The former ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the United States Prince Turki al-Faisal Al Saud slammed Israel today at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Manama Dialogue in Bahrain.

“Israel is the last Western colonizing power in the Middle East,” said Prince Turki al-Faisal Al Saud criticizing Israel’s actions toward the Palestinian people.

"Israel had evicted Palestinians after the 1948 war and it repeated that calumny after the 1967 war when more of the inhabitants that remained after the 1948 war were equally dispossessed of their lands,” he added.

The prince called out the Israeli border wall, calling it the “apartheid wall which prevents the inhabitants of the land they colonized from returning to their stolen properties.”

Moreover, he pointed out that "despite the International Court of Justice issuing a ruling that the wall is illegal, Israel has incarcerated Palestinians in concentration camps under the flimsiest of security accusations— young and old, women and men, who are rotting there without recourse to justice. They are demolishing homes as they wish, and they assassinate whomever they want."

Prince Turki's comments come as neighboring Bahrain and the UAE recently moved to normalize relations and establish ties with Israel.