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SUBJECT: TFLE01: KUWAIT MEDIA REACTION - LEBANON - QANA 
 
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Tuesday, August 1, 2006 
 
-- "Kuwaiti Demonstration Against America and Britain" is Khalil 
Haydar's column in the moderate Arabic daily Al-Watan (8/1): 
 
"Yesterday's protests in front of the American embassy, where 
demonstrators demanded the closure of the Embassy and the expulsion 
of the American Ambassador and hurled epithets against President 
Bush and U.S. Secretary of State Rice, will only help to damage the 
Lebanese cause as well as the cause of the victims of the Qana 
massacre.  Emotional and extreme slogans, that express the opinions 
of a small minority of Kuwaitis, especially Hezbollah supporters, 
will rebound negatively on the Lebanese cause... participants in 
such demonstrations are well aware there are limits to expressing 
opinions.  Damage to Kuwait's interests will benefit neither 
political parties nor democracy." 
 
-- "State Terrorism Toward Children" Khudair Al-Enezi wrote in the 
moderate Arabic daily Al-Qabas (8/1): 
 
"Qana's massacre is an extension to terrorism that the Israeli war 
machine is sowing in the Middle East.  It is also the source of 
nourishment for terrorism around the world... the United States has 
given Israel the green light to continue the Zionist state terror 
against Lebanon.  Syrian President Asad was correct to describe the 
war as state terror.  It is not Hezbollah who is creating terrorism, 
Hezbollah is simply defending the dignity of the nation, and it is 
legally justified in ridding Lebanese lands from the occupiers. 
America alone bears the moral and ethical responsibility before the 
whole world." 
 
-- "War on Lebanon" is former Ambassador Ahmad Ghaith's piece in the 
moderate Arabic daily Al-Qabas (8/1): 
 
"Through this war Israel is trying to provoke the Lebanese people to 
rebel against Hezbollah.  It is on this premise that its aggression 
encompassed the whole of Lebanon and the targeting of its 
infrastructure.  Unfortunately for Israel, the Lebanese have rallied 
around Hezbollah and condemned the war as an aggression toward all 
the Lebanese people... This war has shown that fighters armed with 
faith and love for their country can withstand the Israeli war 
machine... They have taught Israel a lesson -- Lebanon is strong 
because of its people. " 
 
-- "Israel Must Pay Lebanon in Compensation" is Yousef Al-Mubaraki's 
comment in the moderate Arabic daily Al-Qabas (8/1): 
 
"We are witnessing Israeli revelry in Lebanon with the blessing of 
the United States.  These crimes that are inflicted on Lebanon -- 
the demolishing of the infrastructure, the killing of Lebanese 
people, and the destruction of the environment -- are deliberate war 
crimes and they are punishable by international law.  The Lebanese 
government must demand that the UN issue a resolution awarding 
Lebanon compensation for Israeli destruction, similar to the UN 
resolution awarding compensation to Kuwait for the Iraqi invasion in 
1990... The UNSC must force Israel to pay compensation so that this 
kind of destruction will never again occur." 
 
-- "Where Does Qana Stand in the Dictionary of the Geneva 
Conventions?" is the title of Columnist Faisal Al-Zamel's piece in 
the moderate Arabic daily Al-Anba (8/1): 
 
"The second Qana massacre confirms the absence of the international 
conscience toward Gaza or Lebanon.  The United States is in a coma 
while Israel roams free shedding Arab and Muslim blood.  We know 
that opening the war front in Lebanon is in Israel's interest as 
evinced by their rush to exploit this opportunity in the bloodiest 
way possible." 
 
-- "The Conniving New World Order" is how Dr. Jassem Al-Fuhaid 
commented in the moderate Arabic daily Al-Rai Al-A'am (8/1): 
 
"Through its ineffectiveness the UN is slowly taking the path of its 
predecessor the League of Nations ... The UN has shown that it can 
make decisive decisions only when they fall in the interest of the 
United States... The UN's impotence was exposed recently when, in 
response to Israel's bombing of a UN observation post killing four 
UN observers, it was unable to issue a resolution condemning this 
criminal act... The scandalous manner in which the U.S. and her 
savage child [Israel] dominate the UN has completely erased what 
little credibility it once enjoyed." 
 
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-- "Khomaini and Hasan Nasrallah" is how Khalid Al-Raqeeb commented 
in the moderate Arabic daily Al-Watan (8/1): 
 
"We all remember why Khomeini famously ordered a cessation of war 
with Iraq; because he realized at the time that America stood behind 
Iraq and there was no balance of power between Iran and America.  At 
the time Iran realized that it was in the interest of its people to 
stop the war with Iraq... Doesn't Nasrallah realize that the balance 
of power is on the side of Israel, America and Britain? No matter 
how long he keeps shelling Israel, America and Britain will rally to 
help their ally.  Why can't Nasrallah have the courage and announce 
a stop to the war with Israel." 
 
-- "Olmert... Averwhelmed, Afraid and Regretful" columnist Mohammed 
Zein wrote in the moderate Arabic daily Al-Seyassah (8/1): 
 
"How much more time does Mr. Olmert need to finish his mission and 
achieve his goals? It seems, he comes up with new missions on an 
hourly basis; during the first day of the aggression he demanded 
from Hezbollah to hand over the two Israeli soldiers, then he 
demanded Hezbollah's disarmament, then he said he was fighting the 
war on terror... It has been twenty days and the Israeli shelling of 
Lebanon has not ceased... The Israelis never expected that their war 
with the Lebanese resistance would take this long  and be 
accompanied with the death of so many Israeli soldiers and the 
destruction of many of their tanks... Olmert does not want a 
ceasefire... He asked for fourteen days to achieve his goals; 
however this long period of time does not correspond with the might 
of his sophisticated military machine." 
 
-- "Don't Beat the Snake's Tail" Ahmad Al-Jarallah editor in chief's 
piece in the moderate Arabic daily Al-Seyassah (8/1): 
 
"Right now, the war in Lebanon is an extension of the disputes 
between Syria and Iran against the United States.  Therefore we call 
on the United States to beat the snake's head Iran, and not its tail 
represented by Iraq and Lebanon... Iran ignored the threat of having 
its nuclear program referred to the UNSC, therefore America must 
change the course of its political objective and beat the snake's 
head directly in Tehran.  America will not succeed in turning 
Lebanon into another Iraq, and Tehran and Damascus will not succeed 
in jeopardizing the international will to contain this war." 
 
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For more reporting from Embassy Kuwait, visit: 
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Visit Kuwait's Classified Website: 
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea/kuwait/ 
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