Nizar Al Ibrahim

Hello, welcome to our Gulf brothers in “Gulf 25”.

This is how the people of Basra announced it, the people of Iraq from Erbil, Sulaymaniyah, and Baghdad to Nahrkhoz in Abu Al-Khasib on the occasion of the launch of the Arab Gulf Football Championship. And joy for Basra, which longed for our time to call these feasts. European newspapers have praised the resounding success of the opening ceremony. The Italian newspaper “La Gazzetta dello sport” and the Dutch newspapers de Telegraaf and Het Parool have been praised for this event and the spherical wedding, and for the effort exerted by the Iraqi side. Attempting to stifle this joy by withdrawing their official delegation from the opening ceremony under the pretext of chaos in the reception and entry to the stadium “The Trunk of the Palm” •
It may be, my brothers, really bad organization and confusion in planning, and this is what really happened, but this cannot be surprising in a country that has not witnessed, over the past forty years, four decades completely and completely, nothing but wars, oppression and hunger • a country that has not yet recovered from its wounds and pain Despite this, he insists, with his will, except to hold this spherical sports wedding on his land • Isn’t that pride and glory? Whatever you see, was it not possible for him to expand, even a little bit, His Excellency the Kuwaiti delegation, the neighbor and brother, so that following a while he might enter the stadium from the VIP hall, instead of dramatizing his withdrawal? It states the following: “In order to preserve the status and importance of the championship, and in support of brothers and sisters, the Kuwait national team will continue to participate in the activities of the championship”!
What a favor, and what a favor!! And the Iraqis only have to offer signs of thanks and gratitude, because Kuwait has graciously agreed to continue the journey.
Come, look at what happens in the stadiums of the most famous European clubs on such occasions of burning and looting of public property such as stores and cars ••• etc. • This did not happen in Basra • All there is to it is some bad organization due to lack of knowledge and experience • In Europe, for example, an order is assigned Organizing such major football events to specialized companies with all their crews in return for huge sums of money.
Self-aggrandizement is an indispensable genetic element for a person, whoever he is, provided that he is within his own limits and for an exclusive purpose aimed at developing himself and producing additional hormones to promote him as a biological being by means of knowledge and science. Other than that, and beyond that, the matter is no more than a whiff of sand, and nothing more than “Our enemy, so our shadow preceded us,” as it was left to us from an eternal heritage by the poet Ibrahim Naji in his masterpiece “The Ruins” and the singing of Mrs. Umm Kulthum.
And in the past they said that the biggest joys can be spoiled by the most trivial reasons. In the case of Basra Khaleeji 25, this is not the case. Basra is joy, and its joy, as I knew the uncle of all

Nizar Al Ibrahim
Amsterdam

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