A Qatar-based senior Hamas leader praises the Gulf state’s “courageous” foreign minister, Khalid al-Attiyah, after an apparent spat with Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz at a German security conference.
In a statement, Izzat al-Rishaq, a member of Hamas’s political bureau in Doha, backs Qatar’s foreign minister for his “strong, courageous statements and response to the lies of the ‘Zionists,’ and his defense of Hamas and the resistance during the Munich security conference.”
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At yesterday’s conference, Attiyah said during a panel discussion that failure to make progress in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process was “the main igniter [sic] to all the turbulence in the Middle East.”
Qatar’s foreign minister also asked why Israel wanted to be recognized as a Jewish state.
“The world is fighting a group calling itself Islamic State, and you want to come and say [you are] a Jewish state,” he said.
— AFP
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