Is Anwar missing a major opportunity in Palestine?
For all of Anwar Ibrahim’s support for Palestine, Malaysia still doesn’t have a resident mission in Ramallah on the West Bank.
The Palestinian crisis is an important issue to Malaysians, and Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has always made it a point to provide his support to the Palestinian people.
While attending the Qatar Economic Forum earlier last month, Anwar met the Hamas delegation, led by its political chief, Ismail Haniyeh.
According to his Facebook post, Anwar praised Hamas for its willingness to release hostages, and called on the Israeli government to agree to a peace plan, writing: “Malaysia will remain committed to play its role on the international level for an end to the attacks on Rafah.”
Anwar, as a longtime personal friend of Ismail, also conveyed his condolences on the death of the latter’s family in Gaza.
Anwar received a briefing on the latest situation in Gaza and Rafah. At the Nikkei conference in Tokyo, he went on to justify his meeting with the Hamas leadership, as he believed he had an advantage in appealing to Hamas because of his friendship.
Has Anwar missed a major opportunity?
With Spain, Ireland and Norway having formally recognised the state of Palestine, the Palestinian prime minister, Mohammad Mustafa, said in Brussels the Palestinian Authority should prepare to govern all Palestinian territories.
Mustafa said: “The Palestinian government is committed to work hard to support our people in Gaza and to integrate them into the Palestinian Authority to work on reforming and improving the performance of our institutions, and deliver good services for our citizens in Gaza and the West Bank, in preparation for full independence and statehood.”
Although Hamas leader Khaled Mashal clearly rejected the two-state solution in January this year, Hamas officials have been negotiating with Fatah on the issue. Delegations from both Fatah and Hamas had two major meetings this year, one in Moscow and another in Beijing.
According to Beijing’s foreign affairs ministry, the Israeli war has provoked the two rival groups to conduct a “candid dialogue” to achieve reconciliation and participate in a peace plan as a unified government.
Any peace talks between the unified Palestinian state and Israel would possibly have the backing of China and Russia.
After winning the legislative election in 2007, Hamas took over the de facto government in Gaza, with Fatah controlling parts of the occupied West Bank. The war between Israel and Hamas has so far cost up to 40,000 lives of Palestinians, and 1,200 Israeli lives, according to various estimates.
However, the conflict between Fatah and Hamas underlies, and certainly undermines, any potential comprehensive peace and an end to the loss of life in Gaza.
This is a possible lost opportunity for Malaysia to play a major role in bringing peace to the region.
European nations’ foreign ministers are engaging the Palestinian Authority, the formal and legitimate representative of the State of Palestine.
Anwar is engaging the leadership of Hamas in exile in Qatar.
There is certainly much more going on than what is happening there.
The Palestinian Authority in Ramallah is an important state player in the diplomacy of the conflict. Anwar, with the Palestinian embassy domiciled in Kuala Lumpur, has a perfect opportunity to take on a statesman’s role in the potential peace process.
The state of Palestine is currently recognised by 142 members of the United Nations, while 43 nations have diplomatic missions or representative offices domiciled in Ramallah on the West Bank.
With all of Anwar’s outpouring support for Palestine, Malaysia still doesn’t have a resident mission in Ramallah. Malaysia covers Palestine through its embassy in Amman, Jordan, with only an honorary consul in Ramallah.
It may now be time for Anwar to rebalance his approach to the Palestinian issue and utilise his credentials and stature to play a major role in giving birth to a truly independent Palestinian state and end of the war in Gaza.
Originally published in FMT 5th June 2024
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Simply put, Dear Mullah doesn't have the ability or skill nor the stature to pull what is required off. It's all something of a lazy unthinking wishful fantasy similar to a Malaisesian shagging himself stupid while having his scrounged kopi in a kopitiam with his captive audience.
It is a thought, nevertheless, but it is best not something someone like Dear Mullah can make come true given that with "G*d's gift to Malaysia" it is more about Anwar himself, him and he, than G*d. The narcissism in him will prevent Dear Mullah from seeing beyond Anwar, him, himself, and he. The all self-absorbing narcissism will make an embarrassing daft fool clown of him, himself, he, and Anwar.
Given that Dear Mullah, a then purveyor of "Arab Spring" was so close and such a darling of the arch-neocon Paul Wolfowitz, there's a suspicion he's still the old snake with the chameleon skin, something of that quality of "if you see a snake and Mamakthir, you spare the snake" about Dear Mullah. Some "Kelings" these two slithering wans.
I personally find any creature who tries so much and hard to be convincing and even divine, is definitely not such. He's too much like that other act, Hannah, self-advertised Bucktooth Tony Pua's "angel", "G*d-fearing Christian" Yeoh. Lao Tzu, Jesus H Christ and other religious purveyors all warned of such unholy wonders.
I have my reservations, too, about wonders seemingly with a collection of personalities, or rather, possession by the likes of Jose Rizal, Gandhi, Mandela, and "have read all the great books while I was in prison". Whether in prison or in the loo does not matter, no saint or martyr has ever wandered around in town or wilderness impressing one and all with the tonnage of words read, we all want to see our divine wans performing miracles.
With Dear Mullah we see just too much performing but no miracles! Don't forget the massive amount of talking and talking The Mullah goes through all the time, either!
The big worldly obstacle Dear Mullah has to overcome is China, the Chinese, and, of course, communist kafir Comrade Xi. China has always been revered by the Arabs, and since ancient times. The Holy Scripture wrote about "going as far as China to learn from the Chinese". No mention was made of Malaysia or Malaya or any jungle of this region. It shouldn't be, the Arabs missed out on our Ketuanan but that's what it was and is, tough perky titties!
Dear Mullah should be staying in Truly Asia Malaysia to concentrate seriously and deal with the many crises we have been facing and which are only going to get worse. The Allamighty pushed up our debt and pushed down our currency to teach us lessons but Dear Mullah has been playing truants, never around it is not about boosting his huge ego.
Dear Mullah should also be busy dismantling the apparatus of fascist state control like censorship. Why be so petty and touchy over mere words, if your voters and the Allamighty are with you, nothing can affect you, have some faith in yourself and those arse-kissers around you.
Here, Uncle has reached out to Anwar with his unworkable idea. But it is still reaching out, making peace, being helpful. Dear Mullah should reciprocate, stop the witch hunt against Uncle here and others.
Not doing that shows weakness and a ridiculous fear of words you dread to hear. And demolish that fcuking fiefdom, remove Stalin Fateh, a state office should not be run like it is private property, state office should not be used for dirty private purpose.
Oh, don't try to outdo the Chinese over Palestine. If we fail we can't afford expensive Palestinian olive oil. But the DAP will make us drink our own palm oil if we piss the Chinese off and we can't then sell any to them. Remember the DAP covered up the fiasco when the Chinese told Mamakthir to fcuk off with his lecture on "debt traps", DAP's Old Maid Teresa was the creature who talked Kok about saving Malaysia by drinking palm oil five times a day.
So come home from far afar Rafah, Dear Mullah, come down to Earth. Try do them little things in Malaysia, saving Palestine is important but it's too big a fish for you, don't overrate yourself.
Meanwhile, Not The Stalin Fateh here for you -
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cj7roem9NRc&pp=ygUVbnVzcmF0IGFsaSBmYXRlaCBraGFu