Political analyst: Bahraini government behaves like Israeli regime

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The Bahraini government under the rule of the Al Khalifa family behaves like the Israeli regime, said a political analyst.In an interview on Monday, Sara Marusek, a political analyst from Beirut, said the Manama regime has been “somewhat successful in at least, apparently, making law and order in their authoritarian and draconian and very violent way. They have destroyed mosques.”Marusek added that it is “increasingly ironic” that the Bahraini regime sounds like Israel in its behavior and “its excuses to say things like these mosques were illegally built.”“That is exactly what the Israelis say when they destroy Palestinian homes.”The political analyst went on to say that the anti-regime protesters in Bahrain are “more united and determined and they will eventually succeed.”Marusek also criticized the reaction of the international community to the popular uprising in Bahrain.“I do have to, as an American, lament the international community’s response and really question why the media has not been able to convey what has been going on” in Bahrain so far, she said.“The Bahraini government refuses to let in any journalists, which just shows that they are not honest,” Marusek concluded.Dozens of people have been killed and hundreds more arrested or fired from their jobs in Bahrain since the beginning of the popular uprising in February 2011. /129