest news 11:05 Conclusion.
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Date: 5 March 1950
A Jewish Caravan Tries to Escape to Iran
Falls into the Trap of Iraqi Authorities in Khanaqin
Khanaqin - For the Al-Zaman correspondent - The Iraqi authorities in Khanaqin, headed by His Excellency
Mr. Tawfiq Al-Mukhtar, District Governor, succeeded in arresting a Jewish caravan comprising 30 people, including
20 men and 10 women, among them a doctor and a lawyer, while they were trying to sneak from the public road to
Iranian territory.
These Jews were referred to the Khanaqin Criminal Court, which sentenced the twenty men to three months
of rigorous imprisonment, with one year of police supervision after the end of their sentence,
and a fine of 15 Dinars for each of the escaping women.
The court also sentenced the car driver to 3 months in prison and his assistant to a fine
of 10 Dinars.
The correspondent says that the vigilance of the responsible Iraqi authorities in Khanaqin is what prevented
the leakage of these criminals from Iraqi territory to Iranian territory.
Newspaper -: Al-Umma
Number -: 296
Date -: 5 March 1950
* It was necessary for the notable Ezra Menachem
Daniel to elaborate by mentioning what
members of his religion complain about and the reasons that prompted some of them
to leave Iraq, but his elaboration did not
reach the point of mentioning the exploitation by some
influential people of martial law in the most heinous
exploitation!
Newspaper -: The Arab World
Number -: 6962
Date -: 5 March 1950
Al-Yaqaza Newspaper
Issue No. 766
Date: March 5, 50
The Magazine's Holiday Gift!!!
The Jewish Problem is Not Solved by Revoking Citizenship
By Salman al-Safwani
* News says: The Jews are boycotting the Arabs in Palestine. And the situation of the Arabs there calls for despair, and this is natural, but what is unnatural is that the Arabs do not boycott the Jews in their own countries! Reciprocity!
* The calamity of the Arabs with the Judaized among the Arabs and Muslims is greater than their calamity with the Jews themselves, and greater than their calamity with anything else. When will consciences awaken in souls?
Ideas and Echoes
* The government considered the bill for revoking citizenship as one of the urgent bills, like customs bills for example, so that its secrets would not be broadcast before its implementation. In this case, it was supposed to be presented to the Senate on the same day, but that was not the case. Why then was urgency requested in the deliberation on the bill?
* Jews have a strong (scent) like cats, and it seems to me that they smelled the scent of the citizenship revocation bill some time ago, so they sold their furniture, liquidated their businesses, and prepared themselves to travel to Tel Aviv. The Jews rejoiced and the Arabs rejoiced at this step in solving the problem, while (their brothers) grieved over their parting, and we ask God to double these sorrows!
* The Jews gained two deals in the citizenship revocation law: the first is the freedom of migration to Palestine, and the second is saving the sums they used to pay to (smugglers). The law fell on the heads of these traitorous smugglers like a thunderbolt, as it cut off their livelihood and paralyzed their activity!
After all is said and done, or after the ruin of Basra to be more precise - the government submitted to the Chamber of Deputies a bill: "Law Supplementing the Decree for Revoking Iraqi Citizenship," after noticing "that some Iraqi Jews have begun to resort to all illegal means to leave Iraq permanently, and that others have already left Iraq illegally," despite the fact that the government contacted some wise Jews but they were not able to prevent the organized illegal escape, as His Excellency the Minister of Interior said.
It was stated in the explanatory memorandum that "the presence of subjects of this kind forced to stay in the country, and compelled to retain Iraqi citizenship, inevitably leads to results that have an impact on public security, and to the creation of social and economic problems, so it found no alternative but to allow them to leave Iraq permanently, and to revoke Iraqi citizenship from them!"
The first thing we must remember in this regard: that the Arabs were resisting Jewish migration to Palestine for about 30 years, so that their population would not exceed that of the Arabs there, and they would not become a danger to its Arab identity, in addition to the fact that its absorption capacity is limited as stated in the reports of experts and committees on various occasions. But now the Arabs themselves have opened the doors of Jewish migration from their countries to Palestine, and in this there is an indication, with great regret, that the truce governments have washed their hands of Palestine after the Jews seized it and expelled the Arabs from it. It is an indication that cuts the heart and makes the insides bleed.
Nevertheless, we were of the opinion that the remaining of the Jews of the Arab countries where they are does not reduce the danger of the Jewish gangs in Palestine as long as the doors of migration are open to the Jews of the East and West to it. Also, the joining of the Jews of the Arab countries to their idols in Tel Aviv does not increase the danger of these gangs, if the matter is not the opposite, because the Jews are accustomed to living like parasites by sucking the blood of the peoples they live with by seizing the country's economic facilities. If they gather in one spot of the earth, they will be forced to work to live, and produce to consume, while the peoples they migrated from will be rid of their evils and sins. We are confident that they will not find in Tel Aviv the luxury they were accustomed to in the Arab countries, in addition to the financial crisis that Israel is groaning under. Moreover, no matter how large their number in Palestine becomes, the Arabs are capable - if their determination is sincere - in all circumstances and conditions to wipe out the Jews and cleanse Palestine of them. For a nation whose population reaches about 100 million, and has the potential for which the countries of the world compete, it will not be impossible for it at some time to liberate this precious part of its homeland from the grip of the criminal Jewish gangs, even if all the Jews of the earth gather in Palestine, so there is no room for pessimism from this side.
However, the law brought by the government and approved by the Chamber of Deputies did not treat the problem, and did not solve the knot. All there is to it is that it revokes Iraqi citizenship from the Jews who wish to leave Iraq permanently, and the Jews who left Iraq before and then refused to return within the period specified for them. So what results from this barbarity, I wonder? What is the fate of their property? Do they sell it and take its price with them in cash, or are they allowed to keep it registered in their names to be exploited by their agents, or do they transfer it (pro forma) in the name of one of their remaining relatives, or is it permissible for them to donate it or endow it to their private institutions, or what? The questions are many in this chapter!
The Jews have enormous wealth in this country. Although they have escaped by their own methods - much of it to Tel Aviv - they are still among those with huge visible wealth, and our fear was focused on the leakage of this wealth from Iraq into the hands of the enemies. This is what the government did not address. What benefit - then - is there from this law while it keeps the Jewish problem as it is by its silence about those who did not leave Iraq, and they are the big merchants, landowners, money changers, goldsmiths, pharmacists, doctors and their like? Are these not the real danger to the country's economic and social entity? Are these not a fifth column for Israel in Iraq?