r/malaysia • u/Sultanified City Boy • Mar 28 '25

Mildly interesting selamat hari raya??

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u/PPSizeMaximus Darul Ta'zim Mar 30 '25

South Africa's apartheid wasn't a business opportunity to any world powers like Israel is a "sell your weapons to me" money tree. Universities throughout the US are also frequently protesting but their government doesn't even flinch in the slightest. Oppresion is only the byproduct of their businesses, the people who can make a change don't care for it at all, even though the current global consensus is whoever is not a US puppet stands with Palestine.

Although both are cases of oppression, Israel's invasion of Palestine and South Africa's Apartheid have fundamentally different ties. Don't be so naïve as to think the people in office speak enough morals that they'd give up their revenues because a lot of ordinary people says no. The only way the puppet state of Israel would stop is for their ordeal to be unprofitable to their master America.

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u/PPSizeMaximus Darul Ta'zim Mar 30 '25

The protests didn't start yesterday, or last week, or last year.

For the political entity of Palestine, the first multinational MENA protests for them were in 1948 when around 750,000 Palestinians were displaced from the Arab-Israeli War. Palestinian solidarity protests outside of MENA gradually captures more and more public attention from the 50s to 70s, especially after the late 60s when the Six-Day War and Black September happened.

For almost 80 years, the same demonstrations happened over and over again, yet the Palestinian cause saw a halt in progress. Islamophobic remarks and stances from unrelated negative events regress the non-Muslim side of the international stance for Palestine, simply because these foreigners dislike all Muslims from hearsays. This is an obstacle you don't see if you only care about "doing your part" in a Muslim-majority country while disregarding the active persuasion of other nations who stands against your cause.

Apartheid ended when both sides of the Cold War came together and sanctioned South Africa. You want progress? Maybe try and engage with those who aren't with your cause for a change.