BEIRUT:Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil linked Israeli crimes in Gaza to the heinous assault of extremist militants in Iraq, saying that both entities spoke the language of "blind violence."
“ISIS cut off heads with swords, Israel cuts off the heads of an entire population with its planes” said Bassil during an extraordinary meeting of of Arab foreign ministers in Jeddah to discuss Palestine.
Bassil slammed Israel for its brutal policies, saying that it turned the entire Gaza strip into a giant concentration camp, worse that Nazi concentration camps.
The Foreign Minister rejected the notion of a democratic Israel, saying that democracy does not entail a freedom of killing nor does it give legitimacy to "butchering civilians."
Bassil said that Israeli policies are nourishing state and Takfiri terrorism, arguing that ISIS’s aims fall in line with an Israeli desire to turn the region in to a cluster of small states fighting each other.
“Is there any doubt of a link or common interest between what Israel is doing in Gaza and what ISIS is doing in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon?” Bassil asked.