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Chng kook seng's avatar

We have achieved independence 66 years ago. We should have been moving on to greater heights but instead we have been led astray by the tribalism of the power elites, who incidentally have also been sucking the country dry. Thus we will lose our independence because our power elites have bankrupted our country by their tribal ways.

Tommy Peters's avatar

Murray, in the context of October 7, we are unwittingly aligning ourselves with the Hamas charter that explicitly calls for the annihilation of Jews. That is the conundrum engaging the peaceful Muslim world.

Two hundred years ago, Nat Turner, who conducted the largest slave rebellion in the US, is eerily similar. Turner was a religious fanatic who believed he acted on God's word and called for the annihilation of white people, not just soldiers and enslavers, but women and children. In hopelessness and anger, he and his group went on a killing spree, raising the price so high that two presidencies later, Lincoln enacted the law abolishing slavery.

In post-war periods, given that the concepts of justice are distinct from peace, let us pray that the 'handiwork' of Hamas on October 7 is a high enough price for Israel and the world to recognise the plight of the Palestinians towards a peaceful solution.

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