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towards life, and the lifestyle they live.... People here wake up in the morning and go out
to work overwhelmed with happiness and self-confidence.... A visitor to this country must see the overwhelming
joy that covers the faces of the people of this nation with every sunrise as they head to their work.
This applies to everyone of different ages. The young, the old, the woman, and the man head
every morning to their work with overwhelming joy and a sincere desire to double production.. and the most important thing in this
scene is that all these people I mentioned go to their work with vigor, activity, and pleasure
but they do not quicken their pace more than necessary, and I did not see anyone running fast like a lunatic as happens
in Tel Aviv.... And I did not see anyone here hurrying more than required.. and the opposite is
true. People here head to their work overwhelmed with happiness, self-confidence, and calm, and they behave
with superb politeness and possess excellent morals.
Take for example, an ordinary person here boarding a bus: when a citizen boards
the vehicle, the first thing they encounter is the greeting directed to them by the driver and passengers, and this is exactly the opposite of
the behavior and ethics of Zionist bus drivers in the occupied land.... For there, a person is received
either with insults or with shouting by public vehicle drivers..
The other matter is the issue of smoking in public buses. What I notice in this
regard is that one can never see a person smoking in public vehicles. And let
whoever may be here, even a minister does not allow himself to smoke cigarettes inside a public vehicle
and more importantly, one does not see smoking women here.... not in public vehicles
nor in any public place.. This does not mean that I am calling for the prohibition of smoking for women, but the fact that
women do not smoke provides a layer of good morals and psychological stability. It is known that Israeli
women say they use smoking because it treats some of their problems and psychological crises.
and relieves the tension they live in.
However, people here in Iraq do not feel any kind of tension or anxiety, and they are all self-confident and overwhelmed
with happiness.. This does not mean that I am saying that not all people here use tobacco. On the contrary
it is true.. people here smoke but not inside public transportation. Smoking inside
public vehicles here is something that absolutely does not exist.... while when one rides a public vehicle in Tel Aviv -
one soon discovers that it is like a den for hashish use.. everyone there, women and men, practice
the habit of smoking in public vehicles.... and if someone dares to ask their neighbor in the vehicle
to stop smoking, they are subjected to killing looks.
As for the achievements and gains that the revolution in Iraq has achieved for the people, they are countless ⟦line⟧
Wherever a person goes in the cities of Iraq, they see construction and reconstruction operations, and devices, equipment, and factories
covering the land of Iraq, cities and villages..
In the field of education, all citizens in Iraq, without exception, enjoy the right to compulsory academic attainment
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Free, whether at the primary or university level, and even for acquiring knowledge abroad.
The government here is not satisfied with that alone; rather, it provides grants and expenses for all students, including
personal expenses.. I can say with high confidence that the financial grant provided to the student
for personal spending exceeds in its volume the wages received by workers (relief works) in
Israel. This is in addition to the meals provided to the students and in addition to all means
of study such as books, notebooks, pens, and other tools needed by the Iraqi student...
As for Iraqi students who travel to acquire knowledge outside the country, the Iraqi government
provides them with full expenses in addition to personal expenses reaching up to 30 dollars per day.
Among other achievements, I mention, for example, the basic consumer materials for humans here..
Everyone knows that the Tel Aviv government imposes high prices on basic consumer materials from one month to another.
In fact, there is an outrageous and astonishing high cost of living in the Zionist state, while one can see and touch
for oneself here that many of the basic consumer materials for humans have not risen in price at all for
25 years until now. Especially: bread, whose price has not risen in Iraq during the past twenty-five
years. And transportation as well.... where it can be said that transportation prices here in
Iraq are almost free.
As for sugar, tea, rice, oils, fats, dairy products, soap, and other vital materials
for human living, they are extremely cheap in Iraq. This is because the government pays the difference in international
prices to maintain low prices for these materials with the aim of providing them to all sectors of the Iraqi people.
As for the issue of unemployment in Iraq, it does not exist at all.. while in occupied Palestine there is a chronic
disease called unemployment, which Oriental Jews and a large percentage of Iraqi Jews specifically complain about.
As for Iraq, the word unemployment does not exist in either the political dictionary or the general dialect.
The opposite is true; Iraq complains of a shortage in the workforce and imports workers, technicians, and experts
from all parts of the world, whether Arabs or foreigners.... and there is in Iraq a huge percentage of
foreign workers who work in all fields and sectors. It is the right of the citizen and the foreign
newcomer to this country to apply for work in any field provided that they master their work and provide the required
production.
There is another issue, which is agriculture. The agricultural sector here is rich in its resources, and I personally worked
in this sector, in the Directorate of Animal Wealth affiliated with the Ministry of Agriculture. I have witnessed for myself amazing
things in the field of progress and what the state exerts to revive and develop this sector. Although everyone
knows that the number of livestock and poultry in Iraq in general is very high, the Iraqi government
imports improved breeds of cows and sheep and seeks to improve livestock and its strains. And as a result of this matter
over tens of thousands of livestock. In Iraq, there are hundreds of millions of various poultry that are
cared for and raised by public sectors and sell their production at cheap prices to the people, and these are fixed prices and have not occurred
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any high prices in this field since my feet touched the land of Iraq.
And here it is worth noting a very important fact, which is: the issue of prices. Wherever I go in
Iraq, I feel joy and pleasure for a very excellent phenomenon, which is that prices here are limited, and
one sees the prices written on the materials they buy, and no merchant or seller, whether governmental
or private merchant, can demand a higher price, even by a single fils, than the specified price. And anyone who dares to
embezzle one fils from the citizen is severely punished. This reminds me that shopkeepers and business owners
in the Zionist state raise prices arbitrarily without anyone confronting them. And
some goods are sold at different prices, increasing or decreasing from one store to another. The Tel Aviv government claims that
it is difficult to supervise prices. Here I wonder, if it is difficult for the Zionists to supervise
prices, how can they supervise the spread and distribution of drugs and supervise robberies
and contribute to their success through the collusion of the police with thieves and their gangs?
And if the Iraqi government supervises prices with complete integrity, this is due to its desire to
eliminate the manipulation of brokers and ensure the needs of the people. If this indicates anything, it indicates
that the Iraqi government was created to serve its people, of whom it is a part and for whom it exists, while the policy of the Tel Aviv
government seeks to enrich the rich and impoverish the poor.
Well ⟦line⟧ thank you ⟦line⟧ and now we move to a new question.
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⟦...⟧ Jews ⟦...⟧
⟦...⟧ Soviet Union.
. That I and all the Jews who returned to Iraq live here not only as citizens with equal
rights with others, but rather we enjoy rights that far exceed those of others.
And I want to point out here an important fact, which is that when I visit one of the institutions or ministries
and especially when I meet in these ministries with officials with high authorities in the government sector, I
feel their brotherly and friendly feelings towards me.
And that no one here speaks about Jews or Judaism from a racial point of view, and if some of them speak
about the issue of Iraq's Jews, they soon express their regret that the Jews of Iraq left their homeland Iraq
as a result of the criminal racist Zionist conspiracy, international imperialism, and rotten Arab reactionaries
with which Zionism is still linked to this day.
Finally, I say that the decision of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council to allow Jews to return to their homeland Iraq
is a measure with prominent dimensions and meanings that deserves appreciation and respect from all normal
and objective people, especially those who have not fallen victim to Zionism and the brainwashing operations it carries out.
I return to say again that the religious issue does not constitute any obstacles for the Jew in Iraq, and there can be
no discrimination between Jews and others here, neither in the popular nor official spheres, and there is no one here who says
that my religion is such and such ⟦...⟧ for the respected citizen who gains the appreciation of the people and the authority is
that person who can contribute more to the development of the state and its projects and who provides his contribution
in strengthening the foundations of the revolution, and that every citizen who exerts his full effort is a good citizen regardless of
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