Welcoming War Criminals

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Volume 31, Number 206— Friday, July 31, 2026


Welcoming War Criminals


The International Criminal Court’s issuance of arrest warrants for high-ranking Israeli officials marked a litmus test for global stewardship, writes M. Reza Behram

International Criminal Court at The Hague in the Netherlands. (Vysotsky, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)

By M. Reza Behnam
Z-Network


The architecture of international justice was built upon a single uncompromising promise: never again. It was forged in the ashes of 20th century atrocities, with the solemn vow that regardless of station in life, wealth or power, no one is above the law. Today, that pledge is on the verge of collapse.

When global tribunals and human rights investigators document mass atrocities and expose the smoking ruins of bombed out neighborhoods across Gaza, the response of the international community acts as an ultimate crucible. It is forced to decide: will international law stand as an immutable universal standard or collapse into a hollow instrument for the weak and an impenetrable shield for the powerful?

Granting absolute impunity to Israeli political and military leaders responsible for the agony inflicted upon the Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, has turned international jurisprudence into a grotesque farce, and has reduced the sacred concept of universal justice into a depressed illusion.

The West has, for decades, championed the rules-based international order narrative. International courts have routinely issued warrants and pursued political and military leaders from developing nations and worn-torn regions. That commitment mysteriously evaporates, when the spotlight is shone on those backed by the West, exposing the selective enforcement that hobbles universal justice.

The issuance of arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for high-ranking Israeli officials—with charges ranging from the weaponization of starvation to systematic civilian targeting—marked a litmus test for global stewardship. Yet, political figures in Western capitals continue to offer safe-harbor, exemptions and political insulation to perpetrators.


Blatant Double Standard

President Donald Trump with Benjamin Netanyahu as the Israeli prime minister signs the guest book at the White House, Sept. 29, 2025. (White House / Daniel Torok)


This blatant double standard has created catastrophic precedents; including:

• The rule of might over right: It telegraphs to those in power, and aspiring autocrats, that mass violence is permissible, as long as you possess the “right” geopolitical alignment.
• The erosion of credibility: International law loses its moral authority when it is enforced selectively, transforming from an instrument of justice into a political tool.
• The normalization of atrocity: Each day that the perpetrators of genocide walk free, the threshold of what humanity accepts shifts downward, gradually eroding the collective conscience of the international community.

The fact that Israeli leaders wanted by the ICC can travel safely to the United States exposes an ugly structural gap in which domestic power collides with human rights law.

The United States is not a party to the Rome Statute; it, therefore, conveniently maintains no legal mechanism to enforce Hague-based warrants. Washington relies on traditional doctrines of head-of-state and diplomatic immunity, along with domestic laws like the 2002 American Service-Members’ Protection Act (also known as the Hague Invasion Act), designed to protect U.S. military and elected officials from detention and criminal prosecution by the ICC.

Inevitably, when geopolitical calculations override universal human accountability, international borders become nothing more than a welcome mat for war criminals. Those responsible for the atrocities —from the indiscriminate booby-trapping of communications devices across Lebanon to the ruthless leveling of Gaza and Beirut — remain untouched by justice.

Monument to Western Failure

An aerial view of the Israeli destruction in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip, Jan. 21, 2025. (UNRWA/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY 4.0)


The horrific number of Palestinians killed and starved in Gaza represents more than a humanitarian crisis; they are a monument to the failure of the West.

To wave away warrants issued by international bodies in the name of political alliances is to declare that human lives have variable value, depending on their passport.

Humanity cannot afford a system in which international law bends to accommodate political convenience. Justice delayed or denied to the victims in Gaza echoes as injustice to victims everywhere.

Without enforcement, laws against genocide and war crimes are nothing more than ink on paper. Security and lasting peace can never be built on a foundation of unpunished crimes and selective justice.

Despite widespread global criticism and condemnation, Israel has managed to remain exempt from international punitive sanctions and legal consequences for its prolonged and current violations of international and humanitarian law in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and Lebanon.

To understand why Israel’s actions have not been met with concrete measures such as economic and diplomatic sanctions and an arms embargo, we must move past simplistic narratives of political manipulation.

It is important to recognize the deeply-entrenched institutionalized conversion of U.S. and Israeli economic and military interests honed over decades.

‘Unbreakable Alliance’

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 5, 2025. (DoD /Madelyn Keech)


This powerful nexus — aggressively championed by influential lobbies like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and the Christian Zionists — has framed Israel as an indispensable Western sentinel. Far from a passive pawn, this formidable alliance has vaulted Israel into a position of unmatched power in Washington, while granting the United States an unyielding military bridgehead in the fiercely contested resource-rich Middle East.

For Washington and Western capitals, backing Israel has long been treated as an article of faith tied to Cold War containment policies, intelligence sharing and a guilt-driven commitment, stemming from the Nazi Holocaust.

Consequently, this relationship has created a dynamic in which, for Western leaders, shielding Tel Aviv from diplomatic censure and sanctions has taken precedence over their commitment to the rules-based legal system and long-term stability in the region.

Ultimately, the leverage Israel commands has been self-reinforcing. U.S. administrations have invested a great deal of political capital into the narrative of an “unbreakable alliance” that challenging it has become domestically radioactive, trapping each administration in a state of compliance to Zionism and Zionist whims.

The question that figures prominently is: Will there ever be a Nuremberg for Israeli political and military leaders?

That Israel has escaped legal reckoning for its horrific crimes against humanity exposes a profound crisis not only in the execution of international law, but in our collective understanding of what the laws of justice and norms of decency demand. Tel Aviv’s three years of terror in Gaza has put to rest the the myth of an impartial international justice system.

However, United Nations’ documentation of mass atrocities, ICC arrest warrants, legal proceedings and historic rulings of the International Court of Justice have branded Israel’s current leaders with a permanent Scarlet Letter.

They have been effectively confined to a shrinking circle of safe-haven states, transforming their global travel into a high-stakes legal gauntlet. Although the masterminds of Gaza’s destruction may never see the inside of a prison cell, their historical crimes will never be forgotten nor forgiven.

The catastrophic devastation of Gaza and daily massacre of Palestinians demand immediate international ownership and moral reckoning. When state-sponsored terror is met with impunity, foundational human rights are irrevocably eroded, creating a dangerous precedent that normalizes the destruction of civilian populations

True justice demands preemption, not postmortem penalties. Dismantling the structure of impunity and deterring repetition—the “never again”— of such horrendous violence against an embattled people is an urgent imperative for the present and the future.

M. Reza Behnam is a political scientist specializing in the history, politics and governments of the Middle East.

This article is from Z-Network.

 

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Loke Thought Zahid Was Friend – Until Zahid Wanted To “Bungkus” Him

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July 30th, 2026 by financetwitter

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Negeri Sembilan police have started investigating Sanusi Nor for making statements conducive to public mischief. However, nobody believes the “untouchable” Kedah Chief Minister would be charged, let alone sent to jail under the extremely weak leadership of Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. The investigation is just another cheap political drama to show something is being done.

 

The simple fact that opposition Perikatan Nasional election director Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor is not being investigated under a more serious law of threatening “national security” is the clearest sign that the case would eventually be dropped. He would become an instant Malay hero if the authorities dare to charge him. That’s why he dared to spew false racist and extremist rhetoric in the first place.

 

Working hand-in-glove, the PN-BN (Perikatan Nasional-Barisan Nasional) cooperation is in overdrive as Negeri Sembilan’s state election campaign enters its final week before polling on August 1. Instead of courageously locking up the chief instigator, the Prime Minister was terrified – scrambling to douse inflamed racial sentiment as politicians from both PN and BN urged Malays to unite politically.

PM Anwar is trapped as BN and PN are portraying the election as a contest for Malay political leadership and warned against a federal government that they claimed is dominated by the Chinese-based Democratic Action Party (DAP). He could neither attack his own governing partner BN nor opposition PN. The PM-obssessed Anwar may need support from both after the next 16th General Election for a second term.

 

When Mr Anwar warned ministers, deputy ministers, and federal agency heads that they must resign from their positions if they use their official federal status to attack fellow unity government partners, he was mocked, challenged, and even insulted. UMNO deputy president and foreign Minister Mohamad Hasan said he is prepared to resign from the Cabinet if ordered to do so by the Premier.

 

But Deputy Prime Minister Zahid Hamidi, who is also UMNO president, asserted that BN ministers do not need to resign, challenging the Prime Minister to sack them instead. “If he doesn’t like us, he can just sack us,” – said Zahid. With an egg on his face, PM Anwar could only keep silent, pretending as if nothing had happened but looking like a fool after Mr Zahid called his bluff.

That was not the biggest humiliation suffered by Anwar-led Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition. DAP secretary-general Anthony Loke Siew Fook was being played left, right, and centre by UMNO. Zahid, while campaigning in Simpang Durian, urged voters to vote for UMNO-led BN in the Chennah state seat, saying “kasi bungkus itu orang (pack off that person).” Zahid was referring to Loke.

 

Silly Loke, who was under the delusion that Zahid was his best friend in the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), was super sad, speechless and shocked. Yet, like his political master Anwar, Loke could not and dare not retaliate appropriately. With tail between legs, DAP Commander-in-Chief Loke could only advise the BN chief not to speak arrogantly when campaigning in the state election.

 

But the damage is done. For more than three years, both Anwar Ibrahim and Loke Siew Fook have deliberately – and cowardly – closed both eyes whenever UMNO unleashed its notorious troublemaker Akmal Saleh (UMNO Youth Chief) to bully, threaten, intimidate and terrorize the Chinese business community. The plan was to strengthen UMNO, even at the expense of DAP’s own Chinese core supporters.

During the Johor state election campaign last month, Menteri Besar (Chief Minister) Onn Hafiz Ghazi said he would rather give up his position than “sit at the same table” with DAP. Loke proudly responded that Onn’s boss, UMNO president Zahid, sits next to him during every weekly cabinet meeting. But with Zahid now publicly asking people to “bungkus” Loke, the DAP chief definitely looks like a moron.

 

The insults from Zahid were more than symbolic. It shows how despite DAP possessing 40 MPs in the parliament – the biggest party in the federal government – UMNO has zero respect for Loke. The paramount leader of the Chinese increasingly looks like a timid mouse rather than a dragon with Zahid’s latest insult. Zahid shows Loke Siew Fook is no different than MCA eunuch Wee Ka Siong, UMNO’s lapdog.

 

DAP is paying the price for ignoring the Chinese interests whilst at the same time failing to win over the Malay hearts. Despite Loke’s childish strategy to appease UMNO-Malays, the Malay community showed their middle finger to DAP in the Johor state election. Worse, even UMNO chief Zahid took advantage of Loke’s weakness by giving him a kick where it hurts the most.

But that is not the best part. Because DAP top leadership is drunk with power, the spineless Anthony Loke may have to continue “kowtowing” to UMNO even after the Negeri Sembilan state election no matter how UMNO ridicules, bullies, and insults DAP or Pakatan Harapan in the future. Timid Tony still doesn’t understand that a bird in hand is worth two in the bush.

 

Now that Loke has become a joke within the circle of UMNO-Malays after Zahid’s mocking to “bungkus him”, it creates a narrative that UMNO has become stronger and is worth voting for among the Malays. The strategy to attack DAP and to bank on Malay unity resonates well with the state’s electoral realities – 57% of the electorate in Negeri Sembilan are Malays.

 

On top of that, 23 of 36 state seats have Malay-majority electorates, where 11 of those seats make up more than three-quarters of Malay voters in the state. If the blue wave from Johor sweeps Negeri Sembilan, Anwar and Loke could be leading Pakatan Harapan to yet another disastrous defeat. PH’s dumb strategy to chase Malay votes, thinking it could outdo UMNO and Islamist party PAS has been miscalculated.

The “8123” numerical slogan – “81” or August 1 is polling day and 23 denotes the seats Pakatan aims to win – mooted by Chennah incumbent Anthony Loke could turn out to be true. But the 23 seats could end up in BN’s pocket instead, not PH as fantasized by Loke. The Malay mood has shifted and there is so much anti-DAP propaganda playing out on the Malay ground.

 

Chinese make up 44% of the voters in Chennah and Anthony Loke desperately needs them all on this Saturday. If the turnout is similar to that of Johor, where the Malay voter turnout (estimated at 77%) was much higher than the Chinese voter turnout (estimated at 58%), the DAP Chief is “bungkus”. Anything less than 80% turnout from the Chinese community is bungkus for Loke.

 

The level of frustration and displeasure among non-Malays, particularly the Chinese, can no longer be swept under the carpet. The traditional DAP supporters are aggrieved and angry that the party has failed them in fully addressing the issue of UEC (Unified Examination Certificate). DAP has also failed the Chinese community in the pig farming issue in the state of Selangor which it governs.

The Anwar-led administration in Selangor could not explain satisfactorily why pig farming has to be banned in the state when it had been working fine for over 60 years under the previous BN, and even under the backdoor government of PN. As the recent Johor election results showed, even the Indian community has abandoned PH in droves in favour of BN over the temples issue.

 

On Wednesday night (July 29), while addressing over 1,000 people at a meet-and-greet session with the Indian community in Seremban, PM Anwar Ibrahim reluctantly apologized and appealed to Indian voters last night to forgive his past mistake of referring to houses of worship on disputed land as “illegal”. But it’s too little too late. The Indian community is ready to teach DAP, PKR, Amanah, and PH a lesson.

 

It’s obvious why the racist PM had waited till now before apologizing after he happily – and arrogantly – insulted illegal Hindu temples months ago. Indians make up more than 20% of the electorate in 11 of the state’s wards, of which nine are governed by the ruling coalition. More than 80% of the Indian vote in the 2023 Negeri Sembilan state election helped PH won 17 out of 36 seats overall.

But the Indian support now appears to be hanging in the balance. BN won an estimated 60% of the Indian vote in Johor, a bloc that had largely backed PH for the past two decades. As far as the Indian community is concerned, PH promised a lot, but never did anything, especially for Indians on issues like scholarships and temple demolitions. They wanted to tell Anwar that they have an option – BN. 

 

More importantly, it shows that DAP is struggling to help deliver the desired 23 seats in Negeri Sembilan for Anwar-led PH. Without 95% Chinese votes and 80% Indian votes, PH is looking at a defeat against the onslaught of the mighty BN-PN Malay forces. Like the police investigation drama on Sanusi, very few believes Anwar’s apology was sincere. To say that Anwar and Loke are fabulously desperate is an understatement. They are panicking.

 

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Sanusi Can Go Back Indonesia – PAS Toxic Politics Could Backfire

July 26th, 2026 by financetwitter

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Chennah is supposed to be a 50:50 bet. Trying to predict the outcome in Chennah – comprising 47% Malay, 44% Chinese, 7% Orang Asli and 2% India – is like predicting whether Argentina or Spain would win the 2026 FIFA World Cup. However, if the recently concluded Johor state election is any indicator, the incumbent for the Chennah state seat is in trouble. 

 

Even after a landslide victory by Barisan Nasional (BN) in Johor, where it won 48 out of 56 state seats (85%) with a popular vote of almost 60%, Pakatan Harapan (PH) continues to be in denial. PH leadership simply blamed their defeat on Perikatan Nasional (PN)’s vote “transfer” to BN – ignoring that DAP’s vote share dropped from 61.2% in 2022 to 50.8% in the 2026 Johor state election.

 

In truth, the Malay voter turnout (estimated at 77%) was much higher than the Chinese voter turnout (estimated at 58%) in the Johor state election. That was because the Malay voters were much more motivated to turn out to vote against DAP and PH (hence creating a “blue wave” in support of BN) compared to the Chinese voters, who did not have a compelling reason to come out to vote for PH.

Incumbent DAP secretary-general Anthony Loke Siew Fook was on his way to losing his Chennah seat in the coming Negeri Sembilan state election – until opposition Perikatan Nasional election director Sanusi Nor unexpectedly gives him a new lease of life. Thanks to Sanusi’s stinky mouth, disgruntled Chinese voters who were angry with Loke earlier may now be motivated to vote for DAP.

 

Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS – Parti Islam Se-Malaysia) should not have let its dog out –  barking madly like a rabid dog.Speaking at a rally in Jempol, the Kedah Menteri Besar (Chief Minister) falsely – and provocatively – claimed that Malays have no homeland other than Tanah Melayu (Malaysia), while other communities have ancestral countries elsewhere.

 

“The Malays no longer have land. The Malays only have this Tanah Melayu (Malay Land). Indians have India, Chinese have China, Cambodians have Cambodia, Siamese have Thailand. Where are the Malays? The Malays are only here,” – the notorious and racist PAS warlord screamed, hoodwinking a crowd of more than 300 people.

He also lied with false claims that the political power and economic foothold of the Malays are deteriorating rapidly and risk being completely lost within a decade unless drastic changes are made, and likened Malay leaders in government to the traitorous character “Buang” from the classic film Sarjan Hassan. Obviously, Sanusi was trying to incite the Malays to hate other ethnics, especially the Chinese.

 

In actuality, all Malaysians regardless of race and religion – Malay, Chinese, Indian, Iban, Kadazan, Murut, etc – are loyal citizens who share one Malaysian identity and have nowhere else to go but Malaysia. What they are “not loyal” to are the toxic political parties and forked-tongue politicians who selfishly, hypocritically, and greedily weaponize ethnicity to divide the people for power.

 

In fact, not only Chinese Malaysians are not guests in this country, whilst Indian Malaysians are not outsiders, but they are proven testimonials of generations of Malaysian Chinese and Indian heritage who have contributed to the country’s development in business, public service, education, the economy and national defence.

Heck, did Sanusi and his gang of PAS Talibans who dangerously promote toxic politics, politics of division, and extreme racial politics realize that 90% of the personal income tax which the government collects is paid by the Chinese? Therefore, if the Chinese go back to China and the Indians go back to India, leaving him alone in the so-called Tanah Melayu, he would end up as a scavenger.

 

By questioning the loyalty of citizens based on ethnicity, Sanusi is no different than Indian Muslim hate preacher Zakir Naik, a Malaysian permanent resident who provocatively and deliberately said the Malaysian Chinese aren’t born in the country so they, as the “old guests”, must go back to China first before he (the “new guest”) can be asked to leave. The fugitive preacher had also questioned Malaysian Hindu’s loyalty to ex-PM Mahathir.

 

As much as Sanusi and the PAS Islamist party hate Chinese and Indians, they are 70 years late to the party. Whatever the skin colour, race, or ethnicity, the Federal Constitution guarantees the rights and interests of all Malaysians as part of the conditions for the British granting Independence to the Federation of Malaya on August 31, 1957.

Sanusi could talk big if only Malay leaders went to London to negotiate for independence. But Malaya was represented in negotiations for independence from the British by a joint delegation led by Tunku Abdul Rahman, alongside Tan Cheng Lock and V.T. Sambanthan, without which the so-called Tanah Melayu will still remain as “Tanah British” till today.  

 

Yes, the British insisted on multi-ethnic cooperation and consensus among Malaya’s major communities – specifically represented by the Alliance coalition of UMNO, MCA, and MIC – as a vital condition for transferring power peacefully. Sanusi was not even born yet when the Malay, Chinese, and Indian representatives negotiated with the British Empire in 1956. If he still doesn’t like the deal, that’s too bad, and he can always go back to Indonesia.

 

Yes, Sanusi and all his radical minions can actually go back to Indonesia, their ancestral land. In case he failed his history, Malay groups migrated from what is now Indonesia beginning around the 12th century. He can’t dispute this fact because genetic and archaeological studies show that the core DNA profile of both Malaysian Malays and Indonesians is remarkably similar.

However, while ethnic Malay is the majority group in Malaysia, they are a minority group in Indonesia – making up roughly 3.7% (8 million) of the population. Javanese (40.2%) and Sundanese (15.5%) are the major ethnic groups in Indonesia, not Malay. That perhaps explains why inferior Malays like Sanusi love to bully and intimidate minority groups such as Malaysian Chinese and Indians in order to show superiority.

 

That also explains why Indonesia rejected Malaysia’s April 2022 proposal to make Bahasa Melayu (Malay language) the second official language of ASEAN. Instead, Jakarta said “Bahasa Indonesia” is more suitable as the language is spoken by the largest population in Southeast Asia – a huge slap in the face of Malay politicians trying to champion Bahasa Melayu.

 

Arguably, Sanusi might be right to a certain extent that retarded Malays like him have only Tanah Melayu to relied on because they are considered “third-class” citizen back in their own ancestry home Indonesia. If the Kedah chief minister is such a Malay hero, he should have declared war on Indonesia for insulting Malay language in refusing to make Bahasa Melayu the official language.

The best part is Muhammad Sanusi Nor has forgotten that his paternal grandfather was a migrant from mainland China who moved to the Malay Peninsular in 1930. Because his grandfather integrated into a local Malay village and his family subsequently intermarried within the community, Sanusi identifies and is legally classified as a Malay under Malaysian law.

 

However, technically, it still makes Sanusi a half-baked Malay with his lineage containing a mixture of Malay and Chinese DNA. So, based on his moronic argument, he should chop his body into half – partly goes to China and partly ships to Indonesia (or remains in Tanah Melayu). His grandfather would turn in his grave if he saw Sanusi’s extraordinary stupidity.

 

Historically, the first inhabitants of Malaysia are the Orang Asli (indigenous peoples of Peninsular Malaysia), not Malay migrants. It’s the same case in the United States, where the first people to live in America were Indigenous peoples, specifically American Indians and Alaska Natives, and not the British people migrated to America starting in the early 1600s.

In fact, commerce and trade began between ancient Chinese dynasties and ports on the Malay Peninsula, as proven by early pottery shards, had begun in the 1st Century BC – long before Parameswara arrived in Melaka around 1402. Fleeing Majapahit forces in Temasek (Singapore), Parameswara ended up in Melaka the same way Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan in late 1949 after losing the Chinese Civil War to the Chinese Communist Party. 

 

Therefore, Malaysia is something like Taiwan. Malays share deep ancestral, linguistic, and cultural roots with mainland Indonesia, the same way Taiwanese do with mainland China. If Malaysian Chinese and Indians can go back to China and India as they wish, which they can’t, then Taiwanese Chinese and Malaysian Malays can certainly go back to China and Indonesia respectively.

 

But who is Sanusi to tell Malaysian Chinese and Indians to go back to China and India after the minorities have been working so hard in developing, contributing, and sacrificing for the country, while a blood-sucking parasite like Sanusi gets paid tens of thousands every month from the taxpayers’ money just for playing extreme racial politics?

It’s also not true that the economic foothold of the Malays is deteriorating and risk being completely lost within a decade. On the contrary, Malays breed like rabbits and it’s the Chinese and Indians who are fast losing their economic pie. The ethnic Chinese proportion of the national population is declining and projected to fall under 15% by 2060, compared to Malay’s population rise to 79.4% from current 69.4%.

 

It’s an insult to the Malays’ intelligence to suggest that 15% Chinese could take away 80% Malays’ economic cake. Even if it were to happen, it’s because of Malays’ corruption, greed, and treachery. Was it not PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang who happily took the RM90 million bribes from former Prime Minister Najib Razak in exchange for sabotaging the now-defunct Pakatan Rakyat coalition?

 

From Mahathir Mohamad era’s scandals involving UEM, Malayan Banking, Bank Bumiputra, Sime Bank, KUB, Bank of Commerce, RHB Bank, Ekran’s Bakun Dam Project, Park May-Intrakota bus, Monorail, Perwaja, and Konsortium Perkapalan Bhd, just to name a few, to Abdullah Badawi’s oil-for-food kickbacks, hundreds of billions had been stolen and siphoned by Malay leaders.

And from Najib Razak’s 1MDB scandal where a massive global financial fraud involving over US$4.5 billion (RM42 billion to RM50 billion) siphoned from Malaysia’s state development fund to Muhyiddin Yassin’s RM5.7 billion Jana Wibawa scandal, which was just a small part of the RM92.5 billion Covid-19 Stimulus Programme, billions had been stolen again by Malay leaders.

 

Even clueless “turtle egg” Ismail Sabri was caught with over RM100 million in cash stashed in safe houses and properties linked to the former prime minister’s aides. The best part is another Malay leader – 10th Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim – has been busy dropping charges beginning with Zahid Hamidi’s 47 corruption charges to a royal pardon for jailed ex-PM Najib Razak.  

 

From protecting Azam Baki, former Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Chief Commissioner caught with his pants down in shareholding, to covering up Sabah Chief Minister Hajiji Noor’s corruption scandal, and from sweeping under the carpet the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) scandal involving RM9.14 billion to closing both eyes on Farhash Wafa Salvador’s corruption and corporate mafia scandals, PM Anwar has taken “protecting corruption” to a new level.

Exactly where was Sanusi when his boss Hadi accepted RM90 bribes? Was not the Islamist party PAS part of the Muhyhiddin and Sabri backdoor government when they stole billions from the national coffers? The economic foothold of the Malays is deteriorating, if any, not because of Chinese or Indians, but due to thievery and treachery from Malay leaders entrusted to protect Malays’ interests.

 

Telling the Chinese to go back to China and the Indians to go back to India, as suggested by Sanusi, is a dumb strategy in the social media age. The election strategy is so damaging and dangerous that it could backfire spectacularly on the BN-PN cooperation in Negeri Sembilan, so much so UMNO president Zahid Hamidi has to tell his PAS buddy to go back to Kedah. Still, the burning question is why Sanusi hasn’t been arrested for threatening national security? Still, the burning question is why Sanusi hasn’t been arrested for threatening national security?