KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - HEZBOLLAH

UNCLAS KUWAIT 003817 SIPDIS SIPDIS STATE FOR NEA/ARP, NEA/PA, NEA/AIA, NEA/PI, INR/NESA, R/MR, I/GNEA, B/BXN, B/BRN, NEA/PPD, NEA/IPA LONDON FOR TSOU PARIS FOR ZEYA E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: OPRC KMDR KPAO XF KU MEDIA REACTION SUBJECT: KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - HEZBOLLAH Block Quotes -------------- Sunday, September 24, 2006 -- Under the title "Before We Disagree on Hezbollah" Turki Falah Al-Zafiri commented in moderate Arabic daily Al-Watan (9/24): "Hezbollah, like other resistance movements, has two arms: a political one with which it participates in parliamentary elections, and a military one with which it strikes its enemies and executes its plans. Despite this, we must realize that Hezbollah is essentially a Twelver Shiite religious party. This fact has severe ramifications on the party's outlook towards Muslims who are not Twelvers." -- Abdullah Al-Hadlaq penned in moderate Arabic daily Al-Watan under the title "The Truth and the Lie Sound the Same From You" (9/24): "What alleged victory did Hassan Nasrallah celebrate? Hassan's alleged victory over the strongest army in the world and the beginning of a new era. What victory for the defeated? What is a sword in the hand of the loser? What good are speeches and statements coming from those whose orders and conditions are set in the surrender document? The real victor is the international consensus against terrorism." ********************************************* * For more reporting from Embassy Kuwait, visit: http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/kuwait/?cable s Visit Kuwait's Classified Website: http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/kuwait/ ********************************************* * LEBARON