Malaysia’s PM slams Australia, says ‘no rights’ to commend Jerusalem as Israeli capital
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Sunday criticized Australia’s pierce to recognize West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, observant countries had “no rights” to do so.
Australia’s pierce follows U.S. President Donald Trump’s preference to pierce a U.S. embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv in May, that murderous Palestinians and a wider Islamic universe and dissapoint Western allies.
“Jerusalem should sojourn as it is now and not a collateral of Israel,” Mahathir told Reuters on a sidelines of an eventuality in Bangkok.
“Jerusalem has always been underneath Palestine, so because are they holding a beginning to order Jerusalem not belonging to them, though to order a Arabs and a Jews? They have no rights,” he added.
Malaysia is a majority-Muslim nation and has prolonged upheld a two-state resolution in a Palestine-Israel conflict.
The standing of Jerusalem, home to sites holy to a Muslim, Jewish and Christian faiths, is one of a biggest obstacles to a assent agreement between Israel and Palestinians who wish East Jerusalem recognized as a collateral of a Palestinian state.
Israel regards all of Jerusalem as a capital, including a eastern zone that it annexed in a pierce not recognized internationally, after a 1967 Middle East war.
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison topsy-turvy decades of Middle East process by a nation though pronounced there are no evident skeleton to pierce a Australian embassy from Tel Aviv.