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The Asian Media & Mass Communication Conference 2010 Osaka, Japan
But when they reached what they consider the New World which is the old world for
the inhabitants, they chased off the local inhabitants from their own land and seized
all the properties of these people. Whoever resisted were attacked, killed or enslaved.
Dr.Mahathir also notes that the Europeans also fought among themselves in their attempts to
seize as large a territory as possible to create new empires. And “(O)ften the locals were
forced to take part in their wars and pillaging.”
This increased the enmity between them because each wanted to expand their territories, to
build empires, to become the most powerful nation in the world. This leads them to launch
bigger involving all the nations in the world. Dr.Mahathir refers to the First World War in
1914 which lasted for four years, where 20 million Europeans were killed and billions of
dollars worth of property were destroyed. Still, he says, they were not satisfied.
Only 20 years after the First World War, they fought again in the Second World War.
This time the destructive violence of the Europeans reached a peak. More than 50
million of their people and those of their empires were killed. They employed carpet
bombing to flatten whole cities with all the people.
Finally they dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, in a non-
European country. Although these nuclear bombs gave victory to them, the
Europeans were shocked at the power of nuclear weapons and the radiation which
could kill the victims years after the bombs were dropped.
This fear, according to Dr. Mahathir, leads the Europeans to make international agreements to
control the production, testing and use of nuclear weapons in war. The fear is more of a
nuclear war between the Europeans themselves. The agreements were to prevent Europeans
from, being killed and their nation states destroyed by nuclear weapons.
But several of them refused to sign the Nuclear Non-Prolifieration Treaty. They
continued to study, develop and test various new nuclear devices for their bombs and
warheads.
Dr.Mahathir reveals the relation between Europe and the Jews.
The Europeans hated the Jews even before they embraced Christianity. When they
became Christians they blamed the Jews because a Jew had betrayed Christ to the
Romans and was killed by crucifixion.
Because of this until after the Second World War the Europeans oppressed the Jews
who had migrated to their countries. Every year they carried out Pogroms and
Inquisitions indulging in the massacre of the Jews. The attempt to resolve the Jewish
problem reached a peak during World War II when six million Jews were killed.
But after the Second World War the Jews were still in Europe. To force the Jews out
of Europe, they seized the territory of the Arab Palestinians to create the state of
Israel. Not only were the land, houses and farms of the Arab Palestinians seized, but
the Arabs were chased out of their land which became Israel.
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