The Israelis didn’t by any stretch of the imagination “seize Palestine,” as I demonstrate in my new book The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process, which you can preorder here. Moreover, the idea that “there will be less terrorism or no terrorism all over the world” if the Palestinian jihad succeeds is absurd on its face. Does Mahathir really expect us to believe that the jihad in Nigeria, and the jihad in the Philippines, and the jihad in Thailand, and the jihad in Syria and elsewhere, will end if Israel is obliterated? On the contrary, if such a thing happens, the jihadis would be emboldened.
“World terrorism ends when we stop Israel’s injustice against Palestinians, says Dr M,” by Ida Nadirah Ibrahim, Malay Mail, July 27, 2019:
KUALA LUMPUR, July 27 — The seizure of Palestanian [sic] land to form the illegal State of Israel has been the main cause of terrorism in the world, Tun Dr Mahahir [sic] Mohamad told Turkish news agency, Anadolu Agency, in a report today.
The prime minister said if the causes of terrorism is not dealt with, then it would be difficult to put a stop to it.
“The main thing that we think we should always stress is the causes of terrorism. Today, there is already a consensus almost to blame terrorism on Muslims.
“But the fact you said, after the seizure of Palestine, and the disregard of international law by Israel, this has led to so-called acts of terrorism. But in order to get rid of terrorism, we need to know the reason why they terrorise unless you treat the causes of terrorism, you are not going to be able to stop terrorism,” he was quoted in the report.
Dr Mahathir suggested that the State of Israel should allow the previous Palestinian people to return back to reclaim their property, or at least agree on the two-state solution and stop the Israelis from building settlements in the Palestinian territory.
“And if we know, beside this, the causes for terrorism, and we treat them, 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.
Dr Mahathir said though there has not been enough news coverage and accurate reporting on the actual situation of the Palestinian problem, he said Malaysia and Turkey can continue to keep the issue alive in order for it to be addressed at the global stage.
“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 and we intend, I think both Turkey and Malaysia intend, to keep this problem alive, so that the world will appreciate the injustice that has been done to the Palestinians.
“With regard to the Palestinian problem, the clear truth about it is that it has not been given enough airing either in the media or on TV. That seems to be an agreement on the part of the media not to highlight the problems of Palestine,” said Dr Mahathir, citing the Israeli act against international law to have been omitted from news reports….
Mary says
We don’t need to get rid of Israel, we have to get rid of Islam.
Herb Lubi says
First the Quran has to be banned, destroyed, and sent back in ashes to the Evil Empire. Then the Islam will fall apart. There is no Evil when the Quran is gone form the Moslims lives. Muhammad was a warlord self proclaimed prophet, and three hundred years later Imams pick up an Ideology scheme to create a Sadistic Ideology that wants to kill off humanity leaving barbarians in it’s wake.
gravenimage says
If the Qur’an were vanned it would lead to the arrest and imprisonment of people like Robert Spencer, for daring to cite the danger that book presents to us.
mike says
well said
Lydia Church says
Right!
To claim that all of world terrorism would end then, or for any other reason than the one Christians know about, is absurd! Not only that, but terrorism would increase BY islam taking over Israel, and later again because of it! Worldwide terrorism does not come from Israel, but from islam.
It’s the classic argument: Just give me one more inch and then I’ll leave you alone. They give an inch, and the cycle repeats until there are no inches left to give.
william carr says
PM Mahathir is well known anti semite
£DO007 (@reuvenyaaqov) says
two-state solution is not on the table, sorri
£DO007 (@reuvenyaaqov) says
correct, islam is the problem
Keith says
Well he has got one thing right there are a lot of injustices carried out against the Palestinians, 99 percent of which are carried out by their fellow Arabs especially muslim arabs.
James says
The problem is larger than Israel. Iran wants to expand its power and dominate its region. Turkey, Arabia and Qatar to spread Islamism, rebulid the caliphate. These ambitions extend to islamizing the whole world. Israel only a small segment of the problem, and the worst would come after it was destroyed. Muslims do not object to taking the possessions of Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and they would not offer compensation. Islam also commands Muslims to reconquer Spain and the Balkans and continue the Islamic conquest of Europe. That would not change just because they destroyed Israel.
Westman says
“…And if we know, beside this, the causes for terrorism, and we treat them, 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.”
With equal logic, as a child, I skipped down the street with others, avoiding the seams in the sidewalks, as we proclaimed, “Step on a crack and it will break your mother’s back!”
Such magical thinking, tongue in cheek, is exactly the thought process of a child. The cause of Islamic terrorism is written in the official dogma of Islam(Quran, Hadith) and needs no Israel for its endless continuation. The confrontations between the free world and Islam is periodic and increasingly violent. The Crusades, WWII, and the coming clash over Israel are but episodes of the underlying hate and aggression required of Muslims toward unbelievers. This adherence to ancient barbarism ended badly for Japan and it will eventually end badly for Islam.
I’ve always been a skeptic of some great final battle occurring between the forces of good and evil; being Agnostic. Over the space of a lifetime I have watched an insignificant region of the world, because of its oil wealth, not its industry, become “czar energy” to a dependent world; spreading the canker of Islam into the West and displaying the impunity of killing a man in an embassy, while his companion waited for his return, then carrying off his body parts to Saudi Arabia. That was State Sponsored Islamic terrorism. Iran sends its wealth to hire terrorists to carry out its intrigues, again, funded by oil wealth. Oil has put Jihad on steroids and is driving the world into a great battle of Islam and the West.
I am now convinced that, like Japan, the imperial view of Islam will only be curtailed in a defeat so complete that “Allah” and the Quran fall to the level of Shinto. Currently, the likely igniter of that conflict will be Iran. There is no place remaining for an Apartheid, conquest religion and Islam is precisely that.
Raja says
The Muslims are always wronged and are always victims so seems to be the accusation from the PM of Malaysia. Not one word from anyone else to refute.
It is high time the world stop the charity to terror sponsors from across world. US has done a good job in reducing the payouts to terrorists. BRIBING TERRORISTS ONLY incubates more terror and more demands. It is a vicious circle and the West needs to get some clear thinking on this issue. The earlier the better. for world politico-environment.
Raja says
This crook is “guaranteeing” that the Islamic terror industry will be shut down and all the jihadists in Kashmir, Philippines, No go zones in Europe and so on will pack their bags and go home (Islamic nations including fattened jihadists from West)
Only fools will buy his story…
BegrensEuropa! says
Mr. Mahathir Mohamed delusions are logical, but nevertheless severely in nature and have been so for the past few decades. His main logical delusion is in the form of faulty generalizations. The Holocaust was perpetrated by Nazi-Germany, Germany is part of the West, so the Holocaust is caused by the West, so the West should shut up about any atrocities carried out by the Islam. This generalization is all the more objectionable, because the Islamic hate of Jews and therefore Israel is well-established. The present generalization is similar. Israel has no right to exist, so Islamic terrorism is justified, and all Islamic terrorism will stop when Israel ceases to exist. As Robert Spencer correctly points out: Jihad terror from West Africa to East Asia will simply continue. It is an abomination that such a person should head a modern state.
Steve says
New book. Wonderful, I’ve already pre-ordered.
Dov Berrol says
It’s time to turn the tables on the Jew-hating leadership of Malaysia. If they think it’s okay to demonize the national home and state of the Hebrew/Israelite/Judaic People, then it’s time to demonize Malaysia. The next time we counter-Jihadists are considering buying a product made in Malaysia – whether it’s a piece of clothing, electronic equipment or household appliance – don’t buy it. They have plenty of Muslims in the world that can keep their economy afloat without our assistance.
John says
There is already a two state agreement.
It is Jordan and Israel
Walter Sieruk says
Malaysia’s prime minister only exposes his own ignorance when he speaks about Israel’s “seizure of Palestine.” For the Jewish people have every right to all of that land, including the West Bank, by Divine Right. As seen, for example, in Genesis 28:13-15. 35:48, 49. Psalms 105:7-11. . Furthermore, the Jewish people should also have that land by historic rights. As found in First Kings 4:20,21,24,25. 8:55,56.
It is written in Psalm 135:4. reads “For the Lord has chosen Jacob for Himself. Israel for His Special treasure.” [N.K.J.V.]
jarmanray says
If Israel is the problem, then the fourteen hundred years of Islamic slaughter of its neighbors as well as it internecine must be a figment of our historic knowledge. The Jews were deprived of their homeland until the Balfour Declaration and even then not until 1948 was it officially established. This is pure hatred of the Jews and their denial of a Jewish pursuit of a homeland where David and Solomon built their temples.
James Lincoln says
Exactly. The certainly was a lot of Islamic jihad going on before Israel was established as a state…
Angemon says
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dominicdudley/2018/12/05/deadliest-terrorist-groups-in-the-world/#7f1024dc2b3e
The above article has the 5 deadliest terror groups in the world. 4 are islamic terror groups, the 5th is “other terrorist groups” – pretty much all islamic terror groups. They also included this nugget:
17 deaths over two continents in a year – I bet more people are killed by toilets… Anyway, my point is that I don’t recall any of those terror groups saying in their manifesto that they’ll keep fighting until Israel “releases” “Palestine”.
Oren Wysocki says
Does it make sense, that all the human rights violations committed by muslims against non muslims will end, the failure of democracy in muslim countries will end, their disproportionate crime levels, violence levels, terrorism levels, and government instability are all issues that will disappear if only the Jews surrender their land rights to the muslims, and ignore predictable security failings of the muslims, and instead do what the muslims want?
Or does it make more sense that this statement simply proves how totally obsessed with their hatred of the Jews, muslims really are. A hatred that all the gentiles of the world have to deal with in their own way, which the muslims act in the most fanatical and uncompromising manner towards. In line with their feelings of hatred, and desire to hurt and harm Jews, is their willingness to tell any preposterous lie in order to get what they want. Never admitting to their own failings.
The muslims are not qualified to have joint administration over security matters with the Israelis, or over border checkpoints, air ports or sea ports. Even the land bridge will be used to transfer weapons, terrorists and terrorist financing. Everything that involves Jews will be A cause for outrage, A cause for violence. Every suspected terrorist will continue to be A humiliation to the arab muslim dignity, every terrorist arrested by the IDF will be A cause for riots and rock throwing.
The support for peace is so weak that anti racist America has removed the demand for recognizing Israel, they will not even ask the Palestinians to declare they are against war with Israel, or against terrorism, or against the right of return. While they press for control over the border for their supposed dignity and rights.
The americans are basically imposing their own radical leftism on the Israelis. I predict that if Israels borders are forced open and exposed, than America and europes borders will be opened to Africa and the world to such A degree that their nations will dissolve, just in time to save the Israelis. If terrorists are able to smuggle weapons, funds and fighters into Israel, they will be able to do the same to America and Europe. The americans press for these Jewish submissions to their enemies, so America and Europe can defend their populations from being exposed to ideas that would either offend them or entice them. The number of offended is expected to be enough to dissolve their nations in A similar way that being overrun by foreigners does.
Recognize that arab muslims have not learned toleration. Recognize that America and Europe have been censoring criticism of arab muslims for hundreds of years. Then accept that there will be more peace, less conflict, less chance of bigger wars if the arab muslims are relocated out of Israel. It is the real most peaceful option. Turn your backs on attacking the truth tellers, turn your backs on arresting those who criticize islam, instead celebrate their bravery, and shame the muslims who commit so many very real human rights abuses against Jews and other non muslims. The muslims need violence, the Jews can use their hard work to get ahead. End the lies, embrace the truth. In G-d I trust.
Jim says
How does he account for all of the worldwide Islamic terrorism which occurred prior to 1948?
Jim says
Did he just admit that Muslims are committing acts of terrorism all over the world?
gravenimage says
Malaysia’s Prime Minister says global terrorism will end if Israel ends its “seizure of Palestine”
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Uh…right. All of that Jihad all over the world against Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Agnostics, Atheists, and Animists is all about Israel–as was, one supposes, the almost 1400 years of Jihad *before* the modern state of Israel was ever founded.
This is obvious bs, as is made clear by the Jihadists themselves.
What Mahathir is hoping is that Infidels will throw civilized Israel and the Jews under the bus, in the false hope that Muslims will stop murdering us.
In reality, as Robert Spencer notes, nothing would so embolden Muslims for Jihad than destroying Israel.
Wang Wei Lin says
Robert, When will your book be available in Kindle?
tgusa says
The world can begin to be at peace when musilms give Malaysia back to the Hindus and Buddhists. There were no muslims in Malaysia prior to the 14th century. Give it back and go back where you came from!
Chris says
This mamak has a track record of crimes against humanity. And yet, here he is, PM of Malaysia Boleh, again! Seriously, mamak, you should just drop dead and go straight to hell.
E Hall says
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
Martin Niemöller
Anton Savarese says
It has not ended for over 1,400 years.. This fool is dreaming..
gravenimage says
He’s not dreaming–he’s lying.
Giacomo Latta says
If Mahathir really wants to help the Palestinians he should send a shipload of cash to its various leaders. Not guns! Not explosives! No sir, just loads of cash. The Palestinian leadership will take from there … typically to Switzerland.
jca reid says
“Palestine” ought to be called its original name: “JUDEA”. After all, it was the Romans that changed the region’s name to “Syria Palestina”, after the Jewish Rebellion to their Rule was crushed.