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03ABUDHABI4761
2003-10-27 09:56:00
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Embassy Abu Dhabi
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MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ WEST BANK

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UNCLASSIFIED

SIPDIS
TELEGRAM October 27, 2003


To: No Action Addressee 

Action: Unknown 

From: AMEMBASSY ABU DHABI (ABU DHABI 4761 - UNKNOWN) 

TAGS: OIIP, KMDR 

Captions: None 

Subject: MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ WEST BANK 

Ref: None 
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UNCLAS ABU DHABI 04761

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UNCLAS ABU DHABI 004761 

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STATE FOR NEA/ARP; NEA/PPD; NEA/RA; INR/R/MR; PA;
INR/NESA; INR/B; IIP/G/NEA-SA
WHITE HOUSE FOR PRESS OFFICE
SECDEF FOR OASD/PA
USCINCCENT FOR POLAD
LONDON FOR GOLDRICH; PARIS FOR O'FRIEL

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: OIIP KMDR TC
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ WEST BANK


UNCLAS ABU DHABI 004761

SIPDIS

STATE FOR NEA/ARP; NEA/PPD; NEA/RA; INR/R/MR; PA;
INR/NESA; INR/B; IIP/G/NEA-SA
WHITE HOUSE FOR PRESS OFFICE
SECDEF FOR OASD/PA
USCINCCENT FOR POLAD
LONDON FOR GOLDRICH; PARIS FOR O'FRIEL

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: OIIP KMDR TC
SUBJECT: MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ WEST BANK



1. SUMMARY: THE DETERIORATING SECURITY SITUATION IN IRAQ AND
THE SITUATION IN THE WEST BANK DOMINATED COVERAGE IN UAE PRINT
AND ELECTRONIC MEDIA. EDITORIALS IN BOTH "AL KHALEEJ" AND
"AKHBAR AL ARAB" NOTED THAT THE PALESTINIANS WOULD BECOME
IMPRISONED BECAUSE OF THE SECOND FENCE SHARON IS PLANNING TO
BUILD. ANOTHER EDITORIAL IN "AL ITTIHAD" NOTED THE DIFFICULTIES
OF ACHIEVING SECURITY AND STABILITY IN IRAQ. ANOTHER EDITORIAL
IN "AL KHALEEJ" STATED THAT THE AMERICAN OCCUPATION IN IRAQ IS
THE PROBLEM, NOT THE SOLUTION. END SUMMARY.


2. UNDER THE HEADLINE "CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE WORLD IS IN COMA,"
DUBAI-BASED BUSINESS-ORIENTED "AL BAYAN" EDITORIALIZED 10/27:

"... WHAT HAPPENED IN GAZA YESTERDAY WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST WAR
CRIMES. WHAT HAPPENED WAS NOT NEW FOR THE PROFESSIONALS IN
KILLING AND BLOODSHED. THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THESE PEOPLE DIED
SINCE DAIR YASEEN AND KOFOR QASEM, WHEN THEY COMMITTED THEIR
MASSACRES... WE ARE WONDERING, DID THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE
ZIONISTS DIE..WELL, THEN WHERE IS THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE WORLD
REGARDING WHAT IS HAPPENING TO OUR BROTHERS IN PRECIOUS
PALESTINE?... IT IS TIME FOR US TO WAKE UP TO SAVE WHAT WE CAN IN
PALESTINE, WHERE THE SLAUGHTERER SHARON VIOLATED ITS (PALESTINE)
BLOOD, LANDS, AND HOLY PLACES."


3. COMMENTING ON THE DETERIORATING SECURITY SITUATION IN IRAQ,
ABU DHABI-BASED SEMI-GOVERNMENT "AL ITTIHAD" EDITORIALIZED 10/27:

"... THE DETERIORATING SECURITY SITUATION IN IRAQ IS VERY
WORRYING, IT EMPHASIZES THAT THE ROAD TO ACHIEVING SECURITY AND
STABILITY IS STILL FACING DIFFICULTIES... ANY DELAY OR SLOWNESS
IN REBUILDING IRAQ WITH ALL ITS SECURITY, POLITICAL, ECONOMICAL,
AND SOCIAL ASPECTS, WILL LEAD TO A CRISIS THAT NO ONE EXCEPT GOD
KNOWS WHERE IT WILL REACH..."


4. NOTING THAT THE AMERICAN OCCUPATION OF IRAQ IS THE PROBLEM
AND NOT THE SOLUTION, SHARJAH-BASED PAN-ARAB DAILY "AL-KHALEEJ"
EDITORIALIZED 10/27:

"THE AMERICAN OCCUPATION OF IRAQ IS THE PROBLEM NOT THE SOLUTION
WAS WHAT DR. EVO DALDAR, A RESEARCHER IN BROOKINGS INSTITUTE,
SAID IN HIS INTERVIEW WITH 'AL KHALEEJ' YESTERDAY... THE
INTERESTS OF IRAQ AND IRAQIS AND ALL ARABS IS NOT IN THE AMERICAN
AGENDA, ESPECIALLY WITH THIS CURRENT ADMINISTRATION..."


5. COMMENTING ON THE OTHER FENCE THAT SHARON IS PLANNING TO
BUILD, ABU DHABI-BASED PAN-ARAB DAILY "AKHBAR AL ARAB"
EDITORIALIZED 10/26:

"... THE GOAL BEHIND BUILDING THIS FENCE IS CLEAR AND SURE AND IS
SIMILAR TO THE FIRST FENCE, WHICH IS GOBBLING UP THE BIGGEST
AMOUNT POSSIBLE OF THE PALESTINIAN LANDS, IN ADDITION TO
ENCIRCLING THE PALESTINIANS IN THE WEST BANK, THAT WILL REALLY
BECOME A BIG PRISON..."


6. NOTING THAT THE PALESTINIANS WILL BECOME IMPRISONED BECAUSE
OF THE NEW FENCE SHARON IS PLANNING TO BUILD, "AL KHALEEJ"
EDITORIALIZED 10/26:

"... WHOEVER LOOKS AT THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE WEST BANK AND AT THE
TWO EAST AND WEST FENCES REALIZES THAT THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
WILL BECOME IMPRISONED AND THE WEST BANK WILL BECOME THE BIGGEST
PRISON IN HISTORY..."


7. OTHERS: "AL ITTIHAD" CARRIED OUT A REPRINT OF SECRETARY OF
DEFENSE RONALD RUMSFELD'S OP-ED THAT WAS PUBLISHED IN LOS ANGELES
TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST. THIS OP-ED MARKED THE 20TH
ANNIVERSARY OF THE TERRORIST ATTACKS ON U.S. MARINES IN LEBANON.

ALBRIGHT