Hezbollah Slams Bahrain for Bid to Normalize Ties With Zionist Regime

Date: 13 December 2019 - 22:15

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BEIRUT (Dispatches) – Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement has blasted Bahrain for hosting a senior Zionist rabbi at a so-called religious forum, saying such a move is in line with Manama’s "conspiratorial” bid to normalize relations with the occupying regime.
In a statement, Hezbollah said that by hosting such events, the Al Khalifah regime actually disregards the Lebanese and Palestinian martyrs, who lost their lives in the Zionist regime’s attacks over the past years.
Bahrain, it added, is turning into an "American-Israeli platform” meant to pave the way for the duo to "gain access to the heart of the Arabic and Islamic nation.”
The resistance group also denounced "the conspiratorial and betrayal role that the Al Khalifah regime plays to normalize with the enemy, its reception of Israeli figures and its marketing of the idea of coexistence with these killers.”
Al-Quds Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar paid a rare visit to Bahrain earlier this month at the invitation of King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifah.
Elsewhere in its statement, Hezbollah said the Manama regime, which conducts "the worst forms of repression against the oppressed Bahraini people” and deprives them of their slightest human rights, is trying "to cover up its lost legitimacy” by leaning towards the Zionist regime and the U.S.
Meanwhile, Bahrain’s main opposition group, the al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, has also strongly condemned the participation of the Zionist rabbi at the purported religious event in the Persian Gulf kingdom.
Al-Wefaq said his invitation attests to the ruling Al Khalifah regime’s hostility towards the Bahraini nation.
Al-Wefaq said in a statement released on Tuesday that the initiation of al-Quds Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar to a "mock event” hosted by the Bahraini regime substantiates the aggressive and provocative stance that Manama authorities have adopted vis-à-vis the people of Bahrain besides Arab and Muslim nations.
"The entire Bahraini nation from all strata of the society is opposed to normalization (of diplomatic relations with the Israeli regime) and such cheap propaganda programs. These steps are only favored by the ruling regime, which has not been appointed by popular vote, and rules the country with an iron fist. It, therefore, implements provocative individual policies at different levels,” the statement read.
Al-Wefaq then called on the Manama regime to cease its acts of provocations and treacherous normalization projects since they do not legitimize and decriminalize the ugly dictatorship in Bahrain.