Bahrain is like Israel, Nasrallah says

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has compared “settlement activity” in Bahrain to the “Zionist enterprise.”

“Do you know what is going on in Bahrain? I don’t like to use the expression, but never mind, just for once… There is an enterprise there that is similar to the Zionist enterprise. There is settlement activity in Bahrain. There is an invasion there. There is an accelerated process of naturalization [of Sunnis] in Bahrain, with no end in sight,” Nasrallah said on Saturday, according to a translation by MEMRI.

“[Sunni] people are brought from all over the world, are given citizenship, jobs, and decent wages, and enjoy security and respect, whereas the original inhabitants, whose forefathers have been living there for thousands of years, are being deprived of their most basic rights, and if they express any political position, they are banished, imprisoned, or stripped of their citizenship. Intensive efforts are at work, day and night, to change the identity of the Bahraini people,” he says.

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In Bahrain, at least 89 people have been killed in clashes with security forces since month-long Shiite-led protests were crushed in 2011. Hundreds have been arrested and put on trial, human rights groups say.

“The day will come when Bahrain is inhabited by another people,” Nasrallah continued. “This is just like what the Zionists are hoping for in Palestine – that the day will come when Palestine is inhabited by the Jews who are brought there from all over the world.”

— AFP contributed