“Dasar luar kerajaan adalah opportunist (mengambil kesempatan)” katanya merujuk kepada tindakan Umno BN menggunakan khidmat APCO, agensi perhubungan awam Yahudi yang bertentangan dengan prinsip dasar luar negara.
Menurutnya, kerajaan Umno BN tidak konsisten apabila cuba melabel Anwar sebagai pro-Israel tetapi pada masa sama tidak teragak-agak mengupah APCO untuk kontrak gubahan imej negara.
“Pelantikan APCO langsung tidak menjaga sensitiviti dasar luar kerajaan yang mengharamkan sebarang hubungan diplomatik antara Israel,” kata Yusmadi lagi.
APCO adalah firma Yahudi yang diupah Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib untuk menaikkan imejnya sejak menjadi Perdana Menteri pada April 2009 dengan menggunakan wang pembayar cukai sebanyak RM77 juta setahun.
Pendedahan mengenai penglibatan Apco dalam kerajaan mengheret Anwar dan tiga ahli Parlimen Pakatan Rakyat digantung selama setengah tahun, tahun lalu.
“Jadi apa dia dasar yang sebenar Kerajaan mengenai Israel ini? Ia masih tidak jelas sehingga kini,” kata Yusmadi.
Menurut Yusmadi, Pakatan Rakyat mahupun keadilan mempunyai dasar yang jelas mengenai ini iaitu menekankan prinsip keadilan, kemanusia dan keselamatan.
“Anwar telah beri pandangan tegas, bagaimana isu Israel dan Palestin adalah mengenai isu keselamatan individu dua belah pihak tanpa memberi sebarang dokongan kepada dasar luar Israel yang menindas. Itu yang diperjuangkan Anwar sehingga sekarang,” katanya.
source:keadilandaily
Anwar is likely referring to reports that Dr Mahathir met Yitzhak Rabin in Paris in 1994.
Anwar says ‘hypocrite’ Dr M met Israeli PM
Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim called his former boss Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad a hypocrite today for accusing him of being a Jewish sympathiser when it was the former prime minister who had met his Israeli counterpart.
The opposition leader told reporters today, “I myself have never met the Israeli prime minister, or the foreign minister or the finance minister.”
“I would like to know why he met the Israeli prime minister. Why the hypocrisy?” Anwar said, likely referring to reports that Dr Mahathir had met with Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres in Paris on July 6, 1994.
Dr Mahathir had on Monday labelled his former deputy as a Jewish sympathiser and a leader who disregarded the plight of the Palestinians after Anwar’s recent interview with the Wall Street Journal where he was quoted as saying he supported “all efforts to protect the security of the state of Israel.”
But the international business daily said Anwar stopped short of saying he would open diplomatic ties with the Jewish state, a step the former deputy prime minister said remains contingent on Israel respecting the aspirations of Palestinians.
Anwar came under heavy fire from Umno and its media after his statement was published by the Wall Street Journal last Thursday.
The PKR de facto leader was forced to defend himself by stressing that his remarks in the newspaper meant that he supported a two-state solution, which he said was mentioned by Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman when the latter addressed the United Nations General Assembly in September last year.
His party also claimed yesterday Dr Mahathir paid Jack Abramoff, a Zionist lobbyist, US$1.2 million (RM3.7 million) to arrange a meeting with former US President George W. Bush shortly after Anwar was sacked as deputy prime minister in 1998.
Today, Anwar repeated the accusation he first made in 2010, that Datuk Seri Najib Razak had paid APCO Worldwide to burnish his administration’s image.
The Permatang Pauh MP and three Pakatan Rakyat (PR) colleagues were
suspended from Parliament for six months after accusing the prime
minister of paying RM77 million a year to APCO despite the public
relations firm being an Israeli-based company “with ties to Israeli
intelligence agency Shin Bet.”
“They go to America, and APCO distributes leaflets accusing me of
being anti-Jew. Then they go to the Muslim world and say I am pro-Jew,”
he added.
Muslim-majority Malaysia is a staunch supporter of Palestine and has no diplomatic ties with Israel.
Muslim politicians have long vied for support from Malays by denouncing what they say are inhumane acts of aggression by Israel towards its neighbour.
source:malaysian insider
“Old man” Dr Mahathir Mohamed should just stay at home and keep quiet, said Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim today.
“This old man, he hasn’t stopped yet? That is enough-lah. He (and his family) is already very rich,” he told more than 1,000 people at the Batu PKR Chinese New Year open house event in Kuala Lumpur.
“He should stay at home quietly and take care of his grandchildren,” sniped Anwar (left) at his former mentor.
Speaking at the first of a planned five-constituency Chinese New Year open house celebrations, the de facto PKR leader also dismissed and ridiculed Mahathir’s insinuations that he (Anwar) was “close” to Israel.
“He said I am close to Israel. But before this he said I was close to the Chinese and will sell the country to the Chinese if I become PM.
“Dey ane (hey brother), which one is it?
“Recently I went to a ponggal celebration. I wore the Indian hat. Like MGR (the late Indian movie idol). After this, is he going to say I am close to the Indians?” the Permatang Pauh MP hit out.
His speech was greeted with cheers and shouts from the mainly Chinese crowd who had welcomed him with a lion dance display earlier.
Anwar is scheduled to visit four more PKR-won constituencies today, with Wangsa Maju, Bandar Tun Razak, Brickfields and Pantai following suit.
source:malaysiakini
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