LIES AND MORE LIES

LIES AND MORE LIES

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1. I am sick of hearing the declaration that Israel has a right to defend (secure) itself.

2. Don’t others have the same right to secure themselves. Don’t the Gaza Palestinians have a right to defend themselves.

3. You may ask what is the insecurity of the Palestinians? There have been and there are numerous assaults against Palestinian security.

4. Firstly Palestinian land has been seized to create Israel. There was no plebiscite or referendum to determine whether the Palestinians agree or not to their land being given to the Jews to set up Israel.

5. Then the Israelis expelled the Palestinians from their land. No compensation was paid. And no return was allowed.

6. Israel then built settlement on Palestinian land. This is another seizure of Palestinian land. Then Israel seized Jerusalem, an international area. Israeli soldiers entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque and killed Arabs who were praying.

7. All the time Israel arrested and detain without trial thousands of Palestinians. The detention was not for any specific time. Many detainees had died in custody. There was no way to free them. The families suffer, not knowing what happened to the detained members.

8. The killing of tens of thousands of the Palestinians is continuing. Even children and babies have been killed.

9. Clearly the Palestinians have no security.

10. And so the Palestinians decided to capture Israelis to make them hostages. The Palestinians expected an exchange of prisoners could be carried out. So the Israeli hostages had to be kept alive.

11. But what do the Israelis do. They rampaged and committed genocide. They killed more than 60,000 Palestinians – not the Hamas soldiers but the non-combatants men, women, children, babies, new born, the old and the incapacitated, the sick patients in the hospitals. And their claim is that the massacres are in defense and the security of Israel.

12. After killing more than 60,000 Palestinian in Gaza, a ceasefire was initiated on condition the Israeli hostages would be released. There would be an exchange of hostages for the Palestinian detainees.

13. The numbers were telling. The number of Palestinian detainees released were huge. These people had been detained for years. Hundreds of them were released in exchange for less than ten Israeli hostages each time. It is clear that the claim by the Palestinians that Israel had detained thousands of Palestinians is true. There had been no trial of any kind. The world has never heard of the trials because there was none.

14. Detention without trial is morally wrong, even though some countries including Malaysia have laws which permit this. When Israel detains thousands of Palestinians without trial the great liberal democrats in Europe and America oppose because Israel has a right to secure itself.

15. And how does it secure itself. It does this by denying the security of the Palestinians.


Written by former Malaysian prime minister (twice) TUN DR MAHATHIR BIN MOHAMAD, uploaded from his Facebook, dated 20 August 2025.

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