A senior Hamas official lashes out at Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmad Al-Khalifa today over comments that the Gulf official made to The Times of Israel yesterday.
Khalifa spoke to ToI in his suite at the Four Seasons Hotel in Manama on the sidelines of the US-led economic workshop, which focused on the economic portion of the Trump administration’s plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“The foreign minister of Bahrain calling on the Arab states through ‘The Times of Israel’ newspaper to recognize Israel as a state that will remain affirms that the goal of the workshop is to erase the Palestinian right and normalize the existence of the occupation as a part of the region’s fabric,” Moussa Abu Marzouk, a member of the Hamas Politburo, tweets.
“We affirm our rejection of the conference and this proposal. These [people] are the ones who fought us, spilled our blood and removed us from our homes.”
In his interview with ToI, Khalifa did not call on Arab states to recognize Israel, but he did say, “We do believe that Israel is a country to stay, and we want a better relation with it, and we want peace with it.”
— Adam Rasgon
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