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DESTRUCTION OF THE DR SITI HASMAH AND ENAYA PHYSIOTHERAPY CENTRE

1. I am extremely perturbed to learn of the destruction, due to Israeli bombing, of the Dr SitiHasmah and Enaya Physiotherapy Centre in Gaza on Nov 7, 2023.

2. Tragically, five Gazan families seeking shelter at the centre after their homes were bombed, lost four members of their families in the Israel attack.

3. I have mourned the bombings and destructions of other hospitals and shelters in Gaza previously.

4. But I have a personal affinity for this hospital. The Perdana Global Peace Foundation (PGPF), of which I am a member, was directly involved in its construction from the very start.

5. PGPF, alongside Humanitarian Care Malaysia, Muslim Care Malaysia, Media Prima Humanitarian Fund and the Charitable Association for Palestinian Relief helped built it and it had been in operation since 2019.

6. The location of the centre in Khan Younis, in the South of Gaza, was of no consequence to the Zionist Israeli regime. Despite having said earlier that they would not target the south, it proved to be lip service.

7. The attacks is now turning into an operation of mass murdering Palestinian civilians and non-combatants. It is not a war between militaries, but a genocide by the Israeli military to rid Gaza of its Palestinian population.

8. The bombings of hospitals and residences, and now a physiotherapy centre, proved that Israel is targeting these centres intentionally and wilfully.

9. All we can do is protest and pray for the Palestinians to be spared Israel’s brutality.

10. And Israeli allies, notably the US and UK continue to justify and support Israel’s barbarity.

PENDOKONG ISRAEL

1. Saya perhatikan, setiap kali parti PKR atau Datuk Seri Anwar terkait atau dituduh ada hubungan intim dengan Israel atau sekutunya, usaha untuk mengheret saya bersama akan berlaku. Konon bukan sahaja Anwar, saya juga ada hubungan dengan Israel.

2. Dahulu, di awal tahun 2012, apabila Anwar dipersoal kenapa dalam Wall Street Journal dia berkata dia “menyokong segala usaha untuk mempertahan keselamatan Negara Israel – I support all efforts to protect the security of the state of Israel” yang mendatangkan kemarahan orang Melayu di Malaysia, jawabnya saya juga ada hubungan dengan pemimpin Israel.

3. Surat-surat saya kepada tiga Perdana Menteri Israel didedah. Bahawa ketiga-tiga surat itu memberi kata dua kepada pemimpin Israel bahawa mereka hendaklah menunaikan janji untuk mengiktiraf Palestin dan henti peperangan terhadap orang Palestin pimpinan Arafat tidak disebut.

4. Kali ini, Anwar dan PKR terdedah ada hubungan dengan Liberal International (LI), sebuah organisasi yang kuat menyokong Israel, sekali lagi surat-surat saya kepada Perdana Menteri Israel didedah.

5. Saya tidak nafi saya tulis surat kepada Perdana Menteri Israel, tetapi surat itu bukan untuk sokong Israel. Surat itu, seperti disebut di atas mendesak Israel supaya tunai janji kepada Arafat.

6. Siapa sahaja boleh baca surat-surat saya.

7. Terdesak kerana didapati berbohong, Anwar dan pemimpin PKR di dalam Kerajaan mengugut akan mengambil tindakan tegas terhadap sesiapa yang terus mengaitkan mereka dengan Israel.

8. Sekali lagi penyokong Anwar dan PKR mendedah surat saya.

9. Selain menerbit semula surat-surat lampau yang saya utus kepada pemimpin-pemimpin Israel, mereka juga keluar surat yang saya kononnya menggelar Hamas sebagai pengganas.

10. Berkait isu saya menggelar Hamas sebagai pengganas saya sudah jawab dan jelaskan beberapa tahun lalu. Ia boleh baca di sini.

11. Saya tiada halangan sesiapa pun membaca tiga surat yang telah saya tulis kepada:
i) Yitzhak Rabin pada 21 December 1993;
ii) Benjamin Netanyahu pada 14 March 1997 dan
iii) Ehud Barak pada 8 Jun 1999.
Disertakan surat-surat pada pautan ini.

12. Kerana disebar semula, saya rasa perlu dijelaskan kenapa saya menulis surat-surat tersebut dan keadaan ketika ianya ditulis.

13. Pertamanya, dua dari surat tersebut adalah jawapan kepada surat dari Rabin dan Netanyahu. Cuma surat kepada Ehud Barak saya tulis atas inisiatif sendiri.

14. Kesemua surat-surat tersebut saya tulis ketika Yasser Arafat, pengerusi PLO sedang berusaha menjayakan proses damai yang dia persetujui dengan pemimpin-pemimpin Israel tersebut.

15. Saya anggap Arafat, seorang nasionalis dan pejuang kemerdekaan Palestin, seorang sahabat yang akrab dan amat saya hormati. Apabila dia menandatangani beberapa persetujuan damai dengan Israel, dan juga di atas permintaan Arafat, menjadi tanggungjawab saya untuk membantu.

16. Oslo Accord I, Oslo Accord II dan memorandum Sharm al Sheikh adalah di antara perjanjian yang di tandatangani oleh Arafat dengan ketiga pemimpin Israel tersebut di antara tahun 1993 hingga 1999.

17. Dalam tempoh itulah saya menulis surat-surat tersebut. Seperti yang saya nyata tadi, dua darinya jawapan kepada Rabin dan Netanyahu. Mungkin mereka menulis kepada saya kerana saya rakan Arafat atau mungkin kerana Malaysia ada sedikit pengaruh untuk membantu proses damai tersebut.

18. Sesiapa yang meneliti surat-surat tersebut dapat lihat pendirian saya menyokong usaha damai yang dipersetujui oleh PLO. Saya juga mengatakan sebarang hubungan antara Malaysia dan Israel hanya akan berlaku jika proses damai itu berjaya.

19. Saya ambil peluang mengingatkan pemimpin-pemimpin Israel supaya tidak merampas sesuatu yang menjadi kepunyaan orang lain, jika pun pada satu masa dahulu ianya kepunyaan mereka.

20. Saya mengkritik Israel meruntuh kediaman orang Arab untuk mendiri rumah orang Israel. Banyak lagi yang saya tulis. Semua ini boleh di baca di dalam surat-surat tersebut. Tidak ada perlu saya nafi atau cuba putar fakta.

21. Saya terus dengan usaha tersebut sehinggalah Arafat berhenti berusaha kerana Israel sememangnya tidak mahu kepada perdamaian.

22. Nota: Arafat, sebelum meninggal pada tahun 2004 dalam keadaan yang mencurigakan, telah terpenjara dalam pejabatnya di Ramallah. Rabin yang telah dibunuh pada tahun 1995 oleh ekstremis Israel yang menentang usaha Rabin berbaik dengan PLO.

23. Saya selalu ingatkan diri bahawa saya tidak penting – yang utama ialah keselamatan dan kesejahteraan orang Palestin.

24. Kerana itu ugutan, fitnah dan ancaman dari Israel mahupun Amerika tidak saya hirau kerana apa yang saya hadapi berbanding dengan penderitaan yang dihadapi oleh rakyat Palestin saban hari terlalu kecil untuk saya perkatakan.

IN SEARCH FOR HUMANITY

1. It is almost impossible to find words to describe the horror and atrocities wantonly committed, daily, on Palestinians, especially children.

2. We, the world, witness these in the comforts of our homes but, we are powerless to do anything.

3. It is heart wrenching to see children in Gaza, running around looking for their parents, most probably dead.

4. For goodness sake, these are children, the same age as our children, our grandchildren, whom we would fuss over even after insect bite.

5. Have we lost our humanity? Have we no compassion, no pity, no tears for them?

6. Indeed, we see protests all over the world but it doesn’t seem to bother those with the power to put a stop to it.

7. While we can’t expect the bloodthirsty Israelis to stop their murdering spree, we should at least see leading civilised nations doing the needful. They can make a difference.

8. The civilised world have achieved great things and even send people to the moon. And yet, they can’t even put a stop to the massacre of the Palestinians including their children.

9. We fight for animal rights, only to allow people human beings like us being continuously humiliated in the worse possible way…abused, tortured and killed over more than 70 years!

10. We fret over poverty and homelessness yet, we see, Palestinian homes being bulldozed, villagers evicted and their houses flattened, with the people still in them. And now entire neighbourhoods, buildings, hospitals are bombed and razed to the ground.

11. The civilised world witness before their eyes daily, genocide being committed.

12. And there are those who remain silent, quietly, extend support to Israel – moral and material – arms, intelligence and funds.

13. What kind of people are these?

14. They talk about Israel’s security. On Oct 7, some 1,400 Israelis were said to have died. Since then almost no deaths. But 10,000 Palestinians have now been killed. How many more do the Israelis want to kill?

15. Whose security is actually the one that had been breached?

16. We see Israeli soldiers but no Palestinian soldiers, only civilians.

17. It seems that the US and its allies do not want the murders to stop.

18. Israel now talks of a 4-hour ceasefire daily, a humanitarian pause. Seemingly to allow civilians to move to “safe” areas.

19. Once this pause is over, the killings will continue and the non-combatants will die in droves, bombed and blasted into smithereens.

20. What is happening in Gaza is not war. There are only Israeli soldiers mass murdering Palestinian civilians, children included. It is a massacre by a State on a people.

21. It is a conflict that has breached everything that is humane, morals and values. It is a massacre devoid of all sense of humanity.

22. A conflict where the arrogance, despicable, brutal, uncivilised nature the Zionist Jews are displaying for all to see.

23. We no longer have a right to claim we are civilised.

24. We have become barbarians.

THE ISRAELI

1. The world is now seeing massacre being perpetrated by the Israelis against the Palestinians on their high definition TV screens. Every detail is shown. New born babies dying as electricity is cut off and the oxygen flow to their cribs stopped.

2. Boys and girls wounded and dying being pulled out of collapsed building which had been bombed or rocketed by the Israelis. The wounded are being rushed on stretchers to ruined hospitals. The dead enshrouded with white cloth lying scattered on the ground.

3. The survivors crying and wailing as they hug the bodies of adults, children and women who had been killed.

4. This is not war. We see only Israeli soldiers. No Palestinian soldiers. Only civilians running about frantically as they search for family members who were missing. There may be fighting but it can only be between Israeli soldiers against Palestinian civilian. Yet the bombs and rockets have pulverised the whole city.

5. I cannot believe that this is happening. Long ago when the German Nazis were killing Jews in gas chambers, I felt a great pity for them.

6. I thought that Jews would understand what suffering means. I thought that they would never inflict such suffering on others.

7. But now I and the rest of the world are witnessing Jewish bestiality against the people who gave them asylum when the Europeans oppressed them.

8. Jews fled to Muslim countries when Ferdinand and Isabella reconquered Spain. They, the Jews and the Muslims were given three choices.

9. They could convert to Christianity, or emigrate or be put to death. Most chose to migrate. The Jews had no land of their own. So they migrated to Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Turkey. These were all Muslim countries. They also migrated to Palestine.

10. They survived and some even prospered. The Muslim fellow citizens did not commit pogroms against them.

11. They left these countries only after the state of Israel was created.

12. And since then there were violent wars as the expelled Palestinians tried to regain their land.

13. Do the Israeli remember the holocaust and the Nazis? Do they remember Ferdinand and Isabella giving them the three choices? Do they remember their asylum in the Muslim countries?

14. Apparently they don’t. Not at all if their genocidal war against the Palestinian, their brutality is any indication.

THE WAR ON GAZA

1. Malaysians seem to be divided over this war. Many believe this is a war caused by the differences between the Palestinians and the Jews. It may have started as a war.

2. But now it has become a deprivation of the human rights of the Gazans.

3. As much as every human being has a right, the Gazans also should enjoy human rights. But they are deprived of their rights by the Israelis.

4. We cannot forget in the late 1930s the Jews in Germany were being deprived of their rights. The holocaust resulted in six million Jews being killed. May more suffered from torture and oppression.

5. The world sympathised with the Jews of Germany. And part of the rejection of Nazis was the bestiality of the German Nazis.

6. Many millions died so as to end the sufferings of the Jews.

7. Now we are seeing the Jews of Israel indulging in the same deprivation of the rights of the Palestinians. It is a human tragedy. The power of the Israelis over the Palestinians is the same as those of the Nazis against the Jews. It is manifestly unfair and inhuman.

8. All Malaysians must reject the deprivation of the rights of the Palestinians by the Israelis.

9. It is wrong for Muslims only to demand for the end of the genocidal acts of the Israelis. Everyone in Malaysia should be concerned and should demand for the end of Israeli attacks against the Palestinians.

ISRAELI CASUALTIES

1. There is something strange about the Israeli war on Gaza.

2. When the war started the report says that two thousand Palestinians were killed.

3. The number of Israelis killed was 1400.

4. The war has gone on for more than two weeks.

5. The report says that now more than five thousands Palestinians have been killed.

6. But the number of Israelis killed remained at 1400.

7. Could it be that after killing 1400 Israelis on the first day, Hamas had stopped firing rocket at Israel? Or is it that the 1400 figure was cooked up by Israel to justify their continued genocidal attempts against Hamas and all Palestinians.

8. Israel is not a big power. Yet it cares nothing for international laws or morality. Why?

9. The reason is because it has the American Government behind it. Frankly the American Government approves of the crimes and the immorality of Israel. Biden never mentions the Palestinians who had been killed.

10. Why is the American Government backing Israel? It is because the Jews of America have a big say in the choice of the President and the Government of the United States. They own the media and the banks.

11. As we condemn Israel for the atrocities against the Palestinians, we should also condemn the American Government for its support of the atrocities. In fact the American Government seems ready to support Israeli invasion of Gaza and the genocide that it plans. The American Government and that of the UK are equally culpable.

SAVINGS AND DEBTS

1. Malaysia is famous for having huge savings.

2. Apart from the reserves held by Bank Negara amounting to more than USD100 billion (RM500 billion) we have RM 1trillion investment assets with Employees Provident Fund (EPF), over RM 300 billion assets under management in Permodalan Nasional Berhad (PNB), more than RM 80billion deposit savings with Tabung Haji and the pension fund, KWAP has almost RM 150billion. We have in fact more than one trillion Ringgit in savings.

3. At the same time we have huge debts incurred during Najib’s tenure as Prime Minister and now the additional amounts in Government funds for projects, subsidies and free gifts. We have a lot of debts.

4. Most of our savings are invested in US bonds. We cannot get back the money easily. The US has a reputation of not giving back the money lent to them or deposited with them.

5. So much of Government fund had to be used to service the loans. This results in more deficits. The debts remain as a burden. We have to service the debts with several billions every year.

6. So why are we saving money when we can pay our debts and reduce our financial burden.

7. Why are we lending money from our savings to the US and get little return from it.

8. Why must we hold so much money as reserves in USD.

9. Why must we have so much money as reserves.

10. These are the questions that the Government must ask itself.

MEMPERALAT LHDN

1. Saya merasa agak hairan bagaimana Puad Zarkashi, seorang Speaker Dewan Undangan Negeri Johor boleh tuduh saya peralat LHDN di dalam kes Datuk Najib (dan anaknya) disaman kerana tidak bayar cukai berjumlah RM1.7 billion.

2. Pertamanya, apakah Puad tidak faham proses perundangan. Dalam apa-apa juga kes melibatkan Kerajaan, ia perlu mendapat persetujuan pihak Peguam Negara sebelum dibawa ke mahkamah.

3. Jika Pejabat Peguam Negara merasa bahawa kes itu tidak mempunyai asas kukuh maka ia tidak akan di bawa ke mahkamah. Maka, apabila ia di bawa ke mahkamah ia bermakna Peguam Negara merasa ada asas yang cukup.

4. Keduanya, apabila ia dibawa ke mahkamah, Hakim pula akan membuat penilaian berdasar kepada bukti-bukti yang dipamer dan saksi-saksi yang dipanggil.

5. Jika tiada saksi-saksi dan bukti-bukti yang sahih dan kukuh maka Hakim dan Mahkamah akan membuang kes tersebut.

6. Mahkamah tertinggi negara, Mahkamah Persekutuan pada hari Isnin menolak rayuan Najib dan anaknya untuk membatalkan kes cukai mereka. Panel lima hakim telah sebulat suara menolak rayuan mereka membatal kes saman cukai LHDN berjumlah RM1.7 billion tersebut.

7. Jika LHDN telah diperalat oleh saya kenapa peguambela Najib tidak tunjuk bukti di mahkamah di hadapan hakim-hakim tersebut.

8. Apakah Puad Zarkashi menganggap hakim-hakim tersebut tidak tahu menilai bukti-bukti dan saksi-saksi yang di pamer di mahkamah?

9. Selain itu, jika Puad Zarkashi ada bukti bahawa LHDN telah diperalat oleh saya, kenapa dia tidak beri bukti itu kepada peguambela Najib dan menawar diri sebagai saksi pembelaan.

10. Tetapi ini tidak dilakukan olehnya. Sebaliknya, dia cuma “meroyan” di luar mahkamah dan membiar Najib menghadapi saman dan kalah.

THE PALESTINE-ISRAEL CONFLICT

1. The reactions to the latest hostility between Palestinians and the Israelis actually underscores why the conflict, which has been more than seven decades, would not find a solution.

2. Firstly, the responses that came from powerful Western nations and their apparatus, including their media, are hypocritical, bigoted and pathological.

3. Instead of addressing the conflict for what it actually is, they chose to continue with their deceptive narrative that it is an attack on Israel by terrorists – their blame being obviously against Hamas, the Hezbollah and Iran.

4. With that narrative, they stoke fear in the Western community, claiming that it is an attack on democracy and peace loving people.

5. With that, the US in particular feel justified to extend military support to Israel to “retaliate” against Palestinians attacks.

6. All these are far from the truth. Instead they are outright lies which had been perpetuated unashamedly by Western leaders and their media.

7. The truth is actually very simple.

8. For decades, the Israelis had been committing war crimes, massacres, genocide and unthinkable atrocities against the Palestinians.

9. These are not one-off acts but rather systematically conducted without respite throughout the seven decades.

10. Apart from Palestinian land which the Israelis acquired illegally through unilateral agreements and treaties with former occupiers of Palestine, the Israeli settlers have been forcefully seizing lands and farms belonging to Palestinians.

11. The Palestinians are chased out of their land and any attempt to seek some form of restitution from the Israeli authorities are met with violence backed most times by the Israeli security forces namely the Israel Defence Forces (IDF).

12. The Palestinians, pushed to the corner, while Gaza was turned into an open air prison, attempted sporadic retaliations, which in turn were met with the full force of the IDF with weapons supplied by superpowers in particular the US.

13. This episode is not any different from previous retaliations except that probably this time around they are more focussed with a bit more assistance externally.

14. But the Western powers and their apparatus continue with their lies, with their narratives that the hostility is an act of terror committed by terrorists, ignoring the fact that it is retaliation by a people whose freedom and rights to their land had been forcefully taken away from them.

15. They refuse to view the hostility is committed by freedom fighters who are up against an injustice committed by an apartheid regime which had been perpetrating genocide on the Palestinians.

16. The Western powers and the US are party to apartheid, genocide and crimes against humanity for as long as they support the heinous Israeli regime.

17. With that, any attempt towards finding a just and fair solution for the Palestinians becomes an exercise in futility.

18. In the meantime, the Israelis can be expected to carry out their genocide with impunity and with total disregard of international laws.

IMMUNITY

1. Some people are said to be above the law. They are immune. But are they really?

2. What do you think when an immune person commits a crime. Should he be charged? Well, if he is immune then he should not be charged.

3. What if he kills a person? Well if he is immune then he should not be charged.

4. What if the person he killed is your mother, or father or beloved brother?

5. Well we cannot allow that. But other people do not feel so much hurt. It is not their mother, or father or beloved brother. So they will say we have to respect the immunity. That is the rule of law.

6. But it may not be killing a person. It may be just stealing your property.

7. That’s okay. No charge.

8. What would society be like if an immune person can take what belongs to you, or to other people?

9. You would feel very uncomfortable. You would want to migrate.

10. You are seeing a lot of people migrating now. They migrate because they can find no way to live a secure life.

11. So just think.

12. We have a Government led by a Reformist. It is a Government that is immune, that is above the law.

13. We must like immunity.

14. We keep on supporting a Government that is immune.

15. What can we do?

16. We can pray to Allah.

17. But Allah has said in the Quran that he will not change your life until you have done something to change it.

18. Have we done anything?