Kenyataan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim berkenaan isu Palestin-Israel adalah selari dengan Inisiatif Keamanan Arab, malah didokong gerakan Islam seluruh dunia termasuk Hamas- sebuah gerakan yang mempelopori perjuangan rakyat Palestin.

Kenyataan Anwar, yang disiarkan oleh Wall Street Journal melalui satu wawancara 26 Januari lalu bagaimanapun diputarbelitkan media milik Umno, kata Ketua Penerangan KEADILAN, Dr Muhammad Nur Manuty.

Beliau ditanya mengenai prinsip Penyelesaian Dua Negara atau lebih dikenali sebagai Two-State Solution yang  turut dipersetujui Hamas dan Majlis Keselamatan Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu (PBB).

“Hamas pernah menyatakan kebarangkalian untuk melihat realiti kewujudan dua buah negara yang berasingan, tetapi pemimpin Hamas mahu memastikan Israel benar-benar jujur untuk mengiktiraf negara Palestin menurut Resolusi Majlis Keselamatan PBB 1967,

“Bagaimanapun sekiranya kedaulatan negara Palestin ini tidak dijamin, Hamas tidak bersetuju.

“Jadi tidak menjadi kehairanan apabila Datuk Seri Anwar, dengan mengambil kiraan politik semasa menyebut mengenai isu ini yang tidak terkeluar dari pandangan gerakan Islam seluruh dunia termasuk Hamas,” kata Muhammad Nur.

Menurutnya lagi, ketua pembangkang itu juga sentiasa dimaklumkan mengenai pandangan dan dasar gerakan-gerakan Islam dalam konteks menyelesaikan konflik antara Palestin-Israel.

Tambah beliau, pendirian Anwar mengenai isu itu juga sangat konsisten dan tidak perlu dipertikaikan.

“Pendirian Anwar supaya rakyat Palestin mendapat hak balik mereka dari segi kesahihan sebagai warganegara tidak perlu dipertikaikan kerana beliau memang konsisten sejak berjuang dalam gerakan Islam dan arena politik.

“Ideanya tentang formula bagi menyelesaikan konflik Palestin dan Israel sentiasa selaras dengan gerakan Islam sedunia. Beliau mendahulukan tentang keselamatan negara palestin yang dijamin resolusisi PBB,” kata beliau yang juga bekas pemimpin Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia (ABIM).

Bagaimanapun katanya, kenyataan Anwar mengenai isu sekuriti Israel cuba diputarbelitkan oleh media Utusan yang dimiliki Umno, seolah menggambarkan Anwar mementingkan keselamatan rejim itu.

“Sedangkan kerajaan sendiri dalam dasar luar menangani konflik Palestin-Israel sebelum ini tunduk kepada formula dengan mengiktiraf kedua negara, tetapi perkara ini dinafikan menteri luar, Datuk Seri Hanifah Aman,” ujar beliau.

Anwar dalam kenyataannya Sabtu lalu berkata, pendirian beliau sejajar dengan prinsip perjuangan  KEADILAN yang menjunjung tinggi prinsip keadilan sejagat dan tegas membela hak mereka yang dizalimi.

“Selain itu, pandangan saya ini ternyata selari dengan Resolusi Majlis Keselamatan Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu (PBB) dan Inisiatif Keamanan Arab (Arab Peace Initiative) yang berteraskan Penyelesaian Dua Negara atau lebih dikenali sebagai Two-State Solution.

“Malahan dasar luar negara juga menekankan prinsip Penyelesaian Dua Negara sebagaimana yang diungkapkan YB Menteri Luar ketika Perbahasan Perhimpunan Agung PBB Sesi ke-66 pada 27hb September 2011 di New York.

Bagaimanapun kata Anwar kesediaan untuk mematuhi prinsip itu bergantung kepada syarat selagi mana hak rakyat Palestin tidak dicerobohi.

“Justeru saya memberi amaran keras kepada mana-mana pihak yang cuba memutar belit kenyataan saya semata-mata mahu menyebar fitnah kononnya saya mengkhianati aspirasi rakyat Palestin,” tegas beliau.

Presiden Teras Pengupayaan Melayu (Teras) menafikan laporan akhbar Umno, Utusan Malaysia 25 Januri lepas dan menyifatkan ianya sebagai tidak benar dan tersasar.

Mohd Azmi Abdul Hamid (gambar) dalam kenyataannya hari ini berkata, “Kenyataan itu sangat menyimpang daripada kenyataan asal saya dan ianya sungguh dikesali.”

Teras merujuk laporan akhbar dalam Utusan Malaysia bertarikh 25 Januari 2012 yang bertajuk ‘Bersih 3 berniat kelirukan rakyat’.

“Laporan itu yang kononnya memetik kenyataan saya adalah tidak benar dan tersasar sepertimana yang saya nyatakan.

“Kenyataan itu sangat menyimpang daripada kenyataan asal saya dan ianya sungguh dikesali,” kata Azmi dalam kenyataannya kepada Harakahdaily hari ini.

Azmi menjelaskan, dalam kenyataannya kepada utusan Malaysia, beliau berkata pihak Bersih 3 berhak untuk memilih saluran samada melalui perundingan dengan pihak yang berkaitan atau melalui demontrasi aman yang di benarkan oleh undang-undang untuk menuntut pilihanraya yang bersih dan adil.

“Saya juga menyatakan bahawa adalah tidak salah salah bagi mana-mana pihak samada pihak kerajaan atau pembangkang untuk melakukan sesuatu tindakan dalam menghasilkan momentum berterusan untuk memenangi hati rakyat bagi memghadapi pilihhanraya umum ke 13 ini,” katanya.

Bagi beliau, tindakan menghasilkan momentum sokongan rakyat adalah lumrah dalam demokrasi di mana-mana negara.

“Saya menegaskan bahawa sesuatu perhimpunan awam yang aman dan mengikut saluran undang-undang adalah sesuatu yang sah dan pihak kerajaan tidak boleh menghalangnya kerana ianya adalah hak rakyat yang termaktub dalam perlembagaan negara serta tidak bertentangan dengan syariat Islam,” katanya.

Beliau juga menegaskan bahawa perhimpunan aman yang bertujuan baik untuk menuntut sesuatu hak oleh rakyat akan diterima oleh rakyat Malaysia sebagai suatu proses pembinaan negara yang akan menghasilkan sebuah kerajaan dan pentadbirannya yang lebih adil, saksama dan bebas dari pengelewengan serta rasuah yang sangat dibenci oleh rakyat.

Berbeza dengan laporan akhbar Umno itu, Azmi berkata, tindakan sebegini tidak ‘mengelirukan rakyat’ bahkan akan mematangkan lagi mana-mana kerajaan dan rakyat untuk terus membangunkan negara ini dengan penuh amanah dan tidak mengkhianatinya dengan amalan politik yang korup dan zalim kepada rakyat.

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My father used to tell us not to be afraid or fear psychosis when I and my brother were young lads. He told us, people who fear things will happen to them will actually face it – eventually. Could it be karma?

Over in Malaysia, for Umno and its cronies, it is this fear of Anwar Ibrahim being the next Prime Minister. And as the day gets nearer to GE-13, the great fear of Anwar intensifies. Every Ibrahim Ali, Ezam Mohd Nor and Hassan Ali is jumping into the bandwagon to slay Anwar.

They are even defending the indefensible RM250 million NFC debacle, and soon they will be defending all the corruption scandals, including First Lady Rosmah Mansor’s Birkin bags and RM24 million diamond ring. Why? Very simple, it’s simply an enormous ‘fear psychosis’ of Anwar Ibrahim.

Why so afraid

But why Fear and it is fear with a capital F? After all, if BN thinks it is doing the right things, it can be sure the rakyat (people) will support it and give it another umpteen years to rule. Well, sorry to say, that’s not the case today. The people have woken up from their 54 years of hypnotized sleep, they can now see through the charades of BN and UMNO.

It’s Pareto’s rule – 80% of Malaysians can feel the pinch of daily living in their pockets and mind you, it’s a sharp pain, while the 20% business people and UMNO elite are living in the fast lane enjoying the spoils.

Most Malaysians being wage earners have everything stipulated for them – housing loans, car loans, income tax, deductions, family maintenance and most of all, food items. If you have a government that doesn’t care for the well being of the nation who just plunder and kill for the coffers of the nation, but leave the people high and dry, where and who will the people turn to?

Change is the answer

Change is the answer. The people are looking for change and mind you, Change with a capital C it will be. All signs are pointing to it, the people would not care if Anwar is the Prime Minister or even if it is Karpal Singh, so long as it is someone who will deliver and relieve the burden in their pockets.

The people need a decent salary to survive, and the government has to ensure it. Malaysians are not a lazy people. There are some countries in the West where even if the citizens don’t work, the country supports them in all types of schemes, creating a lazy society. In Malaysia everyone works to survive, and the government should thank the people for it.

So bring on Mahathir Mohamad, Nazri Aziz, Ibrahim Ali, Ezam, Hassan, Ummi Hafilda, Zul Nordin and every other UMNO goon and stooge to slay Anwar Ibrahim. We don’t care, the people have decided “Change it will be” and Anwar Ibrahim is going to be the next Prime Minister.

Does any Bigot have a problem with that?

WALAUPUN dakwat kekal akan digunakan pada pilihan raya umum ke-13 (PRU13) ini, penipuan masih juga boleh berlaku. Berikut adalah kemungkinan bagaimana BN menang melalui penipuan.

1. Nama kita tidak berada dalam senarai daftar pengundi. Jika nama kita langsung tidak berada dalam senarai pada hari mengundi, maka kita langsung tidak boleh buat apa-apa.

2. Nama kita telah dipindahkan ke kawasan yang jauh:
Sebagai contoh jika kita tinggal di Shah Alam, alamat kad pengenalan kita di Shah Alam dan pada pilihan raya yang lepas kita mengundi di Shah Alam, dengan tiba-tiba kali ini nama kita telah dipindahkan ke Perlis tanpa pengetahuan kita pada hari kita pergi mengundi nanti. Adakah kita akan pergi ke Perlis untuk mengundi pada hari tersebut?

3. Percaturan secara strategik:

a. Pengundi Cina di Shah Alam dipindahkan ke Klang.

Apabila ini berlaku, Umno akan dapat kembali kerusi Parlimen Shah Alam daripada PAS (ahli parlimen kini Khalid Samad).

Kerusi Parlimen Klang biar dimenangi oleh DAP tak apalah asalkan Umno dapat kembali kerusi Parlimen Shah Alam. Pada masa ini kerusi Parlimen Klang dipegang oleh Charles Santiago daripada DAP.

b. Pengundi Cina di kerusi Parlimen Titiwangsa (dulu dimenangi Allahyarham Dr Lo’ Lo’ Ghazali) yang dipegang oleh PAS akan dipindahkah ke kerusi Parlimen Cheras yang dimiliki oleh DAP (Tan Kok Wai). Ini akan membolehkan Umno untuk dapat kembali kerusi Parlimen Titiwangsa.

Pemindahan pengundi Cina ke kawasan yang dimiliki oleh DAP sejak zaman Tok Kadok lagi tidak memberi apa-apa manfaat kepada DAP tetapi hanya memberikan DAP kemenangan dengan jurang yang amat besar sahaja, contohnya Teresa Kok daripada DAP menang di kerusi Parlimen Seputeh dengan jumlah lebihan undi sebanyak 36,000 – angka yang amat besar, malah jumlah lebihan undi yang banyak sekali di Malaysia pada pilihan raya yang lalu.

c. Kerusi Parlimen Batu yang merupakan sebuah kerusi Wilayah Persekutuan KL telah bertindih dengan kerusi Parlimen Selayang di Selangor untuk membolehkan pengundi Melayu mengundi di Batu. Pada masa kini, penyandang kerusi Parlimen Batu ialah Tian Chua daripada KeADILan.

4. Pertambahan pengundi secara mendadak:

a. Kerusi Dun (Dewan Undangan Negeri) Pelabuhan Klang, di mana penyandangnya ialah Badrul Hisham Abdullah (dulu KeADILan, sekarang Umno).

Di kerusi Dun ini terdapat pertambahan jumlah pengundi sebanyak 5,510 pada tahun lalu walaupun tiada kawasan perumahan baru di situ sejak pilihan raya yang lalu. Anggota Parlimen daripada DAP, Charles Santiago telah berhasrat untuk membuat bantahan mengenai perkara ini sebab kerusi Dun ini terletak dalam kawasan Parlimennya.

Wang RM10 kena dibayar oleh Santiago bagi setiap nama yang dibantah dan ini memerlukan kos yang tinggi. Selain itu, anggota Parlimen daripada Pakatan Rakyat tidak dapat apaapa dana pun daripada kerajaan Pusat BN walaupun adalah hak mereka sebagai anggota Parlimen untuk mendapat dana tersebut.

Dana itu di bawah kawalan Jabatan Perdana Menteri dan hanya diagihkan kepada anggota Parlimen BN sahaja dan ia berjumlah RM1.5 juta setiap tahun. Adakah BN berniat untuk mencekik anggota Parlimen Pakatan Rakyat dengan tidak memberi apa-apa peruntukan kepada mereka?

b. Kerusi Parlimen lain yang telah menyaksikan pertambahan pengundi secara mendadak ialah Kuala Langat (KeADILan- Abdullah Sani), Shah Alam (PASKhalid Samad), Hulu Langat (PAS-Che Rosli) dan Kota Raja (PAS-Dr Siti Mariah) d imana lebih 5,000 nama pengundi yang diragui telah dimasukkan dalam senarai daftar pengundi di kerusi-kerusi tersebut.

Dapat dilihat bahawa Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR) adalah licik dalam perancangan percaturan pergerakan pengundi dan justeru, boleh dikatakan bahawa SPRlah yang menentukan nasib BN dalam setiap PRU. Oleh itu, janganlah berfikiran naif bahawa dengan penggunaan dakwat kekal adalah mustahil untuk penipuan dilakukan.

Hanyalah dengan sokongan padu rakyat dari semua lapisan masyarakat dan semua bangsa, tak kira miskin atau kaya, tua atau muda, di kampung ataupun di bandar barulah BN boleh ditumbangkan.

Rakyat Malaysia mesti mengundi Pakatan Rakyat supaya undi daripada pekerja asing dapat ditumpaskan. Jika jumlah rakyat Malaysia yang memilih Pakatan tidak cukup untuk mengatasi undi pekerja asing, maka pekerja asing telah menentukan halatuju negara ini.

Susah keslah macam itu sebab Malaysia akan terjatuh ke dalam gaung zaman batu purba apabila hak rakyat Malaysia telah diaibkan oleh pihak yang tidak bertanggungjawab yang hanya mementingkan kuasa dan wang dalam saku mereka sendiri.

Many Malay professionals would like to see Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak debate Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim on policy issues, the Merdeka Center said today.

The independent pollster told Sinar Harian its focus group discussions with Malay professionals showed they were keen on a debate where both leaders talked about larger issues affecting the country, not personal ones.

“There appears to be a change in what the people want. They want a new culture of debate rather than smear campaigns,” Merdeka Center director Ibrahim Suffian (picture) told the Malay-language daily.

The centre’s findings come just 10 days after Anwar challenged Najib to a public debate over national policies during his winding-up speech at the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) convention in Alor Star.

The PKR de facto leader had said that an open debate would let voters decide for themselves if the opposition pact’s plans for Malaysia had merit.

The ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition has criticised PR’s alternative policies as populist and irresponsible.

It was the third such challenge issued by Anwar to Najib, who has so far declined to go toe-to-toe with the former deputy prime minister.

Najib, who is Umno president, previously demurred by saying that political parties were more important than individuals in Malaysia’s parliamentary democracy.

However, he also stressed that he would not baulk if required to face off against the charismatic Anwar in a presidential-style debate.

“I’m not afraid of Anwar Ibrahim,” Najib had said to loud cheers from delegates at the close of the Selangor BN convention in September last year.

A survey commissioned by PKR in August last year showed that Najib was more popular than Anwar especially among Malays despite being seen as indecisive and a poorer communicator.

The poll noted, however, that Anwar could combat Najib’s “surface appeal” by leveraging on his image as a strong, decisive leader with good communication skills and an understanding of economic issues.

The prime minister was seen positively by 53 per cent of voters compared to 40 per cent who backed Anwar.

Najib was also the overwhelming favourite among the Malays, with 71 per cent backing the Umno president compared to just 32 per cent who viewed Anwar favourably

Those who claimed that Anwar Ibrahim’s acquittal by the High Court last week on a charge of sodomy was a game-changing move must have felt, after the Attorney-General’s Chambers filed a notice of appeal yesterday, rather like North Korea’s nuclear disarmament interlocutors in recent years.

Just when we discern some sign of softening on the part of the communist world’s first dynastic regime, a South Korean frigate is sunk off the coast of the Korean peninsula, or Pyongyang test fires a missile, or commits some such travesty.

Then, what vestigial hopes the North had managed to keep alive in its adversaries are recognised as chimerical before the rogue regime begins another cycle of ‘now you see my softer side, now you don’t.’

It’s a case of the inveterately bad only getting worse while fiendishly engaged in a dance of deception to take advantage of the gullible.

What are we to think?

Those wanting regime-change

Perhaps what the English poet WB Shelley said (“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world”) that makes one of our own, A Samad Said, a seer in our times with the prophecy of his discourse in his most recent offering, ‘Merindu Ruang’ (A Yen to be Unbound):

Ada sang perubah permainan
kami perubah kekuasaan
Inilah tekad generasi baru
akarnya keadilan syahdu

(Facing purveyors of game-change
Are those wanting regime-change
This is the power of newly emerging forces
Rooted in the sublimity of noble justice)

All good poetry works like this: it teaches humankind their actual desires, the desires that must be accommodated in a truly enduring and beneficent order.

But what of the right of the prosecution in the sodomy and sedition cases to their desires for vindication?

Sure, it is the right of the prosecution, in both the Anwar sodomy and in the Karpal Singh sedition cases, to appeal.

But the sodomy case had so many holes it would have made the one the reefs bore in the hull of the cruise liner Costa Concordia off the Italian coast the other day look meager by comparison.

As for Karpal’s (right) supposedly seditious fulminations in the wake of the changeover in the Perak state government in February 2009, if these were as licentious as what issued from him in some internal DAP disputes of fairly recent vintage, then it’s plausible he would be liable.

But Karpal the solicitor is known to be more judicious than Karpal the political jouster.

Business as usual

So just when elements of the punditocracy were beginning to hold forth on the advent of a more liberal order under Prime Minister Najib Razak, there occur two appeals in the judicial process that imply that business, in our justice system, is reverting to status quo ante.

No doubt this will renew attention to the so-called battle in Umno between the hardliners and liberals, with the former viewed as having, in the wake of the appeals in the sodomy and sedition cases, gained the upper hand.

But these nuances aren’t worth the trouble it takes to be discerning about them.

It’s like the argument over whether the captain of the Costa Concordia abandoned his ship before all passengers had the left the stricken liner.

It’s a diversion from a graver issue: what was the vessel doing so close to where it was perilous to go?

When the system is a sclerotic as the one Umno-BN has contrived for this country, the bard Samad Said’s (left) intimation that you need regime change is not a radical prescription.

Anwar’s second trial for sodomy is not the personal problem that the erstwhile Hasan Ali, formerly of PAS, and at times, even Najib, have airily held the matter to be: it is paradigmatic of plenty that is wrong with a regime that has been in power for far too long and displays the unmistakable symptoms of its entrenched and repetitive abuses.

Its bad ways are beyond reform and a leader seeking to change the game is like someone in quest of an oasis in a parched land.

TERENCE NETTO has been a journalist for close on four decades. He likes the occupation because it puts him in contact with the eminent without being under the necessity to admire them. It is the ideal occupation for a temperament that finds power fascinating and its exercise abhorrent.

In the past week their efforts have added another allegation to their expanding stable of lies that Dato’ Seri Anwar is condoning the practice of homosexuality in this country.

This vicious lie purportedly based on his statement during an interview with the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is far from reality when the actual transcription of the interview is analysed as reproduced below:
source:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-16531714

“We will have to review archaic laws and we, Muslims and non Muslims generally believe and committed to support the sanctity of marriage between man and woman in Malaysia.

But we should not be seen as punitive and consider the archaic laws as relevant. We need to review them. We do not promote homosexuality in public sphere and domain.

We will not make apologies towards that. I think to use this sort of legislation to be punitive, punish innocent people cannot be condoned and be tolerated.”

From his response to the BBC, it is very clear that Dato’ Seri Anwar holds the sanctity of marriage in the highest regards as a matter of faith and principle being a Muslim.

He had also stated in an absolutely uncompromising position that he, Parti Keadilan Rakyat and Pakatan Rakyat will never engage in the organization, approval or legitimising homosexuality.

However Dato’ Seri Anwar is of the opinion that that outdated laws not based on the syariah and oppressing the people need to be reviewed.

He had expressed his fear that these archaic and repressive laws are wantonly used by the government in power to justify its used against anybody it wishes.

I, therefore urge that reference must be made to Dato Seri Anwar’s actual text of the interview and not fall into the trap waylaid by the Umno-controlled media.

No one should lend his or her support to the dissemination of this sinister and evil propaganda even in the name of Islam for the teachings of this great religion in no certain terms forbids such an act.

YB HJ AHMAD BIN KASIM,
Member of Parliament, Kuala Kedah
Chairman, Enhancement of Religious Understanding Bureau, Parti Keadilan Rakyat.