Reading Iraqi Newspapers

An article published last Thursday named Plastic Palms in an Iraqi newspaper named Al-Aalem Al-Jadeed (= The New World) talks about those ugly plastic palms that the government had bought from outside of Iraq to decorate Iraqi streets. What breaks the heart is that those palms are not only ugly but their price is triple the price of real palms that the Iraqi farmer are ready to provide.Another article in the same newspaper published last Sunday named Twereej Tobacco talks about an old story from the city of Twereej, the city of origin of the current Iraqi prime minster. The story says that on each side of the river that passes through the center of the city stands a man, the two men talk to each other:- Hi brother, how are you?- Fine, thanks to God.- Brother, are you going to the market?- No brother, going to the market?- Good, if you are going to the market buy me some tobacco.- No I am not going to the market!- Me too, I am going to the market!- No brother, me too I am not going to the market!The writer says that this traditional story shows how the conversations between current Iraqi politicians go in circles betrayed by the language and distance.There was an Iraqi politician who said before days that the terrorists had failed to target important targets. He said that after car bombs had caused many deaths of civilians. Car bombs had started to target streets in the morning filled with simple clerks going to their work. Last Tuesday, on the same newspaper, a column entitle...
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