al-Rai al-Am: Bahrain: no normalization with Israel

Originally published September 22, 2005

Bahraini deputy prime minister and the foreign minister Sheikh Muhammad Bin Mubarak said in a statement to the Kuwaiti daily al-Rai al-Am that normalizing diplomatic relations with Israel "is not being discussed at the meantime."

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