SUSPEND ME IF YOU SUPPORT ISRAEL - MALAYSIAN'S ANWAR

HULU SELANGOR, Malaysia — Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has dared the government to suspend him from Parliament if it planned to continue its support for Israel.

In a fiery speech at Kampung Sungai Tengi here last night, the Permatang Pauh MP continued his attack on the government’s purported links to Israel through international public relations firm APCO Worldwide.
He noted that aside from his denial, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak had never answered the allegations.

• “These are the same people who govern us — who preach to us that the rights of the Malays and Muslims must be protected. Najib is not brave enough to answer this (allegation).
• “I am willing to volunteer myself — you continue to support Israel, you suspend me from Parliament. Suspend me, three months, six months, a year, I do not know.
• “God willing, let the people decide for themselves,” he said.
• Anwar condemned the BN administration for its willingness to seek advice from a company linked to “the murder of Muslims in Palestine.”.
• “APCO is led by these people and Najib is seeking advice from them.
• “I revealed the names of APCO’s leaders but they claimed I was wrong.I showed the agreement signed between APCO and Israel and still they denied it.
• These people are advising Najib on strategic communications, on reform initiatives, on his New Economic Model, his education policies — all this, APCO carries out,” he continued.
• Anwar added that as a lawmaker himself, he often engaged with foreign leaders to seek their thoughts and opinions.
• “But I never took them as my advisors. Najib is doing this, and they are not even Muslim leaders — they are people who work for the Israeli Defence Agency,” he claimed.
• Anwar is currently facing the possibility of suspension over his attack on the government’s link with APCO as well as his claim that the company was behind Ehud Barak’s One Israel campaign.
• Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz said the government will refer Anwar to the Parliamentary Rights and Privileges Committee over his allegations.
• The Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department had said Anwar had so far not been able to provide concrete evidence to support his allegation that 1 Malaysia was taken from One Israel.
• APCO has denied the allegations made by Anwar.

Source: The Malaysian Insider