From the Liveblog of
Monday, September 29, 2014
Bahrain FM praises Abbas
Khalifa saves mention of Israel for his penultimate point — after issues in Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Libya and elsewhere — praising Abbas’s UN speech (in which he called the Gaza war a genocide) and blasting Israel for “targeting the Palestinian people by confiscating their land, building or expanding settlements therein and imposing blockades on them.”
“These violations found their ugliest expression in the latest criminal aggression against the Gaza Strip which resulted in tremendous damage and caused the death of more than 2,000 martyrs, the displacement of a great number of Palestinians and the destruction of infrastructure,” he says.
His final point relates to Iran’s occupation of three islands that Bahrain says belong to the United Arab Emirates.
The Times of Israel Community.