Alwaght- The main opposition party in Bahrain strongly condemned the possibility of a future visit by an Israeli sport delegate.
"The regime's decision to embrace the Zionists is an illegitimate decision, and does not represent Bahrain, or express the will of the Bahraini people," said, al-Wefaq Deputy Secretary General, Sheikh Hussein al-Daihi on Wednesday.
Manama recently declared it has authorized an Israeli football delegate to enter the country. The move was expected to cause public protest.
The people of Bahrain will never abandon the Arab and Muslim cause, through trading with the Palestinian cause and al-Aqsa Mosque. The announcement that the Bahraini regime will host an athletic Zionist delegation does not express the will and decision of the people, because this government does not represent the Bahrainis, as they have not elected it, and [therefore] it does not have the right to work in the name of Bahrain and its people," added Daihi.
International Football Federation, FIFA is scheduled to hold its congress in Manama in May and the Bahrain Football Federation President Ali bin Khalifah Al Khalifah recently released a statement, saying that an Israeli delegation had been granted entry to the country to take part in the congress.
The occupied Palestinian territories have been the scene of increased tensions ever since Israel imposed restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in August 2015.
Al-Aqsa Mosque is the third holiest site in Islam after Masjid al-Haram in Mecca and Masjid al-Nabawi in Medina.
Daihi stressed that “Bahrainis are all with Palestine,” while condemning the Tel Aviv regime’s “oppression, arrests, corruption and injustice" against the people of Palestine.
Meanwhile, the head of the Bahraini Society Against Normalization with the Zionist Enemy, Jamal al-Hassan, also "totally rejected" Manama’s move.
"The Bahraini Society Against Normalization with the Zionist Enemy denounces the statement [about] the obvious and direct normalization, and the unprecedented waiver of the Arab nation's principles towards the Palestinian cause," he added.
