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.

DR MAHATHIR BIN MOHAMAD

November 7, 2023