‘please step on the israeli flag’
Post on Jan.29, 2009
oh gosh, they hate israel that much?
the above photo was taken by me yesterday morning, while we were walking from the police station to the nearby nasi kandar stall in dato kramat road (penang), after paula’s case at the police station.
this israeli flag was painted on the ground, in front of an entrance to a PAS branch office. it stated in bahasa ’sila pijak’ which means ‘please step on it’. of course everyone who walks pass it will naturally step over it… unless the person notice it before he came to it and walk round it.
this PAS branch is nearby the police station and i notice some police eating at the nasi kandar restaurant (which is next to the PAS branch) so i’m sure the police notice it… but did they do anything about it? nothing! oh sorry… they did – they pijak on it!
well what i mean is, is this the right thing to do? what if it is the palestinian flag? then i’m sure the police will take action – ask whoever to do it to erase it off. but being an israeli flag…. nothing. oops yes i forgot… sure lah because ours is a double standard country.
oh another thing i guess i’m being too naive. sttepping on a painted israeli flat is nothing compare to burning of the flag – which the authorities already allowed people to do, so what is stepping on the flag?
btw, last friday i attended an ‘inter-faith vigil prayer for peace in gaza’ at the cathedral of the holy spirit (church) in penang. 6 different faith were represented – islam, hinduism, budhism, sikhism, brahma kumaris and of course christianity.
anil netto was present too and he gave a talk about the israel-palestine conflict, touching on the history and land issue. the isalm rep. also gave a talk but couldn’t remember what it was about. his powerpoint presentation words were too small for me to read though i was seated at 2nd row. well what i could clearly remember/saw was the heading which stated ‘STOP THE WAR – HENTIKAN MEMERANGI PENDUDUK PALESTINE’. strange. if it is ’stop the war’ why only mention to stop attacking the palestinians.
all the different faith, one by one, went up to the rostrum to pray in their own language. i like the hindu chant of "om… oom… shanti…. shan….om…. oom". very meledious. oh and btw, he was the only one who said "we will pray for the people of palestine and the people of israel".
see pictures and read about it at anil’s blog.
Filed in Double standard, christian, islam, malaysia
January 29th, 2009 on 9:46 AM
That’s a very creative way to show your anger! =)
January 29th, 2009 on 2:06 PM
“well what i mean is, is this the right thing to do? what if it is the palestinian flag? then i’m sure the police will take action – ask whoever to do it to erase it off. but being an israeli flag…. nothing. oops yes i forgot… sure lah because ours is a double standard country.”
Are u living in another world?
Israel kills people, that is why we show protest on them. We dont put Palestinian flag bcos Palestine is protecting his own country. Yeah, u may say that Palestine also kills Israelis but on what capacity? Israel invades first. Stones vs bullets. If Israel invades Malaysia, im sure i’ll try to kill the Israelis. Kill or being killed. What if Israel invades China and we put the “please step on the Israel flag” sign? Double standard?
If you know the history of Israel, they were established on 1948 by veto force. Lots of country in the UN object this but hey, nobody can object the veto power. That is why they say that Israel is an illegal country.
January 29th, 2009 on 5:06 PM
great joey… Palestinian have a right to defend their country…Israel don’t deserve that land at all…they’all parasite..try to think why german hate them so much…wherever Israel stay sure they’ll conquer..can’t imagine if Israel in our country…there is no land for us anymore in 2 or 3 years
January 29th, 2009 on 11:23 PM
Israel existed 3 thousand years before any ‘Palestinian’ Arabs were there.
Lets not a hete a people we have zero contact with.
January 29th, 2009 on 11:40 PM
Hi Lucia
Do you have an e mail address?
January 30th, 2009 on 1:06 AM
tekkaus
ah yes i must admit you are right indeed. at least give them credit for creativity eh.
joey
i’m living in this world alright – a world or reality and no self-denial. are you?
“palestine is protecting its own country” and israel is not? remember it was hamas who started firing into israel, so israel had to protect itself.
well if israel invade my country, of course i would protest against israel… but did israel invade palestine? if you look at history, the land was fairly partition and to be share among themselves but palestine… or rather more correctly to say… the arabs, not the palestinians… refused and started attacking israel the day immediately after israel got the land.
see:
what really happened
palestineislam
actually it is not the land issue, neither the israel-palestine conflict. it’s more of arab-israeli war. the arabs just want to wipe off israel all together. it’s arabs against the jews (or muslim against the jews).
ahmad
“can’t imagine if Israel in our country…there is no land for us anymore in 2 or 3 years”
yep, since the jews are very intelligent people, i can believe that indeed.
sudo_nim
yeah that’s the strange part i see… why so many people hate jews when they don’t have contact with the jews at all? they just blindly follow what others told them about the jews?
January 30th, 2009 on 9:47 AM
You are totally wrong Lucia. Gaza was under the Egyptians and the Palestinians are refugees or descended from refugees who were driven out of their homes when Israel was created. There was no fair partition. The Palestinians still do not have a country and most of the West Bank has been under Israeli military occupation since 1967.
January 31st, 2009 on 9:19 AM
The Palestinians DO have a country. it’s called Jordan. Please read a book. Google Balfour Declaration.
January 31st, 2009 on 11:54 AM
Sudo_nim, some people will avoid venturing outside their coccoon, their partisan comfort zone.
How Strong Is the Arab Claim to Palestine?
http://tinyurl.com/bme8qj
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“The Arab claim to sovereign rights west of the Jordan is only humored today because of a fatal combination of world need for Arab oil, leftist Political Correctness that has cast the Israelis as “oppressors,” and, of course, good old Jew-hatred. ” u/q
January 31st, 2009 on 6:36 PM
BTW, a documented gallery of ‘Palestinian’ Arab animalism:
http://www.geocities.com/truthwilldominate/#animalism
January 31st, 2009 on 10:55 PM
@sudo_nim
“The Palestinians DO have a country. it’s called Jordan. Please read a book. Google Balfour Declaration.”
Dear sudo_nim,
please get back to Google and type Black September. Your comment is inaccurate.
February 1st, 2009 on 12:38 AM
suo_nim: I DO know about the Balfour declaration and the Israelis totally ignored the statement “nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine,” by forcibily driving them the Palestinians off the land and reducing those who remain to third class citizens.
Saying Jordan is a country of Palestinians shows how ignorant you are.
February 1st, 2009 on 2:22 AM
adam
no i’m not wrong. if i’m wrong, then history is wrong.
it was partition fairly for the jewish palestinians and the arabs palestinians and it was the arabs palestinians who were disasitfied and wanted the land for themselves only and strived to drive the jewish palesitnians away.
fact is the jews existed 2000 years ago while palestine was no where to be seen. ‘palestine’ is a word coined by the europeans, and what is ‘palestine’ used to be jordan, israel and west bank.
http://www.contenderministries.org/articles/israelhistory.php
i’m tired of arguing on the israel-palestine conflict already. adam and whoever, say what you like, believe what you like – though you may google all info about the conflict/history, you still form your own intepretation, have your own view – likewise me too, so let’s leave it at that.
February 1st, 2009 on 2:45 PM
Sudo_nim: “The Palestinians DO have a country. it’s called Jordan..”
That’s correct. Jordan seized that region in the ‘48 war. It managed to do so largely because the Arab legion was well led by a British officer, Pasha Glubb who defied his own King’s order in siding with the Arabs. Jordan was one of the rare Arab countries who joined the Allies against the Axis in WW2. The vast majority sided with Hitler’s war effort or set on the fence.
February 2nd, 2009 on 8:56 PM
sudo_nim & wits : right on … and well argued :-)
Israel is wrong but Hamas is at fault too!
February 2nd, 2009 on 10:11 PM
Eric wrote
Dear sudo_nim,
please get back to Google and type Black September. Your comment is inaccurate.
Why don’t you enlighten us and tell us what was Black September about? What has Black September got to do with the creation of Jordan for Muslims in that region? Stop confusing yourself.
Adam wrote
suo_nim: I DO know about the Balfour declaration and the Israelis totally ignored the statement “nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine,” by forcibily driving them the Palestinians off the land and reducing those who remain to third class citizens.
Saying Jordan is a country of Palestinians shows how ignorant you are.
First things first, get your facts right, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS PALESTINIAN LAND. This is a complete lie. The land was bought from absentee Turkish landlords by the Jews. The land was largely barren. Arabs started coming there in large numbers when Jews brough in industrialization.
Nobody drove the Palestinian Arabs off, otherwise there would be absolutely NO Israeli Arabs today. Isareli Arabs far more rights then non Israeli Arabs and this is a fact. The Palestinian Arabs left in the hopes that the Arab army would crush the Jews…but that didn;t happen
Nobody is stopping them from forming their own country and living their lives, but that is not what these barbarians want. They want the complete distruction of the Jews, as confirmed by Hamas charter. The Jews are not going to take it.
Gone are the days you can peddle lies about Pleatinians by portraying pictures of children. Everybody is on the lies.