Despite the continuing Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip and the resulting explosion of anti-Israel rhetoric in much of the Arab world, a Bahraini former ambassador to the United Kingdom and senior member of the ruling royal family says the Abraham Accords will remain firmly in place.
Asked by The Media Line about the Bahraini public’s increasing pressure to end ties with Israel over the war in Gaza, Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Mubarak Al Khalifa replied, “This will not happen.”
Al Khalifa, who served as Bahraini ambassador to the UK from 1996 to 2001 and has also held other senior administrative posts in the kingdom, said the Bahraini government “will not be phased” by such attitudes unless there is an overwhelming majority, which there is not.
Under the Abraham Accords signed in September 2020, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates normalized relations with Israel, followed in December of that year by Morocco.





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