09.02.2012                      16.Schwat. 5772

Malaysia:

Israel key electoral issue in… Malaysia?

A country need not have any Jews or diplomatic relations with Jerusalem for Israel to take center stage in politics.

A country need not have any Jews or diplomatic relations with Jerusalem for Israel to take center stage in its electoral campaign. Just look at Malaysia.
A comment on protecting Israel’s security that appeared in the 19th paragraph of a 22-paragraph story in The Wall Street Journal on Malaysia’s opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, has – as Shibani Mahtani, the author of that piece, wrote later in a blog post – cast Israel into the center of Malaysian elections….