March 26, 2012
Trading Populism Rather Than Common Sense
by Farish A. Noor
Malaysians can theory which elections have been around a dilemma when a stupid-o-meter goes off a beam as well as our national domestic sermon slips in to irrationality faster than normal. Though our public member appear inclined to present themselves as being some-more foolish than inlet intended, their capacity to make a crush of things is an embarrassment not usually to themselves, though for alternative Malaysians as well; as well as in a process Malaysia creates a droll pages in newspaper reports abroad to boot.
We have already witnessed several decades of a domestic parties of a land trying to out-Islamise any other, claiming a holier-than-thou layer for themselves. We have additionally witnessed parties claiming which they were 'more Malay', 'more Chinese' as well as 'more Indian' than a other; during a price of progressing as well as reproducing a ethnic-cultural cleavages which continue to order Malaysians. Now it seems which parties have been competing to show how 'anti-Israeli' they can be, as well as you await a approaching results as some-more stew rsther than than piece will be combined to a already overheated domestic environment.
I was therefore rsther than unhappy (though not much) to review which a little opposition MPs intend to table a suit for a check to finish all ties with Israel, either approach or indirect. According to a report you read, a MPs stated which a law 'should include a banning of use of (Malaysian) ports by any association which has a trade interest with a Zionist regime'. you had to review which sentence several times as my eyeballs have vacated their respective sockets during initial glance. (re:
To ban a use of Malaysian ports by any company which has a trade interest with Israel?Pray tell, how most companies or countries do not have trade relations with Israel? Or trade relations with any nation for which matter?
In a context of today's interconnected tellurian economy, have been there any countries which do not have approach or surreptitious trade links with any alternative countries? Can any nation isolate itself from longitudinal linkages which may go in all directions, leading to a unlikeliest of destinations or origins?
Note which my qualm here has nothing to do with Israel per se, as well as everybody has a right to their opinions of what as well as how to characterise a Israeli state as well as a actions towards a Palestinians. you have made my own opinions clear in most forums as well as discussions in Malaysia as well as elsewhere. But what concerns me here is a view which Malaysia must, as well as can usually say no, to any kind of trade no matter how surreptitious as well as far away with alternative economies.
Practically every vital manage to buy which Malaysia trades with America, Japan, China, India, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, United Kingdom, Germany, France, etc has trade relations with Israel, as well as a little of them do not even worry to censor it. If nation X were to buy Malaysian palm oil from Malaysia as well as then sell it to Israel (while grabbing a elect as go-between) does which equate as a approach or surreptitious relation? And what if Israeli products have been sold to Malaysia by another surrogate nation (that further bags a commission), would which be approach or surreptitious trade? Do these people assimilate how economies work, for heavens sake?
My concern which extends to all Malaysian parti! es, of b oth coalitions is which they appear to have turn captives of their own tongue as well as pyrotechnics. Furthermore they seem, in their race to out-do any other, to have painted themselves in to a corner. Politics is not about observant No all a time; though rsther than a art of rendering a clearly unfit possible. Smart as well as pragmatic politics is about formulating event structures as well as event windows where a country's interests will be perpetually served as well as protected, as well as not burning bridges when a single day a single competence need them.
So suppose this suppositious situation, related to a uttermost immorality nation in a world, Bongonia. In Bongonia they eat babies alive. They husk kittens, feat children, trade old people, attend to Celine Dion. No nation in tellurian story is as immorality as these dastardly Bongonians. But by a little gift of story or geography, Bongonia additionally produces a singular piece called Nasibrianium.
Nasibrianium is such a singular apparatus which it, as well as usually it, can be used in a ultimate hi-tech gadgets similar to meditative massage chairs as well as self-parking cars. Every nation upon a world needs as well as wants Nasibrianium, as well as will do anything to get it, together with overlooking a tellurian rights abuses which take place in Bongonia. America has even sent Madonna as a special emmissary to wash a feet of a President of Bongonia, to secure contracts for Nasibrianium. China is meditative of offered all their pandas to Bongonia since which is a prime plate of a Bongonians, only to get their hands upon a little Nasibrianium.
In such a situation, what will Malaysia do? Stand upon a tall horse as well as proclaim 'Never'!, while losing whatever tactical-strategic-technological-economic leverage it competence get, no matter how small? Or only say No, though buy a Nasibrianium anyway by third parties who have sold a stuff with commission, as well as after stamping a 'safe for Malaysian sen! sibiliti es' stamp upon it? My mind boggles during times, as well as it is boggling right away as you speak. Sigh.
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