By Latheef Farook
During his visit to Germany on Monday 11 March 24 Malaysia’s Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim criticized Western countries for their lack of action against Israel’s atrocities in Gaza and strongly defended his country’s ties with Hamas fighting to free its people from Israeli occupation and atrocities.
There had been decades of “atrocities, plunder and dispossession of Palestinians”, said Prime Minister Anver who pointed out that Muslim-majority Malaysia has no diplomatic relations with Israel and Malaysians vehemently support the Palestinians’s just struggle for freedom.
Prime Minister Anver was addressing a joint press conference in Berlin alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz who defended Israel’s response to Hamas in Gaza after October 7 attack. Anver said that the conflict between Israel and Palestine did not start on October 7, 2023 and rejected the narrative that ignores the history of the issue.
In response to Germany’s support to Israelfor its on going genocide in Gaza , Ibrahim highlighted the 60 years of Israeli oppression of the Palestinians and stated that “you cannot find a solution by getting so one-sided”
Accusing Western countries of turning blind eye to Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians and suffering of Palestinians in Gaza Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim defended Malaysia’s relations with Hamas. He said “no apologies” for his nation’s historical links with the Palestinian freedom fighters Hamas
Anwar has been one of the most vocal critics in the Muslim world of Israel’s relentless attack on Gaza – an assault which has claimed over 31,000 lives so far besides the total destruction of Gaza.“Where have we thrown our humanity, why this hypocrisy?asked Prime Minister Anver who said Western countries should put an end to their “selective” and “ambivalent” attitude.
“We oppose colonialism, or apartheid, or ethnic cleansing, or dispossession of any country, be it in Ukraine, or in Gaza. We cannot erase 60 years of atrocities, and dispossession, which have resulted in reaction, and anger, from the people,” he said.
Scholz, for his part, reiterated Germany bears a special responsibility for Israel and supports its right to defend itself against Hamas.
Highlighting Prime Minister Anver Ibrahim’s role in championing the Palestinina cause since early days columnists Philip J Heijmans and Nilukshi Koswanage of Bloomberge had this to state;
Dealing with the blind western support to Israeli genocide columnist Jeremy Scahill stated in the website “ Intercepted” that the U.S. continues to rush weapons and ammunition to Israel to continue this slaughter.Powerful nations around the world, led by the U.S., are not just supplying weapons and political support for Israel, but also have now joined in the campaign to further restrict vital humanitarian aid to Gaza.
The Biden administration has led the charge to suspend funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in Gaza. Israel has waged a smear campaign against UNRWA, baselessly characterizing the whole organization as a front group for Hamas.
According to reports more than 32 000 have been killed as at first week of March.The vast majority — 70 percent of them — are women and children. More than 66,000 others are injured. And these statistics are likely a dramatic undercount; thousands of people remain missing, many of them are lying dead under the rubble of what was once their homes.
More than 80% of Gaza’s Palestinians are now internally displaced, and are being corralled under threat of bombing into an ever-shrinking killing cage, as the Israelis begin to lay siege to Rafah, along the Egyptian border.
Israel has systematically destroyed Gaza’s universities and schools, its healthcare centers, its archives and libraries. It is engaging in controlled demolitions of entire neighborhoods, blowing up apartment complexes, destroying farms and other agricultural areas. More than 60 percent of Gaza’s homes have been destroyed or significantly damaged. There are reports of mass executions of prisoners and the widespread torture of other Palestinians. And, at every turn, Netanyahu and his henchmen have made clear they intend to continue their campaign indefinitely, even as their military forces face a quagmire in their military battle against the Qassam Brigades and other Palestinian fighters.
Israel stands accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice.
Adding to this columnist Donald Earl Collins said Western narcissism and support for genocidal Israel go hand in hand.Delusional beliefs of civilisational superiority help the West claim it is on the right side of history while supporting genocide in Gaza.
“I got in trouble many times for saying you don’t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist, and I am a Zionist. I make no apologies for that. That’s a reality,” President Joe Biden said in Massachusetts in early December, when the death toll in Gaza already stood at 16,200. “We’ve [Americans] never thought anything is beyond our capacity, from curing cancer this time around to everything we’ve ever done. I really mean it,” he added.
It takes a special kind of narcissism for a world leader to declare himself a 50-year-long adherent to a white supremacist ideology that excuses apartheid, settler-colonialism, and genocide and then to turn to the greatness of the US and all its “possibilities”, as if the US has only been sprinkling pixie dust around the world and not intervening with brutal military and economic power over the past 130 years.
But the US president is not alone in his self-delusion. At the Conservative Friends of Israel gathering in London last month, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak showed unwavering support for Israeli attacks on Gaza and the West Bank. “There is a horrific irony in Israel, of all countries being accused of genocide,” Sunak said, labelling South Africa’s case against Israel “completely unjustified”.
The “horrific irony” is that Israel, as a Western ally, cannot be accused of genocide because it is one of “the good guys”. The “bad guys” can only be non-Western (really, non-white) nations, such as South Africa. Despite the protest of tens of millions people around the world and the deaths of tens of thousands of Palestinians, the razing of Gaza and other crimes against humanity, the disregard for the ongoing war in Sudan and the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Western leaders still believe Western capitalism and democratic institutions will save the world.Ends 21 March 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (right) and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim attending a press conference in Berlin .
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz ,US President Joe Biden,British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Canandian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shamelessly supporting the slaughter of innocent Palestinian civilians.
Arab puppet dictators have been watching Israel’s frequent genocidal game shows against Palestine people for decades….
No words to describe how Pakistan n Bangladesh’s ruling leaders become political fascist beggars….
Where is the Muslim world? except one or two countries…
Today, non-Muslims and non-“Muslim” countries across the globe are raising their humanitarian concern for Palestine. Is not this shame for so-called Muslim countries?
I cannot understand how these folks still cannot understand the Hamas, which is a creation and accomplice of Israel and playing along with Israel providing all justification for the ongoing genocide.