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06KUWAIT2334
2006-06-17 15:31:00
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Embassy Kuwait
Cable title:  

KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - HAMAS

Tags:  OPRC KMDR KPAO PREL PTER PGOV KU TERRORISM 
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TAGS: OPRC KMDR KPAO PREL PTER PGOV KU TERRORISM

SUBJECT: KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - HAMAS

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Saturday, June 17, 2006

-- Political Science professor and former dean of the American
University in Kuwait Dr. Shafiq Nazim Al-Ghabra editorialized in
moderate Arabic daily Al-Rai Al-Aam under the title "The Referendum
on the Prisoners' Document and HAMAS' Government" (6/17): "HAMAS
government's reaction to the popular referendum proposed by the
Palestinian president on the Prisoners' Document complicates the
already hard situation in Palestine. The referendum is an important
idea because it allows the Palestinian people to vote on a political
situation that has to do with the acceptance or refusal of the two
state solution.... A few days ago hundreds of Israelis demonstrated
against the Israeli bombing of Gaza, does this mean that Israel is
on its way out of the state of unity against the Palestinians? We
can say that more Israelis will differ from right-wing when more
peaceful sentiments are expressed by the Palestinian street. We can
also say that the referendum can be the catalyst for more Israeli
difference on the coming era."

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