{"id":2192,"date":"2010-12-29T12:50:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T08:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/?p=2192"},"modified":"2010-12-29T12:55:33","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T08:55:33","slug":"christmas-cartoon-urges-iraqis-to-do-it-for-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/middle-east-society\/christmas-cartoon-urges-iraqis-to-do-it-for-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Cartoon Urges Iraqis to do it for ThemSelves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Christmas-in-Baghdad.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2193\" title=\"Christmas in Baghdad\" src=\"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Christmas-in-Baghdad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The team of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/onlyforiraqis.com\/onlyforiraqis\/llraqyyn_fqt_onlyfor_iraqis.html\">Only for Iraqis<\/a>\u201d has again surprised us with a new online comedy animation video with a powerful message: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Do it yourself and do not wait for others to do it for you! <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Their new video starts with the narrator saying that on Christmas Eve  the world was celebrating, except Baghdad because it was coated with  lack-of-electricity darkness.<\/p>\n<p>In the dark, an Iraqi child was waiting for Baba Noel (Santa Claus) to  bring him the bicycle he wanted for Christmas. An Iraqi old man comes  across him and tells him to go home because Baba Noel is giving presents  in America, not here.<\/p>\n<p>The kid becomes angry and tells the old man he\u2019s  not going home unless he gets his bike. He was wondering why Baba Noel  was giving presents to children all over the world, except the Iraqi  children.   <a name=\"more\"><\/a> The old man feels bad and decides to help.<\/p>\n<p>He calls Santa but Santa was  aggressive. He didn\u2019t like how his name was turned into \u201cBaba Noel.\u201d He  then calls Iraqis \u201cterrorists\u201d and says he\u2019s not going to Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>The old man then calls Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki for help!  Unsurprisingly, the Prime Minister cannot help!<\/p>\n<p>Not willing to give up,  the old man calls all his friends and acquaintances and posts a wall ad,  calling on all Iraqis to bring their generators to use them light the  Christmas tree and to do Christmas themselves this year.   And they did!<\/p>\n<p>They set up the huge Christmas tree and decorated it with  lights they turned on through their generators. After the lights were  on, Iraqis took to the streets to celebrate Christmas, and their city  became brighter than ever, first time in years.<\/p>\n<p>The message in the video is very powerful. It urges Iraqis to  stand up and start rebuilding their country themselves, instead of  waiting for others to help them. It\u2019s time to do that before it\u2019s too  late.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video (Arabic):<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yWbeMCdXhIo&amp;feature=player_embedded[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BASSAM SEBTI: The message in the video is powerful, urging Iraqis to stand up and start rebuilding their country themselves, instead of waiting for others&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":2193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,90,5],"tags":[423,1969,229,18321,2204],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mideastposts.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}