Palestinians in Search of New Allies After Bahrain-Israel Deal
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MUHARRAM 25, 1442 AH SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2020 16 Pages Max 44º Min 26º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 18229 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Pandemic cuts daily flights Huge blast rocks Jordan No flops, but little sizzle on Thiem beats Medvedev 3 from T4 from 100 to 30 7 military weapons depot 12 Venice film fest red carpet 16 to reach US Open final Palestinians in search of new allies after Bahrain-Israel deal ‘Stab in the back’ slammed • Iran, Turkey condemn accord • Trump hails ‘historic day’ JERUSALEM: The Palestinian cause has long cemented ties between Middle East nations with diver- Abdullah Boftain named Deputy gent interests, but amid shifting regional alliances they are increasingly isolated and in need of new friends, analysts say. In the latest blow, Bahrain broke ranks Editor-in-Chief of Kuwait Times and agreed on Friday to open diplomatic ties with Israel, in a deal announced in Washington by President To build integrated media org with ‘Kuwait News’ online Donald Trump. KUWAIT: Kuwait Times news- Al-Rai TV, such as ‘Ummah Calling it a “truly historic day”, Trump said Israel paper, the first English daily in 2009’, ‘Ummah 2012’ and ‘Al-Rai and Bahrain were establishing full diplomatic and com- mercial relations. “They will exchange embassies and the Arabian Gulf, announced Interview’, where he hosted a ambassadors, begin direct flights between their coun- Abdullah Boftain has joined number of heads of state, prime tries and launch cooperation initiatives across a broad Kuwait Times as deputy editor- ministers and local and interna- range of sectors, including health, business, technolo- Benjamin Netanyahu King Hamad in-chief, in addition to being a tional political figures. He found- gy, education, security and agriculture,” he told partner and manager of Kuwait ed and ran the Local Flavor reporters. Bahrain said in a joint statement that News e-paper - one of the first Company, which specializes in Bahrain’s King Hamad, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin in Kuwait and GCC states. marketing consultancy, PR serv- Netanyahu and Trump talked earlier Friday before Kuwait Times and Kuwait News ices, journalism, organizing insti- announcing the new breakthrough. Missing girl’s thus form a nucleus for develop- tutional and recreational activi- Palestinian anger was swift. The deal was “a stab in ing a media group, which on ties and producing advertise- the back of the Palestinian cause and the Palestinian launch will attract prominent ments and creative content. people” like the UAE-Israel deal announced last body found bilingual creative individuals, Boftain’s most recent media month, a top official from the Palestinian Authority told journalists and media figures in activity was in March during the AFP. At a summit of the 22-member Arab League this in water tank Kuwait to build an integrated Abdullah Boftain COVID-19 crisis, when he pre- week, foreign ministers failed to back a Palestinian push to condemn last month’s US-brokered normaliza- modern media organization. sented a program on KTV titled KUWAIT: Police found the body of a missing Boftain started his journalism College of Administrative ‘Exceptional Circumstances’, tion deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates. “May you never be sold out by your ‘friends’,” read girl inside the water tank of her family’s home in career 17 years ago while still a Sciences, he got a job in National which played a vital role in one bitter tweet by senior Palestinian official Hanan Jahra yesterday. A search for the six-year-old Kuwait University student, as a Bank of Kuwait’s PR and media keeping viewers updated with Ashrawi after the UAE-Israel deal was announced in girl had been underway since she went missing reporter for the university pages office. He was then appointed the latest developments and in August. With the accord set to be signed on Tuesday from her family’s home on Friday. The interior in Al-Qabas and KU’s Afaq in manager of corporate communi- constant contact with ministers at the White House, the Emirates will become only the ministry announced late yesterday that police 2003, and a weekly writer for Al- cation at Mohamed Hamoud Al- and officials. He is also sched- third Arab country, after Egypt and Jordan decades were able to find the victim’s body. Yaqatha magazine. He became a Shaya Company, then as market- uled to present ‘Ummah 2020’ ago, to establish full relations with the Jewish state. In Investigations have been launched to determine member of Kuwait Journalists ing manager at Qualitynet. on Al-Rai TV and Al-Qabas TV a statement Trump tweeted about the Bahrain-Israel the circumstances behind the incident. The girl’s Association in 2005. Immediately Boftain has also presented a in October during the parlia- deal, he revealed Tuesday’s signing ceremony would father had earlier made an impassioned appeal after graduation from KU’s number of political TV shows on mentary elections. also be attended by Bahraini officials. to the public to help find his daughter. Continued on Page 2 ring sides to “seize this opportunity” Op-Ed Talks between to secure peace. “Remember you are acting not only for this generation of Afghans but for future generations as Taleban, govt well, your children and your grand- OPEC’s 60th children.” open in Qatar Nineteen years since the US-led anniversary invasion that toppled the Taleban, DOHA: Peace talks between the Afghanistan’s war is still killing Taleban and the Afghan government dozens of people daily. Abdullah opened in Qatar yesterday, marking Abdullah, who is heading the peace what US Secretary of State Mike process for Kabul, said 12,000 civil- ians have been killed and another By Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo Pompeo heralded as a “truly momen- tous” breakthrough in nearly two 15,000 wounded just since the US signed a withdrawal agreement with OPEC Secretary General decades of relentless conflict. The talks will be arduous and complex, the Taleban on Feb 29. delegates acknowledged at an open- Abdullah called for an immediate, ing ceremony in Doha, and are start- humanitarian ceasefire - but his plea n Sept 14, 1960, the five founding fathers ing even as deadly violence continues went unanswered by Taleban co- of the Organization of the Petroleum to grip Afghanistan. founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Exporting Countries (OPEC), Juan Pablo O “We will undoubtedly encounter who made no mention of a truce in his DOHA: (From left) US Special Representative Zalmay Khalilzad, US Secretary of Perez Alfonzo of Venezuela; Abdullah Al-Tariki of opening remarks. The Taleban have many challenges in the talks over the State Mike Pompeo and Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Thani Saudi Arabia; Dr Tala’at Al-Shaibani of Iraq; Dr long worried that reducing violence coming days, weeks and months,” attend the Afghan peace talks yesterday. — AFP Fuad Rouhani of Iran and Ahmed Sayed Omar of Pompeo said as he called for the war- Continued on Page 2 Kuwait gathered together in Al-Shaab Hall in Baghdad. The historic ‘Baghdad Conference’ saw these instead. Biden and the vice president five visionaries gathered together around the Trump, Biden tapped elbows and chatted briefly. premise of cooperation and with the need to The Republican president instead write their own story. Perez Alfonzo said after the vie to show traveled to Shanksville, Pennsylvania, meeting and the creation of OPEC: “We are now where an airliner crashed after pas- united. We are making history.” sengers tried to wrest control of the It is a story that encapsulates a family of leadership jet from the hijackers. The president nations, people and populations, of feelings and and First Lady Melania Trump lis- emotions of countries rich in culture and her- SHANKSVILLE, United States: US tened in silence as the names of the itage, and of the struggle of a group of develop- President Donald Trump struck a 40 passengers and crew killed aboard ing countries to exercise their inalienable right to somber tone Friday on the anniversary Flight 93 were read aloud - with two permanent sovereignty over their natural of the Sept 11, 2001 attacks as his bells tolling after each. resources in the interest of their national devel- Democratic rival Joe Biden comforted In brief prepared remarks, the opment. relatives of victims - in dueling bids to incumbent - who is hoping to defeat The history of OPEC is also part of the history unite a deeply-divided nation. Biden and win a second term - paid of the modern oil industry; a fuel that has been Nineteen years after the devastating “tribute to their sacrifice” along with the lifeblood of industrialized nations and helped Al-Qaeda attacks, former vice presi- all those who perished in the attacks. shape the modern world. Oil is omnipresent in the dent Biden began the day in New He also honored first responders as lives of most people on this planet, accounting for York for an annual event honoring the well as military personnel who fought over 30 percent of the global energy mix. The nearly 3,000 who died in the destruc- to “preserve our freedom” in the sub- way people live, work and travel all depend on oil. tion of the World Trade Center. sequent wars launched under former NEW YORK: Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden (left) greets US Vice Continued on Page 2 Trump did not attend the ceremony president George W Bush. President Mike Pence as they attend a ceremony at the 9/11 Memorial to com- memorate the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on Friday. —AFP in his home city, sending Mike Pence Continued on Page 2 2 Established 1961 Sunday, September 13, 2020 Local Kuwait reports 736 new COVID-19 infections, single death, 744 recoveries Total cases 94,211 compared to 84,404 total recoveries KUWAIT: Up to 736 persons tested positive for there were cases that had contracted the virus 156 in Al-Ahmadi, 150 in Farwaniya, 143 in the the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Kuwait in from infected persons, but contamination cir- capital and 106 in Al-Jahraa.