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Declare stand on trade with Israel, DAP Youth tells Miti
Published:  Jan 5, 2016 9:00 AM
Updated: 1:19 AM

The DAP Youth has urged its counterparts in MCA to state whether the party is complicit to the government's allowance of Malaysia-Israel trade.

In a statement, DAP Youth international secretary Howard Lee pointed out that MCA currently holds the position of second international trade and industry minister and as such must be aware of existing Malaysia-Israel trade ties.

"Being a party within the ruling regime, MCA must be fully aware that in 2013, Malaysia was Israel’s 7th largest export partner, with RM1.4 billion worth of export revenue, a scale of trade only behind the United States, United Kingdom, China, Turkey, the Netherlands and Germany.

"Does the fact that this is still going on not mean that MCA, which holds the position of second international trade and industry minister, is complicit in fostering Israeli-Malaysia relations?" Lee asked.

The Pasir Pinji assemblyperson ( photo ) was responding to MCA Youth Young Professionals bureau chief Choo Wei Sern’s call to the DAP yesterday to "come clean" on its ties with Israel, referring to claims by PAS research director Mohd Zuhdi Marzuki that Israelis had allegedly offered DAP US$300 million (about RM1.2 billion) in the last general election.

In urging an immediate retraction of Choo's statement from the MCA's website, Lee also warned that the DAP may pursue legal actions against any party that insisted on repeating Zuhdi's "recycled fabrications" from four years ago.

"DAP Youth denounces and condemns MCA as well as certain PAS leaders’ defamatory statement as regurgitated by MCA.

"It is also shameful to see MCA repeating defamatory allegations produced from worse-than-amateur research, with citations and references from blogs and YouTube videos," Lee stressed.

Mohd Zuhdi had reportedly claimed that DAP was offered the money and in return, would build an Israeli military base in Port Dickson if the party took over Putrajaya.

DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang yesterday responded to the allegations by asking his critics if they were implying the police had not looked into this matter for so long, as the allegation pertains to a matter four years ago.

Meanwhile, on issue of the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Lee said DAP has consistently condemned the terror and oppression employed by the regime in Tel Aviv against the Palestinians.

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