Did Mahathir ask the Saatchi family if they were Zionists before hiring them?
Pix: Suicide bombing in Neveh Sha’anan, close to the site of Tel Aviv’s old bus station, (Source: Yahoo! News, 2006.)
Yesterday our blog carried a write-up by Maz – a regular Hartal reader and commentator on Rebutting Mahathir, the ‘proud to be anti-Semitic’ hypocrite. Here Maz explains why it is necessary to call Mahathir’s bluff when the old hypocrite tries to obscure his Jew-hate by hiding behind the terminology ‘Zionist’.
In a reader comment to our posting yesterday, Major (Rtd) D.Swami saw through the rose-by-any-other-name charade played by Malaysia’s Jew haters:
The new anti antisemitism is known as anti Zionists. What is the difference, I am not anti Jew but I am anti Zionist, get my drift?
Mahathir is getting away with far too much BS on Malaysiakini and elsewhere because the rebuttals are largely limited to criticizing Mahathir’s performance as an ex-PM or his views on Malaysia’s NEP and the like.
Little space is given to direct and unambiguous refutation of Mahathir’s racist and anti-Semitic rantings. Far too many Malaysians excuse this as merely a side-effect of his dictatorial tendencies. NO!
It is part and parcel of who he is, what he is, and why he mismanaged Malaysia for 22 years and why he and organizations like Perkasa continue to exert a deleterious impact on Malaysia that is harmful towards ALL aspects of Malaysia’s well-being.
This Apco nonsense makes out Malaysians to be fools (not just Mahathir, Jibby and Anwar) because they do not understand global management organizations who manage campaigns for 30-40 nations at one time.
Uneducated Malaysians conflate Apco’s lobbying for Israel (which they probably did) with lobbying for Malaysia, Turkey, Nigeria,
Brazil and probably 60 other countries that Apco contracted out PR sub firms to work on. Of course lobbying firms use similar templates for their PR campaigns, DUH!!! It’s called ‘the bottom line and saving money and best management practices’.
That has nothing whatsoever to do with ideology and everything to do with business. Just like Mahathir hiring Saatchi & Saatchi (the UK PR firm founded by British-Iraqi Jews) to run some of his PR back in the 1980s.
I wonder if Mahathir asked the Saatchi family if they were Zionists before he hired them? Or given his hatred for the former colonialists [the British], why didn’t he pick a Dubai or Indian PR firm instead?
I do not hear Malaysians complaining about how Apco also worked on Erdogan’s PR campaign in Turkey or Muhammad Abdo’s in Nigeria (could it be because the clients aren’t Jews?).
Malaysians must stop being ignorant about facts.
“You are entitled to your opinion, but not to your own facts” – (former Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Democrat-NewYork)
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