The Hamas Movement has strongly denounced irresponsible remarks made recently by Bahraini foreign minister Khaled Al Khalifa in support of having ties with the Israeli occupation state.
“Such remarks and ideas are strange to the values principles and nobility of the Bahraini people who love Palestine and support the resistance” Hamas said in a press release on Friday.
The Movement also described the Bahraini minister’s remarks as “departure from the norms of the Arab and Muslim nations.”
It called on the Bahraini people and political parties to condemn such position and to support the steadfastness of the Palestinian people in the face of the conspiracies targeting their national cause.
Al Khalifa recently spoke to Israeli journalists on the sidelines of the US administration’s economic conference in Manama.
He strongly backed he Israel’s existence in occupied Palestine Wednesday describing it as part of the region’s heritage.
“Israel is a country in the region … and it’s there to stay of course” he told journalists.
“Who did we offer the Arab peace initiative to? We offered it to a state named the state of Israel in the region. We did not offer it to some faraway island or some faraway country” Khalifa said.
“We offered it to Israel. So we do believe that Israel is a country to stay and we want better relations with it and we want peace with it.”
The minister added that he would like to visit Israel in the future.
