KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - IRAN, PALESTINE, AND IRAQ

UNCLAS KUWAIT 000153 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 - IRAN, PALESTINE, AND IRAQ Block Quotes -------------- Saturday, February 03, 2007 -- Dr. Abdul Mohsen Yousef Jamal editorialized in progressive Arabic daily Al-Qabas under the title "President Bush and His Coming War" (02/03): "America's entrance into a new war is the key to making Congress and the American people stand by President Bush and the Republican Party, even in only for a while. However, Iran is different from Iraq. We in the Gulf, and especially in Kuwait, have to be prepared for the worst-case scenario." -- Lawyer and columnist Mamdouh Ismail commented in moderate Arabic daily Al-Rai under the title "Examining the Elat Operation" (02/03): "It is the fate of the Palestinian resistance to fight on two fronts -- the front of the occupying enemy and the front of the Americanized Palestinians." -- Under the title "America and Hostility to Sunnis", Dr. Fahd Saleh Al-Khanna wrote: "American has not learned from its past mistakes as it has delegated its security campaign in Iraq to Iranian gangs that rule Iraq. America lets the wolf shepherd the sheep." ********************************************* * 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/ ********************************************* * TUELLER