Speech on Emergency Motion on Israel & Palestine in Parliament
Tuesday, 04-07-2006Ucapan YB Teresa Kok, Ahli Parlimen Seputeh Dalam Perbahasan Usul Tergempar Pada 4 Julai 2006
Kerajaan Malaysia Digesa Untuk Memainkan Peranan Gigih Dalam Konflik Israel Palestin
Datuk yang diPertua, saya ingin bangun menyokong usul tergempar yang dibawa oleh YB Kubang Kerian berkenaan dengan penahanan anggota kabinet kerajaan Palestin dan krisis Israel Palestin yang semakin meruncing.
Pertempuran di antara Israel dan Palestin yang telah berlarutan berpuluh-puluh tahun ini telah menjadi semakin meruncing pada hari-hari kebelakangan ini.
Pada hari Isnin, Perdana Menteri Israel Ehud Olmert menolak sebarang perundingan dengan pihak Palestin dan tentera Israel akan terus menyerang Gaza secara offensive. Pihak Palestin pula enggan mengumumkan apa-apa maklumat tentang keadaan terbaru askar Israel Gilat Shalit atas alasan keengganan Israel untuk melepaskan 1500 tahanan Palestin mengikut tarikh tamat yang ditetapkan oleh mereka.
Sekarang, Israel malah telah menangkap lebih satu pertiga daripada anggota kabinet kerajaan Palestin oleh pihak Israel.
Pertempuran di antara Israel dan Palestin secara berdarah dan ketegangan di antara mereka sekarang adalah amat merisaukan. Beberapa negara-negara Islam di Timur Tengah telahpun mencari jalan untuk cuba menyelesaikan konflik terbaru di antara kedua-dua negara ini, dan banyak kerajaan di dunia telahpun membuat kenyataan berkenaan dengan isu ini, jadi tibalah masanya bagi Parlimen kita dan kerajaan kita untuk mengadakan satu pendirian berkenaan dengan krisis Israel dan Palestin yang terbaru ini.
Wakil Palestin di PBB Riyad Mansour telahpun memohon kepada Majlis Keselamatan di PBB supaya menghentikan serangan Israel terhadap Palestin. Selain itu, wakil negara-negara Arab di PBB juga telah mengadakan satu mesyuarat tertutup untuk membuat keputusan samada mereka perlu meminta Majlis Keselamatan di PBB untuk mengadakan apa-apa resolusi berkenaan dengan krisis terbaru ini, tetapi malangnya tiada apa-apa keputusan dicapai dalam mesyuarat mereka ini setakat sekarang.
Saya menyeru kerajaan Malaysia menggunakan saluran diplomatiknya untuk mendesak Majlis Keselamatan di PBB untuk mengeluarkan satu resolusi berkenaan dengan konflik di antara Israel dan Palestin seperti apa yang dikehendaki oleh wakil Palestin. Selain itu, saya juga menyeru kerajaan mendesak PBB dan pemimpin dari kuasa-kuasa dunia untuk bercampurtangan menyelesaikan masalah di antara Israel dan Palestin ini.
Datuk yang diPertua, tibalah masanya bagi kerajaan sebagai Pengerusi NAM dan OIC untuk memainkan peranan yang lebih gigih usaha pendamaian di antara Israel dan Palestin, dengan tujuan supaya konflik Israel Palestin tidak dibesarkan dan diburukkan lagi sehingga mengorbankan lebih nyawa yang tidak berdosa.
Teresa Kok
ok, the YB Kubang Kerian is from BN or opposition? If from BN, DAP can vote for conscience and free to decide what’s right. If from Opposition then can BN object to this one?
well, although Israel seems to use too strong a reaction, I somehow think that they had started the peace movement by vacating the Gaza strip; its soldiers crying as they chased their own people out. The previous government also managed to reach some agreement to put arms down.
The Hamas, correct me if I am wrong, has the enduring image of war and terror mongering, and first thing they did when come into power is to renounce a peace agreement so painstakenly reached. I never heard Hamas talking about peace and development.
So the real sufferer are the people; not the few fantatics or politicians playing with other people life.
Comment by lee wee tak_ — Wednesday, 05-07-2006 @ 14: 45.48
“YB Kubang Kerian is from BN or opposition?”
If you don’t even know this basic information, your analysis of Palestine-Israel conflict is highly suspect.
Comment by Poh Lai Leng — Friday, 07-07-2006 @ 01: 46.02
Ooi, you mean YB Kubang Kerian is involved in the Palestine-Israel conflict? If I don’t know him or her I cannot say suicide bombing is wrong? Lai Leng, you know more than me har? So what is our YB role in a conflict that started in 1948, care to elaborate?
I was not analysing, I am just saying that peace begets peace, violence begets violence and I am sick of Hamas only know of promoting violence. Solve the issue by peaful means as started by Fatah.
As far as I know, in 1994, Bill Clinton tried to meditate and only Arafat refused to have any compromise with Israel and Clinton said to him,” I am a failure because of you”.
Israel has agreed with the allegedly corrupted Fatah adminstration (that’s why they lost the election to Hamas) and Hamas came out to repeat their stand that they still want to destroy Israel.
Israel, havng sent their troops to pry away Jew hardliners from Gaza as part of the deal with Fatah, refused to deal with Hamas.
Had Hamas showed maturity and talked first before shooting off their mouth (after all, an agreement was signed between Palestine and Israel) and Hamas are supposed to be elected government, not fire band protestors etc)
Your sweeping statement do not make sense at all. I am more than happy to be wiser should you explain if I don’t know a particular YB, I am ignorant about Israel – Palestin conflict.
Comment by lee wee tak_ — Monday, 10-07-2006 @ 16: 01.23
On the broader picture, if you minute brain can accomodate, a peaceful Palestine and Israel relationship can soothe the sentiments of muslims accross the world. Terrorists have less reasons to convince people to go to the misguided path and as tension lower down, so will petrol price and perhaps you can go more on your shopping trips, understand?
There is an intiative whereby peace was promoted with football. ESPN showed a segment where Jewish kids and Palestinian kids were grouped to gether to play football and this promoted peace, understanding and compassion between the next generation – a new hope. Now such initiatives are derailed by this bunch of inflexible people.
Give the people and the kids of Israel and Palestine a chance to live in peace and harmony. Just because I don’t know one of the more than 100 MPs do not make me as dumb and ignorant as you are.
Comment by lee wee tak_ — Monday, 10-07-2006 @ 16: 06.46
Unfortunately, many Palestinian factions are not willing to give peace a chance. One of the most well-known manifesto I’ve ever heard coming out from that region is, “push the Jews into the sea”.
Comment by AdmiralChengHo — Wednesday, 12-07-2006 @ 16: 09.54
yep, how do you make peace with such mindset. The so-called leaders are disguising their inability to manage and administer a civilised society. Period.
Comment by lee wee tak_ — Thursday, 13-07-2006 @ 12: 05.46
Below is a news report that clearly shows HisapBola is the initiators of the violence. They are manipulative and calculated for some publicity but were caught surprised by Israel’s firm reply.
Hezbollah: Israeli onslaught a surprise By SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI, Associated Press Writer
BEIRUT, Lebanon – A senior Hezbollah official said Tuesday the guerrillas did not expect Israel to react with an all-out offensive after the capture of two soldiers, the first acknowledgment by the group that it had miscalculated the consequences of the raid two weeks ago.
Mahmoud Komati, deputy chief of the Hezbollah’s political arm, also told The Associated Press in an interview that the Shiite militant group will not lay down arms.
In separate remarks early Wednesday, Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah defiantly vowed his fighters would begin firing rockets deeper into Israel, beyond the northern port of Haifa.
“The truth is — let me say this clearly — we didn’t even expect (this) response … that (Israel) would exploit this operation for this big war against us,” said Komati.
He said Hezbollah had expected “the usual, limited response” from Israel after the two soldiers were seized by guerrillas on Israel’s side of the border on July 12.
In the past, he said, Israeli responses to Hezbollah actions included sending commandos into Lebanon, seizing Hezbollah officials and briefly targeting specific strongholds in southern Lebanon.
Komati said his group had anticipated negotiations to swap the Israeli soldiers for three Lebanese held in Israeli jails, with Germany acting as a mediator as it has in past prisoner exchanges.
In a speech broadcast on Hezbollah’s al-Manar television, Nasrallah urged his people to be patient, apparently counting on growing international anger at the Israeli offensive in which hundreds of Lebanese have died.
“Our steadfastness will change the regional and international reality around us. The enemy won’t have a lot of time, no matter what cover the American administration is providing it,” Nasrallah said.
He said the group would enter a new stage in the fighting, vowing “our attacks will not remain limited to Haifa.” In the last two weeks, Hezbollah has rained hundreds of rockets on northern Israel, reaching targets farther south than in any previous attacks. The group has repeatedly hit the city of Haifa, the third largest in Israel.
Komati said Hezbollah captured the Israeli soldiers from a military area, but charged that Israelis had taken Hezbollah leaders from their homes at night.
“The response is unjustified,” Komati said. He claimed the Israeli offensive was planned in advance, and Israel was only “waiting for the right time” to carry it out, a claim repeated by Nasrallah.
Asked about reports that Hezbollah has been firing Iranian-made missiles on Israel, Komati said: “We don’t deny nor confirm. We believe where the weapons come from is irrelevant.”
Hezbollah leaders previously have denied that Iran was supplying them with weapons.
Komati said Hezbollah has weapons made in various countries, including the United States, France, China and Russia.
“Some of our fighters carry M16s. So you think we buy them from America?” he asked.
Hezbollah is demanding an immediate end to Israeli attacks before agreeing to negotiate, Komati said, rejecting a plan proposed by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during her visit to Beirut on Monday.
The plan calls for the deployment of international and Lebanese troops in southern Lebanon to prevent Hezbollah attacks on Israel before a cease-fire.
“No one can talk about politics while the fire rages, and killings occur,” Komati said.
He was adamant about Hezbollah’s refusal to disarm because of what he said was Israeli occupation of Lebanese land, the “threat of Israeli aggression” and the Lebanese held in Israeli jails.
Comment by lee wee tak_ — Wednesday, 26-07-2006 @ 15: 04.21