‘Religious state future dilemma’
‘Global scenario heading for change’
“The studies and the essence of the reports published in the Hebrew press indicate that all the projects planned by Israel to Judaize the whole of Palestine have gone in contradictory directions, including the state religious project, which denies the non-Jewish settlers any kind of rights,” columnist, the director general and the editor-in-chief of the Sawt (Voice) Al-Arab Satellite TV Channel Dr Hesham Al-Diwan wrote for Al-Shahed daily.
“However, through my readings and daily follow up of many of non- Arab newspapers columns in Palestine, I have observed some shocking confessions made by many high level Jewish writers who say they have realized the fact that the religious state shall constitute a difficult dilemma for the future of Israel.
“This is because the world has preferred to keep silent in dealing with the situation either due to its response or due to its fear from the current American administration reaction.
“But this silence is likely to change in the future and this shall depend on the circumstances of the future president who will win the race to the White House. In other words, this change will probably surface following the end of the current term of President Donald Trump.
“As a matter of fact, these writers have put their hands on large faults and large holes that will soon begin to widen, given the fact the first development will be represented by the prospective change in the balance of power in the world which is currently supporting, protecting and financing Israel through the science, funds, the technological industry and military weapons.
“In this context, we look at the dispute between Russia and Israel after the shooting down of the Russian plane off the Syrian coast by Syria and possibly Russian ground defenses after Israel had intentionally jammed the radar and caused confusion after the Israeli fighter plane had used the Russian aircraft as a shield while firing missiles at ground targets Syria’s Latakia province.
“However, following this event the Israeli defense minister said in a television interview that Israel has the world’s most powerful military aircraft with 1,000 fighter jets and that its pilots are the most efficient in the world and therefore capable of fighting Russian pilots.
“One hour later, the Russian defense minister, together with the commander of the air force and the chief of staff of the Russian army units, held a television interview on one of the channels of the global RT network, in which the Russian minister said that his country has 6,800 large fighter aircraft including swarms of stealth aircraft not monitored by radars, in addition to two generations of warplanes which are not in possession of the US Air Force at the moment, which was supposed to be the strongest military force on the surface of the earth.
“During this interview, the Russian minister asked the Russian air force commander about the time taken for any military Russian/Israeli confrontation, and the commander responded that this takes two hours not only for deleting Israel from the map by the ballistic missiles or by huge bombardments, but to wipe out the United States or the latter’s offensive and defensive potentials.
“Given the above, I think the message has reached both Washington and Tel Aviv simultaneously following the televised interview in question and this became evident when the Israeli defense minister swallowed his tongue.
“However, it seems difficult for any researcher to accept the Israeli logic of international protection that has yet to be realized that the time factor is not in its favor, because the Arabs shall not remain sleeping all the time nor will be far from the inevitable return to both science and development.
“Not only that, the Palestinians, who Israel is currently depriving them of all their rights, either through the religious state law based on a single citizenship as well as on a single nationalism, or through its actions practiced by it prior to the legislation of the said law, they (the Palestinians) be they inside and outside Israel are currently more in number than the Israelis and also their birth rate wise.
“Such being the case, we wonder on what is Israel still betting since neither the time factor nor the international attitude will be in its favor, particularly since we know that the United States will in future be weaker than now. Moreover, there is a possibility of the US being divided into different states instead of its current federal system.
“Apart from the above, we expect the current week Arab and Islamic attitude that has been caused by internal wars, doctrinal struggles, ignorance, illiteracy and the other illogical factors which currently govern the nation of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him), will change, hence, this law that shall make Israel a state of a single religion at the expense of the Palestinians who have been deprived from even the simplest rights by Israel, shall remain (the law) without any value.”
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“For the second time, the Speaker of the Kuwaiti National Assembly Marzouq Al-Ghanim has attacked the Israeli delegation before the General Assembly of the International Parliament Union (IPU) during the Conference No. 139,” columnist Abdurrahman Al-Awwad wrote for Al-Sabah daily. “It is a brave action indeed (Al-Ghanim attitude) which we have not witnessed for a long time and this definitely signifies that the State of Kuwait supports the just cause of the Palestinians and as such it is the State of Kuwait which supports the efforts of the Palestinians in dealing with the usurping occupier.
“The speech of Al-Ghanim during this conference represents a talk that must be studied and we can describe the same as a brave and just talk.
“It is a talk of an Arab human being who is concerned about the issues of his nation and who stands to defend them. In this context, we quote him: ‘For more than 50 years, the Palestinians have been carrying the olive branch but the missiles and the cannons are used in response. When the Palestinian pelt the stones, they are attacked by gunfire with automatic weapons whose sound is disgusting.’
“Apart from the above, the Speaker wondered: ‘Have the Palestinians requested hoisting a white flag and leave his/her land to an unknown place?’. This he said, ‘Will not happen.’
“It is indeed, this situation of our Palestinian brothers since more than 50 years, during which the missiles, the raids and bombs have harvested their souls. Moreover, this occupation entity (Israel) spares no viscous might to kill, betray and terrorize a people who demand justice and have never played the role of an aggressor, rather it is this brutal entity which has looted and embezzled the land and built on it its racist and notorious settlements in full view of the entire world.”
“Over the years, I have been following the developments in anesthesia and its consequences, and I have noticed immense progress in this field,” columnist Dr
Ibrahim Behbehani wrote for Al-Qabas daily. “I also notice keenness to minimize and avoid the negative consequences of anesthesia. Actually, deaths resulting from anesthesia has dropped from 1:5,000 cases each year to 1:10,000 cases for the past eight years.
“Al-Jarida daily quoting Dr Salah Al-Sharif who heads an Anesthesiology Department at a private hospital stated a recent study shows that 65 percent of patients are rendered services by anesthesiologists, and I would like to confirm the study.
“I also would like to quote a speech by Head of Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care at Al-Razi Hospital who said deaths resulting from anesthesia have become rare in Kuwait thanks to latest developments in this field. As per popular opinion, the cause of anesthesia related death is overdose, while others believe it’s has more to do with the history of the patient and medical condition.
“I want to commend the recent decision taken by the Ministry of Health that obliges patients to sign consent form before undergoing surgery and the use of anesthesia, indicating the decision includes all surgical operations and it’s aimed at informing the patient about details of the surgery they are about to undergo.
“I want to praise the Ministry of Health on its keenness to enforce the fingerprint attendance system on everybody, except disabled employees, based on humanitarian grounds. Enforcement of the decision aroused objections, although the decision is not new and preceded a similar one taken in 2017 in line Civil Service Commission’s Decision No. 41/2006 and discovered that employees occupying supervisory positions are the most violators.”
“Illiteracy is considered as a major challenge in the Third World and the Arab societies. The rate of illiteracy in these societies is very high when compared to the education rate in the rest of the world, and in Japan, there is an adage which says, ‘O man, think so that you can be creative,’ and this urges man to cater for his culture and rights in education and academic acquiring,” columnist Mishref Eqab wrote for
Al-Shahed daily. “It is unfortunate that the Third World is considered to have the highest rate of illiteracy and according to latest reports from UNESCO, one out of five adults in the Arab world is illiterate, and as it affirmed in previous reports, about 43 percent of the children in the Arab world lack basic principles for learning, irrespective whether they go to school or not.
“According to some experts, the Third World suffers from very dangerous chronic crisis of illiteracy which will be difficult to cure due to the spread of many internal crises which are difficult to solve due to lack of interest in the development of the education system and lack of government interest in the output of the education and academic requirements.
“Among the solutions is to build more universities because it is not reasonable for Kuwait to have a single university which was established in 1968 and because of its historic feature is mimicked by all countries around. It is unfortunately we have fallen far behind and yet we hear nothing about the Shaddadiya University any time opening soon.”
“The multiplicity of Islamic doctrines is not dangerous to the faith, because pluralism is the result of a multiplicity of views of the imams of Fiqh in some cases, which do not amount to doubting and questioning the Holy Quran and the Sunnah. The views are just theoretical differences and jurisprudence aimed at interpreting the doctrine and simplifying it for the people,” columnist Mustafa Al Sarraf wrote for Al Qabas daily.
“Needless to say in the atmosphere of sectarian fanaticism, theoretical differences can lead to the dissolution of the Muslim nation and its division. There is no doubt that intolerance is the result of ignorance and limited awareness of the dimensions of the totalitarian Islamic faith that came down to all people, such that Salman al-Farsi, the Persian embraced it, Bilal Al-Habasha, the African embraced it among others from different backgrounds and origins.
“Racial fanaticism accompanies the seed of division, and it is easy for those who want to harm the Islamic nation to succeed in such instances, but multiplicity in opinion – along with awareness and tolerance lead to enriching the jurisprudence and assimilation of the doctrine. Today, we are witnesses to many signs of ignorance, while tribal, sectarian and racial intolerance reign in the politics of the modern state. What a recipe for disaster!” “In the past few years, newspapers have been working on inviting academic professionals and releasing various reports issued by regional and international organizations in order to find an appropriate mechanism for evaluating the performance of higher education institutions via teachers and researchers,”
Dr Nada Sulaiman Al-Mutawa wrote for Aljarida daily.
“I say this because recent reports issued by international institutions such as the World Bank represent the danger alarm. They call for paying more attention to the development of human resources.
I would like to ask: Why does the educational policy fail in producing reform and modernization. Why do the reports of the World Bank differ every year whereby some of them praise us while the others criticize us?
“For example, the World Bank, in its report published in 2004, described education in Kuwait as a weak achievement for students, and stated that the length of the classes in Kuwait are the shortest in the world. Then in its report in 2017, the World Bank expressed admiration when highlighting Kuwait’s correct educational course.”