Fury in Palestine, Bahrain over ‘deals of shame’ with Israel
Palestinians and Bahrainis have reacted with anger to the US-mediated normalization agreements that the regime in Manama and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed with Israel.
The agreements were inked on Tuesday at the White House, where US President Donald Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu along with Emirati and Bahraini Foreign Ministers, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani.
The texts of the accords did not mention any suspension of the Tel Aviv regime’s plans to annex the occupied West Bank and had little to say about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Palestinians rallied in the West Bank cities of Ramallah, Nablus and al-Khalil as well as the besieged Gaza Strip to denounce the Emirati and Bahraini deals with Israel.
The demonstrators also trampled on the pictures of Netanyahu, Trump, Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifah and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan before burning them.
They also carried banners reading “Treason,” “No to normalization with the occupier,” and “The agreements of shame.”
“We call on the UAE and Bahrain to backtrack from the agreement with Israel,” said al-Khalil protester Mohammad Mohanna. “At a time where companies in the West are boycotting Israel, two Arab countries are about to make trade agreements with it.”
Gaza demonstrator Emad Essa told the Al Jazeera broadcaster that the blockaded coastal enclave is home to “hundreds of Gazan youth who have lost their legs and got crippled for life for just for merely protesting against the Israeli blockade.”
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