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March 24th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The activists said on Saturday that 31-year-old Ahmad Abdul Nabi was killed during a protest rally in the western village of Shahrakan, adding that dozens more were wounded after security forces fired tear gas and used water canon to break the protest.
Press TV has conducted an interview with Hisham Jaber, director of Center for Middle East Studies and Public Relations, to share his opinion on the issue.
The following is a transcript of the interview:
Press TV: This is not the first demonstrator to be killed by toxic gas, worth noting is that the gas being used by these Saudi-backed Bahraini regime forces is being manufactured and provided by the United States. Just how far is the Al Khalifa willing to go to quell these peaceful protests?
Jaber: You know, we have to go back for a year; the demonstrators in Bahrain within [the past] one year did not make any violence. All the observers have to recognize and they did that the demonstrators did not make any violence, they are peaceful, they are asking for legal demands … –equality and freedom and democracy.
The question is for how long those people will stay peaceful for their demands when they see the violence and brutality coming from the government side and even though after one year they have not asked to dethrone the regime or even the king. They are not asking the king to go.
We heard some voices in this side and this meaning yesterday in the demonstrations but most of the demonstrators who have been considered and estimated last month in the 14th of February by two hundred thousand people which is twenty percent of the population in Bahrain asking for legal rights and human rights and social justice and democracy and equality and they have been faced by violence not only from the government side as you said, it is also from the forces of [P]GCC specially Saudi Arabia and everybody asks why the United States stays mute towards this problem and those demands.
When you see yesterday Mrs. Clinton as we heard she was in Bahrain and she met with the king and we do not know exactly what advice Mrs. Clinton gave to the king since she was there and she was supposed to see by her eyes that there is a problem in Bahrain for one year and those people deserve their rights.
And the answer for this and we said it many times that Bahrain presents for the United States a very important platform and it is like an aircraft carrier for the American armed forces and Bahrain host the Fifth Fleet in one side and second you have Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia transcends Bahrain like a very important gate and any democracy in Bahrain will be contagious. Democracy is like a virus. It will move to Saudi Arabia which is not convenient to this regime in Saudi Arabia.
Some observers believe and in Yemen for example, any democracy that may happen in Yemen, the first looser will be Saudi Arabia and the [Persian] Gulf countries around it and how come if it is Bahrain.
That is the only logical answer for why the United States did not support the people of Bahrain and did not support democracy in Bahrain because of its own interest first and second to please or to support the Saudi regime which as I said is very conscious about any democracy in the region.
But at the end of the day I think the Americans will recognize that they have lost, because they will lose. People in Bahrain will not stay forever peaceful. People in Bahrain will not stay forever asking for reform under the ceiling of the kingdom, [they] will ask for more freedom, will ask to change the government, to change the regime maybe and we have to wait and to see.
And I know Bahrain and the single advice I may give to the regime there and especially to the king who I know that he has to go quickly and to give rights to his own people before it will be late.
And he is the only person who is capable now of saving the problem and of changing the government and of releasing the prisoners and of starting to make real reform, may convince those peaceful people who are asking for their rights.
AHK/PKH
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