by Boaz Bismuth
Bahraini ambassador to Belgium calls on "entire international community, including Israel, to stand by its side through its current confrontation with Iran" • Six Gulf countries look to forge political alliance against Iran.
Something strange happened in Brussels on Wednesday during a meeting of the first ever General Assembly of the European Jewish Parliament: The Bahraini ambassador to Belgium, Ahmed Mohamed Aldoseri, attacked Iran, saying the Islamic republic was destabilizing his country and the entire region.
Aldoseri told Israel Hayom, "Bahrain expects the entire international community, including Israel, to stand by its side through its current confrontation with Iran. Tehran is undermining the region's stability."
Dozens of new EJP members, which totals 120 members, were in the Belgian parliament building in Brussels Wednesday for discussions on the economic crisis in Europe and the rise of right-wing extremism. The panel of speakers at center stage included European Jewish Union co-founder Vadim Rabinovitch; MK Zeev Elkin (Likud), who represented the Israeli Knesset; and Bahraini Ambassador to the United States, Ms. Houda Ezra Nonoo — the first Jewish ambassador to represent an Arab state.
In her speech, Nonoo praised the tolerance exhibited in her tiny homeland, which is home to 36 Jews.
Belgian Ambassador Aldoseri, meanwhile, took part in the event as a member of the audience. He criticized Iran for trying to undermine stability in his country in 2011, where, said Aldoseri, the situation was completely different from the Arab Spring revolutions in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya, due to Iran's "meddling."
The ambassador took the opportunity to call on the international community to support Bahrain in its row with Iran.
Elkin commented on Aldoseri's remarks, saying, "The things that were said, in the place they were said, prove we are right that Iran is the problem of the Arab world — not the Palestinians."
Nonoo told Israel Hayom, "I felt that my place today was here, with the Jewish parliament. It is a worthy stage from which to raise the issue of Iranian aggression."
Bahrain's conflict with Iran is nothing new. Earlier this week Bahrain's minister of information affairs announced that six Persian Gulf countries would increase their efforts to create a new political union, similar to the EU. The move is intended to provide protection for all six countries against the growing threat of Iran.
Tehran, for its part, was outraged by the prospect of such a political alliance. The Islamic republic's parliament speaker, Ali Larijani, said, "If Bahrain is supposed to unite with any another country, it needs to be with Iran and not Saudi Arabia."
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=4363
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