Bahrain's crown prince said in remarks published on Thursday that he opposed Palestinian attacks against Israeli civilians and urged fellow Arabs to united behind this "principled position".
"Bahrain opposes the targeting of Israeli civilians by Palestinian operations," the London-based al-Hayat daily quoted Crown Prince Sheikh Salman bin Hamad al-Khalifa as saying. "They should instead be directed against Israeli occupation forces...including armed settlers."
Sheikh Salman said rejecting attacks against civilians was a "principled position that all Arab countries ought to agree upon because it served Arab and Muslim causes in regional and international arenas".
"Continued attacks against Israeli civilians could push the Israeli community to rally behind widescale retaliatory operations which would greatly exceed what happened in Jenin without any move by the international community to protect the Palestinians," the crown prince said. (Albawaba.com)
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