An Observation

It's is currently 1522 on 2 January. On the home page of the Iranian Fars News Agency you'll find several stories about the situation in Gaza. But on the home page of the Kuwaiti Arab Times there's not a mention of Gaza. You have to go the the "World" section to find a Gaza-related story.

My first thought was how odd this was until I recalled how the Palestinians supported Saddam Hussein when he overran Kuwait, and how the Palestinians in Kuwait acted during the Iraqi occupation.

You can get a sense of the ill-will in this Time magazine article from March, 11, 1991.

Second only to the Iraqis as a target of Kuwaiti rage are the more than 300,000 [the actual number was closer to 400,000, almost all of whom were expelled after the liberation] Palestinians who lived and worked in Kuwait before the invasion. Because the Palestine Liberation Organization allied itself with Saddam, Iraqi forces in Kuwait treated many local Palestinians as a kind of auxiliary force. They helped administer and police the country and were rewarded with special privileges. Palestinians manned checkpoints, for example, and were permitted to sell consumer goods in street stalls, something that was illegal before the war.
Kuwaitis today insist that the Iraqis were able to round up and execute large numbers of military and police officers because Palestinian informers led them to the right addresses. "Palestinians are no good," says Hiyam al- Bushehery, 24, a student. "They stood in the street and betrayed people at checkpoints. They told the Iraqis who was in the police."

The number of Palestinians working in Kuwait today is about 40,000-50,000.