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I wish BN leaders would stop posturing over the issue of Israel-Palestinian affairs , I am really sick of it.

Admit it, they are only after Anwar Ibrahim, otherwise the only thing they have been consistent in is their hypocrisy.

While talking about how Israel treats Palestinians, BN doesn't exactly have a clean track record in using force and violence on its own citizens, for example in the Bersih 2.0 crackdown and teargassing the Tung Shin Hospital (that Health Minister Liow Tiong Lai said with a straight face never happened) and the numerous deaths in custody cases.

Nor is its treatment of minorities spotless, what with the land grabs and dispossession of Orang Asli in Selat Johor, in Dengkil, ad nauseum in Baram and elsewhere in Sarawak, of the Indians in Kg Buah Pala, in Ladang Bukit Jalil, and what of the forced takeover of Chinese property in Jalan Sultan?

And what of the talk of pendatangs being asked to go home, and bathing the keris in Chinese blood, or warning the Chinese to stock on food and not to test the patience of the majority masters and so on and so on?

I say, stop wasting our time and money talking Palestinian politics, take care of our own backyard first.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with Anwar calling for security for Israel - what kind of leader advocates or condones harming of another person to further one's own political position?

Regardless of whose side one is on in the Palestinian issue, and I am no fan of what the government of Israel has done to Palestinians, I am equally no fan of terrorist acts on civilians regardless of circumstances.

As outsiders and a nation of people who, really, have no bone to pick with neither Israelis nor Palestinians as people as opposed to as the government (and I am sure most Malaysians have never met any people from either state), it is morally wrong for any individual here to advocate anything other than peace and safety from harm for the peoples of both sides.

We should not be teaching our young to hate one party over the other. We also should be teaching them that violence is not the solution.

Especially since there are cases of ordinary Palestinians and Israelis who have been joining hands to advocate peace, although such acts are not popular with those fixated on taking sides in the issue.

But of course, BN politicians are not concerned with real moral issues.

Especially since BN members, when convenient, hadn't exactly been unwavering enemies of the Israelis and Jews, if stuff about foreign PR companies and luxury diamond suppliers are true.

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