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Interviewer: Since 2003?
Interviewer: But normalization with Israel is a different matter. See the UAE and Egypt.
Al-Mashhadani: It was one in secret, but now they want it to be out in the open. It s like a guy dating a girl in secret, and then she says: Enough! Go to my father and ask for my hand. We have been doing it in secret, and now it should be out in the open. Just because we are weak. It s over. The other side won t have it anymore. They say: No more pleasantries. No more doing things in secret. You will have to do it out in the open. Israel is the complex of the Iraqis. I swear, there will be no normalization with Israel so long as a single Iraqi is still alive.
Al-Shabab released a documentary video claiming Somalia is not a sovereign nation, that its resources are exploited by foreign powers, and that its government is corrupt.
In an interview with France 24 Arabic TV (France) that aired on February 7, 2021, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Dr. Mohammad Shtayyeh said that he has been in contact with the Biden administration, and was offered several confidence-building measures.
A pro-Islamic State (ISIS) media outlet released on February 9, 2021, a poster that features a quote by slain ISIS spokesman Abu Muhammad Al-'Adnani, urging supporters in Europe and the U.S. to perpetrate solo attacks in their countries if they are unable to travel to join ISIS.