With reference to Eric Mudasi's letter Anti-semitism in Malaysia?

and with due respect to malaysiakini and the concept of 'press freedom', I think you should draw the line and not publish flagrant lies.

I was at the historic meeting

at Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka on May 8  not only was it not a night of 'Jew-bashing', but we distinctively remember Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad saying that we're not opposing Jews but the Israeli government (the Israeli-Zionist aggressor state). In fact, as part of the 'Deir Yassin remembered' commemoration on April 7, an Israeli Russian-Jew from Jaffa was welcomed to Malaysia as the major speaker and he remained in the country for a week, also speaking at various universities as well as to Muslim groups such as the Malaysian Muslim Youth Movement (Abim).

As for the writer's contention that "a Palestinian state is inconceivable", his historical ignorance is appalling. It's Israel that is the newcomer, created in 1947-48, carved out of the Palestinian homeland and which, without mercy, drove out the Palestinian inhabitants from 400 Palestinian villages they then demolished or used to house Jewish immigrants from Europe. The Palestinians who had no hand in the Nazi atrocity were made to pay the price for the 'anti-Semitism' of the Nazi regime.

I find this letter incendiary and I think it is meant to smear Malaysia internationally. I'm sure by now it's being quoted somewhere by rabid Zionists in order to attack Malaysia's foreign policy, to discredit our support for the Palestinians and Mahathir at this sensitive time when he's meeting with US President George W Bush.

In addition, a friend who also attended the function pointed out the similarities in sentences between Eric Mudasi's onslaught and John Derbyshire's, National Review online article "Why don't I care about the Palestinians?" (May 9), an even more extensive and vicious article. My friend then posed the question: "Is this not an orchestrated attack to discredit Malaysia and Mahathir?"

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