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Pro-Palestinian View THULHIJJA 29, 1441 AH WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19 , 2020 16 Pages Max 46º Min 28º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 18209 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Coronavirus crisis cost Kuwait Beirut blast prompts new High-tech farmers sow seeds Barca sack Setien, Koeman 3 govt KD 740 million: Lawmaker 5 exodus from Lebanon 12 of revolution in Dubai desert 16 favorite to take charge Kushner: Kuwait taking ‘very radical’ pro-Palestinian view Saudis urged to normalize ties with Israel • Oman, Israel discuss developments JERUSALEM/DUBAI: The US is not pressuring Israel. Normalization is a dagger stuck in the Kuwait and other Gulf Arab states to establish diplo- Palestinian cause and in the back of Arab society,” More virus restrictions eased matic relations with Israel, senior White House advis- the NGOs, including the Kuwait Lawyers er Jared Kushner said Monday. After US President Association, Kuwait Media Association and Kuwait Donald Trump announced last week that Israel and Economic Association, said in a joint statement. the United Arab Emirates had agreed to normalize The statement said the “occupying Zionist” coun- ties, Kushner said he expected more Arab countries try continues its violations against Palestinian broth- to follow suit. ers and sisters, adding the Palestinian cause is the But Kuwait, he said, was “out there taking a very priority of Arabs. The statement also emphasized that radical view on the conflict to date in favor of the all kinds of rights of Palestinian people to resist the Palestinians and obviously that hasn’t been very con- occupation are fully supported. structive”. Following the accord with the UAE, Kushner said it would be in Saudi Arabia’s interest Kuwait said it will be the last country to normalize to normalize ties with Israel as the UAE has agreed to relations with Israel, the Al-Qabas daily reported do. It would also weaken their common foe Iran’s Sunday, citing Kuwaiti government sources. influence in the region and ultimately help the “Countries will do things that are in their interest Palestinians, Kushner told reporters during the tele- to do. Kuwait has a very spongy history with the phone briefing. “It would be very good for Saudi Palestinians,” said Kushner, referring to Palestinian business, it would very good for Saudi’s defense, and, official support for Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait during quite frankly, I think it would also help the Palestinian the 1991 Gulf War, when more than 400,000 people,” Kushner said. Palestinians in Kuwait were forced out of the country. Saudi Arabia, the Arab world’s biggest economy, Eli Avidar, a former Israeli diplomatic emissary in has been silent on Trump’s surprise announcement the Gulf turned opposition lawmaker, invoked such a last Thursday that the UAE, a close US and Saudi ally, scenario for Palestinians in the UAE. “Emirati citizens and Israel had decided to normalize relations. In are different to Israelis and Americans. They won’t return, Israel agreed to suspend the annexation of forget,” he said in an Arabic speech. “Your brothers occupied West Bank territories, although Prime who reside in the UAE will be expelled due to your Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the plan was not attitudes.” off the table in the long run. KUWAIT: Salons and gyms reopened yesterday, while public buses were back on the streets as the coun- More than 30 non-governmental organizations in “Israel has agreed with us that they will not move try moved into the fourth phase of a return to normal life. Restaurants also began offering dine-in serv- Kuwait issued a joint statement Sunday condemning forward without our consent. We do not plan to give ices and tailor shops reopened. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat (See Page 3) the agreement between the UAE and Israel. “We our consent for some time,” Kushner told reporters reject any kind of normalization with occupying Continued on Page 2 Hariri and 21 others. 7, but was postponed until Tuesday after mobile phone records with prosecutors Hezb leadership “The trial chamber is of the view that a colossal fertilizer warehouse explosion allege prove the plot to kill Hariri. Salim Syria and Hezbollah may have had in Beirut on Aug 4 that killed 177 people Ayyash, 56, is accused of leading the motives to eliminate Mr Hariri and his and deepened political tensions in the team that carried out the bombing, which ‘not involved’ in political allies, however there is no evi- country. involved a truck packed full of explosives dence that the Hezbollah leadership had Re called on the court to observe a that detonated near Hariri’s motorcade. Hariri’s killing any involvement in Mr Hariri’s murder “minute’s silence to remember the vic- Assad Sabra, 43, and Hussein Oneissi, 46, and there is no direct evidence of Syrian tims of this catastrophe, those who lost allegedly sent a fake video to the Al- LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands: involvement,” said Judge David Re, read- their lives, those who were maimed or Jazeera news channel claiming responsi- There is no evidence that the leadership ing a summary of the court’s 2,600 page injured, their families, those who were bility on behalf of a made-up group. of the Iran-backed group Hezbollah, or decision. made homeless”. Hariri’s son Saad, him- Hassan Habib Merhi, 54, is accused of the Syrian government, were involved in The four suspects are on trial in self a former Lebanese prime minister, general involvement in the plot. the 2005 bombing that killed former absentia at the court in the Netherlands was in the heavily-secured court for the The judgment harks back to an event Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Al-Hariri, over the suicide bombing in the reading out of the judgment, which was that changed the face of the Middle East, a judge said yesterday. The Special Lebanese capital 15 years ago that killed expected to take several hours. with Hariri’s assassination triggering a Tribunal for Lebanon was reading the billionaire Hariri and 21 other people. The Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has wave of demonstrations that pushed Syrian verdict in the trial of four Hezbollah judgment of the Special Tribunal for refused to hand over the four defendants, forces out of Lebanon after 30 years. members charged with conspiracy to kill Lebanon was initially scheduled for Aug and the case relies almost entirely on Continued on Page 2 Rafiq Al-Hariri Michelle Obama launches Temperature in scathing attack on Trump Death Valley MILWAUKEE: US Democrats opened their nominating convention may be highest Monday with a show of unity behind WASHINGTON: A temperature of 54.4 Joe Biden and former first lady degrees Celsius recorded in California’s Michelle Obama delivering a scathing Death Valley on Sunday by the US rebuke of Donald Trump as she urged National Weather Service could be the voters to reject his politics of ‘divi- hottest ever measured with modern instru- sion’. “Donald Trump is the wrong ments, officials say. The reading was regis- president for our country,” Barack Obama’s wife said in a keynote tered at 3:41 pm at the Furnace Creek speech on the first night of a conven- Visitor Center in the Death Valley national tion that has shifted entirely online park by an automated observation system due to the coronavirus pandemic. - an electronic thermometer encased “Whenever we look to this White LOS ANGELES: A person watches for- inside a box in the shade. House for some leadership, or conso- mer First Lady Michelle Obama speak In 1913, a weather station half an hour’s lation, or any semblance of steadiness, during the opening night of the walk away recorded what officially DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK, California: Visitors gather for a photo in front of an unoffi- what we get instead is chaos, division Democratic National Convention on remains the world record of 56.7 degrees cial thermometer at Furnace Creek Visitor Center on Monday. — AFP and a total and utter lack of empathy.” Monday. — AFP Celsius. But its validity has been disputed The pre-taped remarks came as for a number of reasons: Regional weather and 2017, weather stations in Mitribah, verifying the new US reading. “This unprecedented criticism by a former lacked the show-stopping pizzazz and stations at the time didn’t report an excep- Kuwait and Turbat, Pakistan recorded tem- observed high temperature is considered first lady of a sitting US president, stagecraft of a live event. tional heatwave, and there were questions peratures of 54 degrees Celsius. After preliminary and not yet official,” said the US painting him as a man who lacks the With the Democratic Party poised around the researcher’s competence. evaluation by the World Meteorological National Weather Service. Dan Berc, an offi- competence, character or decency for to officially anoint the 77-year-old The next highest temperature was set in Organization, both were downgraded by a cial at the Las Vegas NWS office responsi- the job. It was a potent message for Biden as its nominee, Trump defied July 1931 in Kebili, Tunisia, at 55.0 degrees few fractions of a degree. ble for the site, told AFP that the sensor voters who tuned in unsure of what to coronavirus concerns and staged a Celsius - but again, the accuracy of older The Geneva-based World Meteorological would be brought in for evaluation. expect from a virtual convention that Continued on Page 2 instruments has been questioned. In 2016 Organization said Monday it would start Continued on Page 2 2 Established 1961 Wednesday, August 19, 2020 Local Coronavirus in Kuwait: What we know so far KUWAIT: Kuwait has recorded 77,470 cases before boarding the plane and upon arrival, while a infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as random PCR test will be conducted for 10 percent of of yesterday, in addition to 505 deaths.
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