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TEHRAN – A Bahraini political activist says the role of the Bahraini regime is to serve the interests of Western powers in the region.
“Their first job is to serve the interests of the Western powers in this region, and the second is to repress their peoples,” Ibrahim Madhoun tells the Tehran Times.
The following is the text of the interview:
QUESTION: Why are the Persian Gulf states rushing to normalize ties with Israel?
A: Whoever reads history knows that Great Britain created the Gulf (Persian) regimes. Everyone knows that Great Britain was a colonial power in this region that was given the title of ensuring navigation between East and West through the East India Company.
Therefore, he fabricated these tyrannical regimes prior to the Balfour Declaration that was implemented in 1940.
After the establishment, the Emirati rulers participated in maritime piracy, as well as the Al Khalifa government, which took Al Zubarah castle as a base for its attacks to occupy Bahrain and expel the ruler of Iran in Bahrain, Nasser Al Madhkour.
So Britain saw that these tribes could implement their plans to change the map of the region through the occupation of Palestine.
These regimes work in favor of colonialism and oppress their own people within the framework of the task that has been defined for them.
For these reasons, these systems do not have the authority to make a decision. This race towards normalization comes from the orders of their masters (Great Britain or the United States). Today we see that US President Trump from Washington imposes his orders on these regimes to normalize relations with Israel in order to use this role in the next presidential elections and to satisfy the Jews who have a fundamental role in tipping the balance in favor of the candidates. in the U.S.
QUESTION: Do you expect the rest of the Arab countries to follow the Emirates and Bahrain to establish ties with Israel?
A: The Arab countries are divided into two parts: the first part, including the Persian Gulf countries, is established by Britain or France. In some of these countries, there are wise and vigilant peoples, but they cannot make any changes. For example, Egypt has great people, but they have been suppressed, but in Algeria, Tunisia and other countries, like Iraq, for example, I do not expect their nations to allow their governments to follow Bahrain and the Emirates.
There are some countries, like Sudan, whose people reject normalization, but there is repression. The Gulf (Persian) states are overwhelmingly committed to US policy, and Washington dictates the policy they must follow.
However, Kuwait’s reaction is different, while the rest of the Gulf (Persian) states, including Oman, prefer to establish relations with Israel, exchange visits and embassies. It is not too far to join the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. But should Saudi Arabia establish relations with Israel, there will be a strong backlash because it is home to two Holy Mosques (Mecca and Medina), and it claims that it is leading the Islamic world.
I think it is an opportunity for Muslims to come to an agreement to run the two holy mosques under a multinational Islamic organization instead of the Saudi administration, which betrayed Islamic causes.
One day the Muslim nations will rise up and their reaction will be greater, especially the reaction of the people of Bahrain, who have had great reactions towards the Palestinian cause.
QUESTION: Do you think that the Palestinian cause has died after the normalization of relations between Israel and the Arab countries?
ANSWER: We cannot say that the Palestinian problem is over. When we refer to the Holy Quran, there is a divine promise that Palestine will be liberated.
The Palestinian cause has been present for more than seventy years despite the disappointing behavior of the Arab rulers and their collusion against Al-Quds, and despite the fact that many regimes calling themselves Arabs and also Turkey normalized relations with Israel. There is a brave and vigilant Palestinian people. There is also an Arab and Islamic consciousness that has not died, but has been strengthened, especially after the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran.
The Palestinian cause is associated with religion and vigilante people; there may be a fall and a rise on this path, but it is present and alive.
Today there is an axis that wants to defend this cause, which is the resistance axis led by the Islamic Republic of Iran and Syria and the resistance in Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq, including in Egypt that signed the Camp David agreement. The Egyptian people, despite this agreement, refuse to recognize the Zionist regime.
QUESTION: What is the role of the United States in hastily encouraging Arab countries to establish ties with Israel?
The American role is well known. Its function is to strengthen the Zionist regime in the region, to control the capacities of the Arab and Islamic nations. The United States and Great Britain use this tool to dominate the world, and the normalization we see today comes to help Trump’s election campaign because polls say Trump is behind his rival Biden. In the end, America is the biggest Satan, as Imam Khomeini said, and Israel is a cancerous tumor in this region. The United States cannot rule the world unless it supports this regime, but today we see a decline in American power and the rise of other powers, for example China, Russia and Iran.
Q: Why didn’t we see a protest from the Arab nations?
A: Because these regimes have special functions. Their first job is to serve the interests of the Western powers in this region, and the second is to repress their peoples.
For example, the people of Bahrain did not agree with the policies of the Bahraini regime when it made concessions to Israel and stabbed the Palestinians in the back.
Therefore, the people of Bahrain cannot hold protests, not because they do not want to support Palestine.
There are 3,500 prisoners of opinion in a country whose indigenous citizens do not exceed half a million. Furthermore, there is more than one force to repress the people: there are security forces, most of them come from Pakistan and Afghanistan, and even from Yemen and Jordan; most of them are of non-Bahraini origin, as well as the presence of the remnants of Saddam Hussein and Sudanese forces in the country.
There are the United States Fifth Fleet and the British base. The Saudi army also intervened to suppress the people and is still in Bahrain. However, we see that the people of Bahrain have expressed their views in various ways.
Q: What is the position of the Bahrain Movement towards the normalization of ties with Israel?
ANSWER: The position of the Bahrain Movement comes from the highest religious figures, especially Sheikh Isa Ahmed Qassem, who, in a statement, said that normalization with Israel is against religion and the law.
The Palestinian cause is one of the crucial and important issues in the history of the Bahrain movement. It is even enshrined in the constitution of Bahrain.
Al-Khalifa knows that this speech is present in the consciousness of the Bahraini people. All Bahrainis agree that the cause of Palestine is indisputable and therefore the normalization of ties with Israel is a great betrayal and a stab in the back. Therefore, many call for the elimination of this miserable regime in Bahrain.
