The top representatives of Israel and Qatar engaged in a brief verbal sparring session during a panel discussion at the Munich Security Conference on Sunday.
Qatar's Foreign Minister Khalid Mohamed A. Al-Attiyah asserted that the “major issue” behind all the turbulence in the Middle East is “that we are lagging behind on the peace process. The Israeli-Palestinian peace process, or the conflict, is the main igniter to all the turbulence in the Middle East.”
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The Qatari foreign minister also likened Israel's demand to be recognized as a Jewish state to the popularity of Islamic State. “The world is fighting a group calling itself Islamic State, and you want to come and say [you are] a Jewish state,” he said to Steinitz.
