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Mahathir
blasts Israel for sparking war
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Saturday, October 11, 2003 (Putrajaya):
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad blasted Israel today for
allegedly trying to spark a Middle East war by launching an airstrike
in
Syria.
"Israel has been urging America to invade Syria, and Americans
seemed to be
reluctant, so in order to force the hand of America, Israel invades
Syria,"
Mahathir said.
He also said that US politicians would have to support it for fear of
antagonizing their Jewish voters.
"Now. the Americans will have to support it. Otherwise, the
candidates for
the presidency in the United States will lose Jewish votes,"
Mahathir
added.
The Malaysian PM has long been harshly critical both of Israel's
treatment
of the Palestinians and of US policy in the Middle East. He has also
said
that there is a "Jewish agenda" to keep Muslim nations weak.
Mahathir, who is stepping down next month has led Malaysia for more
than 22
years.
He is also the current chairman of the 117-nation non-aligned movement
and
the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference, which is holding
its
summit next week in Malaysia. (AP)
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occupation."
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Malaysian assembly hands out
copies of International Jew
HAARETZ-June 22, 2003
By Reuters
KUALA LUMPUR - Officials of Malaysian Prime Minister
Mahathir Mohamad's party gave out copies
of U.S. industrialist Henry Ford's anti-Semitic book
The International Jew to delegates at their
annual assembly on Saturday.
Tens of thousands of Muslim Malays attended the last
day of the three-day United Malays National Organization
(UMNO)
conference to see Mahathir deliver his final speech as
party president before stepping down in October. Delegates
at
the conference were handed free copies of an abridged
version of Ford's book, translated into Bahasa Malay
and published in Johannesburg.
The book, first published in the 1920s, also
contained the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
-- originally published in Russia in the early 20th
century and used down the decades to
peddle theories of an international Jewish
conspiracy.
The 77-year-old leader kicked off the meeting on Thursday
with a diatribe against white
Europeans, including a potted history of European
anti-Semitism and the formation of
Israel at the expense of the Palestinians. Mahathir
staunchly supports the Palestinian
cause, accuses Israel of state terrorism and vilifies
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. It is a
stand that goes down well with the Malays who account for
just over half of Malaysia's 24
million people.
In the speech he also accused the United States and
Britain of using the attacks on New York
and Washington on September 11, 2001 as an excuse to wage
war on Muslim countries -- a
notion U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell dismissed as
"ridiculous".
The prime minister, who became increasingly agitated by
events leading up to the invasion
of Iraq, characterized the peoples of the "European race"
as warlike and greedy and said
their liberal societies bred low sexual morality. One
Western diplomat described the
speech as "bizarre". "He has a strange view of history,"
said another, while a U.S. citizen
who has worked in Malaysia for the past 15 years
described it as "absolutely disgusting".
Mahathir denied being racist but said the lessons of
history compelled him to speak out
against the Europeans, who he said included the white
peoples of European descent in the
Americas, Australia and New Zealand. Malaysia's "Old
Man", as he is commonly known, often
sparks controversy with his angry outbursts, and ordinary
Malays are used to his ways.
At the height of the Asian crisis in the late 1990s,
Mahathir blamed Jews on Wall Street for
a speculative attack on the ringgit currency, but he
subsequently backed off, saying he had
many Jewish friends.
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