So Malaysian statesman Mahathir Mohamad is 98 years old and I was completely amazed when reading this article how many important points he was making – which I am repeating below:
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1. For 70 years, the Israelis have been oppressing the Palestinians. They have actually built settlements on Palestinian land. They have built walls in Palestinian land.
2. They have taken Jerusalem as their capital. All these things are against international law and against the Palestinians, he said.
3. If you oppress the Palestinian people, the Palestinian people have a right to take action against Israel, and I think that is what they did on the seventh of October last year.
4. If Israel had the right to look at the security, so have the Palestinians, said Mahathir.
5. when the Israelis committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, the support given by America and the European countries show that they do not hold to the core values we talk about,
6. Mahathir said the US and the EU nations do not think about human rights, they do not think about the sanctity of life, and they actually help the Israelis to commit genocide by providing Israel with the weapons, with the bombs and rockets to kill Palestinians.
7. He said those who took the lead in setting up the UN gave themselves certain privilege, veto powers.
8. But in terms of ensuring that there will be no wars, no killing, that the United Nations has failed, because the five countries with the veto powers normally would reject anything that is not in their own interest, he said.
9. The problem that we have is that the Europeans created Israel, and now they want to defend Israel, even when Israel commits crimes.
10. There is not much we can do, because the US is a very powerful country, and if you go against the US, the US may apply sanctions against you.
11. If it is just Israel, we can act against Israel. But now we have not only the US, but European countries are supporting Israel in their genocide, and if we act against Israel, we may be sanctioned by America and by the European countries, he said.
12. Most countries are not willing to accept beings sanctioned by them because it is damaging for their economy, he added.