By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

What we have been saying in this column for years – if not for decades – and what the simpletons had tried to deny so long, became fully evident yesterday in Manama when after an amorous embrace with the prime minister of the illegal Zionist entity the Bahraini heir apparent described the meeting as “cousins getting together”.
Yes, the Zionists and the rootless clannish/cultish rulers of reactionary Arab states are indeed cousins, as DNA tests will definitely confirm.
It was the veneer of Islam that had so far prevented the Aal-e Khalifas, the Aal- Nahyans and the Aal-e Sauds from clasping the Israelis to their bosom, but since the thin coating has almost vanished it is time to acknowledging the common roots and speak with gay abandon against Islam and Muslims.
So what happens when long lost cousins get together?
It is the step-brothers who suffer and realize, although belatedly, that they have been brazenly backstabbed.
The poor Palestinians, who all these years had failed to see through the screen that barely concealed the immoral dalliance of the Persian Gulf Arabs with the Zionists, have got a rude shock.
The only remedy to their suffering is to properly discern between friend and foe, make amends for having ignored the plight of the long oppressed Bahraini people, and step up their struggle for independence of their usurped homeland with state-of-the-art means of defence.
The Palestinian people will indeed find the Bahraini people – as well as the Yemeni people – as sincere friends and brethren-in-faith for the struggle to liberate al-Aqsa Mosque.
Coordination amongst them will surely open avenues for access to strategic armaments that would be useful for both the Palestinian people and the Bahraini people for the cherished goal of liberating their respective homelands.
It might be recalled that when the peaceful Intefadha flared up in Bahrain exactly eleven years ago on February 14, no Palestinian revolutionary group had expressed support for it in the misconstrued belief that ties with the Aal-e Khalifa minority regime matter, and not with the people of Bahrain.
Alas, it took them over a decade to realize how wrong they were and how treacherous are the unrepresentative Arab rulers of the Persian Gulf states.
The treason of the Aal-e Khalifa regime is now fully evident with its hosting of Zionist premier Naftali Bennet on the 11th anniversary of the 2011 uprising in Manama, and this insult to the people of Bahrain is also a betrayal of the Palestinian national movement since it is an endorsement of Israel’s racist policies toward it.
To quote Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, Advocacy Director at the London-based Bahrain Institute for Rights and Democracy: “It feels like a damning insult. This is the most important date in Bahrain’s recent history, when Bahrainis stood up against an autocracy — and 11 years later they have invited the head of an apartheid state.”
Apartheid, however, will not last, whether in Palestine or in Bahrain, where people are determined to check the spread of apartheid, no matter what brutal measures the regimes take to try to quell of protests of the peaceful marchers.