The world must change and it must start in Palestine, where much of the muddle of the Middle East created by the West is.
World leaders must make it a rules-based world before the rest of the globe can be said to be one. Different strokes for different countries is never going to bring peace and prosperity to the world.
This is Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's point, most clearly stated in Germany in a joint press conference with Chancellor Olaf Scholz on March 11 and his interviews with news channels there.
Sure, the world is not Palestine, but if world leaders can't dispense justice there, they surely can't elsewhere. It is there that the West suffers an obsessive love disorder for Israel like nowhere else.
The Zionist regime in Tel Aviv is turning the occupied territories of Palestine in Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem into killing fields, and yet, the West helps and aids it with money and weapons.
Gaza is besieged and Anwar had a reality-jolting question for them: "Where have we thrown our humanity?" Israel's atrocities against the Palestinians have descended to such an inhumane level that a few European members of parliament are compelled to ask Western leaders: "Where is our humanity?"
Yet Western leaders who could have ended Israel's monstrous brutality against the Palestinians are mired in the obsession that the atrocities there began on Oct 7.
Responding to a question by a news channel if he condemned Hamas' attack on Oct 7 (a typical question by Western mainstream media), Anwar had a "West, please wake up" kind of reply: "What I reject strongly is this narrative, this obsession, as if this entire problem begins and ends with Oct 7. It did not begin with Oct 7 and did not end with Oct 7." Well said, Mr Prime Minister.
Israel's barbarity against the Palestinians is decades old, as old as the establishment of Israel on stolen Palestinian land. To use the words of United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres, Hamas' attack on Oct 7 "did not happen in a vacuum". The Palestinians are the world's most persecuted people, and yet, the West is ignoring their plight.
The West is in a self-induced stupor, allowing it to be blanketed by amnesia. A willing forgetfulness, if you like. It numbs its humanity out of existence.
Hence the need for voices like Anwar's. The West may not wake up to reality as soon as we like, but it must. The last six months of Israel's barbarity against the Palestinians has changed much of the world.
South Africa, like Palestine, a long-suffering victim of apartheid, has taken the uncommon step to drag Israel to the International Court of Justice. Some Spanish ministers are urging their government to take Israel to the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes.
A British politician — George Galloway — even won a by-election in Rochdale on an anti-Israel platform. Members of the European Parliament and the Irish Oireachtas have joined the growing chorus of politicians compelling their governments to act against Israel.
The world has had enough of the evil Zionist regime. Malaysia's position is clear: it will oppose any persecution of people anywhere around the globe. So must the West.
