Malaysia’s former foreign minister has said the international law was being applied unequally when it comes to treating the Israel regime’s ongoing war crimes against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
“It is the hypocrisy of the international order and the international system to apply the international law on an unequal basis,” Syed Hamid Albar told Press TV on Friday.
“If it is done by the Israelis it is alright. Israelis are allowed to murder, Israelis are allowed to commit killings…on the basis that ‘they are defending themselves,'” he added.
“Even if you try to be fair and rational…if you want to take an action against your enemy, it must be proportionate to the damage that the enemy has caused [you],” Albar noted.
“But in this particular case, there is no similarity,” he said, adding, “Israel is above the law.”
The comments came after the Israeli regime called up an unprecedented 300,000 reservists, declaring a “long” war on Gaza in response to Operation al-Aqsa Storm. The operation was launched by the Gaza-based Palestinian resistance movements last Saturday in response to the occupying regime’s decades-long campaign of bloodshed and destruction against Palestinians.
As many as 2,670 people have been so far killed and nearly 10,000 others injured since the regime launched its bloody aggression against the coastal territory.
Israel’s military campaign has seen the regime leveling entire districts and using banned white phosphorous munitions against densely-populated neighborhoods of Gaza.
The regime is simultaneously imposing an all-out siege on the Palestinian territory, choking up the flow of foodstuff, medicines, and fuel, while disrupting Gaza’s supply of water and electricity.
The former Malaysian top diplomat, meanwhile, condemned the Israeli regime for “committing state terrorism,” saying, considering the enormity of the regime’s atrocities in Gaza, “It is a very big joke when you talk about ‘the right to self-defense.'”
