Malaysia’s Mahathir: Israel’s Genocide in Gaza Will Not Be Forgotten

Kuala Lumpur (QNN)- Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said that Israel’s two-year-long genocide in Gaza “will not be forgotten for maybe centuries”.

Mahathir predicted that Israel’s ruthlessness against the Palestinian population of Gaza would be etched into world history.

“Gaza is terrible,” Mahathir said in an interview with Al Jazeera. “They killed pregnant mothers … babies just born, young people, boys and girls, men and women, the sick and the poor … How can this be forgotten?”

Israel’s killing of nearly 66,000 Palestinians in Gaza, the majority women and children, will be remembered for generations, possibly for “centuries”, Mahathir said.

“It will not be forgotten for maybe centuries,” Mahathir said.

Describing the war in Gaza as a genocide that parallelled the killing of Muslims during the war in Bosnia in the early 1990s and the Jews by Nazi Germany during World War II, Mahathir said he was confounded that the people of Israel, who had experienced genocide, could, in turn, perpetrate a genocide.

“I thought people who suffered like that would not want to visit it on other people,” he said. Victims of a genocide should “not want to wish their fate to befall other people”.

However, in the case of Israel, he was wrong, he said.

Israelis, he now says, “did not learn anything from their experience”.
“They want the same thing that happened to them, they want to do it to the Arabs,” he said.

Mahathir has been strongly critical of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and has repeatedly called for greater international intervention, human rights protections, and accountability.