KUWAIT: Around a hundred demonstrators rallied at the so-called Determination Square yesterday across the National Assembly in protest against the Annapolis peace talks aimed at restarting the long-dead Middle East peace process. Jewish settlers also protested in Jerusalem while Muslims protested in Egypt, Gaza, Iran and Indonesia among other places.
Protesters braved frigid temperatures at last night's rally, which was organized by the Kuwait Students Union. They brandished banners with slogans like, 'No for normalization with the Zionists', 'Kuwait will remain an advocate for Al-Aqsa Mosque' and 'No to the conference of surrender'. MP Adnan Abdulsamad, a member of the Popular Bloc, captured the crowd's feeling on the conference, saying, "The Annapolis conference was born dead.
MP Jaman Al-Harbash, an Islamist, was one of several MPs attending the protest as a show of support to the students. He offered the following message to world leaders: "Muslims do not recognize these conventions and the attendees do not represent the will of their people." Islamic Constitutional Movement member MP Nasser Al-Sane said, "You cannot normalize relations with the Zionists in any way." Al-Harbash added, "I believe the countries participating are the same countries which revolve around the will o
f the Americans.
Abdulsamad concurred, saying, "The American administration pressured Arab countries to attend...which is an Israeli desire. I applaud the decision of the Kuwaiti government to not participate in the convention. The Kuwaiti government is in line with the people of Kuwait on this issue.
Assembly Speaker Jassem Al-Khorafi was quoted yesterday as saying Israel must stop its attempts to Judaize Jerusalem and its repeated aggressions against the Al-Aqsa Mosque in order for permanent peace to be established. "Al-Aqsa does not belong to an individual or a leader, it belongs to the ummah (the nation)," Al-Sane said at the protest.
MPs in attendance uniformly rejected the Annapolis talks, with Al-Harbash saying, "All these conventions starting from Madrid to Annapolis will not return any rights and they are failed experiments." "The United States is trying to legitimize the Zionist entity - participation is a kind of recognition of the Zionist entity," Abdulsamad added. MP Al-Harbash captured the general feeling of Muslims on the Arab-Israeli quagmire saying, "Today the Islamic street is despondent.
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Obviously here is a country we defended against Iraq, and they have had it with us.
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