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Kuwait Parliament Speaker Says Normalizing Relations With Israel Will Be 'Reprehensible'
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published March 05, 2019 | 09:15 PM
The speaker of Kuwait's parliament, Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanim, urged Arab countries on Tuesday to reject any attempts to normalize relations with Israel as "morally reprehensible," following the recent visit of US President Donald Trump's senior adviser to the Persian Gulf countries for the discussion of the US plan on the Israeli-Palestinian settlement
"We, as representatives of our people, must unanimously declare: no to the normalization of relations with the occupant [Israel], cruel and criminal, the one that murders children. Even conversations about it should be rejected ... Any step toward the normalization of relations must be regarded as politically illegal and morally reprehensible," the speaker said after the meeting of the Arab Inter-parliamentary Union in Amman, attended by speakers from 16 Arab countries.
Last week, Jared Kushner, Trump's senior adviser, paid visits to Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates in order to discuss Washington's yet to be unveiled "deal of the century" on the settlement of the long-standing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Israel and the majority of Arab states in the middle East do not have formal diplomatic relations as most Arab countries support Palestinians' aspiration to obtain comprehensive international recognition of their independent state on the territories of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip within the borderlines that existed before the 1967 Six-Day War.
Meanwhile, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman became the first Arab leader last year to say that the Israelis have a right to their own state. Moreover, media later reported that Israel was trying to normalize relations with another Arab country, Bahrain.
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