"He sided with Netanyahu, accused of war crimes!"/ Qori responds to Nazarko about Rama's visit to Israel

2026-01-26 23:05:03 / POLITIKË ALFA PRESS

"He sided with Netanyahu, accused of war crimes!"/ Qori responds to

Analyst Mentor Nazarko responded to the chairman of the "Lëvizja Bashkë" party, Arlind Qori, who, in a connection with the show "The Unexposed" on MCN TV, stated that Rama has shamed Albania during his visit to Israel because he met with a prime minister who is wanted for arrest by the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

Nazarko said that Rama used the visit to fulfill Israel's need to break European isolation, following the war in Gaza.

Mentor Nazarko: Albania has special relations with Israel. Arlindi's views are useful, moral, puritanical, but Albania has a vital interest in having relations with such a great power, which has demonstrated itself as a friend and helper of Albania. In its position, only in the literature of socialist realization, politicians are 100% white or 100% black. For the interests of Albania, it is an important visit. In Rama's main positions, a visit that the Israelis treated Rama as a counterweight to European isolation, it seems that Rama did not embrace the main theses of the Israeli position, but spoke of a two-state solution. He did not criticize Israel, but he spoke of the suffering of the Palestinian people, he spoke of justice. You cannot make remarks about the master of the house in his own house. Rama raised it, exploited this need of Israel to get out of European isolation, to increase Albania's visibility but also for agreements.

Albania exploits a kind of national capital, inherited from ancient times, from the Middle Ages. Rama mentioned the persecution of Jews.

With Israel, despite European isolation, all parties continue to do business. I see no reason why on the basis of moral puritanism... States build relationships on the basis of interests.

Rama spoke highly of both Turkey and the Arab states, offering himself as a kind of bridge between Israel and the Arab countries.

Arlind Qori: The position I am holding is neither puritanical nor moral, but a position that derives from the law, from international law. I am not giving my opinion on Netanyahu or Israel. I am referring to International Law and human rights organizations. Albania should have relations with Israel, and the worldwide consensus has been that of two states on internationally recognized borders.

This has been the position of all parties. I have the impression that openly, even the state of Israel, Netanyahu and his friends do not rule out in principle the emergence of a Palestinian state.

You invoked the example of Germany, Merz, but Germany has a specificity, an eternal stain of shame with the Jews, after 6 million Jews disappeared, which Albania has not done, because here, to our honor as a people, this has not happened. Anti-Semitism in Albania has no historical basis. No one can accuse small Albania of anti-Semitism, so the duty of the Albanian state is to tell the truth and not side with politicians who are accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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