Kuwaiti writer calls for killing all Palestinians
May 29th, 2007Reading what Kuwaiti writer Abdalla Hadlak wrote in the Kuwaiti daily Alwatan (5/27/007) on the Lebanese crises of Fatah-Islam, I thought I was reading a neo-Nazi manifesto that wants to murder and exterminate the entire Palestinian people!
Borrowing a passage from the Quran Mr. Hadlak titled his rampage against the Palestinians “Fight/kill them and Allah shall torture them through your hands.”
Not only did the writer twisted and corrupted the Quranic verse to serve his twisted purposes but he did not leave a rock unturned without hurling insults and accusations against the entire Palestinian people calling for their mass murder and torture and their total destruction.
Much of Hadlak rampage does not make any sense however. His arguments were very incoherent and flat out false and lack any sense of historical accuracy or sound logic, and neither supported by any facts. His facts are, in fact, non-existence and more, his entire piece has nothing to do with Lebanon or the crises brewing there, but rather it was an anti-Palestinian murderous manifesto.
He for example claim that “The majority of the 30,000 Palestinian refugees in the Nahr el-bared camp are terrorists.”
Every time Hadlak uttered the word “Palestinian” he made sure to precede it with several adjectives such as “terrorists, lowly, backstabbers, hateful, untrustworthy” in order to drive home his point that the entire Palestinian people are the lowliest creatures on this earth and they deserve nothing but to be “killed, tortured and “their heads chopped off.”
He claims that the Palestinian refugees are traitors to the Lebanese government, and traits such treason, backstabbing are inherent in them and that the Lebanese government, according to him, provides food, shelter, safety, comfort, security and leisurely life style for those refugees.
Therefore and because of Palestinian “terrorism” he calls on the Lebanese army to “chase them down (the Palestinians) cut them down, kill them down, and chop their heads off.”
“Oh heroic Lebanese army, attack the Palestinian terrorists who follow the orders of Baath and Persian terrorism ,chase them down, cut them down, be severe on them and teach them a lesson they shall not forget (Fight/kill them and Allah shall torture them through your hands, embarrassing them, rendering you victorious over them thus quenching the chests of the believers – the Quran).”
The truth is that the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon live in poverty stricken camps, squalid conditions of open sewers and no running water system and a Palestinian refugee cannot bring in a bag of cement to the camp to fix his home if it needs t be fixed. On top of that the Lebanese law forbids Palestinians to hold over 70 jobs and profession.
However, not only did the entire Lebanese political class as well as all of the mainline Palestinian organizations inside or outside the camp say that the Palestinians and the refugees had nothing to do with Fatah-Islam. This piece of crucial information was conspicuously absent and did not register in the blood thirsty and twisted mind of Mr. Hadlak.
I am surprised (or maybe I shouldn’t be) that such writings are considered “mainstream” in the Kuwaiti press. And if may venture to say that I have not heard even the staunchest Israeli extremist racist had ever said such murderous words comparable to what Hadlak had to say. Moreover, what Hadlak said of the Palestinian people in his recent and older columns are worst than what Hitler and the Nazis had said of the Jews.
The level of rhetoric of Hadlak and other Kuwaiti extremists such as another Alwatan columnist Fuad Hashem, would make Hitler sounds more like mother Teresa.
We can discern the source of Hadlak’s extremist views if we substitute the word Lebanon with Kuwait in 1990 during the time of illegal Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
Kuwaitis accuse the Palestinians of supporting Saddam’s army during the occupation of Kuwait in 1990/1991, however this is far from the truth.
I spoke with “Abu Ala” a Palestinian who lived in Kuwait for 29 years and owned a sheet metal fabrication factory prior to the Iraqi invasion. Abu Ala’ told me that the Iraqi occupation authorities asked the Palestinian in Kuwait to come out and demonstrate in support of Saddam Hussein. The Palestinians there refused to do so.
One small Iraqi-made Palestinian organization called “Arab liberation Front” did support Saddam forces there because they were for all intents and purposes an Iraqi organization.
This “Arab Liberation front” was an Iraqi funded group made to serve Iraqi propaganda which like other Arab regimes uses the Palestinian cause to legitimize their rule in the eyes of the Arab peoples.
Much of the looting and killing, according to Abu Ala’ who remained there during the occupation and news reports during that time were done by the rag tag Iraqi popular army. And some of the looting of Kuwaitis homes were done by other Kuwaitis who knew that their neighbors had fled the country.
The late Yasser Arafat the object of intense Kuwaiti hatred and smear campaign did not support the occupation of Kuwait; however he did not support an American intervention and war and called for an intra-Arab solution to the crises.
Kuwaitis could never forget this of course and they are holding the entire Palestinian people responsible for the occupation and the destruction and death occurred in their country.
After the liberation of Kuwait by the American forces in 1991, the Kuwaitis turned around and started killing off Palestinians residents randomly, raping Palestinian women, kidnapping small children, raping them and according to stories of survivors of that period those young children ended up as body parts to older Kuwaitis in need of body organs. Abu Ala’ told me of “Abdel Karim” a Palestinian who worked for him at his factory when he came to him distraught and disoriented telling that his 13 years old daughter had disappeared.
Abdel Karim searched for his daughter frantically and never found her.
Over 400,000 thousand Palestinians who lived in Kuwait were expelled in a mass exodus out of that country to live yet another exile in another country.
The Kuwaiti police, army and civilians did all those horrific things with complete sense of righteous vengeance. No international body investigated the Kuwaiti crimes of rape, murder and stealing and looting Palestinian homes and properties.
For Abu Ala’ the invading Iraqi army hauled off his sheet metal factory that had over $ 1.5 million worth of machinery to Iraq. He was left helpless and penniless and had to leave Kuwait fearing for his life soon after.
While the United Nations made reparation and compensation to Kuwait and Kuwaitis after the war, Abu Ala’ saw very little of that money, because his factory was under a Kuwaiti name because Kuwaiti law forbids non-Kuwaitis from owning anything, and properties had to be registered by a surrogate Kuwaiti citizen.
Kuwait which was one of the most progressive Arab countries that had embraced the Palestinians and their organizations and causes physically and financially has been transformed into a bastion of intense anti-Palestinian hatred and animosity and the most Pro-Israeli sentiments in the Arab world.
For Abu Ala’ the irony was that the UN reparation commission had compensated the Kuwaiti surrogate citizen for Abu Ala’s own factory. That Kuwaiti citizen was glad to keep the money Abu Ala’ had to work 29 years of his life in Kuwait to make!
Now a succsful Palestinian-American business man, Abu Ala’ traveled to Kuwait for the first time since he left in 1991 using his American passport, he told me that Kuwait has changed a lot. “It is no longer the country I knew for 29 years.”
“We used to love Kuwait and yearn for those years we lived in there in peace. But this time around I found that the love for Kuwait is no more.”
Abu Ala’ still does not know what happened to Abdel Karim’s daughter and probably no one will ever know.
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Was He high when he wrote the column?
seriously I am all for free speech but that is a load of hate filled zealot crap. As journalists they should write constructively and deter from destructive writings. Sad.
I believe that these anti-Palestinian comments are reflective of how the Palestinians have been used by other Arab nations and their leaders for their own political purposes. Has any Muslim nation (except perhaps Jordan) made any attempt to assimilate or better the living conditions of the refugees? Why wasn’t a Palestinian state established between 1948 and 1967 on the West Bank, in East Jerusalem and in Gaza? Egypt and Jordan seized that territory for their own and apparently used the refugees as political pawns in their conflict with Israel and the West. Certainly Syria and Jordan have their own histories of killing Palestinians. It seems to me that the “friends” of the Palestinians can be their worst enemy.
Palestinians, without a government or a state of their own to protect them, are the easiest target in the Arab world to pick on, deport, kill , torture and imprison without any Arab government fear of any state retribution .
…..Palestinians, without a government ….. the easiest target…
Well, with a government it doesn’t look all rosey for them either (looking at what is going on in the PA)
tsedek, you want to elaborate on that?
Ali, that is true.
The Mahdi Army issued a infamous announcement in January, calling on all Palestinians inside Iraq to leave or ‘prepare to die’. Their reasoning is that they had ‘their bellies filled up’ while they were suffering under Saddam. They also claimed that they were supporters of al-Qaeda and thus needed to be wiped out, according to a Mahdi Army spokesperson.
The Mahdi Army people, and I heared it as well from many Iraqis the claim that the Palestinians in Iraq- they were around 30,000 people-have lived better life that 27 million Iraqis. Though After Saddam had gone, we come to find out that Palestinians in Iraq lived in houses ( not palaces) no better than the Iarqs and had jobes no better than the Iraqis. the predeciemnt of the Palestianians is that they are an easy target to kill.
the victor writes history, and claims what he says is right, through history the sides that wins the war writes the history, and poeple takes it for granted because it came from an official sources, and people will believe it, cause it came from their own sources
well people ever wake up
[...] groups wanting Palestinians out of their territory. And who could forget the Kuwaiti author who once wrote that most Palestinians are backstabbing and are thus deserving of [...]
[...] groups wanting Palestinians out of their territory. And who could forget the Kuwaiti author who once wrote that most Palestinians are backstabbing and are thus deserving of [...]
hahah this would be the perfect middle east solution ..
Ok, i’m kuwaiti and i have to say that the extremist cruel article and point of view of the author of the article regarding the Palestinian massacre ic inhumane.
But the reason i felt inclined to comment is because of the rest of the facts regarding the gulf war. First off, the palestinians in kuwait had it much better off than in any other arab country, with the exception of the UAE. So to claim that we have in any way abused them thus far before the gulf war proves why kuwaitis think palestinians are backstabbers. My mother used to work in Sabah hospital, and we moved to germany in 1985 so this was before there were any rumors about an invasion. A palestinian woman who works there says that she wishes to see the day Kuwait gets invaded. She wishes this even though she had an all expense paid trip and operation and stay at one of the best hospitals in london that was financed by the kuwaiti government.
This coming from my mother, who strongly believes that one should not say “I’m Kuwaiti” or “I’m Lebanese” etc…but should instead say “I;m Arab”. I do believe, and this is true, that only a few palestinians remained loyal to kuwait. My uncle works in the ministry and he’s been in the company of the few.
Another thing that you failed to mention was the billions and milliards of dollars Kuwait donated to palestine. How dare you accuse us of not doing anything but kick you out of our country when you have betrayed us? Again, you prove that the kuwaitis have to right to not trust you.
Your hate towards Kuwait is ironic given the fact that to this day every kuwaiti donates (voluntarily or involuntarily, it’s a requirement) about 10-20% of their allowance to the red crescent that supports palestine. The banks (owned by kuwaitis) automatically send that percentage to the rec crescent.
Also, your claim that kuwaitis mass murdered and raped and kidnapped is so lacking in evidence. Your “Abdel Karim”, whose name u place under quotations which only proves it’s a fake story, is the only evidence u have and the story about the missing girl?,……doesn’t mean that a kuwaiti has done it. That’s unfair and proves over and over again like your whole weak article that you are just venting ur typical hate towards kuwait. you found a way to vent out by using this sick man as an excuse, when u prove yourself just as sick.
The same hate and jealousy to gulf countries is seen here in the UAE, and i heard from a palestinian girl myself in uni when she complained about the UAE and still, funny enough, complained while at the same time asking what hamas is.
And you not only managed to provide a weak article, but also proved yourself like the (while wrongly accused because i believe the kuwaitis have to right to not trust just any palestinian anymore) you go and complain about how kuwaitis are this and that because of one or two journalists and you still had the audacity to claim (despite the falsehood of your fact of the minority Saddam supporting group because my family and their family friends have suffered so much in the gulf war from both palestinians and iraqis) that we kuwaitis are being unreasonable to judge a whole community based on a minority. You are doing the same with what, 2 or 3 journalists?
This is why again and again i ask myself why i should feel sorry and inlcined to help. But in the end i’m human and i can’t watch children day, and so i accept that a portion of my salary goes to support gaza and that the clothes and canned food i donated will reach it. Because this is for Allah, otherwise why bother with decades of ingatitude.
Allah forgive you for this selfish ingratitude and hypocritical act and ease of lying.