Tunisia’s New President Calls Any Ties With Israel ‘High Treason’

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Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed. Sept. 14, 2019 (Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

TUNISIA (JNS) — Tunisia’s new president said late last week that relationship or ties with Israel equals “high treason.”

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“ ‘Normalization’ is the wrong word to use,” said Kaïs Saïed in response to a question in the final televised presidential debate about the warming of relations between the Jewish state and the Arab and Muslim world. “We should be talking about high treason.”

Saïed defeated rival Nabil Karoui with 77 percent of the votes in Sunday’s election.

While Saïed said that Jews with passports other than Israeli ones were welcome to visit Tunisia’s synagogues, there should be no “dealings with Zionists.”


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anonymous
anonymous
4 years ago

Israel hopefully will have a good quittel in spite of the neturei kartaq and Tunisia

anonymous
anonymous
4 years ago

Tunisia collaborated with the Nazis during WWII

Educated Archy
Educated Archy
4 years ago

Tunisia use to be a great country . They were then hit by an Arab spring and thanks to Hillary and Obama the acquisised and enabled angry dumb mob crazed so called peaceful protestors to take control of their crazy country and radicalize it . And yes bush too he wasn’t president then but it was his failed botched Iraq and Hamas ideology. He believed in the sharansky ideology and we only need to offer them democracy and they will embrace it . They don’t grasp Muslims . Al sisi was a smart one . He didn’t let those animals and beasts wreck havoc . Democracy is some times dangerous .

Bottom line elections and democracy doesn’t work in the Middle East . We need to restore order . That means bring back the old Tunisia , bring Back saddam who kept Iran in check and Iraq in shape . We need Assad to keep
Isis out . We need gaddafo back in lybia too