Kuwait: Netanyahu insane
Kuwaiti foreign minister says Israel may strike Iran because 'man ruling Israel is foolish, insane'
Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad al-Sabah said it was not impossible that Israel may strike Iran, and provided a rather undiplomatic explanation for his remarks.
According to the minister, an Israeli attack against Iran's nuclear facilities is possible because Benjamin Netanyahu's government is "not normal."
"The man ruling Israel is foolish and insane, and he has a foreign minister who spoke of striking Aswan Dam with an atom bomb," al-Sabah told Kuwaiti al-Qabas newspaper on Sunday.
With regards to efforts to restart peace talks the Kuwaiti minister said Arab states were working towards translating US President Barack Obama's historic Cairo speech into action towards the peace process.
Al-Sabah said Arab countries were trying to jumpstart the Arab peace initiative, rather than find an alternative to it.
"Netanyahu refuses to commit to a halt in settlement construction or talk about Jerusalem, the refugees, and the lands of 1967. The Arabs and the world are on one side of the scale, while Netanyahu is on the other," Al-Sabah said.
'Hezbollah training in Syria'
Meanwhile the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai-Alaam reported that Syria was allowing Hezbollah to train on its territory and to fire SA2 ground-to-air missiles from its embankments, citing a US official.
The source warned that if Syria were to provide Lebanon with the weapons, Israel would strike targets in Damascus and start a war "as this will be considered crossing the red line".
Weapons smuggling, he said, was not cause for war because it constitutes part of the "rules of the game" to which Israel agrees.
The source told the paper that any attack by Hezbollah would prompt an Israeli response in Damascus, however he stressed that barring the weapons sale or a Hezbollah attack, chances for war were slim.
