Studying drama in Victoria?
former politician abdullah al-nafi si tends to remain in the spotlight, or limelight, as he likes to pepper his interviews with english expressions, even if that tendency is at the expense of his “stature,” and at the expense of logic and credibility. the last of these attempts was a tweet that aroused the amazement and pity of many, and it read: “the famous (...) indian restaurant in kuwait does not hesitate to spray deadly poison on the food served to anyone who criticizes the indian prime minister (modi) and his pro-israel position in the gaza war. is that restaurant subject to or managed by external security directives?”
i responded to him with a tweet asking him to reveal the name of the restaurant so that the lives of those who might happen to eat there could be saved, noting that the accusation affected all famous indian restaurants, and i do not know how al-nafisi knew of the existence of such a restaurant? how many people “died” or were poisoned as a result of eating food there, and is it their only fault that they are hostile to modi? why did he limit himself to talking about the matter, and did not say that he had informed the security authorities of the name of the restaurant, to stop the killing spree?
how can any rational person believe in the existence of such a restaurant, and how do its “extremist” owners know which guest is hostile to their prime minister? does the restaurant ask its customers to fill out a questionnaire, for example, that includes questions about their political orientations? who would believe that the workers of that unknown restaurant willingly participated in the “crime” of murder, by sprinkling poison on the food of the restaurant’s guests, without fear of responsibility?
mr. al-nafisi was not supposed to send such a tweet, which lacked credibility. what i have known personally, for at least 75 years, is that the indian community in kuwait is the least involved in any violations, despite its number exceeding one million. it was not appropriate to spread such malicious rumors against indians.
the sending of the tweet coincided with my receipt of part of the journalist ammar taqi’s interview with mr. abdullah al-nafisi, in which the latter says that israel had previously drawn up a “plan” to occupy the gulf states, from kuwait to oman, and that he knew about the plan.
al-nafisi asked taqi to visit congress, and its library in particular, and go to the third floor, and ask to meet monsieur george attiya, because the lebanese like to speak french, and ask him for a copy of the (israeli) plan!!
i feel that it is impossible for such a plan to exist, and i do not deny israel’s ambitions, i doubt that the story is inspired by the speaker’s imagination, so how could israel come up with such a dangerous plan, supposedly secret, and deposit it with monsieur attiya, in the library of congress!! this is not consistent with logic.
my doubt, as usual, about al-nafi-si’s claims prompted me to search, and it became clear to me that there was no monsieur attiya in the library of congress. there is no (israeli) plan to occupy the gulf oil states. rather, i found only the text of a half-century-old “study”, prepared by congress, during the period in which the gulf states cut off oil, and the study was preserved in the archives with other studies!
