Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
07KUWAIT356
2007-03-11 08:46:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Kuwait
Cable title:
KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - PALESTINE, IRAN, AND IRAQ
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UNCLAS KUWAIT 000356
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 - PALESTINE, IRAN, AND IRAQ
Block Quotes
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Sunday, March 11, 2007
-- Under the title "Al-Aqsa Mosque" liberal Dr. Yacoub Ahmed
Al-Sharrah editorialized in moderate Arabic daily Al-Rai (03/11):
"The simplest of tools that could effectively stop Zionist practices
are not employed because of our own weakness. We cannot agree on a
single course of action to fend off the enemies' assaults on our
rights. This pathetic phenomenon is doubtless the result of the
rampant weakness of Arab governments and our own disagreements that
only serve Israeli interests."
-- Under the title "The Axis of Evil and Role Reversal" Mahmoud
Abdeen inquired in moderate Arabic daily Al-Anbaa (03/11):
"A Western official warned Iran against provoking the United States,
which he went on to describe as a 'wounded lion' after America's war
on terrorism and its operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. There is a
great amount of truth to this description. Otherwise why would
America not do anything about Iran for this long?"
-- Under the title "Arab Security" liberal Mohammed Musaed Al-Saleh
penned in progressive Arabic daily Al-Qabas (03/11):
"The Baghdad Security Conference will not succeed if it is confined
to discussing Iraq's problem and excludes other issues in the Middle
East. Violence in Iraq is directly tied to American policy. What is
needed is pressure on Israel to resolve the problems of the
occupation of Palestine and Syria."
-- Conservative Islamist Faisal Al-Zamil contended in moderate
Arabic daily Al-Anbaa under the title "Iraq" (03/11):
"We in Kuwait and other Gulf Countries cannot ignore what is going
on in Iraq. This is not only because of its ramifications there.
The civil war has already started in Iraq. It has not affected the
peoples of the Gulf because they know that what is happening in Iraq
is an external struggle using Iraqi blood."
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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/
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LEBARON
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 - PALESTINE, IRAN, AND IRAQ
Block Quotes
--------------
Sunday, March 11, 2007
-- Under the title "Al-Aqsa Mosque" liberal Dr. Yacoub Ahmed
Al-Sharrah editorialized in moderate Arabic daily Al-Rai (03/11):
"The simplest of tools that could effectively stop Zionist practices
are not employed because of our own weakness. We cannot agree on a
single course of action to fend off the enemies' assaults on our
rights. This pathetic phenomenon is doubtless the result of the
rampant weakness of Arab governments and our own disagreements that
only serve Israeli interests."
-- Under the title "The Axis of Evil and Role Reversal" Mahmoud
Abdeen inquired in moderate Arabic daily Al-Anbaa (03/11):
"A Western official warned Iran against provoking the United States,
which he went on to describe as a 'wounded lion' after America's war
on terrorism and its operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. There is a
great amount of truth to this description. Otherwise why would
America not do anything about Iran for this long?"
-- Under the title "Arab Security" liberal Mohammed Musaed Al-Saleh
penned in progressive Arabic daily Al-Qabas (03/11):
"The Baghdad Security Conference will not succeed if it is confined
to discussing Iraq's problem and excludes other issues in the Middle
East. Violence in Iraq is directly tied to American policy. What is
needed is pressure on Israel to resolve the problems of the
occupation of Palestine and Syria."
-- Conservative Islamist Faisal Al-Zamil contended in moderate
Arabic daily Al-Anbaa under the title "Iraq" (03/11):
"We in Kuwait and other Gulf Countries cannot ignore what is going
on in Iraq. This is not only because of its ramifications there.
The civil war has already started in Iraq. It has not affected the
peoples of the Gulf because they know that what is happening in Iraq
is an external struggle using Iraqi blood."
********************************************* *
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