For outsiders to support Israel -it is mostly because they haven’t understood the whole situation. They will gain a better understanding of that with time – if Palestinians still exist on the face of the earth. I wasn’t supporting Israel but it still took me a while to understand the apartheidism and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. It was never a crisis in the first place. It was pure discrimination and what is openly described as an ‘open-air’ prison.

The Gaza Strip is a very small area, to begin with. It is smaller than the state of Melaka. Narrowing it down, it is half the size of Jasin district. It is that small. And yet, the Israelis are destroying the place with more ammo than what the US has dropped onto Afghanistan before. The attack was carried out in the name of self-defence against Hamas and yet the armed forces have violated the ‘rules of war’. Killing journalists, cutting out humanitarian aid and bombing hospitals are atrocious acts of ‘self-defence’.

Pro-Israeli media highlighted what happened on the day Hamas attacked yet never went beyond that day to show the rising numbers of Palestinians killed afterwards. If the Palestinians and foreign humanitarian aides did not share their plight on social media – we would never have known that their resources were limited and rationed to the minimum. Kita takde air 6 jam pun dah mengamuk. Internet lambat pun dah susah hati.

Some refused to believe that this was apartheid and ethnic cleansing. Unfortunately, it is and all that the UN can do right now is to make statements and ‘call on the international community to urgently mediate a ceasefire between warring Hamas and Israeli occupation forces’. Malaysia ni negara kecik, duit tak banyak – kuasa besar dunia buat apa? tengok je?