Salak: June 6, 2010

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Freedom Flotilla | Let's have freedom too in Malaysia

Pix | Al Jazeera

Been following the Haaretz on what's happening on the Freedom Flotilla. Sure, the Gaza people should get those supplies and the Israelis acted in terrible panic and utter arrogance and cruelty All Malaysians would agree. Have not said much on all that so I'd like to quote a comment from a reader at Hornbillunleashed:

For the sake of open discussion... A few people might blame Anwar for having joined UMNO when in all probability he would have been something of a PAS leader.

We now see after Sibu, how Malaysians have slowly begun to live and love again. You could look back wistfully, not in anger, but maybe some humility, that had he not, we might have been somewhere today. No, it would not be solely Anwar per se (guy is just like many Malaysians), but the dynamics of whats happening today that could have there in those past yestedays - a catalysis only possible in a society not steeped in dogmas.

You might regret that in past geopolitics world powers shaded and divided the globe amongst themselves and unabashedly Balfour declared :

"...In Palestine, we do not propose even to go through the form of consulting the present inhabitants of the country [Israel]...The Four Great Powers are committed to Zionism. And Zionism, be it right or wrong, good or bad, is rooted in agelong tradition, in present needs, in future hopes, of far profounder import than the prejudices of the 700,000 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land..." - Robert Lacey, Hutchinson & Co., 1981

While Mahathir glares and rants now, to setting himself up for June 14 (May 13 event having been cancelled) he would then take the pulpit, and relive that very same arrogance that Balfour propounded. For in the very belief some Malaysians chastise, it is the very same belief they continue to relive under some guise. Will he?

Interesting to read what the new Brit government now says it wants to do, conservatively in plain English :

"...The country has got an overdraft. The interest on that overdraft is swallowing up things that the nation should otherwise be spending money on. We have got to take people with us on this difficult journey..."- David Cameron, BBC

Najib has to tel us triumphantly with some alphabets, like NKRA's,,1Malaysia, regretful phrases "Wa salah Lu mai kong instead of "Assalamu 'alaikum".

Peace to all Malaysians !

Comment by Watcha — June 6, 2010 @ 12:41 PM | Reply