Mauritania opposition leader considers normalization with Israel a crime, threatens violence

Ahmed Ould Dada, chairman of the opposition democratic forces Union party in Mauritania depicted the normalization with Israel of being a crime against the Mauritania people's right.

In a declaration to El-Wahdawi in Nouakchott, Ould Dada said normalizing the exisiting system of relations with Israel is considered a confusing puzzle and threatened to use violence as way of bringing about change in his country, saying, "Although we seek discussions with the system, we will resort to violence if all ways of democratic change fail."