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Friday, September 22, 2023
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Friday, September 22, 2023
Qatari Emir: Israel ‘responds to Arab peace with with more extremism’
Qatar's Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani addresses the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani lambasted Israel in his UN General Assembly address earlier this week.
He claimed that Israel “responds to Arab peace and normalization initiatives with more nationalist and ultra-Orthodox intransigence and extremism… [as] reflected in government coalitions and further settlement expansion, in addition to the Judaization of Jerusalem, attacks on the holy sites and heavy-handed and draconian measures against the people in Gaza.”
Al Thani blasted the “intransigence of the Israeli occupation and the rejection by consecutive Israeli governments of any just political solution according to international legitimacy.”
