Former Malaysian PM: The "Elephant in the Room" in the War Against Terrorism is Israel.

Former Malaysian PM: The "Elephant in the Room" in the War Against Terrorism is Israel.

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According to former Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir, the solution to the war against terrorism was to look at the root causes of all these acts of violence following the decision to take Palestine and give it to the Jews and expel the Palestinians from their own country without any compensation.

Powerful countries would NOT act in settling the root causes of terrorism because they wanted to uphold Israel at any cost even if the whole world were threatened with terrorism.

This was due to the Israelis having a strong hold on the most powerful nations, he said.

On the Palestine-Israel ceasefire agreement, he had his doubts over Israel's commitment.

16 February 2005

Former Malaysian Prime Minister, Dr Mahathir Mohamad has predicted United States may use Israel as a proxy to launch an attack against Iran over the nuclear issue.

The US would urge Israel to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities just like what the Tel Aviv regime did to Iraq initially before Washington launched the full-scale war in Iraq.

"US seems to want other people to fight for them," he told reporters here in response to questions on the development of the Iran-North Korea nuclear issues.

The US would attack Iran because Iran had no weapon of mass destructions although such allegation were made against Tehran.

"They attacked Iraq because they know Iraq has no weapon of mass destruction," he told reporters here Wednesday.

However, the US was unlikely to attack North Korea although Pyongyang had openly declared that it possessed nuclear weapons. Furthermore, he said the US would exercise a little bit more careful in handling the North Korean nuclear issue because the country could do a lot of things with its weapons of mass destructions. He said,

"North Korea, the agenda is different. It is not just weapons of mass destruction, there is also this element of hatred against Muslim.

There is a religious element in this thing. If it is non-Muslim, the US will not attack,"

Mahathir said the US believed that it could do anything it liked to Muslim countries for several reasons:

1. Muslim countries were divided
   
2. there were some Muslim countries which supported the US against other Muslim countries and finally
   
3. because Muslim countries were incapable of retaliation, he said.

Muslim countries on the other hand would continue to fight and sabotage against each other, contributing to a worsening of the situation.

"The Muslim world should go back to Islam. The teaching of Islam. The fundamental teaching of Islam that all Muslims are brothers and Muslims should not kill another Muslim," he said.

He said the only retaliation the US might face was from non-governmental bodies such as Al-Qaeda which resorted to acts of terror.

Dr Mahathir reiterated that the solution to the war against terrorism which was made by him since 1983 was to look at the root causes of all these acts of violence following the decision to take Palestine and give it to the Jews and expel the Palestinians from their own country without any compensation.

However, he felt that powerful countries would not act in settling the root causes of terrorism because they wanted to uphold Israel at any cost even if the whole world were threatened with terrorism.

This was due to the Israelis having a strong hold on the most powerful nations, he said.

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