‘Are arch foes actually bosom pals?’

‘No action despite belligerent moves’

“THERE are some people who still cast doubts on the seriousness of the US attitude towards Iran,” columnist Dr Abdulmohsen Hamada wrote for Al-Jarida daily.

“In other words, in spite of what we see and hear about the statements issued by Iranian officials against America and Israel and counter statements issued by the US and Israeli officials against Iran, there are some people who still believe that the reality shows bosom relations linking these three parties.

“In this context, we say that there are some Arab media men who have confirmed in the social media that there is an Iranian embassy in Israel and have even shown the very building of the embassy but is working under the name Iranian-Israeli Friendship Society.

“According to these media men, the Iranian and Israeli experts meet at this building to draw plans to destroy Arab countries. Some of these media men say the war which currently takes place in the region is aimed at forcing the Syrian, Yemeni, Iraqi and Lebanese Arab Sunnis to leave for good in a prelude to dismantle Egypt and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in their capacity as the biggest Arab countries, hinting that all the above is currently being implemented under an American, Israeli and Iranian patronage.

“However, it looks difficult for anybody to believe the allegations in question, even if the relevant media men spare no efforts to promote and confirm the soundness of what they publish. But maybe these people aim to give advice to their respective countries to adopt the necessary preventive measures particularly since we know that these people see the Iranian revolution is the American-Israeli project that has been engineered to create a state of chaos and instability in the region to weaken this part of the world.

“In this connection, we cite what was earlier reported that the former Shah of Iran Muhammad Reza Pahlavi had advised the former Egyptian President Anwar elSadat not to trust the Americans because it is Washington which had handed over Tehran to the Mullahs of Iran.

“Meanwhile, we say Khomeini originally did not oppose the regime of the Shah because we know that it is Khomeini who had once published a book containing the fatwa (edict) prohibiting rebellion against the ruler.

“However, following the above, Saddam Hussein had even invited Khomeini and asked him to live in the Iraqi religious city of Najaf and had asked him to print pamphlets to instigate the Iranians to revolt against the regime of the Shah.

“But following reconciliation between Saddam and the Shah, Saddam expelled Khomeini and he left for Paris and the Western countries started promoting him as an alternative to the regime of the Shah.

“For their part, the Iranians of all sects and denominations – secularists, leftists and clerics – managed to bring down the regime of the Shah, but Khomeini and his party managed to rule Iran individually and continued to persecute and kill thousands of opponents, and Khomeini actually established a theocratic rule and derived its thought from the Middle Ages and the clerics started ruling the country where the turban took over from the crown and he declared his enmity against both America and Zionism and announced that he will liberate Palestine and destroy Israel as a state.

“For his part, el-Sadat, in one of his speeches said ‘the Iranian regime which criticizes us for our reconciliatory pact with Israel according to which we restored our occupied lands, is the same regime which imports most of its weapons from Israel and this was evident through the so called ‘Iran Gate’.’

“By doing so, Sadat was actually striving to prove that there is a secret collaboration between the Mullahs regime of Iran and Israel. However, in light of this collaboration, some people looked at US hesitation to confront Iran even when the latter shot down the American drone and Iran repeatedly attacked the oil tankers in the Gulf waters and even doubted the clandestine US-Iranian collaboration and mutual understanding.

“In this context, the same people say when Iraq was attempting to manufacture a nuclear bomb its plant was totally destroyed by surprise Israeli raids while Iran has been given the ‘free hand’ to manufacturing its atomic bomb.

“With regard to Iranian agents who describe themselves as forces of ‘resistance and rejection front’, actually ascribe the American hesitation to strike Iran to the US might and its own ability to destroy Israel and incur a heavy defeat on America.

“But what they probably don’t know is that the US is a state of institutions and as such it will not begin a war which will kill many people for silly reasons, particularly, since the US knows that it can achieve its objectives through economic sanctions which it has imposed on Iran, and because America aims to prevent Iran from manufacturing nuclear weapons and stop its aggressive polices of interfering in the internal affairs of its neighbor as America believes.”

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“It looks like the Islamic Republic of Iran is currently attempting to drag the US into a war as swiftly as possible and this was evident through the interception of ships in the Straits of the Arabian Gulf and towing these vessels to Iranian ports,” columnist Mubarak Mezyed Al-Moasherji wrote for Al-Rai daily.

“It is needless to say America doesn’t take hasty decisions or wage wars based on hasty reactions, rather America deploys soldiers, military equipment, destroyers and the aircraft carriers to the Arabian Gulf, in addition to some elite forces in the countries neighboring Iran where America has interests.

“However, most of these military personnel are missile experts and are deployed to protect these countries while some of them are secret servicemen who are sent to the Gulf region to deal with the Iranian sleeper cells.

“However, after finally preparing the theater for the battle to meet its requirements the failure to reach a peaceful solution Iran is currently suffering from an economic sanctions which have started raising resentment among the Iranians.

“We hope America will not wage any war in the region because the Arab, Islamic and the Persian people are the sole people living along the two banks of the Gulf and they will suffer should a war erupt in this part of the world but nothing will happen to the Americans.

“In this context, we cite how the deposed Saddam Hussein during the liberation war of the State of Kuwait tried to drag America into a land war as a result of which the Iraqi forces were totally destroyed in the Saudi area of Khafji along the Kuwait borders. America did not move but left the task of liberating Khafji to the Peninsula Shield Forces and the air cover was provided by the Qatar Air Force.

“But the actual war ended in just a few hours after surmounting all Saddam’s forces and this could be attributed to the fact that America had made good preparations for the liberation war and had every man and weapon in its right place.

“And because the war against Iran – should it break out – will be electronic in nature, then the random reactions will not be feasible as such the zero hour will define the completion of the preparations.”

“I hope the officials in Kuwait Municipality, which is the body in charge of enacting laws on the environment in cooperation with the Environment Protection Agency (EPA), to reconsider the issuance of law on waste recycling and imposing the use of biodegradable plastic bags, instead of piles of bags that are kindly used by cooperative societies and commercial shops to remain a permanent environment problem for tens or hundreds of years,” columnist Iqbal Al-Ahmad wrote for Al-Qabas daily.

“A group of aware countries, even they are developing countries, began serious campaigns for this purpose supported by the law to eliminate plastic bags, starting from banning its industry or importation to banning its use.

“India and Morocco, as reported by Eco Watch British Newspaper which is specialized in environmental Affairs in partnership with Greenpeace organization, are among countries exerting serious efforts in this regard.”

“It seems the disaster of the rain crisis, which was caused by poor governmental planning and implementation and corruption of some influential contractors, will not end in the midst of bargains and negotiations among all the parties involved in this tragedy that resulted in human and material losses in the country”, Zayed Al-Zaid wrote for Al-Nahar daily.

“It seems the disputes escalated after the rains investigation committee issued a report in which it condemned some governmental officials. However, other parties said the committee cleared some companies of the responsibility despite their bad implementation and corruption in their planning, which became evident in some Kuwait’s areas that were built wrongly based on technical reports.

“The series of regretful events highlights many important points that may hide many from the citizens.

“The most important of these points is that there is no government in the world with more than one opinion and viewpoint concerning the major corruption issues and natural disasters as well as ways of dealing with them except in Kuwait.

“It seems that we are the only country where a ministerial committee issues decisions contrary to the decision of a governmental body concerning the same matter.”

“Gulf countries generally differ from the rest of the Arab world in terms of special relations between the ruler and the people,” columnist Mubarak Fahad Al-Duwailah wrote for Al-Qabas daily.

“The State of Kuwait is characterized by the depth of relationship between the people and the ruler despite many observations on the performance of successive Kuwaiti governments and many shortcomings in the performance of some ministers. These things did not affect the presence of positive feelings in the hearts of Kuwaitis towards their Amir.

“This lovely relationship between the people of Kuwait and the Amir is a result of their feeling that they live in a distinguished reality compared to neighboring countries.

“The criticism of people on some shortcomings is separate from the positive feelings they have towards their leader. The demands of citizens today were the reality in the past.

“I mean that a few years ago Kuwait did not have any opinion prisoners, but today, there are tens of opinion prisoners in the Central Jail side by side criminals, murderers and drug traffickers. It is true that some of them crossed the red lines concerning criticism. Actually, the feelings of freedom they were familiar with during the golden days of freedom made them forget that today we have new regulations putting a ceiling to freedom.

“Yesterday, we did not hear about any Kuwaiti political refugee living in Europe. Today, we have Kuwaiti families gathering to pray for their children living in exile.

“The Amir of Kuwait today serves as the safety valve not only for Kuwaitis, but for the Gulf region, Arabs and their eternal and dominant issue concerning Palestine. Thus, we see that Kuwaitis look at their Amir as the source they resort to in order to find solutions to most of their troubles after the failure of the Parliament to perform its reformative role. For all this, Kuwaitis love their Amir and wish him long life and good deeds.”

“Since 10 or more years ago, we have been hearing about the transition from paper-based government to e-government which means abandoning systems based on documents and paperwork, computerizing transactions and archiving them in a way that facilitates procedures for government agencies, citizens and residents, in addition to reducing cost and saving time and effort for both parties. Is there real work towards this direction, or is it mere ‘talk’ as is the case in most projects that the citizen dreams of seeing?” columnist Abdulrahman Al-Awwad wrote for Al-Sabah daily.

“People have been waiting for the realization of several dreams for many years, but they got bored of seeing nothing realized or not seeing any sign of accomplishing them. The dream is to reach what developed countries achieved 50 or more years ago like completing transactions by e-mail rather than snail mail.

“In Kuwait, we have minds, plans and adequate material resources to make a qualitative leap in the completion of transactions for visitors, but we have yet to take an executive step in this regard and we do not know the real reason behind it.

“Is fear the real reason behind this stalemate, for example, or there are other reasons we do not know? In general, we hope to overcome obstacles and implement the e-government project in such that one can complete transactions from home.”

“The Ministry of Health took excellent steps in dealing with the case of a child who died allegedly due to anesthesia at a dental clinic in Fahaheel Health Center,” columnist Abdulrahman Al-Awwad wrote for Al-Sabah daily.

“The ministry implemented the instructions of Minister Dr Sheikh Bassel Al-Sabah to suspend the concerned doctor as a precautionary measure, ban him from traveling and form an investigation committee to determine the cause of death.

“The minister also issued a decision to form a technical committee tasked to review and update procedures for ensuring the safety of patients when administering anesthesia during dental procedures and surgeries.

“This is a good decision as it will contribute in identifying the cause of death if there is no medical error. It will also help in the review of procedures and policies on administering anesthesia to patients in hospitals, specialized centers and clinics.”

— Compiled by Zaki Taleb