Some in Malaysia believes that Arab and Islamic majority nations will support the Palestinian people - but that is so wrong as some Arab nations have shown in the past by their action that they may be anti-Palestine, and thus pro-Israel.
...unlikely to change the behaviour of Arab governments. These regimes are more concerned with sustaining or returning to some form of status quo, one in which Palestine's liberation remains a secondary priority.
Since the start of the Israeli genocide in Gaza on Oct 7, 2023, the Arab position on Israel has been weak at best, and treasonous at worst.
Some Arab governments even went so far as to condemn Palestinian resistance in United Nations debates.
There are many people and even nations around the world that will stand up against INJUSTICE including for justice to be done for the Palestinian people.
So, please Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and his government - OPEN your mind, and join all peoples and nation state to support the struggle for justice of the Palestinian people. Do not be 'narrow' in your approach, and just reach out to Islamic nations...
Mat Sabu of Parti Amanah gets it right about HYPOCRISY...
Among the 130 international delegations were Prince William, US President Donald Trump, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, French President Emmanuel Macron, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
"Many of them are staunch supporters of the Zionist regime," Mohamad Sabu, who is also the Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, said on Sunday.
"These are the same leaders who stood solemnly to honour a religious figure who was outspoken against the atrocities in Gaza, yet they continue to support or remain silent in the face of those very atrocities."
"Irony. That is the word. They attend a funeral to honour a man, yet never respected Pope Francis’ calls for the world to rise and end the cruelty inflicted by Zionists upon the Palestinian people," he added.
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Parliament, not Prime Minister, must decide on Malaysia's stance on the Palestine issue - after PM Anwar allowed those who supply arms to Israel to participate in exhibition in Malaysia?
Malaysians stance of Israel-Palestine maybe different from Anwar and government? Blackrock, BOYCOTT, dealings with arm suppliers that kill Palestinians?
Palestine-Israel, McDonald's, and what is the Malaysian position? What will Malaysia do?
Is Malaysia amongst the hypocrites that Mat Sabu talks about? Does Malaysia recognize Israel, as formed purusnt the 1947 UN Resolution? Does Malaysia recognize Israel with borders as per the 1947 UN Resolution? Does Malaysia recognize the new borders of Israel that includes 'occupied terrutories' after war or occupation.
Interestingly, that post of mine seem to have disappeared from my Blog - Who did it? Malaysia? Israel? Some pro-Israel Group - it just disappeared... What happened? To me, it is a mystery
Malaysian Palestinian Position Needs to be Clarified, and PM Anwar needs to stick to that position...
Pope Francis took a strong position on Palestine - will the new Pope Leo continue with this position
Pope Francis has called for an investigation to determine whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, tackling the issue for the first time in excerpts from an upcoming book.“According to some experts, what is happening in Gaza has the characteristics of a genocide,” the pope said in excerpts published on Sunday by the Italian daily La Stampa.
Be brave like Pope Francis, Arab leaders told over Palestine
Be brave like Pope Francis, Arab leaders told over Palestine
Mohamad Sabu says the late pontiff stood by the Palestinians while Arab leaders chose to remain silent.
In a Facebook post, Mohamad, also known as Mat Sabu, said Francis, who passed away on Monday, stood by the Palestinians while Arab leaders chose to remain silent and collude with those oppressing the community.
Separately, he also hailed the late pontiff’s commitment to peace and his condemnation of the genocide perpetrated by Israel in Gaza.
He said Francis’s stand on the matter contrasted with that of other world leaders who prioritised political power over humanity.
“Religious leaders should not become doormats to governments that have lost their sense of humanity,” he told FMT when met at the St John’s Cathedral, here.
Mohamad was part of a delegation led by the Secretariat of Solidarity for Palestine, a pro-Palestinian group, who paid tribute to Francis.
He said the calls for peace by many world leaders were merely lip service as they were focused on “political hegemony”.
“But Pope Francis’s call for peace and his condemnation of genocide came from a pure heart, showing us that peace and humanity are values that transcend religion. This is something that I deeply respected him for,” he said.
Mohamad, who is also the agriculture and food security minister, said the death of Pope Francis, whose humility and sense of justice was profound, was a great loss not just for Catholics, but for the world.
He also lamented that Malaysians tended to view the plight of the Palestinians as a religious issue.
Tian Chua, the spokesman for SSP, expressed a similar view, noting Pope Francis’s dedication to social justice, especially his vocal support for Palestine.
“He didn’t stop at condemning violence and calls for Palestinian statehood, but went all the way to have regular communication with the churches under attack in Gaza.
“He even dedicated his dying breath to them, which was most touching,” the former Batu MP said.
Tian Chua said he was disappointed that local media did not often cover the Pope’s statements, including his Easter sermon, delivered hours before his passing, in which he reiterated his call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
In his Easter message, Francis also said that the situation in Gaza was “dramatic and deplorable”.
In January, Francis ramped up criticism of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, calling the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian enclave “very serious and shameful”.
Francis passed away on April 21 after a stroke and subsequent heart failure, hours after delivering the traditional Easter blessing from the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica.
He had spent five consecutive weeks in hospital with double pneumonia in February and March - FMT, 24/4/2025
The Arab complicity in Israel's genocide
It's not merely about Arab disunity and weakness, it's about their governments' treasonous position on Israel.
Explaining Arab political failure to challenge Israel through traditional analysis - such as disunity, general weakness, and a failure to prioritise Palestine -does not capture the full picture.
The idea that Israel is brutalising Palestinians simply because the Arabs are too weak to challenge the Benjamin Netanyahu government, or any government, implies that, in theory, Arab regimes could unite around Palestine. However, this view oversimplifies the matter.
Many well-meaning pro-Palestine commentators have long urged Arab
nations to unite, pressure Washington to reassess its unwavering support
for Israel, and take decisive actions to lift the siege on Gaza, among
other crucial steps.
While these steps may hold some value, the reality is far more complex, and such wishful thinking is unlikely to change the behaviour of Arab governments. These regimes are more concerned with sustaining or returning to some form of status quo, one in which Palestine's liberation remains a secondary priority.
Since the start of the Israeli genocide in Gaza on Oct 7, 2023, the Arab position on Israel has been weak at best, and treasonous at worst.
Some Arab governments even went so far as to condemn Palestinian resistance in United Nations debates.
While countries like China and Russia at least attempted to contextualise the Oct 7 Hamas assault on Israeli occupation forces imposing a brutal siege on Gaza, countries like Bahrain placed the blame squarely on the Palestinians.
With a few exceptions, it took Arab governments weeks or even months to develop a relatively strong stance that condemned the Israeli offensive in any meaningful terms.
Though the rhetoric began to shift slowly, the actions did not follow.
While the Ansarallah movement in Yemen, alongside other Arab
non-state actors, attempted to impose some form of pressure on Israel
through a blockade, Arab countries instead worked to ensure Israel could
withstand the potential consequences of its isolation.
In his book War, Bob Woodward disclosed that some Arab governments told then-US secretary of state Antony Blinken that they had no objections to Israel’s efforts to crush Palestinian resistance. However, some were concerned about the media images of mutilated Palestinian civilians, which could stir public unrest in their own countries.
That public unrest never materialised, and with time, the genocide, famine, and cries for help in Gaza were normalized as yet another tragic event, not unlike the war in Sudan or the strife in Syria.
For 15 months of relentless Israeli genocide that resulted in the killing and wounding of over 162,000 Palestinians in Gaza, official Arab political institutions remained largely irrelevant in ending the war.
The US Biden administration was emboldened by such Arab inaction, continuing to push for greater normalisation between Arab countries and Israel, even in the face of over 15,000 children killed in Gaza in the most brutal ways imaginable.
While the moral failures of the West, the shortcomings of international law, and the criminal actions of Biden and his administration have been widely criticized, for serving as a shield for Israel’s war crimes, the complicity of Arab governments in enabling these atrocities is often ignored.
The Arabs have, in fact, played a more significant role in the Israeli atrocities in Gaza than we often recognise. Some through their silence, and others through direct collaboration with Israel.
Throughout the war, reports surfaced indicating that some Arab countries actively lobbied in Washington on behalf of Israel, advocating against an Egyptian-Arab League proposal aimed at reconstructing Gaza without ethnically cleansing its population, an idea promoted by the Trump administration and Israel.
The Egyptian proposal, which was unanimously accepted by Arab
countries at their summit on March 4, represented the strongest and most
unified stance taken by the Arab world during the war.
The proposal, which was rejected by Israel and dismissed by the US, helped shift discourse in the US around the subject of ethnic cleansing. It ultimately led to comments made on March 12 by Trump during a meeting with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin where he stated that "No one's expelling anyone from Gaza."
For some Arab states o actively oppose the only relatively strong Arab position signals that the issue of Arab failures in Palestine goes beyond mere disunity or incompetence; it reflects a much darker and more cynical reality.
Some Arabs align their interests with Israel, where a free Palestine isn't just a non-issue, but a threat.
The same applies to the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, which continues to work hand in hand with Israel to suppress any form of resistance in the West Bank.
Its concern in Gaza is not about ending the genocide, but ensuring the marginalisation of its Palestinian rivals, particularly Hamas.
Thus, blaming the PA for mere "weakness", for "not doing enough", or for failing to unify the Palestinian ranks is a misreading of the situation.
The priorities of Mahmoud Abbas and his PA allies are far different: securing relative power over Palestinians, a power that can only be sustained through Israeli military dominance.
These are difficult, yet critical truths, as they allow us to reframe
the conversation, moving away from the false assumption that Arab unity
will resolve everything.
The flaw in the unity theory is that it naively assumes Arab regimes inherently reject Israeli occupation and support Palestine.
While some Arab governments are genuinely outraged by Israel’s criminal behaviour and growingly frustrated by the US’ irrational policies in the region, others are driven by self-interest: their animosity toward Iran and fear of rising Arab non-state actors. They are equally concerned about instability in the region, which threatens their hold on power amid a rapidly shifting world order.
As solidarity with Palestine has increasingly expanded from the global South to the global majority, Arabs remain largely ineffective, fearing that significant political change in the region could directly challenge their own position.
What they fail to understand is that their silence, or their active support for Israel, may very well lead to their own downfall.
Ramzy Baroud is a journalist and editor of The Palestine Chronicle. - Malaysia Now, 27/3/2025
Mat Sabu slams 'hypocrisy' of world leaders at Pope Francis' funeral
Leader questions sincerity of pro-Zionist leaders paying tribute to Pope Francis, a staunch defender of human rights
Updated 1 week ago · Published on 27 Apr 2025 5:04PM
Among the 130 international delegations were Prince William, US President Donald Trump, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, French President Emmanuel Macron, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
"Many of them are staunch supporters of the Zionist regime," Mohamad Sabu, who is also the Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, said on Sunday.
"These are the same leaders who stood solemnly to honour a religious figure who was outspoken against the atrocities in Gaza, yet they continue to support or remain silent in the face of those very atrocities."
"Irony. That is the word. They attend a funeral to honour a man, yet never respected Pope Francis’ calls for the world to rise and end the cruelty inflicted by Zionists upon the Palestinian people," he added.
Pope Francis, the 266th head of the Roman Catholic Church, passed away at the age of 88. He was widely recognised for his efforts to reform the Church and his outspoken advocacy for social justice.
Mohamad Sabu, better known as Mat Sabu, said the global response to Pope Francis' death had laid bare the duplicity of powerful world leaders.
"Parti Amanah Negara continues to stand by the principle that the struggle against Zionist brutality is not merely a religious issue, but a humanitarian one," he said.
"Unfortunately, world leaders are more afraid of losing political power than they are committed to defending the values of humanity," he added. - April 27, 2025. Vibes
In Chiclayo, Peru, Locals Cheer the ‘Peruvian Pope’
From delivering help to flood-ravaged regions to singing Christmas songs to blessing babies, Pope Leo XIV tried to be a cleric of the people in Peru.
They remembered him in rubber boots, in a devastating flood, working side by side with the Red Cross. They shared images of him on a horse, in the countryside, wearing stylish aviator shades and crooning Christmas ballads — “Feliz Navidad!” — grinning and clapping alongside a rousing crowd.
Pope Leo XIV may have been born in Chicago, but the people of Chiclayo, a city in northern Peru where he served as bishop from 2015 to 2023, have claimed him as one of their own.
“Welcome to Chiclayo, the land of the pope!” a flight attendant announced as a plane from Lima touched down on Thursday. Passengers burst into applause. - New York Times, 9/5/2025
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