KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad said Malaysia and Turkey could work together in keeping the Palestine issue alive despite efforts to extinguish it completely.
By doing so, he said the world would appreciate the Palestinians’ decades of struggle against the injustice they faced.
“There is an attempt to just kill the issue completely as if nothing has happened. But the fact is that there is a great deal of injustice perpetrated against the Palestinians,” he said in an interview with Turkey’s Anadolu Agency in Ankara.
Mahathir is on a four-day visit to Turkey at the invitation of President Recep Tayyib Erdogan.
Reiterating his statement at the 2018 United Nations General Assembly, Mahathir said the main cause of terrorism in the Israel-Palestine issue was the creation of Israel “in an illegal way”.
He said the seizure of Palestinian land was done without any consideration for the people living in the area at the time and without getting public opinion.
“The land was just taken and given to Israel without any consideration for the thinking and feelings of the people, at that time, living in Palestine,” he said.
At the very least, he said, Israel should allow the previous Palestinian population to reclaim their property or to have two different states and stop building settlements in Palestinian territory.
“This is what we want. (If) we take action to stop this injustice perpetrated on the Palestinians, I think there will be less terrorism or no terrorism all over the world,” he said.
Mahathir also said the media had not mentioned or highlighted enough on how Palestinian land was seized to create the state of Israel or how Israel had acted repeatedly against international law.
“There seems to be an agreement on the part of the media not to highlight the problems of Palestine. These have not been mentioned often. The main thing that we think we should always stress are the causes of terrorism,” he said. - FMT
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