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Saturday, July 31, 2010

Pujian Nik Aziz kepada Anwar umpama 'boomerang

Oleh warisatuliman2010

A.w.w. sdr/sdri seiman. 

Setakat Nik Aziz puji Anwar dgn menyamakannya seperti Junjungan Besar Rasulullah s.a.w. tidak sedikitpun mencemarkan kemulian dan darjat Kekasih Allah s.w.t. itu. Sebaliknya, seperti kejadian golongan kafirun di Barat yang mempersendakan Rasulullah s.a.w. dengan kartun2 yang menjijikkan, ia membawa kesan positif: semakin ramai orang Barat yang mahu kenali dan seterusnya menerima Islam sebagai agama mereka.
Dalam cubaan 'desperado' Nik Aziz dan penyokong2 taksub Anwar yang lain untuk memulihkan dan membersihkan kembali imej idola mereka yang semakin hari semakin robek akibat perbuatannya sendiri, ia membawa 'kesan boomerang'.

Mengapa tidak?

Banyak sekali sebab2nya. Pertama, dalam perjuangan mentauhidkan Islam Rasulullah s.a.w. memang tegas dan tidak sekali2 bersekongkol dgn musuh2 Allah s.w.t. Baginda cukup tegas MENJAUHI seteru2 Allah s.w.t. sebaliknya Anwar pula tegas bukan sahaja MENDEKATI malah BERBAKTI kepada musuh2 Allah s.w.t.

Kedua, Rasulullah s.a.w. tegas membawa mesej dan panji2 Islam sebagai satu-satunya agama yang diterima di sisi Allah yang tidak sama dengan agama2 lain tetapi Anwar mengetengahkan konsep pluralisme agama di mana Islam=Kristian=Yahudi=agama2 lain.

Ketiga, Rasulullah s.a.w. juga tegas menegakkan konsep kejujuran dan keikhlasan tetapi sebaliknya Anwar lebih selesa dgn konsep hipokrit atau talam dua a.k.a. munafik. Ini jelas ditolak oleh Rasulullah s.a.w. seperti yang diriwayatkan menerusi sepotong Hadisnya yg disampaikan oleh Abu Hurairah r.a. yang bermaksud:

"Sesungguhnya, sejahat-jahat manusia ialah orang yang bermuka dua." (H.R. Imam Bukhari).

Malah, Anwar sekarang bukan sahaja melanggar dasar perjuangan Rasulullah s.a.w. yang berusaha menyatupadukan seluruh umat Islam sebaliknya dia lebih rela melihat Islam dan umatnya berpecah seperti penolakannya terhadap sebarang usaha menyatupadukan umat Islam UMNO dan PAS.

Jadi, di manakah dapat kita melihat walau sedikit pun persamaan ketegasan Antara Anwar dgn Junjungan Besar Nabi Muhammad s.a.w. seperti penegasan Nik Aziz itu?

Jelas sekali 'kesan boomerang' akan terbukti apabila semakin ramai rakyat Malaysia sedar bahawa ciri2 keperibadian dan sifat Rasulullah s.a.w. iaitu siddiq, amanah, tabligh dan fatanah sebenarnya tidak dapat dilihat pada diri Anwar.

Atau mungkinkah Nik Aziz sebenarnya mempersendakan Anwar di sebalik hamburan pujiannya.....

Wallahhualambissawab.

Hikayat Pada Masa Itu...

DAP dan para pemimpinnya kini sering merujuk kepada kejayaan Singapura. Singapura itu dan Singapura ini. Malah, kononnya Pulau Pinang juga kini mendapatkan pelbagai nasihat daripada republik itu.
Kelmarin, Tony Pua, penasihat ekonomi DAP yang juga Ahli Parlimen PJ Utara, turut merujuk kepada sistem yang diamalkan di Singapura apabila mahu menasihati kerajaan Selangor supaya mansuhkan diskaun pembelian rumah untuk bumiputera.
Apabila beliau memperlekehkan Pelaburan Langsung Asing (FDI) ke Malaysia, dia juga merujuk kepada Singapura yang menurutnya republik itu berada di tahap tertinggi berjaya menarik pelaburan berbanding dengan negara-negara ASEAN lain.
Asyik-asyik Singapura. Kita memang sedar DAP dan parti yang memerintah Singapura sekarang iaitu PAP ialah adik-beradik. Mungkin kerana itu, tumpuannya banyak berkiblatkan republik itu.
Singapura ialah sebuah negara sudah tiada beraja yang mengamalkan sistem republik. Ada juga desas-desus yang mengatakan corak sistem sebegitulah yang diidam-idamkan oleh DAP. Benar atau tidak, saya tidak tahu, tapi berat-beratnya macam betul? Apapun hanya Allah Yang Maha Esa sahaja yang amat mengetahuinya.
Ekoran kegawatan politik yang memperlihatkan – teori saya – orang Melayu berpecah kepada enam (rujuk Cuit 25 Mac 2009: Melayu bukan UMNO lagi, Melayu sudah minoriti) maka tiada mustahil akhirnya, Singapura akan bersambung dengan Johor, Melaka, Negeri Sembilan, Selangor, Putrajaya, Perak, Pulau Pinang (sudah seakan-akan Singapura sekarang) serta Kedah. Apabila kesemua negeri ini bersambung dengan satu ideologi, maka tidak mustahil sistem pemerintahan yang diidam-idamkan oleh DAP itu akan menjadi kenyataan.
Pada masa itu, Singapura akan dikenali sebagai Singapura Raya (the greater Singapore) dan ia tidak perlu bimbang lagi dan pada masa itu DAP akan menjadi sebuah parti yang akan mendapat sokongan padu orang- orang Melayu yang berpecah enam tadi.
Pada masa itu juga, Pas akan terus bekerjasama dengan DAP – sama-sama bertepuk belakang – dengan disokong oleh jiran seberang Tambak Johor (yang pada masa itu semua pihak akan bersetuju bahawa Tambak Johor bukan lagi bernostalgik, dan ia akan dirobohkan bagi membolehkan air laut Selat Tebrau yang cukup kotor itu dapat mengalir dengan tenangnya dan kapal-kapal dapat berlayar melalui selat itu.)
Pasa masa itu, Tony Pua serta Lim Guan Eng serta Lim Kit Siang (mungkin akan menjadi Menteri Mentor Malaysia) akan memerintah. Tony Pua pada masa itu tidak perlu lagi mencadangkan itu dan ini, tapi sudah boleh meminda apa-apa sahaja akta yang difikirkan perlu untuk rakyat Malaysia, khususnya yang berkepentingan orang Melayu.
Pada masa itu juga, orang Melayu akan menjadi orang yang paling tenang kehidupannya di alam maya ini. Dan, pada masa itu juga orang Melayu tidak lagi akan bercakap mengenai soal perpaduan Pas-UMNO, kerana mungkin UMNO sudah tiada lagi, atau mungkin sudah bertukar nama.
Pas pada masa itu, akan menjadi parti yang paling gembira kerana dapat mengembangkan ajaran agamanya tanpa sebarang paksaan (berbanding masa sekarang dan pada zaman Mahafiraun dulu).
Nik Aziz Nik Mat, jika masih hidup pada masa itu akan menjadi orang yang paling gembira, segembiranya beliau apabila dapat berjabat tangan dengan Lee Kuan Yew di Kota Bharu tidak lama dulu.
Pada Masa Itu Lagi...
SEKARANG DAP terlalu memuja Singapura kerana hebatnya negara itu. Dan memuji orang Malaysia kerana dapat bekerja dengan gaji besar di negara itu.
Pada masa itu, Singapura bukan lagi menjadi tempat tinggal yang paling baik untuk rakyat di negara pulau itu. Mereka mahu mencari tapak-tapak rumah yang lebih besar. Jika sekarang mereka hanya menghuni di rumah-rumah kiub, mereka mahukan rumah-rumah banglo.
Ia hanya boleh diperoleh di tanah Semenanjung yang cukup luas ini. Sekarang pun, jika orang Singapura diberi kerakyatan Malaysia - saya boleh bayangkan, pintu sempadan akan pecah dirempuh mereka.
Mereka mahu mencari tanah yang lebih luas untuk hidup. Sekangkang kera, sudah tidak cukup. Jutawan dan bilionwan sana mahukan rumah yang lebih besar untuk mendirikan mahligai masing-masing. Negara pulau itu sudah terlalu kecil.
Itu pasal sekarang pun, ramai yang sudah bermastautin di Australia atau New Zealand kerana mereka mahukan tanah yang luas.
Pada masa itu, soal batasan sempadan bukan masalah lagi. Berduyun-duyunlah orang seberang sana, mencari ketenangan di tanah Semenanjung atau Sabah dan Sarawak yang penuh dengan kehijauan ini.
Tanah kini terbentang luas bagi mereka. Tidak perlu lagi ke Australia atau pun New Zealand.
Hukum alam sebenarnya berputar. Ia ada kitarannya. Hanya orang yang tidak tahu sejarah, tidak pernah percaya wujudnya kitaran seperti ini. Ingat sejarah; Singapura dulu milik orang lain, kini milik orang lain.
Malaysia juga tidak terkecuali.

Friday, July 30, 2010

Hak Istimewa Melayu Tidak Boleh Dipertikaikan

KUALA LUMPUR 30 Julai – Penasihat Undang-undang UMNO, Datuk Hafarizam Harun membidas pihak pembangkang khususnya DAP yang seringkali menimbulkan hal-hal berkaitan hak keistimewaan orang Melayu.

Katanya, seharusnya perkara tersebut tidak berlaku kerana ia termaktub dalam Artikel 153, Perlembagaan Persekutuan.

“Saya melihat situasi ini seolah-olah mencabar apa yang termaktub dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan yang mana kalau kita kaji sejarah penubuhan Persekutuan Tanah Melayu dan juga Perlembagaan Persekutuan 1957, Artikel 153 adalah salah satu artikel berbentuk ‘entrenched’,” katanya kepada umno-online.com.

Jelasnya lagi, Artikel 153 tersebut adalah tunjang kepada Perlembagaan Persekutuan iatu hak orang Melayu sama ada berkenaan dengan permit dan juga perkhidmatan; termasuk di dalamnya biasiswa dan sebagainya, adalah hak yang telah dilindungi termaktub.

“Oleh itu ia tidak boleh dicabar atau dibincangkan sekalipun, malah tidak boleh dicela atau dicaci oleh mana-mana pihak,” tegasnya merujuk berkenaan i DAP dan juga beberapa kumpulan-kumpulan pendesak yang kebanyakannya bukan Melayu mempersoalkan hak keistimewaan Melayu dalam beberapa perkara.

Menurut beliau, apabila DAP membangkitkan hal sedemikian, dapat dilihat bahawa perjuangannya tersasar daripada sebuah parti sosialis menjadi rasis.

“Pihak sedemikian cuba untuk menimbulkan perasaan benci, rasa tidak sama rata dan perasaan bahawa sesuatu kaum itu lebih superior dari kaum yang lain. Ini adalah permainan politik yang bahaya kerana boleh menimbulkan masalah dan dikaitkan dengan hasutan.

“Menerusi Akta Hasutan 1948, secara ringkas menerangkan bahawa, ia adalah satu perbuatan menghasut apabila mempertikaikan apa jua perkara, hak, posisi, keistimewaan dan sebagainya yang termaktub dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan.”

Justeru, katanya jika ianya dibiarkan berterusan maka akan mewujudkan satu perkara yang boleh menimbulkan satu-satu kaum dalam masyarakat bersikap prejudis dan jika dilihat dari aspek perundangan maka tindakan boleh dilakukan di bawah Akta Hasutan.

“Saya sendiri perlu berhati-hati apabila memperkatakan tentang Artikel 153 ini kerana tidak mahu melanggar undang-undang dengan dikaitkan di bawah Akta Hasutan atau dicap serbagai ultra Melayu dengan kenyataan saya disalahguna,” tegasnya.

Menurut beliau, ultra Melayu ini sendiri mula diperkatakan sejak penerbitan buku ‘Malay Dilemma’ oleh mantan Perdana Menteri Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad sehingga hari ini dan ia telah diberi satu konotasi yang berbentuk negatif.

“Kita tidak boleh nafikan di dalam diri kita masing-masing ada ultranya tetapi apa yang Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak bawa dalam konsep 1Malaysia adalah satu prinsip toleransi yang berbentuk penerimaan iaitu setiap bangsa perlulah menerima hak kewujudan, keistimewaan, kelebihan kaum-kaum lain agar semua dapat hidup dalam masyarakat yang harmoni.”

Hafarizam turut menyatakan kekesalannya berkaitan perkara terbabit dan berharap agar pihak pembangkang menggunakan isu-isu lain dalam hal politik.

“Carilah perkara lain untuk dipolitikkan dan lakukanlah secara matang agar tidak menyebabkan timbulnya persaaan marah terhadap orang bukan Melayu atau UMNO sendiri.

“Kalau DAP betul-betul parti yang memperjuangkan sosialis, iaitu berteraskan kerajaan mengatasi segalanya maka tentu mereka tidak bersifat rasis. Dalam keadaan ini double standard atau tidak konsisten diamalkan kerana posisi mempertikaikan hak keistimewaan orang Melayu.”

Apa yang jelas, tegasnya lagi jika dihayati Artikel 153 itu sendiri menyatakan bahawa hak-hak orang Melayu adalah dilindungi tetapi dalam masa yang sama tidak pernah mendiskriminasi hak-hak kaum-kaum lain.

“Sebagai contoh kita lihat Artikel 152 yang mana mengatakan bahasa Kebangsaan adalah bahasa Melayu tetapi tidak menghalang selain daripada tujuan rasmi untuk penggunaan atau pun pengajaran atau pembelajaran bahasa-bahasa lain. Daripada artikel 152 inilah maka sekolah vernikular, sekolah jenis kebangsaan Cina dan Tamil diwujudkan,” katanya. – MediaUMNO

HARAMKAN DAP!

Salam 2 all.
Cadangan mutakhir pemimpin DAP, Tony Pua, Ahli Parlimen DAP (PJ Utara) untuk memansuhkan diskaun bumiputra dalam sektor tertentu pembangunan sekali lagi membuktikan sikap cauvinis, rasis, anti Melayu dan anti perlembagaan yang dianuti oleh kepimpinan DAP.
Dan yang paling malang, orang Melayu saperti Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim boleh bersetuju dengan cadangan bodoh saperti itu.
Persoalannya bukan isu diskaun bumiputra, tetapi soal prinsip perlembagaan dan keharmonian kaum yang telah dibina sekian lama.
Perkara berkaitan hak istimewa Melayu telah tercatat dengan jelas didalam Perlembagaan dan tidak perlu dikupas. Dan ini adalah antara formula kepada perpaduan dan keharmonian agama dan kaum selama ini.
Kepimpinan DAP kini semakin angkuh dan kurang ajar didalam mempersoalkan perkara asasi Perlembagaan. Mereka seolah-olah lupa sikap cauvinis dan rasis yang mereka amalkan adalah punca terjadi rusuhan kaum 1969.
Dan bila kita mengingatkan supaya peristiwa hitam 13 Mei itu dijadikan iktibar, maka pemimpin DAP lah antara yang paling bising menyalak mendesak supaya peristiwa itu tidak diungkit-ungkit lagi. Kerana apa? Kerana mereka tidak mahu rakyat khususnya generasi baru mengetahui sejarah hitam mereka!!
Saya membaca lapuran Majlis Gerakan Negara (NOC) bertarikh Oktober 1969 yang membutirkan secara terperinci apa sebenarnya yang berlaku sebelum 13 Mei 1969.
Kenyataan saperti “Melayu sudah tidak berkuasa”, “ini negeri bukan Melayu punya”, “halau Melayu keluar” dan macam-macam lagi yang dibuat selepas DAP memenangi beberapa kerusi di Selangor akhirnya mencetuskan perasaan marah orang Melayu dan berakhir dengan peristiwa berdarah itu. Dan ada antara petualang DAP yang aktif pada masa itu masih hidup dan melalak kesana kemari hari ini.
Kalau tahun 1969 mereka tidak mendapat sokongan orang Melayu, tetapi hari ini bukan sahaja Melayu haprak, pak janggoat-pak janggoat pun turut menyokong mereka. Maka bertambah besarlah kepala mereka, makin menjadi-jadi kesombongan mereka.
Tambah pulak ada Melayu yang tergamak menawarkan jawatan Timbalan Perdana Menteri kepada puak-puak cauvinis ini. Hanya kerana nafsu serakah mahu menduduki Putrajaya!! Dan yang lebih teruk, Melayu haprak dan pak janggoat-pak janggoat inoi disamatarafkan dengan sahabat Nabi saw!!
Cuba bayangkan kalau tahun 1969, lebih 40 tahun lepas, mereka meraikan kemenangan kecil itu dengan memaki hamun dan menghina bangsa Melayu, cuba bayangkan apa yang akan mereka lakukan kalau mereka menguasai kerajaan persekutuan, apatah lagi menjawat jawatan Timbalan Perdana Menteri!!
Tengok sendiri apa yang mereka buat di Pulau Pinang, Selangor, dan buat seketika di Perak. Dan yang paling malang, ada orang Melayu yang sanggup bersekongkol dengan pelampau-pelampau cauvinis dan rasis ini.
Dan ada antara Melayu haprak ini yang sanggup menipu diri sendiri dengan mendakwa persekongkolan ini adalah demi dakwah dan mendekatkan DAP kepada Islam. Apa yang saya nampak, mereka yang makin lama makin terikut-ikut rentak DAP.
DAP semakin tegar dengan semangat anti Islam dan anti Melayunya. Kenyataan terbaru “mursyidul am” DAP Karpal Singh menolak sama sekali gagasan penubuhan negara Islam jelas membuktikan DAP masih dengan sikapnya.
Dan ini sepatutnya sudah cukup menyedarkan bangsa Melayu yang beragama Islam bahawa mereka sedang bermain dengan api apabila rela diperkudakan oleh kafir harbi ini. Tetapi tidakn segelintir bangsa Melayu ini sanggup sekali lagi menipu diri sendiri dengan mendakwa kenyataan Karpal itu adalah kenyataan peribadi dan bukan pendirian DAP.
Betapalah bangsa yang punya Al Quran ditangannya boleh menjadi begitu bodoh! Memang kebodohan itu bukan suatu jenayah, tetapi kebodohan itu akan membawa kemusnahan kepada agama, bangsa dan tanahair sendiri!!
Pada saya sikap cauvinis, rasis, ala komunis, anti Melayu, anti Islam dan anti Perlembagaan kepimpinan DAP ini semakin melampau. Hari demi hari mereka mengasak umat Islam dan orang Melayu dengan pelbagai isu.
Daripada isu tanah, isu biasiswa, isu hak istimewa, kini menular kepada mempertikaikan institusi Islam, Raja-Raja Melayu, badan kehakiman, Polis DiRaja Malaysia, SPRM, SPR, Mahkamah Syariah membawa kepada isu-isu negara Islam, kalimah ALLAH dan lain-lain.
Sekiranya tidak dibendung segera, saya yakin sikap melampau kepimpinan DAP ini akan menjadi barah kepada kestabilan dan keharmonian agama dan kaum yang telah lama kita nikmati selama ini.
Atas alasan itu, saya percaya sudah tiba masanya kita bertindak tegas terhadap kepimpinan DsAP ini. Saya mencadangkan supaya Pendaftar Pertubuhan mengambil tindakan untuk membatalkan pendaftaran parti DAP ini, ianya hendaklah diisytiharkan sebuah pertubuhan haram yang membahayakan rakyat dan negara ini.
Rakyat Malaysia tidak memerlukan kepimpinan yang cauvinis, rasis, berfikiran ala komunis, anti Melayu, anti Islam dan anti Perlembagaan saperti DAP. Meminjam kata-kata Presiden Ahmadinejad, “kepimpinan DAP ini wajib dihapuskan daripada peta politik negara ini”!!
Wassalam.
Zulkifli Bin Noordin
Khamis
18 Sya’ban 1431
29 Julai 2010

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Penjelasan YAB Perdana Menteri Rasional Subsidi Dikurangkan



Pejabat Perdana Menteri



1. Sejak Yang Amat Berhormat Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak mengambil alih teraju kepimpinan negara pada tahun lepas, kerajaan telah memberi tumpuan kepada usaha-usaha untuk melonjakkan pertumbuhan ekonomi ke tahap yang lebih tinggi.

2. Kita telah membuka sektor-sektor penting dalam ekonomi untuk pelabur asing, menyediakan persekitaran pelaburan yang lebih kondusif, mengurangkan perbelanjaan kerajaan sebanyak 24 bilion, mengurangkan pembaziran dan menangani ketidakcekapan. Hasilnya, kita dapat melihat kebangkitan ekonomi dengan pertumbuhan sebanyak 10.1% dalam suku pertama 2010, pencapaian terbaik kita dalam dekad ini.

3. Ketika mengumumkan Rancangan Malaysia Ke-10, kerajaan telah mengatakan bahawa matlamat negara bukanlah semata-mata untuk mengeluarkan kita dari krisis ekonomi. Cita-cita kita untuk negara dan masyarakat adalah lebih tinggi dari itu. Kita ingin menjadi negara berpendapatan tinggi dan maju, berdaya tahan dan berdaya saing untuk meningkatkan kesejahteraan kerana rakyat.

4. Model Baru Ekonomi (MBE) memperuntukkan cadangan untuk melabur dan mengembangkan sektor strategik yang penting, mengemas kini infrastruktur dan mewujudkan peluang pelaburan bagi sektor swasta yang bertujuan meningkatkan Pendapatan Negara Kasar. Namun begitu, pertumbuhan sahaja tidak akan membantu kita mencapai matlamat MBE. Kerajaan telah menyatakan bahawa kita mesti mengkaji semula pemberian subsidi bagi mengelak herotan dalam dagangan. Ia bagi memastikan subsidi diberikan kepada golongan yang layak dan membolehkan lebih banyak hasil negara digunakan untuk pelaburan yang akan memberikan faedah jangka panjang bagi keseluruhan rakyat.

5. Selaras dengan itu, Kabinet telah mengambil keputusan bahawa berkuat kuasa pada 16 Julai 2010, harga bagi bahan api, terutamanya petrol, diesel dan Petroleum Gas Cecair (LPG), dan juga gula, akan diselaraskan semula sebagai sebahagian dari Program Rasionalisasi Subsidi. Penyelarasan semula harga barang ini akan membolehkan kerajaan mengurangkan perbelanjaannya melebihi RM750 juta untuk tahun ini.

6. Keputusan untuk menyelaraskan harga minyak dan gula ini khususnya diasaskan daripada tiga perkara penting:

a. Pertama, kesemua subsidi ini tidak menepati sasaran – ia memberi faedah juga kepada pihak yang tidak layak, iaitu warga asing dan rakyat yang berpendapatan tinggi yakni mereka yang mampu untuk membayar petrol tanpa subsidi. Fokus kita sepatutnya ialah bagi membantu golongan yang berpendapatan rendah dan sederhana bukan mereka yang memandu kereta import yang mewah. Subsidi gula yang berlebihan pula memberi faedah kepada industri-industri dan bukannya keluarga. Hampir dua kali ganda subsidi gula ini digunakan oleh sektor perniagaan berbanding isi rumah.

b. Kedua, barangan yang bersubsidi tinggi selalunya membawa kepada aktiviti penyeludupan kerana pemberian subsidi telah menjadikan barangan ini paling murah di rantau ini. Pada tahun 2009 sahaja, ramai penyeludup telah ditangkap ketika cuba membawa keluar lebih 200 tan metrik gula. Sebenarnya, jumlah yang tidak dapat ditangkap kerana penyeludupan ini adalah lebih besar. Diesel terus diseludup dan dijual secara haram di negara jiran. Pihak berkuasa telah meningkatkan pengawalan untuk menghalang penyeludupan, tetapi selagi adanya perbezaan harga yang besar, penyeludup akan terus dengan kegiatan haram ini.

c. Ketiga, kita perlu menukar cara kita menggunakan bahan bakar dan gula. Penggunaan bahan bakar yang berlebihan akan mengurangkan sumber negara dengan cepat dan tidak menyumbang kepada usaha kita melindungi alam sekitar. Dengan 40 peratus rakyat Malaysia yang berlebihan berat badan atau obes – dan peningkatan jumlah penghidap diabetes – kita perlu menangani apa yang dilihat sebagai satu isu kesihatan. Mengurangkan penggunaan gula di kalangan anak-anak khususnya, adalah langkah yang tepat.

7. Ini adalah sebahagian dari sebab kenapa kerajaan memilih untuk menyelaraskan semula harga gula dan bahan bakar. Sebaliknya, subsidi bagi bidang pelajaran dan kesihatan akan terus dipertahankan. Ini adalah bidang perkara yang penting bagi negara di mana kerajaan seharusnya melabur, menyediakan bantuan untuk mengembangkan kemahiran dan membina tenaga kerja untuk masa depan.

8. Keputusan untuk menyemak semula pemberian subsidi ini dibuat bersama rakyat melalui aktiviti yang dijalankan di bawah Program Rasionalisasi Subsidi. Kerajaan telah mengadakan proses perundingan dengan rakyat sebelum membuat keputusan ini. Tidak lagi hanya dengan pembuat dasar di Putrajaya, tetapi beribu-ribu rakyat Malaysia melalui Hari Terbuka Makmal Rasionalisasi Subsidi, undian on-line, undian pesanan ringkas dan borang maklum balas menyatakan sokongan bagi menyemak semula pemberian subsidi secara berperingkat.

9. Berdasarkan proses ini, kerajaan memutuskan harga petrol RON 95 dan diesel akan diselaraskan sebanyak 5 sen seliter bagi semua sektor. LPG akan diselaraskan sebanyak 10 sen sekilogram dan petrol RON 97 akan diapung secara terkawal. Bagi gula pula, harga akan diselaraskan sebanyak 25 sen sekilogram.

10. Walaupun harga barang ini diselaraskan, kerajaan masih lagi membelanjakan lebih kurang RM7.82 bilion setahun untuk subsidi bahan bakar dan gula. Harga bahan bakar dan gula di negara ini masih lagi yang paling rendah di rantau ini walaupun adanya penyelarasan harga ini.

11. Selain itu, penyelarasan harga barang ini akan menyumbang kepada usaha kita untuk mengukuhkan urusan kewangan kerajaan iaitu mengurangkan defisit kewangan negara. Ia membolehkan kita menyediakan perbelanjaan yang lebih kepada sektor yang lebih penting seperti pendidikan dan kesihatan. Ini termasuklah pengumuman kerajaan baru-baru ini bahawa semua pelajar yang mendapat 9A+ dan pelajar miskin yang layak mendapat biasiswa dan meningkatkan perbelanjaan untuk menyediakan kemudahan kesihatan seperti Klinik 1Malaysia, termasuk klinik bergerak 1Malaysia. Selain itu, kerajaan akan meneruskan Projek Penyeragaman Harga Barang Perlu di Sabah dan Sarawak bagi mengurangkan beban rakyat luar bandar.

12. Sebenarnya, penyelarasan harga bahan api dan gula ini adalah yang paling minima berbanding dengan cadangan yang telah dikemukakan oleh Makmal Rasionalisasi Subsidi kerana kerajaan mahu mengimbangi di antara kepentingan rakyat dan keperluan menguruskan defisit negara.


Thursday, July 15, 2010

CNN dibayar tuduhan Blogger Amerika Bukan Utusan Malaysia

  1. Kelam kabut Anwar dan konco-konconya menerima serangan demi serangan. Perintah Panglima Perang Barisan Nasional Dato Seri Najib Tun Razak dipraktikkan tanpa banyak soal oleh para soldadu siber dan juga fizikal. Masa bertahan sudah berlalu dan sekarang masa membuat serangan demi serangan.
  2. Saman fitnah Felda ke atas Suara Keadilan isu fitnah Felda bankrap antara 'gol' permulaan BN dalam hal ini. Seterusnya 'penyerang utama' BN iaitu akhbar Utusan Malaysia sekali lagi mendahului dalam misi ini dengan membuat hantaran cantik kepada blogger pro BN dalam mendedahkan tulisan blogger Amerikan bernama Joshua Traviner yang menulis di portal The New Ledger berhubung dakwaan CNN dibayar Anwar.
  3. Tidak cukup dengan itu, 'penyerang import' BN iaitu penulis popular Rachel Motte yang berani menulis Anwar mempunyai sejarah menggigit hatta Yahudi apabila diperlukan berbuat demikian meskipun mempunyai ramai kawan dari golongan itu seperti Al Gore dan Paul Wolfowitz.
  4. Semalam juga 1Malaysia telah membaca berita di muka hadapan Utusan Malaysi isu pasir di Selangor yang menunjukkan muka bumi Dengkil yang semakin berlobang dek penangan 'penyamun pasir' yang rakus mengorek hasil bumi Selangor hingga menjejaskan Paya Indah Wetland dan habitatnya.
  5. Untuk menjawab isu CNN maka penyerang PR iaitu Malaysiakini seperti biasa dengan tangkas sekali menyerang Utusan Malaysia atas dakwaan membuat tuduhan palsu terhadap Anwar isu beliau dan temuramah CNN. Namun 'hantaran lemah' yang dibuat gagal membolos 'gawang' BN.
  6. Sebenarnya bukan Utusan Malaysia yang melontar tuduhan tetapi blogger Amerika yang menulisnya. Anwar dan Malaysiakini sepatutnya mencari pengesahan berita dari Joshua Traviner bukan menyuruh Utusan Malaysia mendapatkan pengesahannya.
  7. Isu ini gagal dijawab dengan baik oleh Malaysiakini dan blogger Pakatan Rosak lalu mereka terpaksa mengalih tuduhan kepada Utusan Malaysia dengan harapan rakyat yang bodoh akan terpedaya dengan alasan yang mereka berikan.
  8. Namun di zaman siber dan IT ini tidak ada orang yang mudah ditipu dan rakyat Malaysia harus sedar Anwar sudah pun tidak relevan lagi untuk negara kita. Semua blogger samada Malaysia atau pun luar negara sudah pun tahu diri beliau yang sebenar dan kita harus lebih bersungguh mendedahkan perangai beliau yang jelas tidak kisah apa sahaja digadai demi menjadikan beliau PM Malaysia seterusnya pada PRU akan datang.
  9. Tuduhan Elaine Meinel Supkis bahawa Anwar alat CIA pun gagal dijawab. Adakah dah habis jawapan atau mereka sudah kalah dalam pertempuran ? Dua dua betul bagi saya. Syabas kepada semua dan mari kita meneruskan serangan demi serangan dan jangan bagii mereka peluang walau sebesar kuman!!!

Monday, July 12, 2010

LAGI ISU ANWAR DAN SEKUTUNYA

This week, Barack Obama reached out once more to the Muslim world. Following his promise last June in Cairo, President Obama hosted a Summit on Entrepreneurship, “to identify how we can deepen ties between business leaders, foundations and social entrepreneurs in the United States and Muslim communities around the world.” Bringing together 250 participants from 60 countries, the Administration once again tried to build bridges between East and West, and even brought Secretary of State Hillary Clinton along to close the summit on Tuesday evening.
Yet it remains as hard as ever to figure out who are America’s real friends and allies in the Muslim world, aside from the good King and Queen of Jordan, a handful of emirates, and the Saudi royals. Take the strange case of Malaysia, for example. The Malaysian state and its ruling party are broadly constructive and cooperative with the United States — but its political opposition is another story. And that’s the reverse of what often gets portrayed in Western media.

The present Malaysian leadership is pro-business, pro-American and prepared to stand up and be counted in the Muslim world as a strategic U.S. ally. During the recent Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak pledged to assist Washington on numerous fronts, and even shut off petroleum supplies to Iran within hours of returning home to Kuala Lumpur.
Though Malaysia isn’t quite as far along as Muslim nations such as Jordan or Egypt with respect to Israel — it refuses to recognize the Jewish state or its passports — its official anti-Israel position does not come from a societal wellspring of anti-Semitism. Though Malaysia used to have a small Jewish community of its own, it dwindled as a consequence of the Second World War rather than, as in most of the Muslim world, as vengeance for Israel’s founding.
Malaysia’s reputation as a majority-Muslim nation known for moderation and stability is hard won in this decade, and a result of the leadership of the present Prime Minister and his immediate predecessor.
Prior to October 2003, Malaysia’s position as a responsible member of the community of nations was less certain. This was thanks to the country’s former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammed. Even in power, Mahathir was a well-known anti-Semite and anti-American.
This past January, Mahathir declared that the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States were “staged as an excuse to mount attacks on the Muslim world.” He didn’t stop there. Speaking at that same month’s General Conference for the Support of Al-Quds (that is, the Arabic name for Jerusalem), he declared that Israel was created to solve “the Jewish problem” in Europe after Hitler failed to complete the Final Solution. “Even after their massacre by the Nazis of Germany,” said Mahathir, the Jews “survived to continue to be a source of even greater problems for the world.”
The case of Mahathir isn’t merely one of a has-been politician with a penchant for vile Jew-baiting. He still retains influence with hardliners. And the man whom he mentored, and then repudiated, is now leader of Malaysia’s political opposition — and he’s showing the world how well he learned under Mahathir’s tutelage.
Anti-Semitism is now resurgent in Malaysia thanks to opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, a charismatic firebrand of a politician who collaborated with Mahathir — as a deputy prime minister and top aide— for nearly a decade in a relationship that Ibrahim described as being one of “father and son.” In 1998 Ibrahim got impatient about taking over from Mahathir, embarked upon a power struggle, and lost. For his troubles, Mahathir put him on trial for corruption and sodomy: and Anwar Ibrahim ended up in jail at the hand of his mentor.
Anwar Ibrahim
Upon his release, Anwar Ibrahim came to Washington, D.C., and has spent the past decade cultivating a genteel, enlightened image in the West. Otherwise informed American observers of foreign affairs have adopted him as an exemplar of liberal Southeast Asian and/or Muslim democratic governance. Just a few years ago, he was invited to teach for a year at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, from which he cultivated the acquaintances of eminent Jewish Americans like Paul Wolfowitz — as a means of showing just how far behind him was his own militant Islamist past.
Indeed, as recently as 2008, Al Gore — usually a savvy and perceptive man — could be found posting on his blog in defense of Ibrahim’s dignity in the face of criticism. That’s big-name Western approval one can’t buy — but one can work hard for it with the right enemies and media outreach inside the Beltway.
It also helps if one knows what to tell Western audiences who tune in to Western media outlets. This past March, in an interview with CNN World, Ibrahim told Wajahat Ali, “Stoking the flames of anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism is a good distraction from the stench in [Muslim societies’] own backyard, namely rampant corruption, denial of basic human rights, abuse of power and the suppression of civil society.”
The reality is that if you’d asked a well-informed American who the liberal democrat was in Malaysia between 1999 and 2009, he or she might well have said, “Anwar Ibrahim.”
But does Anwar Ibrahim’s portrayal of himself outside Malaysia match Anwar Ibrahim’s actions within his own country? Unfortunately, Ibrahim has decided to make his mark in domestic Malaysian politics — away from CNN, Al Gore, and Johns Hopkins — as an anti-American, anti-Semitic demagogue.
The proximate cause of Ibrahim’s descent into the foul rhetoric of anti-Semitism was his decision to exploit the government’s hiring of a Washington, D.C., public relations firm, APCO, to do minor communications work within Malaysia. Like many international firms, this one has done business within Israel, and even counts among its senior personnel persons of the Jewish faith.
Ibrahim has now effectively trashed his old friends in Washington and has used this PR contract as an excuse to spin a dark conspiracy theory of Jewish control, Zionist plots, and subversion.
Ibrahim’s lieutenants have charged, among other things, that the Malaysian government has “engag[ed] a company that has a close tie with the Zionist regime in Israel. Its advisory panels consist of former security chief of the Israeli government, and many of their staff are formerly from the Israel Security Agency,” and that “its operators in Tel Aviv have close links to the Zionist regime.”
Ibrahim himself has delved headlong into anti-Semitic theorizing, publicly alleging that there are “Israeli intelligence personnel in the Police IT unit.” Worse, he connected his anti-Semitism to his anti-Americanism, when he angrily denounced the Malaysian Prime Minister’s politically courageous decision to stand with President Obama and cut off oil supplies to an Iran seeking nuclear weapons. Ibrahim stood in the legislature to charge that the supposedly “Jewish-controlled” PR firm hired by the Prime Minister was, in fact, working to manipulate Malaysian policy on America’s behalf.
Ibrahim angrily demanded: “How can our foreign policy have changed dramatically,” unless Jews were controlling Malaysian affairs for America’s benefit? “Our policy on Iran shows how weak we are. Unprecedented in the history of our country, even Mahathir Mohamad himself never shifted in Afghanistan and the Palestinian question.”
Remarkably, Ibrahim closed his statement with oblique praise for Mahathir — the man who shaped Ibrahim’s core thinking on things Jewish and American.
The sad truth is that we shouldn’t be surprised by Ibrahim’s descent into anti-Americanism or anti-Semitism. When he told CNN that “stoking the flames of anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism is a good distraction,” he wasn’t condemning: he was observing and prescribing.
This is not the first time Ibrahim has gone down this road: he has a history of Jew-baiting when expediency calls for it. To pick just one example, in 2008, with Malaysian elections approaching, he casually tossed out this charge in an interview with IslamOnline: “I have evidence proving that the government is backing the Jewish lobby in the U.S. and some parties inside Israel.” (To the credit of the Malaysian electorate, Ibrahim’s opposition coalition failed to win a majority in that election.)
And as scholars of terrorist finance like Ilan Weinglass have documented, “Anwar Ibrahim is a founder and director of the Muslim Brotherhood affiliated International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), a think tank in Virginia that has alleged links to terrorism.” In 2002-2003, Ibrahim’s institute in Virginia was even investigated by the FBI, IRS and CIA for alleged financing of Hamas and Hizbollah.
In looking for America’s friends in the Muslim world, it’s often difficult to know the Good Guy from the Bad Guy. But it’s a good rule of thumb that the politician promulgating anti-Semitic conspiracy theories is not a friend of America.
In Malaysia, the events of the past few months have made it crystal clear a strange role reversal: it’s opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim who is whipping up anti-Semitic sentiment — and it’s Prime Minister Najib Razak who is, for better or worse, standing firm with President Obama and the United States.
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Para pemimpin Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) ketawa besar dengan usaha terkini mengaitkan penasihat partinya, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim dengan agensi perisik Amerika Syarikat, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) melalui tulisan blogger yang jarang dikenali umum.


"Pemimpin Umno dan media menuduh Anwar sebagai agen Amerika dan Yahudi, tetapi juga memetik tulisan bahawa CIA dan Mossad ingin membunuhnya. Mereka sudah gila," kata Timbalan Presiden PKR Dr Syed Husin Ali melalui laman perhubungan komuniti, Twitter.

Mingguan Malaysia, telah menyiarkan satu berita mengenai seorang blogger dari New York, bernama "Elaine Meinel Supkis" yang tidak dikenali umum yang menuduh Anwar adalah "agen CIA" di dalam sebuah tulisan yang dipaparkan di blognya.

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…Anwar, who was in Washington for a couple of days last week, spent a lot of time offering explanations to old friends, not to mention House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard Berman and a Jewish leader or two. He said he regretted using terms such as “Zionist aggression,” which are common coin for demagogues like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. “Why do I need to use it if it causes so much misunderstanding?” he said.“I need to be more careful.”


AIPAC and the neo Nazis were blowing fuses over his betrayals. He had to explain, this is more ‘deep cover’ for his CIA operations. But the Jews are very suspicious. What if he goes ‘bin Laden’ on them and they can’t kill him? The problem with bin Laden is that he didn’t die for them as a sacrificial lamb after 9/11. Poor Anwar. He knows (we know each other, by the way!!!!) that the Mossad assassination squads will be after him, of course, using fake foreign passports. So he flew to DC to beg for his life. He thinks it is over. The Zionists are not done with him.

Many of the Malaysian’s friends are inclined to give him a break. “What Anwar did was wrong, but considering that he’s literally fighting for his life — physically as well as politically — against a government that attacks him as being ‘a puppet of the Jews,’ one should cut him some slack,” Wolfowitz told me.


There are several key points to this amazing article…one that I didn’t write. This was written by a neo con Zionist who revealed the true nature of Anwar’s recent visit to DC: to be chewed out by Zionist Jews and according to the Washington Post, he apologized to them and said he would not do these things (talk at an anti-Israeli demonstration in Malaysia, for example) ever again.


.There are several key points all Malaysians must entertain here. I will list these points but will do it in an odd way, namely, Mr. Anwar Ibrahim had three choices at each turn of the road and he made his choices. I would suggest, rather bad choices.


.Mr. Ibrahim is the leader of the opposition in Malaysia. He needs allies and friends. Where should he seek out these friends and allies?


1. At top secret Bilderberg meetings?


2. At meetings with US Jewish leaders?


3. At gatherings in various Malaysian cities and towns, talking to the citizens of this country?


ΩΩIbrahim chose #1 and #2 options. He made a big mistake doing this.


ΩΩNext: when visiting Washington, when he was told to meet with various top leaders who are Jews in Congress and ‘other Jewish leaders’ what did he do?


1. Hurry off to these meetings and then apologize and grovel?


2. Ask for US Jewish politicians to stop killing Muslims?


3. Tell them to go to hell and turn around and make a public visit to Turkey?


.The answer was #1: grovel and apologize. I didn’t make this choice, HE made this choice. I didn’t even report on this, the neo-con far right wing Zionist editor of the Washington Post BOASTED about this! He thought it was funny. If I were Ibrahim, I would have chosen option #3 or if I was foolish and went off to visit a bunch of very angry Zionists in DC, I would have lectured them about their beastly behavior towards the Turks, the people trapped in Gaza and the West Bank and ethnic cleansing in general.


.I would not grovel. How stupid is that? Why did he do this, anyway? Obama has been forced to grovel to the Israelis after AIPAC and Congress turned on him and attacked him openly. He is a very wounded leader and is going down in flames here in the US, his hardcore base is melting away. If Ibrahim is the opposition in Malaysia, would his prospects be:


1. Enhanced after his US visit and various apologies for talking at an anti-Zionist rally in Malaysia?


2. In the toilet after apologizing for criticizing Israel at a Malaysian rally?


3. On the run due to fury directed at him for running off to the US to apologize to his PERSONAL friends like notorious war criminals such as Wolfowitz?


ΩΩThe pressing question in Malaysia is, why is Ibrahim friends with Wolfowitz???? I am not Wolfowitz’s buddy! I can’t possibly be his friend in any way, shape or form. I hate the guy. I want him put on trial for war crimes such as lying about Saddam’s supposed ‘weapons of mass destruction’, just for one glaring example.


ΩΩIf I were to poll all the Ibrahim supporters in Malaysia about this question, ‘Do you think ANYONE should be Wolfowitz’s friend?’ I suspect the poll would be about 99.9% in agreement with me.


ΩΩFrom Mr. Diehl’s article in the Washington Post, yet again:


“What Anwar did was wrong, but considering that he’s literally fighting for his life — physically as well as politically — against a government that attacks him as being ‘a puppet of the Jews,’ one should cut him some slack,” Wolfowitz told me.


ΩΩThe ‘wrong’ thing that Mr. Wolfowitz is talking about happens to be talking about Israel in a negative way while giving a speech in Malaysia! So the question for everyone here is simple: is Ibrahim a ‘puppet of the Jews’ or what is he? Did his visit to DC and the Diehl story confirm that he is a ‘puppet of the Jews’ or didn’t it?


ΩΩThe answer is obvious! It showed that he is, indeed, saying one thing in public to get a good opinion in Malaysia and then turning around and telling his sponsors in the US, he didn’t mean it at all and wants to retract it! Then going home and NOT retracting it but pretending he never promised to retract it and these meetings never happened!


ΩΩWhat is going on here? Palestinian village to be encircled by barrier
Antiwar Newswire: right on the heels of Bibi’s conquest visit with his minor tool, Obama, he continues to expand the Israeli take over of the West Bank. Obama can’t stop him because he is a puppet, not a President. His own political party left him high and dry. Here is the video of poor puppet Obama’s infamous speech, one that got a lot of Zionists totally enraged:


Click here for video of Cairo speech: http://www.whitehouse.gov/videos/2009/June/20090604_Cairo.mp4

.Remarks by the President at Cairo University, 6-04-09
The White House


June 4, 2009:


.REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT


ON A NEW BEGINNING


…I’ve come here to Cairo to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world, one based on mutual interest and mutual respect, and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles — principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings….


This speech said many, many things that totally outraged our Zionist rulers. They expected Obama to sweet talk to the Muslims but above all, to LIE to them. Lying is easy. All one has to do is say whatever people want to hear and the do the exact opposite. And then collect the loot. President Clinton was most excellent at this.


…Now, that does not mean we should ignore sources of tension. Indeed, it suggests the opposite: We must face these tensions squarely. And so in that spirit, let me speak as clearly and as plainly as I can about some specific issues that I believe we must finally confront together…Now, make no mistake: We do not want to keep our troops in Afghanistan. We see no military — we seek no military bases there….


This, like nearly the entire speech, was a total lie. Even if he thought this way last summer, he chickened out when AIPAC, Congress and the Pentagon beat the sh*t out of him last spring. His feeble attempts at doing any form of diplomacy was wrathfully squashed flat.


…I have made it clear to the Iraqi people that we pursue no bases, and no claim on their territory or resources. Iraq’s sovereignty is its own. And that’s why I ordered the removal of our combat brigades by next August. That is why we will honor our agreement with Iraq’s democratically elected government to remove combat troops from Iraqi cities by July, and to remove all of our troops from Iraq by 2012….


August is right around the corner! And he did move his troops…to Afghanistan where they are fighting ferociously. It is scary that the Rolling Stone magazine which was anti-war for so many years, was the tool (I believe, deliberately!) for destroying Mc Chrystal. Most of the ugly interview items were his ‘staff’ who probably was set up to take him down and he went down and was replaced by overt butchers who plan to fight more viciously and to hell with civilian deaths. Already, this is causing tremendous violence and has widened the war and bombs are going off all over Pakistan as well as Afghanistan.


…The second major source of tension that we need to discuss is the situation between Israelis, Palestinians and the Arab world….So let there be no doubt: The situation for the Palestinian people is intolerable. And America will not turn our backs on the legitimate Palestinian aspiration for dignity, opportunity, and a state of their own….But if we see this conflict only from one side or the other, then we will be blind to the truth: The only resolution is for the aspirations of both sides to be met through two states, where Israelis and Palestinians each live in peace and security.…The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements. (Applause.) This construction violates previous agreements and undermines efforts to achieve peace. It is time for these settlements to stop.…America will align our policies with those who pursue peace, and we will say in public what we say in private to Israelis and Palestinians and Arabs….


This part of the speech is what caused all the Zionists to take out their knives and go hunting for Obama’s scalp. They collected it this week with his meek kow tow to Bibi. Bibi also wanted Ibrahim to do the same so it was done via proxies, of course. Everything Obama said here was thrown back in his face. The Israelis basically spat on him and kicked him in the groin.


Not even the slightest attempt was made to curb the Greater Israel Ethnic Cleansing plan. Not one thing. After murdering Turkish and US citizens on the high seas, Israel grudgingly said they would let in a few more tidbits into Gaza but not too much. And will go back to strangling Gaza after this week’s visit.


Bibi Netanyahu is the President of the United States. Of course, Mr. Ibrahim knows this which is why he has to be friendly with the various agents who run our government. This means kissing ass, big time. The more smooching, the happier the rulers are. Pointing out their war crimes is a no-no. Which is why I delight in doing this. Unlike Ibrahim, Mr. Wolfowitz will never invite me over for dinner. Besides, I would throw up on him. Much less, be his buddy boy.


…I understand those who protest that some countries have weapons that others do not. No single nation should pick and choose which nation holds nuclear weapons. And that’s why I strongly reaffirmed America’s commitment to seek a world in which no nations hold nuclear weapons. (Applause.) And any nation — including Iran — should have the right to access peaceful nuclear power if it complies with its responsibilities under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. That commitment is at the core of the treaty, and it must be kept for all who fully abide by it. And I’m hopeful that all countries in the region can share in this goal.


ΩΩThis paragraph is most infuriating. Obama allowed the UN to censor Israel for its huge secret nuclear arsenal. Then Congress and AIPAC howled at him and he retreated and told Bibi, our real ruler, that it was a mistake and he would erase it. EXACTLY the same back tracking poor Ibrahim, who longs to ‘rule’ Malaysia, had to make! DUH! Problemo! Big time! Far from eliminating our own nukes, we are actually going to upgrade them and use them better than before, that is, on subs scattered all over the planet.


ΩΩAnd of course, Israel can go back to pretending they have no nukes while threatening everyone including the people of Malaysia, with hidden subs armed with nukes. Yes, they have nuclear subs with nuclear bombs and these roam the high seas, protected by our Pentagon. Malaysia just bought 2 subs. With no nukes, of course. They have 6 New Generation Patrol Vessels, one anti sub helicopter and several frigates. In other words, their naval power is tiny even though, unlike Israel, they have a huge number of miles of shoreline to defend.

End of Elaine story..
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July 12, 2010 at 7:00 am

sekarang american mahu topple anwar because he is munafik (camelion)

Hijaz

July 12, 2010 at 8:05 am

Thank you EMS.

I used to be a idiot zombie supporter of Anwar Ibrahim but threw the towel after lies after lies by him. Many of us knew something was wrong with him and it was not just because he was a convicted gay rapist!!!!Now we know!!!


I am not surpised if your blog will feature heavily within the Malaysian Parliament fillibuster.Be prepared for more limelight from the Malaysian blogosphere!!...

Sunday, July 11, 2010

PROFESSOR AMY CHUA BUKTIKAN MELAYU BERHAK TUNTUT ATAS DASAR MAJORITI



Penulis sebenarnya tertarik dengan buku 'WORLD ON FIRE' karya Professor Amy Cua dari Yale University, USA. Beliau yang berketurunan Cina Filipina mempunyai keberanian mengupas globalisasi dimana etnik atau bangsa sebagai 'core of the argument'.

Beliau memberikan suatu contoh klasik yang berlaku di Asia Tenggara pada masa kini dimana bangsa Cina yang sebenarnya adalah minoriti dalam sesebuah negara baik Thailand, Filipina, Indonesia dan Malaysia menguasai kekayaan keseluruhan dan menjadi kuasa dominan ekonomi sesebuah negara.

Beliau menyentuh "Di Filipina, berjuta rakyat Filipina bekerja untuk bangsa Cina: sedangkan hampir tiada satu pun bangsa Cina yang bekerja untuk rakyat Filipina. Bangsa Cina mendominasi setiap industri dan perdagangan di Filipina walaupun majoriti penduduk adalah rakyat bangsanya Filipina. Kebanyakan bilionair adalah bangsa Cina".

Sesuatu yang orang orang Melayu perlu fikirkan secara mendalam...
Professor Amy Chua juga mendakwa globalisasi sebenarnya mewujudkan perbezaan kuasa ekonomi yang didominasi oleh kaum minoriti akan mengakibatkan ketidakstabilan politik bagi sesebuah negara.


Bangsa Cina mendominasi kuasa ekonomi di Asia Tengara.


Beliau juga memberi contoh yang paling mudah seperti apa yang berlaku di Indonesia apabila bangsa Cina menguasai ekonomi dengan agihan 'kek ekonomi' yang tidak adil menyebabkan berlakunya 'anti Cina' dan rusuhan perkauman.

Penulis sebenarnya bukan mahu mencetuskan isu perkauman disini tetapi jika seorang bijak pandai seperti Professor Amy Chua yang berketurunan Cina Filipina membuat kajian bertahun lamanya dan dapat memberi kesimpulan mudah seperti ini, apakah bangsa Melayu yang sememangnya majoriti di Malaysia tidak berhak bersuara, tidak berhak menguasai ekonomi dan agihan kek ekonomi yang lebih adil hanya mampu membiarkan bangsa Cina menguasai segala galanya hingga ke atas kuasa politik.

Piagam PBB kategori sosio ekonomi juga menyebut penting bagi mana mana penduduk majoriti sesebuah negara yang masih ketinggalan dari sudut sosio ekonomi perlu menjadikan kepentingan majoriti sebagai agenda nasional. Setiap dasar yang digubal dalam sesebuah negara tidak boleh sama sekali mengubah dasar 'affirmatif' badan pemerintah dan penduduk majoriti.

Dalam hal ini, orang Melayu atau bumiputera sebenarnya layak untuk meminta apa apa saja dari Kerajaan kerana hakikatnya bumiputera masih jauh ketinggalan dalam sasaran 30% Dasar Ekonomi Baru (DEB) dari segi agihan kekayaan.
Kaum minoriti yang sudah mencapai agihan 'kek ekonomi' yang besar tidak layak menuntut sebarang tuntutan yang tidak munasabah.

Tun Dr. Mahathir: We will study the law of sea

“We will study the law of the sea. If vessels detained by Somalis in Somalia are regarded as ‘piracy’, then what the Israelis did is ‘piracy’ too”, PGPO Chairman Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad  referring to the illegal assault and boarding of ‘Freedom Flotilla’ vessels in international waters bound for Gaza carrying aid.
The media conference of the PGPO 'Breaking the Gaza Seige'
The vessels which include MV Rachel Corrie is still being detained at the port of Ashdod, in southern Israel.
The support of the Federal Government on the initiatives to ‘Break the Gaza Seige’ is very encouraging. Earlier, while address the conference in his speech to close the event, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Md. Yassin reiterated the Malaysian commitment to continue on the international diplomatic front which include UN for the lifting of blockage on Gaza and end the suffering of 1.5 million Palestinians.
Muhyiddin also mentioned that the importance “To rekindle our spirit and revive our efforts to uphold the Palestinians’ inallienable right to their homeland. We need to reaffirm our stand that the Israeli regime must end occupation of the Arab and Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. Israeli regime must end its collective punishment and indiscriminate assault on the Palestinians which had so far resulted in the loss of life and injury to civillians “.
Commenting on the UN and Security Council, Tun Dr. Mahathir reiterated that the veto power should no longer exist and irrelevant as the US and UK would continuously invoke their powers whenever any actions against Israel is being brought up. On the OIC, he said that the Muslim nations club should base their resolution on majority instead of consensus.
Tun Dr. Mahathir also encourages that younger Malaysians to be exposed in the plight of the international community suffering. ‘They should be aware that the hardship of others instead of comparing the little things that they don’t have”.
On the question on the Government and people of Malaysia is standing strong against the Neo Con Jewish controlled media which is distorting facts, spinning and spreading lies, especially with regards to Israel but there are Malaysian politicians like partyless-Opposition-Leader Anwar “Mat King Leather” Ibrahim trying very hard to ‘Earn back his position’, “He will go to the extend to buy space in CNN to show he is loyal to his Jewish masters. If he is loyal to his Jewish masters, then he would not be loyal to Malaysia”.

Tun Dr. Mahathir: Counter Jewish controlled media lies & break the Gaza seige



SPEECH BY
TUN DR MAHATHIR MOHAMAD
AT THE PERDANA GLOBAL PEACE ORGANISATION INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
AT THE PUTRA WORLD TRADE CENTRE, KUALA LUMPUR
11 JULY 2010
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BREAKING THE SIEGE OF GAZA
We must end the Apartheid and establish an Independent Palestine State
Honourable speakers, guests, ladies and gentlemen,
Firstly I would like to welcome all of you to this conference on the siege organised by the Perdana Global Peace Organisation backed by UMNO.

  1. We are gathered here today not only to honour the Turkish martyrs who were brutally slaughtered by Israeli commandos on the Mavi Marmara, but also to counter the lies and propaganda by Israel and the Zionist controlled international mass media, that the passengers, specifically the martyrs, were terrorists and therefore the killings were justified.
  1. More importantly, we must send a message of hope and solidarity to the Palestinians that the peace loving peoples of the world will never abandon them, come what may and that we will stand shoulder to shoulder with them in their struggle for liberation and for the State of Palestine.
  1. Prime Minister Netanyahu has openly and unreservedly declared just a few days ago that Israel will not apologise for the brutal murders committed in international waters in contravention of all conventions and international laws because Israel was justified in the massacre of unarmed people in order to defend Israeli security.
  1. Netanyahu said in an interview with Israel’s Channel 1:

“Israel cannot apologise for our soldiers being forced to defend themselves against the mob that almost slaughtered them.”

Yet, not one single Israeli commando was killed. In fact, from the testimony of Ken O’Keefe, a passenger on Mavi Marmara, which we have just witnessed from the multi-media presentation, it was the well-armed commandos who killed and injured the passengers.  Far from killing or attempting to kill the commandos, despite their friends being killed, the Turkish passengers managed to disarm three of the commandos and after a doctor had washed away the blood caused by their faces being scratched, released them. Is this the behaviour of a mob bent in slaughtering the commandos?
  1. In a speech to the Israeli parliament, Netanyahu elaborated:
“They want to strip us of the natural right to defend ourselves. When we defend ourselves against rocket attack, we are accused of war crimes. We cannot board sea vessels when our soldiers are being attacked and fired upon, because that is a war crime.”
6. But where is the evidence that the Israeli commandos were being attacked and fired upon?  Such is the distortion of the truth!  Even the UN Report chaired by Justice Robert Goldstone, a Zionist and a Jew who found that the Israelis committed war crimes when it invaded Gaza in 2008, was dismissed as mere propaganda, and the said report was not allowed to be tabled and debated in the U.N.
7. Self-defence can take place if there was an attempt at attacking or when actually attacked by the aggressor. Even the Israelis said that the passengers were armed with iron rods (railings) and scissors. Is Israel suggesting that people with scissors and iron railings attacked the fully armed commandos before they boarded the Mavi Marmara? It was to defend themselves after the commandos dropped from the helicopters and killed their friends that the unarmed passengers tried to defend themselves with scissors and iron railings, the only weapons they could lay hands on.
  1. However, even without an Independent Inquiry and in spite of the fact that Israel had confiscated and destroyed incriminating videos of the massacre, the international mass media cannot ignore the overwhelming evidence provided by the survivors of Mavi Marmara – journalists and passengers who were able to evade the tight security measures and brought out videos showing that Israeli commandos had commenced firing at the passengers before boarding the Mavi Marmara. IHH, the organisers of the Mavi Marmara has just come out with their report and I am told that this is available in CD for all delegates.
  1. Additionally, we cannot ignore the fact that the intent to attack the Freedom Flotilla was made well before the flotilla set sail for Gaza.  Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defence Minister Ehud Barak declared that Israeli naval ships and commandos would be conducting naval exercises to prepare for the eventual attack on the flotilla and that Israel would do everything possible to prevent the flotilla from reaching Gaza. This was reported by Bloomberg, the Associated Press and even Israeli newspapers, and was affirmed by the Israeli Ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren in an interview on June 2nd, 2010.
  1. It came as no surprise that on 31st May 2010, in contravention of international laws, Israeli commandos as directed by the Israeli regime boarded the Mavi Marmara, and in the process shot and killed nine passengers and wounded many more and hijacked the entire flotilla to the port of Ashdod in Israel.
  1. Rifat Audeh, a passenger on the Mavi Marmara gave an account of what happened before Israeli commandos boarded the Mavi Marmara. She said:
“The Israeli military was firing at us from their vessels which approached the sides of our ship and the helicopters from above as well, even before a single soldier landed on deck. Here we had fully armed Israeli commandos firing live rounds, tear gas, sound grenades and other types of ammunition at unarmed activists of a humanitarian ship at night in international waters, and once again the media has criminalised us and vindicated the perpetrators. Let me be clear: we had every right to defend ourselves and our ship against this illegal barbaric assault as our brothers were being wounded and killed.”
12. Just as Israel denied using white phosphorous and other banned weapons on the civilians of Gaza in the barbaric invasion in 2008 and the massacre of civilians in Jenin in 2003 until exposed by the Robert Goldstone report and independent observers respectively, Israel is denying again and hopes that this time, the war crimes would be lost with the passage of time. 
13. But peace loving nations of the world condemned this wanton aggression and demanded that the siege of Gaza be lifted and a U.N. sanctioned Inquiry be established to investigate into the massacre of the passengers on the Mavi Marmara.
  1. Knowing that the United States will not condemn its actions and veto any Security Council resolutions that demanded a full account for the incident, Israel ignored international condemnation and maintained that she has the right to do as she likes.  Israel considers itself above international laws and common moral values.
  1. This heinous murder of Turkish nationals and the confiscation of the Turkish ship, Mavi Marmara seemed strange to many, as Turkey has been a close strategic ally of Israel for many years, having regular joint military exercises and shared strategic interests. Turkey is also a NATO member. However, it is evident that even an ally would not be spared the criminal behaviour of Israel whether there is justification or not.
  1. Such is Israel’s arrogance and her confidence that she can get away with murder. And indeed Israel has been getting away with blatant murder since 1948.
  1. Many may have forgotten that such betrayal by Israel of an ally is not without precedent.  The ally that was previously betrayed by Israel was none other than the United States. That treachery needs to be retold, if we want to understand and appreciate the strategic implications of the attack on Mavi Marmara.
  1. It was on the 8th of June, 1967, soon after the commencement of the six-day war by Israel against her Arab neighbours.  President Johnson had given his consent to Israel to launch a limited war against Egypt on the condition that Israel would not widen the war to include any land grab against Jordan and Syria.
  1. Egypt had closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli ships and the limited war was to compel Egypt to reopen the Straits of Tiran to Israeli ships.  But, the then Defence Minister Moshe Dayan had different ideas from what was agreed between President Johnson and the then prime minister of Israel, Levi Eshkol and his military Chief of Staff, General Yizhak Rabin.  Moshe Dayan, the one-eyed war criminal wanted to use the opportunity to extend the borders of Israel to fulfil the aspirations of the Zionists for a “Greater Israel.”  It was in the plan that after the capture of the Sinai Peninsula, Israeli military would be diverted to the Jordanian and Syrian fronts.
  1. The USS Liberty was a “spy ship” and its mission was to listen to all Israel’s military communications so that Israel would abide by the agreement not to widen the war after she attacked Egypt.
  1. The USS Liberty clearly stood in the way, as President Johnson would know through communication intercepts by the USS Liberty, if Israel reneged on its agreement for a limited war, and proceeded to wage a full scale war against all her immediate neighbours.  Time was of the essence. If the USS Liberty was disabled, Israel would by her surprise attack against Syria and Jordan achieve her aims of a Greater Israel before President Johnson could intervene to stop the wider war.
  1. General Moshe Dayan therefore ordered the attack on the USS Liberty that left 34 Americans dead and 175 wounded and severely damaged the ship. The captain of a nearby US aircraft carrier scrambled jet fighters to assist the USS Liberty but his orders were countermanded by President Johnson and Defence Secretary Robert McNamara. The excuse for the attack was that Israel made a mistake as to the identity of the USS Liberty.  Moshe Dayan hailed the day of the attack, 8th June 1967 as a “Great Day” because the destruction of USS Liberty enabled Israel to extend its borders to encompass the Golan Heights and the entire West Bank and more!  The fact that President Johnson had to cover up the murder of his own soldiers and accepted thereafter the fait accompli of a Greater Israel shows all too clearly that the United States was and is still subservient to Israel.
  1. The international mass media propaganda at the material time accused the Arab states for starting the war and wanting to annihilate Israel. Once again, we have to ask, who is telling the truth?

  1. We need only to examine some public statements of Israel’s military leaders at the given time.  On 28th February 1968, Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli Chief of Staff in an interview with Le Monde, conceded that:
“I do not believe that Nasser wanted war. The two divisions which he sent to Sinai on 14th May would not have been enough to unleash an offensive against Israel. He knew it and we knew it.”
Menachem Begin, then Minister without Portfolio was quoted by the New York Times in 1982 as saying:
“In June l967, we had a choice. The Egyptian Army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him.”

25. Given this hidden agenda, how did Israel prepare the propaganda for war against the Arabs?  The strategy was simple enough – portray Israel as the victim. In an interview with Al-Hamishmar in 1971, Mordecai Bentove, then Minister of Housing revealed:
“The entire story of the danger of extermination was invented in every detail and exaggerated a posteriori to justify the annexation of new Arab territory.”
26. This deliberate lie was corroborated by General Haim Barlev, Chief of General Staff Branch, Israel Defence Forces and as reported by the Israeli newspaper Ma’ arrive in 1972. I quote:
We were not threatened with genocide on the eve of the six-day war, and we had never thought of such a possibility.”
General Chaim Herzog, Commanding General and first Military Governor of Israeli Occupied West Bank expressed similar views when he said:
“There was no danger of annihilation. Israeli headquarters never believed in this danger. “
  1. From these facts we can draw the following conclusions, namely:
a)    Israel treats her allies no different from her enemies if its interests are threatened.
b)   It is by deception and outright lies, that Israel wages war.
  1. Not for nothing is, “by way of deception” the motto of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence unit. The attack against the Turkish ship and the Turks is thus typical of the Israelis. They knew and yet they shot to kill the Turks with live bullets. Given this sordid history, it comes as no surprise that President Obama chose to express regrets instead of condemnation of the murder of the nine passengers, one of whom was an American citizen of Turkish descent. He was only nineteen years old. Tony Blair, the war criminal and the so-called Special Peace Envoy for the Quartet for the Middle East declared that Israel was acting in self-defence when it attacked the passenger ship Mavi Marmara and hijacked the entire flotilla to the port of Ashdod.
A question remains to be answered – Did President Obama know in advance of the attack on Mavi Marmara and give his consent just as President Johnson did when Israel attacked Egypt in 1967 in the six-day war?
  1. It is inconceivable that the intelligence services of the United States were unaware of such plans by the Israeli military.  The President of the United States is briefed daily by the intelligence services.  And given the special relationship between Israel and the United States, it would be naive to think that Israel would not share intelligence regarding what they consider their mutual security interests. In the just concluded visit by Netanyahu to the White House,  the prime minister remarked that:
“There is a depth and richness of this relationship that is expressed every day. Our teams talk. We don’t make it public… What is not told is the fact we have an enduring bond of values, interests, beginning with security and the way we share both information and other things to help the common defence of our common interests. The President said it best in his speech in Cairo. He said it in front of the entire Islamic world, he said, the bond between Israel and the United States is unbreakable. And I can affirm that to you today.”

30. Yet, the Muslim world continues to be taken in by President Obama’s rhetoric that he is committed to change and he is for peace. His actions contradict his spoken words, for upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama then escalated the war in Afghanistan, a war started by President GW Bush. It is not surprising that the UN chose not to allow a debate on Malaysia’s resolution condemning Israel for its dastardly acts.

  1. Given this reaffirmation by President Obama and Netanyahu, we must not be deluded into believing that there will be peace, genuine peace in the Middle East anytime soon. On the contrary, war preparations are in place. The same lies have been repeated. Have we not heard the same refrain, that Israel’s very existence is threatened by her neighbours? A thief shouting thief as he runs away with the booty is a most effective way of deflecting focus on his thieving. That is Israel’s strategy.
  1. Iraq was accused of having weapons of mass destruction so as to appear to be a threat to Israel’s existence. Israel demanded that Iraq be invaded and its people subjugated. And so in 2003, Iraq was invaded. But as we now know Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. Iraq was attacked because the plans for the invasion of Iraq were laid much earlier. In 1996, the then prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu commissioned the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies to prepare a blue print to enable Israel to be the dominant regional power in the Middle East. The report, A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm sets out the new paradigm for Israel. According to its authors, the centerpiece of the recommendations was the removal of Saddam Hussein as the first step in remaking the Middle East into a region friendly to Israel. Their plan also signaled a radical departure from the peace-oriented policies of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated by a member of an extreme right-wing Israeli group.
  1. One of the pillars of this new policy was the abandonment of the “comprehensive peace” with the entire Arab world. Israel’s new strategy would be to work jointly with Jordan and Turkey to “contain, destabilise, and roll-back” those entities that were regarded as threats to all three (i.e. Israel, Turkey and Jordan), firstly by destroying Iraq and then Syria and finally Iran. This is the significance of Turkey in the overall scheme of Netanyahu under the “Clean Break” master plan.
  1. Now that Iraq and Saddam Hussein have been disposed, the target has shifted to Iran as Syria is seen to be a lesser threat. The world is made to believe once again the lie that Israel’s existence is being threatened by a nuclear armed Iran, notwithstanding that El Baradie, the former head of the IAEA had repeatedly stated that there is no evidence that Iran has a nuclear weapons program.  President Bush had threatened Iran with tactical nuclear weapons. President Obama is no different for he has said that “all options are on the table” in confronting Iran.
  1. And once again, the United States at the instigation of Israel has compelled the UN Security Council to impose crippling sanctions to weaken the resolve of the Iranians to resist Israel’s aggressive designs. We can observe a pattern in the war preparations from recent examples, namely Iraq and Gaza. Broad sanctions were imposed on Iraq and Gaza to starve and weaken the people before the military invasion in 2003 and 2008 respectively. If the past is a precedent, then it is a matter of time before the war criminals in Israel and the United States launch another war of aggression, once Iran has been weakened by sanctions.
  1. However, Israel may have miscalculated the willingness of Turkey to be a partner in its grand design to contain Iran and Syria as envisaged in the Clean Break blue print.  As it stands at the present moment, the encirclement of Iran – Afghanistan in the East, occupied Iraq in the West and Turkey in the North rests on shaky foundations. But this may not deter the warmongers from attempting to fulfill their design for a “New Middle-East”.  There is already a map showing how the Middle East would be carved out to serve Israel’s strategic interests.
  1. It is left to be seen whether Israel’s blood lust for wars of conquest can be accomplished without Turkey as part of the equation as stipulated in the Clean Break blue print. Turkey has demanded that Israel apologises for the brutal murder of its nationals, failing which Turkey would sever diplomatic relations with Israel. Presently, Turkey has ceased all military collaboration with Israel and a few days ago had declared that Israeli military planes are no longer allowed to enter Turkey’s airspace.  It is early to say whether these are temporary misalignments or potential major paradigm shifts in the foreign policy of Turkey.
  1. The recent actions of prime minister Erdogan provide grounds for hope that the forces for peace can forge a broad alliance to isolate Israel and thwart its grand design to wage wars of aggression to establish a Greater Israel and to be the undisputed regional power. The public dressing down of Shimon Peres, the President of Israel at the World Economic Forum by premier Erdogan was unprecedented as even the President of the United States has not dared to rebuke publicly any Israeli leaders.
  1. It is in the context of this geopolitical matrix that we must applaud the courageous leadership of Prime Minister Erdogan in supporting the efforts of IHH peace activists on board the Mavi Marmara as part of the Freedom Flotilla to break the siege of Gaza. The supreme sacrifice by the nine Turkish peace activists will not be in vain, as by their deaths, the true nature of the Zionist regime, its barbarity and ugliness has been laid bare before the world:
Israel is…
A brutal regime that has no respect for international law;
A brutish regime that has no qualms in murdering unarmed civilians on a humanitarian mission;
A brutish regime that has created the largest open prison in the world, the enslavement of 1.5 million people within its borders, through blockade and economic sanctions of Gaza;
A brutish regime that brainwashes its young to be mindless killers of unarmed civilians, men, women and children;
A brutish regime that practices apartheid.
A brutish regime that wages wars through deception and lies.
A brutish regime that practices and fosters state terrorism.
  1. When the Perdana Global Peace Organisation visited Cyprus in July 2009 to collaborate with the activists of the free Gaza Movement, we did not expect that our idea of a flotilla of cargo ships and passenger boats manned by volunteers from all over the world would have such an impact on the conscience of world leaders who before had stood aloof and cared not for the sufferings of the Palestinians. Following the invasion of Gaza in December 2008, more than 1,400 civilians, men, women and children, in fact mainly children were slaughtered, over 20,000 homes were destroyed, schools and hospitals were levelled to the ground. Many countries pledged billions in aid, but the pledges were not translated into concrete action to alleviate the sufferings of the Palestinians in Gaza. It was hypocrisy at its very worst.
  1. While world leaders turned their backs on Gaza, peace activists the world over came together to challenge the might of Israel and expose their crimes.  George Galloway started the Viva Palestina Land Convoy which smashed the land blockade and brought hundreds of truckloads of aid to Gaza.   The Free Gaza Movement had more humble beginnings. They started by sending small fishing boats to break the sea blockade. On one occasion, their boat was rammed and the volunteers were thrown into the sea to drown. On another occasion, fully armed Israeli commandos boarded their boat, The Spirit of Humanity and hijacked it to Israel. The world took scant notice of these happenings.
  1. We realised that small fishing boats would not do and that a flotilla of cargo ships and passenger boats would be needed to challenge Israel’s navy. And as they say, the rest is history. Malaysia’s contribution in this effort was the purchase of a cargo ship and two passenger boats, the former named after the courageous American peace activist Rachel Corrie who was crushed to death by an Israel Defence Forces (IDF) bulldozer when she acted as a human shield to prevent the demolition of Palestinian homes in 2003. She gave her life so that others could live in freedom and with dignity. Her country had forgotten her, but we were moved by her determination and sacrifice to free the Palestinians.
43. Imbued with the spirit of Rachel Corrie, our Irish colleagues – Jenny and Derek Graham nurtured and brought back to life the abandoned cargo ship MV Linda and appropriately renamed her MV Rachel Corrie. The ship was abandoned by her owners and was auctioned for 70,000 Euros. She set sail for Gaza on 14th May and immediately encountered problems. She had a broken propeller shaft and had to dock for repairs. She could not join the flotilla in time and so the flotilla led by the Mavi Marmara set sail for Gaza.
  1. Following her repairs, the Rachel Corrie, determined as ever, headed for Gaza. On board were five Irish volunteers Derek and Jenny Graham and my good friend Denis Halliday, the former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations as well as the Nobel Peace Laureate, Mairead McGuire. There were six Malaysians, two representatives from the Perdana Global Peace Organisation, a Member of Parliament, a volunteer from the Ministry of Information and two TV3 journalists.
  1. Rachel Corrie was all alone, sailing at a mere 8 knots but she never waivered in her resolve to reach Gaza. After the massacre of the nine Turkish nationals on board the Mavi Marmara, massive disinformation was initiated against Rachel Corrie. It was rumoured that she had turned tail and headed back for Ireland. Another report stated that she was heading for the safe haven of Cyprus and might even head for Turkey. This propaganda was made notwithstanding that the Captain and his crew together with all the activists on board had declared in a press statement that in honour of the martyrs they were more determined than ever to sail towards Gaza and bring badly needed aid, comprising of cement, medicine and equipment, toys and educational materials.
  1. Knowing that Israel had just massacred nine passengers and wounded many more and that Israeli commandos may act similarly, Rachel Corrie and her passengers were not deterred and were ready to face Israeli brutality. Israel deployed four naval ships, two fast patrol boats and six zodiacs to intercept and hijack the Rachel Corrie to Israel. This was an act of cowardice by the Israelis – to deploy naval ships and armed commandos to hijack a small cargo ship with unarmed passengers and crew. By this single act of defiance, Rachel Corrie exposed Israeli cowardice to the world.
  1. This is but a beginning in our collective efforts to bring peace to the long suffering Palestinians. Israel under tremendous international pressure declared that it would be easing the blockade and would allow more aid to enter Gaza. Israel must take us for fools to believe in her lies.
  1. Let us not forget that Netanyahu is the prime minister of Israel, the same man who in 1996 commissioned the blue print, the Clean Break which rejected a comprehensive peace in the Middle East and opted for war – to be precise the destruction of Iraq, Iran and Syria so as to impose peace on its own terms. The present policy of Israel is but the continuation of the strategies laid down in that blue print.
  1. Israel has succeeded in destroying Iraq and emboldened by this success is now moving to the next phase of the blue print, the destruction of Iran. The time tested modus operandi of imposing harsh sanctions followed by a vicious invasion has already started.  In the just concluded visit to the White House, Netanyahu made the following remarks at the joint press conference with President Obama. He said with regard to sanctions on Iran:
“I think the sanctions the President signed the other day actually have teeth. They bite. The question is – how much do you need to bite is something I cannot answer now. But if other nations adopt similar sanctions, that would increase the effect.”

  1. Let us be very clear. Sanctions amount to laying siege, to starve and weaken the enemy. It pays to remind ourselves of what Dov Weisglass, an Israeli aid to Prime Ministers, said of sanctions;
“The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet but not to make them die of hunger.”

The invasion would meet with little resistance after that. This is the US’ and Israeli strategy. It is a strategy based on cowardice.
51. But in spite of two years of sanctions against Gaza before the preceding invasion of December 2008 an invasion which lasted until mid-January 2009, the Gazans withstood the siege. The Palestinians were not so easily cowed.
  1. Hence the blockade of food and medicine. It is not about preventing arms from reaching Gaza. The blockade of the food, medicine and cement convoy is about weakening the people of Gaza for the next orgy of slaughter. Israel and the United States have no intention to see a Palestinian State and for the Palestinians to live side by side with the Israelis. Netanyahu has not said since becoming the prime minister of Israel that he has abandoned the Clean Break blue print, and neither has President Obama demanded that he should.
  1. The warmongers continue to propagate that the ideological enemy of the West is Islam and the Zionist controlled mass media have not ceased their efforts to demonise Muslims. In the circumstances, the path for all of us, the peace loving people of the world, is clear. We must be vigilant and be prepared to resist any attempt by the warmongers to unleash another war, be it with Iran, Syria and or any other country.
  1. We must pursue with greater vigour our efforts to criminalise war. War is mass killing, is massacre and must be made a crime.  It is heartening to note that recently, the International Criminal Court is also of the view that war of aggression is a crime, but the United States under the present leadership of President Obama opposed vehemently this noble initiative. So once again, we are being confronted with the inevitable conclusion – there is no change, the status quo remains and for these leaders war is their preferred option.
  1. In the circumstances, we must strive to create a broad coalition for peace and to expose and resist the grand designs of these warmongers. Rachel Corrie and Mavi Marmara have shown the way. The NGOs and the volunteers have cleared the path. We must build on this momentum and surge forward. We must call upon all governments not to be hypocritical and stand up to this rogue State called Israel.
  1. Israel cannot be allowed to continue in its present path and exist as an Apartheid state. Just as the world would not stand for a White South Africa, it should also not allow an apartheid state to continue its oppression of the Palestinians. We will struggle for as long as it takes.
We will break the siege.
Palestine will be liberated from Israeli oppression.
Thank you.

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