Malaysian PM should debate with Malaysian Opposition Leader

Ambiga to Najib: Debate with Anwar

RK Anand

November 26, 2012

 

The Bersih co-chairperson wants the prime minister to accept the opposition leader's challenge to a debate, saying it will allow Malaysians to judge who is best qualified to lead the nation.

Israelis & Palestinians' right to live peacefully...

The Israel-Gaza conflict is escalating towards an outbreak of full-scale war in the Middle East.

Both Israeli-Government and Hamas-led Government in Gaza are democratically elected by their people to fulfill the aspiration and the welfare of its people. Therefore, both governments have their responsibilities to carry out the governing responsibilites to SAFEGUARD and PROTECT its citizens' interest and well-being in long term.

• Launching rockets and threatening military ground offensive ARE NOT THE SOLUTION!
• Israelis and Palestinians both have EQUAL RIGHT to live peacefully and properously without being under constant fear and threat of violence and bloodshed.
• There is NO OTHER SOLUTION other than a TWO-STATES SOLUTION for a secured state of Israel and an independant state of Palestine living peacefully side-by-side.

Every nation and every individual has the right to defend itself but it seems that the RIGHT has abused by poor strategies in the long run.

• Ever since Israel managed to assasinate Hamas-Militant Leader in Gaza recently, hundred more of rockets have been launched from Gaza towards Israel, targetting cities like Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
• Since Hamas launched hundreds more of rockets into Israel in retaliation, Israel's offensive campaign only intensifies and only contribute more to civillian deaths.

If both the Israeli and Hamas Governments continue its short-sighted campaign of violence and bloodshed now leading to greater civillian casualties, then both governments have FAIL to SAFEGUARD and PROTECT its citizens' interest and well-being in LONG TERM.

I suggest that:

• Both governments agree to an IMMEDIATE cease-fire as brokered by Egypt and sanctioned by UN.
• Both governments agree to the ONLY diplomatic solution with a secured Israel and independant Palestine living side by side peacefully.
• Both goverments conduct a nation-wide EDUCATION & AWARNESS campaigns for its citizen to be informed of the diplomatic solution.
• Both governments convene a parliament sanctioned NATIONAL REFEREDUM on the Two-State diplomatic solution simultaneously
• Israel ACCEPTS the indenpendence of Palestine and the right of the Palestinians and STOPS all provocative unilateral decision on developing controversial lands...etc.
• Palestine RESPECTS the existence of Israel and the safety of the Israelis and STOPS all provocative militant activities against Israel. Hamas must weed out its militants' wing and establishes a Palestinian Parliament sanctioned defense army along-side with West-Bank. Hamas MUST work along with Palestinian Leader Mahmoud Abbas of West-Bank.

If every nation and individual only acts in the name of  "the right of self-defense", who then will acts in the name of "the right to live peacefully''?

So, Israel and Gaza must act in the name of "the right of its citizens to live peacefully" and not to hijack the nation's interest for self-serving purpose.

May God-Almighty bring peace to everyone's home and the love of God be felt in every heart He loved.

Joshua

Israel-Gaza escalating conflict

Reuters/Reuters - An explosion and smoke are seen after Israeli strikes in Gaza City November 18, 2012. REUTERS/Ahmed Zakot

GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel bombed militant targets in Gaza for a fifth straight day on Sunday, launching aerial and naval attacks as its military prepared for a possible ground invasion, though Egypt saw "some indications" of a truce ahead.

Forty-seven Palestinians, about half of them civilians, including 12 children, have been killed in Israel's raids, Palestinian officials said. More than 500 rockets fired from Gaza have hit Israel, killing three people and injuring dozens.

Israel unleashed its massive air campaign on Wednesday, killing a leading militant of the Hamas Islamist group that controls Gaza and rejects Israel's existence, with the declared goal of deterring gunmen in the coastal enclave from launching rockets that have plagued its southern communities for years.

The Jewish state has since launched more than 950 air strikes on the coastal Palestinian territory, targeting weaponry and flattening militant homes and headquarters.

The raids continued past midnight on Sunday, with warships bombarding targets from the sea. And an air raid targeted a building in Gaza City housing the offices of local Arab media, wounding three journalists from al Quds television, a station Israel sees as pro-Hamas, witnesses said.

Two other predawn attacks on houses in the Jebalya refugee camp killed one child and wounded 12 other people, medical officials said.

These attacks followed a defiant statement by Hamas military spokesman Abu Ubaida, who told a televised news conference.

"This round of confrontation will not be the last against the Zionist enemy and it is only the beginning."

The masked gunman dressed in military fatigues insisted that despite Israel's blows Hamas "is still strong enough to destroy the enemy."

An Israeli attack on Saturday destroyed the house of a Hamas commander near the Egyptian border.

Casualties there were averted however, because Israel had fired non-exploding missiles at the building beforehand from a drone, which the militant's family understood as a warning to flee, and thus their lives were spared, witnesses said.

Israeli aircraft also bombed Hamas government buildings in Gaza on Saturday, including the offices of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and a police headquarters.

Among those killed in air strikes on Gaza on Saturday were at least four suspected militants riding motorcycles, and several civilians including a 30-year-old woman.

ISRAELI SCHOOLS SHUT

Israel said it would keep schools in its southern region shut on Sunday as a precaution to avoid casualties from rocket strikes reaching as far as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in the past few days.

Israel's "Iron Dome" missile interceptor system destroyed in mid-air a rocket fired by Gaza militants at Tel Aviv on Saturday, where volleyball games on the beach front came to an abrupt halt as air-raid sirens sounded.

Hamas' armed wing claimed responsibility for the attack on Tel Aviv, the third against the city since Wednesday. It said it had fired an Iranian-designed Fajr-5 at the coastal metropolis, some 70 km (43 miles) north of Gaza.

In the Israeli Mediterranean port of Ashdod, a rocket ripped into several balconies. Police said five people were hurt.

Israel's operation has drawn Western support for what U.S. and European leaders have called Israel's right to self-defense, but there was also a growing number of calls from world leaders to seek an end to the violence.

British Prime Minister David Cameron "expressed concern over the risk of the conflict escalating further and the danger of further civilian casualties on both sides," in a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a spokesperson for Cameron said.

The United Kingdom was "putting pressure on both sides to de-escalate," the spokesman said, adding that Cameron had urged Netanyahu "to do everything possible to bring the conflict to an end."

Ben Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser to President Barack Obama, said the United States would like to see the conflict resolved through "de-escalation" and diplomacy, but also believes Israel has a right to self-defense.

Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi said in Cairo as his security deputies sought to broker a truce with Hamas leaders, that "there are some indications that there is a possibility of a ceasefire soon, but we do not yet have firm guarantees."

Egypt has mediated previous ceasefire deals between Israel and Hamas, the latest of which unraveled with recent violence.

A Palestinian official told Reuters the truce discussions would continue in Cairo on Sunday, saying "there is hope," but it was too early to say whether the efforts would succeed.

In Jerusalem, an Israeli official declined to comment on the negotiations. Military commanders said Israel was prepared to fight on to achieve a goal of halting rocket fire from Gaza, which has plagued Israeli towns since late 2000, when failed peace talks led to the outbreak of a Palestinian uprising.

Diplomats at the United Nations said Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is expected to visit Israel and Egypt in the coming week to push for an end to the fighting.

POSSIBLE GROUND OFFENSIVE

Israel, though, with tanks and artillery positioned along the frontier, signaled it was still weighing a possible ground offensive into Gaza.

Israeli cabinet ministers decided on Friday to more than double the current reserve troop quota set for the Gaza offensive to 75,000 and around 16,000 reservists have already been called up.

Asked by reporters whether a ground operation was possible, Major-General Tal Russo, commander of the Israeli forces on the Gaza frontier, said: "Definitely."

"We have a plan. ... It will take time. We need to have patience. It won't be a day or two," he added.

Another senior commander briefing reporters on condition of anonymity said Israel had scored "good achievements" in striking at nearly 1,000 targets, with the aim of ridding Hamas of firepower imported from Libya, Sudan and Iran.

A possible move into the densely populated Gaza Strip and the risk of major casualties it brings would be a significant gamble for Netanyahu, favorite to win a January national election.

Hamas fighters are no match for the Israeli military. The last Gaza war, involving a three-week Israeli air blitz and ground invasion over the New Year's period of 2008-09, killed over 1,400 Palestinians, mostly civilians. Thirteen Israelis died in the conflict.

But the Gaza conflagration has stirred the pot of a Middle East already boiling from two years of Arab revolution and a civil war in Syria that threatens to spread beyond its borders.

One major change has been the election of an Islamist government in Cairo that is allied with Hamas, potentially narrowing Israel's maneuvering room in confronting the Palestinian group. Israel and Egypt made peace in 1979.

(Writing by Allyn Fisher-Ilan; Editing by Todd Eastham)

Change, Save Malaysia

This video picked the 13th Malaysia General Election theme song  for Democratic Action Party (DAP), a member of the Pakatan Rakyat coalition.

The song entitled "Change, Save Malaysia"

The chorus translation:

...Change, Save Malaysia
Together, we make history
Open a new chapter
Together, we move forward
Change is in your hand...

I think the message is fair enough, change is in your hand, it is your right to change or not to change.

God bless us all.

Joshua

America has decided. Malaysia, around the corner...

President Barack Obama has been re-elected as the President of United States of America for the second-term. Congratulations! America! One of the most prominent anti-Obama figure is no other than Donald Trump who has been one of the richest and most vocal critic. It is understood that a great majority from the middle class america voters voted Obama for his representation from the middle-class. When the middle-class who forms the majority decide on some very important events, it usually frustrates the upper class the most, because any decision made by the middle-class usually are not favourable towards the upper-class who gain their wealth at the expense of the poor and average, I repeat "the upper-class who gain their wealth at the expense of the poor and average", so there is nothing wrong if you work hard and smart and God-honouring ways to gain wealth and be rich, in fact you deserve it.

Malaysia is heading towards the most anticipated General Election since Independence in 1957, the 13th General Election which must be called by April 2013, will be the "Mother of all General Elections" in Malaysia.

Both Ruling Party and Opposition Party are working hard to win votes but what is most important we want a party who upholds justice, honour, integrity, transparent and democratic to rule the country.

The first step to fight rampant corruption in this great country of Malaysia as a voter is to vote out corrupt leaders. Making sure corrupt leaders are in no where near in determining the country's policies and future.

so ...Speak Up! Vote Right!

Joshua