Shafaq News / Iraqi politician Mithal Al-Alusi announced on Saturday his support for the peace agreement between the State of Bahrain and Israel, noting that most of the Jews who lived in the Gulf countries are of Iraqi origin.

Al-Alusi is one of the few Iraqi politicians who express a supportive opinion of peace and normalization between the countries of the region and Israel.

He said in a statement to Shafaq News agency, “I support the peace agreement between the UAE, Bahrain and Israel, and I hope that my country will be part of this agreement,” adding that “the issue of Israel and Palestine has become a good of trade, and it has changed the concept of fighting against enemy and made the cleric a tool for exploitation, failure, corruption and murder.”

He added, "The Palestinian and Israeli issue is a problem to which solutions must be found, and we support peace between the two sides."

Al-Alusi pointed out that there are no Emirati, Bahraini, Omani or Qatari Jews except a few, and the most of Jews in the Gulf are of Iraqi origin.”, adding that, “Iraq has about 700,000 Jews living in Israel, so is it reasonable for us to launch a war against them for the sake of Building Gaza to be more beautiful, or in order to increase the bank balances of the leaders of the Palestinian factions?”

The Iraqi politician added, "The Palestinian issue is an Iranian and Baathist argument."

Regarding the possibility of normalizing Iraq with Israel, Al-Alusi replied, saying, "A lot of  Iraqi political leaderships - and I am not talking about the Kurds - of the Islamic Arabs ruling in Baghdad, Sunnis and Shiites, met with the Israeli leaders, but they fear Iranian assassinations because the decision in Iraq is in the hands of the leadership in Tehran. "

"The Iranian leaders met 10 years ago, but Israel rejected the Iranian offers," he said.

On Friday, US President Donald Trump announced a new agreement between the Kingdom of Bahrain and Israel, describing it as a "historic achievement."

The announcement comes less than a month after the UAE and Israel announced that they had reached an agreement to normalize relations between them on August 13th.