Broadside From The Old Man On Obama's Anniversary

Tun Mahathir does it again. I can finally claim to have something in common with our Tun...we have both watched "Avatar"!

This article was in the Malaysian Insider. The allegation about 9/11 being staged is not new. Michael Moore said it loud and clear in his documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11". Saddam was screaming it all the way to the gallows and with all the advances in surveillance technology, Osama Bin Laden is seemingly still comfortably having his dialysis purportedly in the boondocks of Afghanistan.

However, whether or not 9/11 was staged it is somewhat disconcerting to hear our Tun joining the ranks of conspiracy theorists when the "veil/shroud" of secrecy and spin is still firmly in place. I should think that this would be beneath someone of his stature (former) and it is yet another reminder that mere mortals cannot cheat Father Time. Welcome to the hoi polloi Tun.

But admittedly, I tend to agree with Tun on this particular allegation (I am especially skeptical about the absence of airplane debris after the crash at the Pentagon) and wait a minute! Perhaps that's another thing I have in common with Tun... wishful thinking.

Alas, my main concern here is not so much about what we think about 9/11 but about Malaysia generating more adverse publicity (we mostly know what the other issues are) and incurring the wrath of the "Jewish gods of money" who can rain hellfire and brimstone on our already fragile economy. He is Jew bashing again.

Do read:

Dr M says 9/11 attacks staged to hit Muslim world
By Asrul Hadi Abdullah Sani

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 20 — Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today claimed the 9/11 attacks in the United States, that killed nearly 3,000, was staged as an excuse to “mount attacks on the Muslim world”, saying killing as an excuse for war is not new to the US.

The former prime minister also argued that Israel was created to solve the “Jewish problem” in Europe, saying the Holocaust had failed as a final solution against the community.

“In September 2001, the World Trade Centre was attacked allegedly by terrorists. I am not sure now that Muslim terrorists carried out these attacks. There is strong evidence that the attacks were staged. If they can make Avatar, they can make anything,” said Dr Mahathir during his speech at the General Conference for the Support of Al-Quds here. Al-Quds is the Arabic name for Jerusalem.

“Killing innocent people to provide an excuse for war is not new to the US. But whether the real or staged 9/11 attacks have served the United States and Western countries well. They have an excuse to mount attacks on the Muslim world,” he added.

Dr Mahathir also argued the creation of the Jewish state was decided after Europeans failed to massacre the community.

“The Jews had always been a problem in European countries. They had to be confined to ghettos and periodically massacred. But still they remained, they thrived and they held whole governments to ransom.

“Even after their massacre by the Nazis of Germany, they survived to continue to be a source of even greater problems for the world. The Holocaust failed as a final solution,” said the outspoken Malaysian leader who was noted for his anti-Western and anti-Zionist stand while in power for 22 years, until October 2003.

Dr Mahathir added that it was easier for the European powers to set up a Jewish state in Palestine.

“Creating a state for them was thought to be a better solution. It could be if some European territory had been allocated to make a permanent ghetto for the Jews. But of course if this was done then the affected European state would rise in arms and kill all the Jews the way they had been doing before. So the debate was about creating an Israeli state in Uganda, Africa, or somewhere in Latin America or Palestine of course.

“It was so easy to decide on Palestine, a British mandated territory. Restrictions on the disposal of mandated land could be ignored. This is nothing new — reneging on solemnly given undertaking is endemic with Europeans,” he said.

Dr Mahathir also accused democratic countries for being “hypocritical” and pointed out that the world is “partially civilised.”

“We live in a world that is only partially civilised. I say this because we still believe that the way to resolve conflicts between nations is to kill people in what is called war. The winner is the side which succeeds in killing the most number of people. Yet we vehemently declare that killing people is murder, a terrible crime worthy of the most severe punishment.

“We are being openly hypocritical. Mass killing is glorious but killing one man is a heinous crime,” he said in his speech.

Dr Mahathir also expressed his disappointment in Barack Obama and said that the US president has failed. Obama celebrated his first year in office today.

“Well, I am a bit disappointed because so far none of his promises have been kept. He promised to get out from Afghanistan but he ended up sending more troops there instead. He promised to close down Guantanamo but he has not closed down Guantanamo. Even other things he has not been able to do.

“It is quite easy to promise during election time but you know there are forces in the United States which prevents the president from doing some things. One of the forces is the Jewish lobby, IPAC,” he said.

Dr Mahathir had previously blamed the Jews for causing the Asian financial crisis.