PUTRAJAYA: Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has defended his move to invite United States President Donald Trump to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in October, after former leader Mahathir Mohamad urged the government to withdraw the invitation over Washington’s support for Israel’s actions against the Palestinians.
In a video message posted on social media on Saturday (Sep 27), Mahathir said the US continues to supply Israel with funds, weapons and military assistance “to perpetuate the killings of Palestinians”.
He called on Anwar to revoke the ASEAN Summit invitation to Trump, saying the US president has “openly supported and enabled the crimes against humanity currently inflicted by Israel upon the Palestinian people”. CNA
In this issue, Mahathir is absolutely right. Trump is the murderer of the Palestinians, more than 65,000 of them and counting. But Mahathir still stop short of calling out Trump. Without Trump's approval and unconditional support of Israel in funds, political support, vetos in the UN and unlimited supply of bombs and weapons, the Israelis would not be able to continue with the genocide. The whole world would have descended on Israel. It is Trump, the mass murderer of Palestinians that is in the way to prevent it.
The world is still living in fear of Trump. No one dares to call out Trump as the mastermind, the murderer of Palestinians. Many fools still crawled to Washington to dine with Trump, to take photo ops with Trump. Can you believe that?
Anwar should rescind his position and stop Trump from coming. Trump even approved barring Palestinian leaders from attending the UN assembly on Palestine and Palestinians. Trump's visit to Malaysia and Asean is like inviting and honouring the world's number one mass murderer. This is base.
All the excuses by Anwar to defend the visit of Trump is lame and contrived, unacceptable. What economic interests, what honour to have Trump, a murderer of Muslim Palestinians in Malaysia? The mass murderer of Palestinians should not receive any recognition or honour. Only the white countries would honour Trump for genociding the Palestinians and may even glorify him with a Nobel Peace Prize, under white men's rules based order.
Malaysia is not a white country and should not play by the white men's rules. Trump is the mass murderer of more than 65,000 Palestinians, some said the numbers could be more than 200,000. This is no peanuts. Trump must be called out, prosecuted in the ICC or ICJ for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Any Muslim leader dares to call out Trump as the murderer of Palestinians?