Bahrainis Told to Back Normalization Or Else
MANAMA (Dispatches) – Bahrain’s main opposition group, Al-Wefaq, on Monday said several sports and religious organizations on the tiny island have received threatening messages from the Manama regime to support normalization with the occupying regime of Israel or face consequences.
In a statement posted on its Twitter page, Al-Wefaq said a number of institutions Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has headed to the United States amid protests in the occupied territories against his mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic that prompted a second general lockdown. stance on the plan.
"The Bahraini regime practices intimidation and threats to force some institutions to support its agreement with the Zionist entity,” the group said, adding the regime is also preventing people from holding rallies against the deal.
Despite Manama’s desperate efforts to silence opposition voices, there is a national consensus on rejecting normalization with the Zionist regime, it said.
On Monday, the occupying regime of Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu headed to the U.S. to sign a normalization agreement with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday announced that Bahrain had struck an agreement to normalize relations with Tel Aviv, hailing the deal as yet another "HISTORIC breakthrough.”
The U.S.-mediated agreements have been met with uniform condemnation of Palestinians who have called normalization with the Zionist regime a stab in their back and sheer betrayal of their cause.
According to Al-Wefaq, many organizations and institutions inside Bahrain are worried about the level of blackmail, oppression and intimidation to support the normalization agreement.
Some Bahraini lawmakers have issued a joint statement, expressing their utter surprise at the news of the agreement, it added.
Al-Wefaq’s statement came a day after Bahrain’s most prominent cleric Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim announced normalization with the Zionist regime as both haram (forbidden according to the Islamic Sharia law) and against the will of the Bahraini people.
Religious and political figures in the kingdom released statements on Sunday rejecting the normalization plan.
"There is a great divergence between the rulers and the ruled in thought, mind, aims and interests. Governments are experiencing a psychological defeat and want to impose it on the people, and the people have to resist this defeat,” said Ayatollah Qassim.
Bahrainis were vocally critical after the deal was announced on Friday, making "Bahrainis against normalization” the most popular topic on social media.
The head of Bahrain’s highest court ordered judiciary employees not to attack the regime’s policy or express opinions purportedly harming national unity, Al-Bilad newspaper reported on Sunday.
Bahrainis have previously criticized the Al Khalifa regime’s engagements with Israel, including last June’s conference in Manama to launch a U.S.-led $50 billion economic package as part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East plan.
In a statement posted on its Twitter page, Al-Wefaq said a number of institutions Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has headed to the United States amid protests in the occupied territories against his mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic that prompted a second general lockdown. stance on the plan.
"The Bahraini regime practices intimidation and threats to force some institutions to support its agreement with the Zionist entity,” the group said, adding the regime is also preventing people from holding rallies against the deal.
Despite Manama’s desperate efforts to silence opposition voices, there is a national consensus on rejecting normalization with the Zionist regime, it said.
On Monday, the occupying regime of Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu headed to the U.S. to sign a normalization agreement with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday announced that Bahrain had struck an agreement to normalize relations with Tel Aviv, hailing the deal as yet another "HISTORIC breakthrough.”
The U.S.-mediated agreements have been met with uniform condemnation of Palestinians who have called normalization with the Zionist regime a stab in their back and sheer betrayal of their cause.
According to Al-Wefaq, many organizations and institutions inside Bahrain are worried about the level of blackmail, oppression and intimidation to support the normalization agreement.
Some Bahraini lawmakers have issued a joint statement, expressing their utter surprise at the news of the agreement, it added.
Al-Wefaq’s statement came a day after Bahrain’s most prominent cleric Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim announced normalization with the Zionist regime as both haram (forbidden according to the Islamic Sharia law) and against the will of the Bahraini people.
Religious and political figures in the kingdom released statements on Sunday rejecting the normalization plan.
"There is a great divergence between the rulers and the ruled in thought, mind, aims and interests. Governments are experiencing a psychological defeat and want to impose it on the people, and the people have to resist this defeat,” said Ayatollah Qassim.
Bahrainis were vocally critical after the deal was announced on Friday, making "Bahrainis against normalization” the most popular topic on social media.
The head of Bahrain’s highest court ordered judiciary employees not to attack the regime’s policy or express opinions purportedly harming national unity, Al-Bilad newspaper reported on Sunday.
Bahrainis have previously criticized the Al Khalifa regime’s engagements with Israel, including last June’s conference in Manama to launch a U.S.-led $50 billion economic package as part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East plan.