by MEMRI
This is not the first time Al-Hadlaq has castigated Hamas and Iran and praised Israel.
In a March 31, 2018 article in the Kuwaiti government daily Al-Watan,
columnist 'Abdallah Al-Hadlaq harshly criticized the Hamas-led "Great
Return March" initiative, stating that protests of this sort lead to
chaos and are not accepted in Islam. Calling Hamas "terrorist" and
"allied with Iran," he accused it of using women and children as human
shields and described the marches as "provocative." He warned that the
protests are likely to get out of hand and provoke violence by the
Israeli Defense Forces, and that, like previous Palestinian protests,
they will generate no international sympathy for the Palestinian cause.
He also called U.S. President Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as
Israel's capital and move the U.S. embassy there "courageous and
correct."
This
is not the first time Al-Hadlaq has castigated Hamas and Iran and
praised Israel. In the past he was included on a "blacklist" of Arab
writers who support Israel and oppose Hizbullah, Hamas and Iran.[1]
It should be noted that his March 31 article has been removed from Al-Watan's website. The following are translated excerpts from it: [2]
The article as it appeared on the Al-Watan website
"Demonstrations
and sit-ins are un-Islamic and are unknown in Muslim history. These are
non-Muslim methods that Islam does not accept. Violent demonstrations
and sit-ins are negative phenomena that lead to chaos. All this [is
based on] religious rulings by qualified fatwa-issuing bodies, and they
apply to the calls issued by the terrorist Hamas movement, Iran's ally,
to participate in a violent demonstration titled 'the Great Return
March' and its call for women and children to lead the terrorists and
inciters in breaching the Israeli border fence...
"Despite the organizers' promise to
control the marches and demonstrations and keep them non-violent so as
not to give the IDF an excuse to use force, [we can assume,] given the
violent and aggressive character of the terrorist, pro-Iranian Hamas
movement, and its habit of using civilians, [including] women and
children, as human shields, [that] these demonstrations and marches will
surely turn into violence, destruction and chaos, and will not manage
to generate international sympathy for the 'Palestinians'[3] or any support for what they call their rights, especially the 'right of return.'
"The terrorist Palestinian factions
decided to organize marches and demonstrations they call 'The Great
Return March' near the Gaza-Israel border on the 42nd
anniversary of the so-called Land Day. The organizers of these
provocative marches and demonstrations began to level [the ground] along
the border in order to set up a permanent protest-camp for the
demonstrators. The IDF will surely not allow the rabble to cross the
security fence [between Israel and] the Gaza Strip, and will handle the
events from the perspective of Israel's might and national security.
Accordingly, the IDF is making the necessary preparations and bringing
in the reinforcements necessary to handle any possible development.
"The Palestinians' previous thuggish and
violent marches and protests did not succeed, did not yield
international solidarity with the Palestinians, and did not help
[improve] the internal [Palestinian] situation by directing the
Palestinian anger towards Israel... Israel's concern is that these
marches may target [its territory], leading to escalation [of the
violence] and to the launching of a larger and more violent operation on
May 15, when America's 'Deal of the Century' [is to be revealed] and
its decision to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem [is to be
implemented].
"The IDF may use protest-dispersal means,
such as airdropping flyers, shooting in the air and shooting tear-gas
canisters in order to keep the marchers from reaching the border zone.
The use of force by the IDF cannot be ruled out if [the protesters] try
to closely approach the Israel-Gaza border, and then every kind of
response may ensue.
"Any Palestinian proposal is doomed to
fail, after President Trump took the courageous and correct decision to
declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel and to transfer of the U.S.
embassy there, and announced the Deal of the Century, to end the eternal
conflict between the state of Israel and the unceasing Palestinian
stubbornness... [He did this] because Israel-U.S. relations are
strategic and have cultural depth, so the U.S. will never conceivably
give up [its support for] Israel, which is its foremost ally. The
occasional disagreements between them are short-lived and confined to
specific opinions and views. Israel serves the broad American plan, and
the disagreements between them are negligible.
"Since December 6, 2017, when President
Trump declared Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and launched [the
process of] moving the U.S. Embassy there, the Palestinian protests have
remained very minor, and, according to current assessments, are
dwindling to nothing. The Palestinian Authority6 called for protests,
but it does not want violent protests. Hamas, on the other hand, tried
to exploit this call [for protests] to spark a third intifada, but its
efforts were in vain."
[1] See MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 2319,- Arab Media Publishes Blacklist of Writers, April 27, 2009.
For previous articles by him, see: Special Dispatch No. 6192, Kuwaiti Columnist: Israel Has The Right To Defend Itself Against Palestinian Knife Terrorism, October 20, 2015; Special Dispatch No. 6132 - Kuwaiti Columnist: The Gulf States' Real Enemy Is Iran; Israel Is A Friendly Country, December 8, 2015; Special Dispatch No. 5061, Arab Columnists Criticize Firing Of Rockets From Gaza As Reckless Escapade Serving Iran, Not Palestinians, November 20, 2012; Clip No. 6283, Kuwaiti
Writer Abdullah Al-Hadlaq: Israel Is a Legitimate State, Not an
Occupier; There Was No Palestine; I Support Israel-Gulf-U.S. Alliance to
Annihilate Hizbullah, November 19, 2017.
[2] Al-Watan (Kuwait), March 31, 2018.
[3] Throughout the article, the author places the word "Palestinian" in quotation marks.
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