MilitiaMan "Not Telling The Whole Story?" Thursday PM 5-26-2022
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Samson: The Iraqi parliament passes a law banning dealing with Israel, and Al-Sadr calls for street celebrations
26th May, 2022
The Iraqi parliament approved today, Thursday, a proposal for a law criminalizing "normalization with the Zionist entity" with the unanimous consent of the attendees.
Earlier in the day, Parliament Speaker Muhammad al-Halbousi opened the parliament session after the quorum was completed, with the attendance of 275 deputies.
Shafak News Agency correspondent said that as soon as the session convened, parliament began voting on the articles of the proposed law.
Following the vote, the First Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hakim Al-Zamili, issued a statement saying, “This law, which was unanimously voted by the voters, represents a true reflection of the will of the people, a brave national decision, and a position that is the first of its kind in the world in terms of criminalizing the relationship with the Zionist entity,” calling "Arab and Islamic parliaments to pass similar legislation that meets the aspirations of their people."
In turn, the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, called on the Iraqi people to take to the streets in a tweet to celebrate the vote on the proposed law, which he described as a "great achievement." LINK
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Samson: Parliament adjourns its session to next Sunday
26th May, 2022
The House of Representatives announced, on Thursday, to adjourn its session to next Sunday.
And the Parliament's media department stated in a brief statement, which was followed by "Mawazine News", that the House of Representatives adjourned its session to Sunday at 11 am.
Earlier today, Thursday, Parliament voted unanimously on a law criminalizing normalization with Israel.
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Al-Zamili added, "We do not want in this law to isolate Iraq from its regional and international surroundings, and its vocabulary will be formulated with utmost precision and in a manner that achieves the purpose of its legislation."
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“because currently there are political sides that try to normalize relations with Israel.”
https://thecradle.co/Article/news/10241
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Iraq’s parliament, which can’t seem to form a government or decide on important, basic issues and is in dire need of investment, is wasting time focusing on Israel.
The reason for this is that in some areas in the Middle East, the use of Israel as a foil and tool is important because failed states and armed militias backed by Iran use scaremongering about the Jewish state as a way to distract from their looting of various countries.
It is in this context that the Iraqi Council of Representatives wasted time on a draft law that would ban “normalization” with Israel. This is a largely mythical issue because few voices in Iraq are suggesting such a “normalization.” Iran has hijacked half of Iraq using pro-Iranian militias – and those groups are intensely hostile to Israel.
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-707015
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MilitiaMan: I find the articles interesting.. Why would they have postponed something they supposedly passed today- out to Sunday?
What is in the Law that that is needed to be sheltered for any length of time? Is it something that is not expected? Is it possible that they haven't actually banned anything with respect to Israel? Is it possible they did ban and criminalize, yet the law has something for the citizens in the law to offset the wants of some that don't want the ban?
If you use the precision vocabulary it seems they haven't told us which way they are voting. The don't say they unanimously voted to criminalize normalization with Israel. They say the unanimously voted on a criminalization normalization law.
In fact they also say they voted on a proposed law which in itself seems vague. By not telling us directly that the voted specifically to criminalize normalization and then postponing telling us the results of the unanimous way they voted leads me to believe there is more to this story.
Take Sadr for instance, telling the people to celebrate in the streets suggesting the results are beneficial for all, not just some of the people.
We can see above that the sentiment toward the Law is not unanimous, therefore, we can surmise that it is possible that there is something in the law they wanted hidden for a period of time.
That said, could they have hidden a portion of the law with the emergency food law or could they have a paragraph in there with regard to the 2022 budget, new exchange rate to support the pictures of what appears to be valuable currency in the IBBC meeting over the last couple days?
To all these questions the answers are we don't know, yet.. Couple days out is not far to find out.. imo
Regardless it is important or they wouldn't need to postpone telling the whole story.. imo ~MM