The world is in disorder by design. Not just since Oct 7 when the Middle East flared up again. It has been so from time immemorial.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is right to hint at the reason for the disorder when he condemned the international community for its biased stance on Palestine.
We are extrapolating, but you get the point. To be truthful, there isn't an international community to speak of.
Take the United Nations, the global organisation that is supposed to stop the scourge of war.
It is in a shameful state. It is supplicating at the feet of big powers when it should be fighting for what is right.
Might rules, not okay. But the 30-odd Western nations dictate how the world should be governed. Not by moral compass, but by gunpowder.
This is why Benjamin Netanyahu is able to say that he is about to create a new Middle East, an old dream of the hundred-year-old Zionist movement.
He has the permission of London, Washington and Brussels. Would a Greater Israel happen? Hard to tell, but what is for sure is that lots of innocent blood will be spilled.
What would the UN do? Nothing, for it is united only to do nothing. Remember Rwanda of 1994? The UN waited until 800,000 were massacred in an ethnic clash there.
Imagine if the Rwandans were not Tutsis or Hutus, but Ukrainians. At least 30 prejudice-rich nations will be there with missiles and mortars.
It is the same reason why they weren't in Myanmar when the Rohingya were massacred there. Ditto all other massacres and genocides, the most prominent of which is those of the Palestinians that have been going on since the forced creation of Israel in 1948.
The bias-ridden West blames the Palestinians for rising up against Israel. Here is the thing. Under international law, the Zionist regime's illegal occupation of Palestine is an unlawful use of force. This the West knows, but prejudice clouds its view.
Add to this at least two UN resolutions — Resolution 2625 of 1970 and the UN General Assembly Resolution 37/43 — which allow armed struggle against foreign forces.
This is precisely what the Palestinians are doing — rising up against illegal foreign occupation. Are not the Palestinians engaged in a struggle for independence, territorial integrity and freedom from foreign occupation as the resolutions spell out?
Resolution 37/43, expressly recognises the right to use force against illegal foreign occupying forces. What is more, the UN considers illegal foreign occupation as a serious threat to international peace and security.
This, too, the West knows, but is blinded by its prejudice. So blinded, the West labels the armed struggle of the Palestinians against the illegal Zionist regime as a threat to international peace and security.
With a few exceptions, history is littered with examples of self-determination by armed struggle. The more cruel the illegal foreign occupation, which the Israeli occupation surely is, the more brutal the armed struggle becomes. But it need not be.
There is a two-step solution. One, as Malaysia suggests, get rid of biases against the Palestinians, Two, let the Palestinians live in peace within a state of their own, one with internationally recognised pre-1967 borders. Anything less is a plan for a muddled Middle East.