Singapore image was severely damaged by sanctions on Russia. I think U.S. pressured us on that. Singapore is too dependent on U.S. in finance and military arms. After the sanctions on Russia, Singapore came to be seen as U.S. running dog.
I am writing this on 19th of April, after Iran's drone attacks on Israel. Singapore has issued a statement, condemning the Iranian attacks. I am asking why Singapore was silent when Israel attacked the Iranian consulate in Damascus.
Singapore by default is completely irrelevant on the world stage. Whether they side with this side or that side doesn't affect the parties in conflict. But it can hurt them very much. So they goes wherever the wind blows, even if it's morally disgusting. That's life.
The problem with calling things as terrorism on oct 7 is the fact that people do not want to look at the ENTIRETY of the events that happened on that day. When Israel made the claims, they were not only questionable but they could not produce evidences to back them up. The media fail to acknowledge on that same day of Israel using helicopters and tanks to attack the Hamas militants which hit their civilians and creating a cross-fire which ultimately kills more civilians as a result. If we want to be objective, then we should see the situation from EVERY ANGLE, and not continuously repeat one side of the story.
Agree with you! same as Palestinians when they made claim of so much thousands😵, they could not produce evidence to back them up. The media fail to acknowledge thousands of FAILED h@m@zz homemade R0kets falled into the poor PA. Not IDF did it.
@@chrischow9085 Is that what my comment implies to you? That they shouldn't do anything at all? Do you think what the Singaporean Government said about Israel actions have gone "too far" is true? If not, why?
@@homeblue7667 You are saying that there are military events happening on Oct 7th attack which is suppose to happen right? LOL Or you are expecting nothing on that day? Which is it?
It shows how vulnerable Singapore is and yet wants to voice out her point in terrorism. The biggest tyrant and boogeymen in past 70 years is USA waging endless wars on lies yet I doubt we can ever see Singapore government calling America out on their behavior.
Singapore can't even survive 24hours attack and yet want to guve opinions on world subjects, this PAP think with their ass,just stop embarrassing singapore
According to Israel, US and Vivian, definitely terrorist, because there's no justification whatsoever, as long as you attack, you are terrorist. But I know Vivian and SG gov have no better stance in this intense political conflict. US military base is right here...
@@chrischow9085 It would be understandable even if they did since armed resistance is enshrined in international law as a legitimate right of oppressed people under military occupation. Then again, you have Chris in your name so evidently a Christian with Zionist sympathies cannot empathize with the plight of Palestinians and the oppression they faced even before October 7.
@@aero.l yeah normal people with a brain don't sympathise with kidnappers. This self deluding oppression narrative can only make sense to those who do not know a single bit of history from that region. Israel is a nation which works as a nation should be. Palestinians has never wanted a nation or land for that matter. The only reason for these Palestinians to exist is to oppose a state in the middle east which isn't under Muslim rule. Which is rather pathetic if your nation's motto is based solely on that and never once on it's citizens.
Did the attack on Oct 7 happen in a vacuum? I expected the Americans and Europeans to ignore 75 years of oppression and brutal treatments of Palestinians by the israeli, but Singapore? Expected more empathy.
Precisely. The so-called "Singapore is not and does not take sides" is intellectual dishonesty. What it meant is, don't disbelieve the US, don't distrust the US so we aren't taking the side of ANTI-US. On the other hand, cannot speak the truth regarding China as that will mean we are taking the side of China. Unfortunately LKY wasn't able to live till 100 unlike his friend Kissinger. Else he would have slapped the current Cabinet, maybe including his son, for making the wrong judgement on the international scene.
Could not agree more. @@KQ0909. IT could also be an American CIA operation to use the Chinese identity to divide Singapore. - Very soon, being Chinese is crime. CECANS are more likely the agents of the collective west.
hamas knew this was the expected outcome, so why did they continue the terror attacks? were they expecting israel to serve tea and give back their land?
ok ok im gonna be real here. Both leaderships are in the wrong. Yep, ur right, hamas should not have attacked in the first place. They used extreme means to take back their land in the wrong way and now the people (most who btw don't vote for them as more than half of the population are children) However, Israel is also in the wrong for a few things. Number 1, they knew that an attack by Hamas was gonna happen. They received warnings from countries like Egypt that Hamas was preparing to strike, but they chose to ignore it. Number 2, Israel CONTROLS who enters and exits Palestine by heavily monitoring the border, which makes u wonder, how tf was Hamas even able to enter Israel? Number 3, Israel messed up big time with their treatment of the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank, cutting off food, water, and electricity. Moreover, they have been setting up illegal settlements and chasing more Palestinians out of their homeland. Lastly, the brutality and cruelty of the IDF has been broadcast worldwide, countless videos of the IDF brutally treating the people of Palestine.
1 man's missionary school is another man's re-education centre. Newspapers and traditional media are mostly a loss-making business yet we have Anglo and small hat oligarchs pumping money into it. Hmm..
29-2-2023 104 people died and 760 people were injured of Palestinians were reported this morning by Israeli forces at an aid distribution point in northern Gaza. A military source confirmed Israeli soldiers opened fire and claimed the group was a "threat" as they approached.
I disagree with minister Vivian Balakrishnan that the Palestinian uprising on 7 October 2023 was terrorism. It was a military operation with military objectives, and the Hamas fighters headed for military targets. The Palestinians have every right to free themselves from 75 years of brutal Israeli oppression, occupation, colonialism, apartheid, land grab, calorie restriction; and other crimes against humanity.
It’s not about importing foreign issues. We should stand with the suffering, and speak up against atrocities against women and children. Genocide should be strongly condemned. As a non Muslim, Chinese Christian I will not hesitate to Condemn Israel ‘s occupation and continued theft of lands and houses of inhabitants of the Middle East who were there long before the Poles the Germans and the white Anglo Saxon immigrants from USA Australia UK Canada and Europe migrated there in droves. FREE PALESTINE!!
Israel does have a right of self defense against any other state (like USA or UK or Iran) but they cannot do so on a threat that is emerging from a territory that is under illegal occupation of Israel (in this case Palestinian territories) - Article 51 charter of the United Nations
Self defence don't apply to colonisers. That's like saying the Japanese imperial forces have the right to self defence when they are under attack by angry locals.
I beg to differ from the Minister's labelling Oct 7 as an act of terrorism. GAZA is OCCUPIED territory by Israel. Gazans have every right to defend their territory and to reclaim their land from the terrorists occupying it. The minister should think about the situation that should his family home be occupied by intruders leaving him and his family holed up in only one small room. Would he call his fighting back to reclaim his home an act of terrorism?
If the Singapore FM condemn Hamas for October 7 then it's alright for him to condemn Israel for ongoing Gaza Genocide. Instead he used the phrase Israel has gone 'too far'. He should put sanctions on Israel like he put on Russia.
Why is Singapore not using Huawei when it's the best? It's going against Singapore's national interest. Iswaran rejected Huawei without any explanation.
Their US warships usually dock at sembawang there. If taxi uncle got a booking along Deptford road means they fetching these navals to orchard towers. 😅
Enough playing politics when people are dying.. Remember those who stood & fought even with their bare hands without firearms against atrocities of killing or burying villages alive etc. regardless of race forcing them to join their political ideology during the 60's in the jungles of Malaya.. just saying no offence meant anyway..
He says Israel has gone too far and he calls himself a Christian. God says He will bless those who blessed Israel and will curse those who cursed Israel.
When Singapore ministers - be they full ministers or ministers of state (senior or not) use the phrase "rule-based international order", they know that they clearly meant it in the same meaning as what US politicians such as Antony Blinken says. Which is, this "international order" is, if it's the US winning, it's THE ORDER. If it's the US losing, then it's NOT in compliance with the "international order"
@@chrischow9085 Hahaha, loaded question (as usual from such people). To be based on present international order, which was built by the US and also currently unrecognised by the US themselves because they can no longer compete within those rules. So the US wants to rewrite those rules. When number of gold medals at Olympics cannot be used to declare the US is number 1 (almost happened, didn't happen on the final day), the US will change the rules to use "total number of medals won). I can cite an example each time you try to rebuke
@@KQ0909 So you admit to them making the international laws which means that they are the super power now. And you think Singapore should not take their side? So whose side should Singapore take instead? The Saudis or China? Enlighten me.
Put Singapore first. This is a problem even before 1965. The crux in cross borders loyalties can be found in religion. Catholic , Islamic, Jewish , are key groups. Some mentions are needed.
It's completely dishonest to consider only 2% of history. Frustrated by confusing & contradictory information, I researched the history of the land we call Israel and Palestine today. Who lived on it first? Israelites lived in this land 1,658 years before the ancestors of Palestinians. Palestinian ancestral land is the Arabian Peninsula. ‘Palestinian’ is a modern word from the 20th century. "Syria Palaestina” was the name given by the Romans to Judea after the Bar Kochba revolt, although the name's origins go back even further, being based on the term 'Philistine', the name for a land that at the time belonged to a people who were no longer extant, not as a people nor a political entity Only the Canaanites and Philistine predate the Israelites. The descendants of Canaanites and Philistine is complex and not entirely resolved The Israelites arrived C1300 BCE and established the Israelite Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. The Kingdom of Israel fell to the Assyrians in 722 BC, while the Kingdom of Judah was conquered by the Babylonians in 586 BCE. Next the land changed hands many times, until Arab Muslims conquered it in 638 CE and established an Islamic Caliphate. The Arab population, increasingly identifying as Palestinian particularly in the 20th century, has been a significant part of the social and cultural fabric of the area, especially during the periods of Islamic rule and the Ottoman Empire. A timeline: Canaanite Period (c. 3000 - 1200 BCE): The earliest known inhabitants were Canaanites, a Semitic-speaking people. Philistine Period (c. 1175 - 604 BCE): Philistines settled along the coastal areas, mostly in the Gaza Strip. Israelite Kingdoms (c. 1020 - 586 BCE): The Israelites, also a Semitic-speaking people, established the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Assyrian and Babylonian Periods (722 - 539 BCE): Assyrians and Babylonians conquered the region. Persian Period (539 - 332 BCE): Persia conquered the Babylonian empire, including this area. The Persians later reinstated Israel as a country. Hellenistic Period (332 - 167 BCE): Conquest by Alexander the Great, followed by the Ptolemaic and Seleucid rules. Hasmonean Kingdom (167 - 37 BCE): Jewish rule restored after the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucids. Roman Period (63 BCE - 324 CE): The area became a part of the Roman Empire, with Israel remaining a kingdom within that empire, with Rome appointing the king, until AD 44. Bar Kochba Period (132 CE - 136 CE): Simon bar Kochba let a Jewish revolt and for a short time revived Jewish sovereignty over land, until it was brutally crushed by the Roman Emperor Hadrian, who renamed Judea as Syria Palaestina to remove any trace of Jewish connection to the land. Byzantine Period (324 - 638 CE): Christian rule under the Byzantine Empire. Islamic Caliphate Era (638 CE - 1099 CE): Arab Muslims conquered Jerusalem in 638 CE, introducing Arab rule and Islamic culture to the region. Arabic gradually replaced Aramaic and Greek as the dominant language. Crusader Period (1099 - 1187 CE): European Christians captured Jerusalem and established the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Ayyubid and Mamluk Periods (1187 - 1516 CE): Saladin, a Kurdish Muslim leader, defeated the Crusaders. The Mamluks, who were of various ethnicities including Turkic and Circassian, succeeded the Ayyubids. Ottoman Period (1516 - 1917 CE): The Ottoman Turks controlled the region, and the Arab populace lived under Ottoman rule. British Mandate (1917 - 1948 CE): British control after World War I. Increased Jewish immigration leads to tensions between Jews and Arabs. State of Israel (1948 - Present): Established in 1948, leading to ongoing conflicts with Arab Palestinians. The ‘West Bank' is in fact ancient Judea, the land of the Jews. The 'Philistines' lived along the southwest coastline, nowhere near the Judean hills. But with all this, there has never been a Palestinian state.
The 'West Bank' is Judea, the ancient land of the Jews. The Jews are from Judea, where the Judean mountains runs along the spine of Israel, where the tribe of Judah had its tribal allotment. The Jews are the native people of the Holy Land. The ‘Philistines’ came from the Greek Isles, originally; these modern ‘Palestinians’ have no relation to them at all. They are Persian, Egyptian, Bedouin, Turkish, Syrian, & Arabian, mostly. The term 'West Bank' is a modern term with no historical significance. There was never a country called 'Jordan' before the modern state of Jordan was created out of whole cloth by Great Britain using 75% of the 'mandate for Palestine'.
You know why INDIA is in BRICS and QUAD....what do you think is the world's opinion on that?! How handy it must be for the collective west to have cecan in Singapore to divide and rule Singapore. Chinese in Singapore will do no such thing.
We can state our stand till the cows come home but the key to resolution still lies between Israel and the Palestinians. Neither party will budge, both want all or none. If the conflict continues without an end in sight, for how long should we send aid? If both sides decide to annihilate each other, will we be forced to take sides and if we do not, do we stop sending aid when neither side refuse to take responsibility for their own peoples? Aren’t we being drawn into this external quarrel? Sure, we can help while it remains a humanitarian crisis, but when the dust settles, aid has to come with conditions. I think the key in all this rhetoric is how our actions serve our own interests.
America and Britain have huge influence in Singapore. Singapore is also tied to America through it's military industrial complex. Singapore cannot have an independent foreign policy even if it wants to. But, there are demographics realities as well, most Singapore trace thier heritage back to China, 75 percent identity as Chinese and feel kinship to it. When China Grows and outpaces the united states and becomes the number 1 and the most dominant economy of the world, the political reality, the geographical reality and the demographic reality will kick in Singapore politics and they'll have to make a choice and move away from the west and align itself with Regional powers in the East. Not to mention China is slowly creating a Monroe doctrine of it's own. The only curious case is Japan and world war 2 legacy seem to weigh heavy on them. I think they will stay with the West powers and try to act as a western bulwark in the East, much like the way Israel acts as a western bulwark in the middle East.
Promote Bystander effect (ie Ga.za) as the Collective West persists with their national interest to demonize the Chinese, to halt the rise of a multipolar world. How will FICA apply to Singaporeans, all SINGAPOREANS spewing the Western Rules Based Order narratives? 😊
@@chrischow9085 Before 1948, PALESTINE was home to a diverse population of Arabs, Jews, and Christians, as all groups had religious ties to the area, especially the city of Jerusalem. The land itself was under the control of various empires, such as the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, and eventually the Islamic Caliphate and the Ottoman Empire. On MAY 14, 1948, the STATE of ISRAEL was established, marking the end of British rule in Palestine. This event triggered the first Arab-Israeli War, involving neighboring Arab countries, which ultimately led to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs. READ THE HISTORICAL FACTS!!...👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻
Except for the way Russian protects its self-interest Singapore must sanction the Russian people. That is WHAT sanction does. To cause hardship and cause the Balkanization of Russia. Utter BS.
@@mohamedkamalabdulrahim7223 Got to follow the Western Narrative. Seeds of doubt planted. West BANK Palestinians are no better under their so-called American, Xreal led rules based international order. It gives the FM opportunity to FRAME the debacle as one fighting terrorists and collaborators.
@@mohamedkamalabdulrahim7223 To mention HAMAS in the same sentence will give all the lackeys justification of genocide against terrorists although it is a legitimate government.
Hello! Did you hear the UN chief saying that the October 7 Hamas attack did not occur in a vacuum? Did you? That is the truth if you ponder on the history of the Middle East for the last 75 years. So you said you had to call it out? Now that Israel has killed more than 30,000 civilians, will you not call out also - instead of just saying mildly that "Israel has gone too far".
IF THAT IS SO then why h@m@zz keelled/keednap FOREIGN NAITONALS (Thais, Filipinos, Nepalese, Tanzanian, Argentinian, etc) whose countries got nothing to do with middle east last 75 years conflict?
Since you want to talk about historical context, why limit it to 75 years? Want to talk about who should own that piece of land from antiquity instead? The Muslim faith was founded in Arabia, and it expanded via military conquest since 7th Century. No shortage of deaths and killings along the way. More than 30,000 to say the least. What justifies that? Why are Muslims and Arabs allowed to occupy land outside of the Arabian peninsula, if we think of all wars and occupations as unjust? Maybe resurrect & ask the Byzantines & Sassanid Persians who were invaded by them, see if they want to acknowledge Judea/Israel/Palestine (whatever you want to call that piece of land) as Muslim territory. The issue is much deeper and complex - frankly in all likelihood we'd have settled on other planets before this issue is resolved. Why make it our problem here in Singapore when those people there have been fighting for thousands of years, not just 75 as you so claim.
2 state solution with freedom to sovereignty is ideal... but let's not forget that there are people still today in the region and our nearby neighbours who still want a total abolishment of Israel as a nation... so how?
Samuel P. Huntington wrote a book titles, "The Clash of Civilizations and The Remaking of World Order". Henry Kissingger kssed Huntinton and his book with love which is hatred to non-Judeo-Christian.
@@ZhenYae UN that hires HAMAS ? Oh please...Oh wait. UN did not say anything. What ever the IDF 'gone too far', the IDF spokesperson said they will look into it and punished if they found anything.
@ZhenYae Unfortunately, what I smoke is totally illegal. The drug I smoke is called 'Truth'. Where I think you are taking the government approved 'prop-per-gender'.
Just love this fella's charm and story telling skills and hand gestures. He's the man! Let's just focus on ourselves SGreans. Yes it is unfair, the world is unfair depending on if you are at the receiving end, unless Allah or God appears and end everything. If not, life goes on.
Someone has to lead good change and break free from the unchangeable past. The bible tells the story of David and Goliath, David was made king by Samuel because of his courage, faith and righteous cause. But it upset Saul as he felt he was better than David. Saul was plagued with jealousy and wanted to kill David. Goliath’s pride led to his fall. The word ‘devil’ in the scriptures is the opposite of god, the personification of evil, it has nothing. The devil in moral philosophy are the negative traits like jealousy, hatred, greed, sloth etc. The historical Pythagoras “ created a cult-like following that advocated that the universe was made up of numbers” and was not in support of democracy. Plato, a student of Socrates said, the “physical world is not really the real world” but illusion. Aristotle searched to define function, classification and hierarchy. Socrates promoted the question and answer method to validate democracy but he was put on trial and death. We live on this unchangeable past of good, evil, right and wrong. But, there is opportunity for each individual in this era , like David to choose what is right. Pythagoras’s dislike for words too needs change. The Tamils have an idiom, “Yennum elithum kann yena thaghum” it means numbers and words are like the two eyes that allows a single vision. Words through discussion and dialogue must balance numbers to set free from the walls that had been built. Are we at the crossroads of civilisation? The world perhaps has gone through this multiple times and life is still pursued.
I don't think Singapore foreign policy is supported by majority of Singaporeans at all. We are allied with Islamophohic and Sinophobic powers. How to gain support by majority Singaporeans? It is a joke.
Do you know what it means by W@R? Self Defence IS NOT sitting🦆. It means Offensive and defeating your enemy. Capturing their land. Occupying their land.
@@yusufbest4475 because of bias against Israel. Just ask yourself 1. WHY none of them spending time condemning h@m@zzz for their terror act and keednaping their citizens like Filipinos, Thais, Germans, French, Brazilian, Argentinian, Russian, Nepalese… 2. WHAT those Geneva members will do IF their neighboring countries do “0kto07” to them plus taken 200+ h0stages and go back to hide. You mean they will just do nothing if their militaries are stronger. They will do the same!
@@yusufbest4475 Geneva convention refuse to condemn h@m@zzz atrocities 1)even though h@m@zz promised Israel more 0kt07. 2)H@m@zz keelled/keednaped foreign nationals whose countries got nothing to do wth 1947 conflict! Yet no w@r crime for H@m@zzz. w@r crime 0nly Israel! Something wr00ng wth the Genev@
@@yusufbest4475 Hostage-taking, murder and torture are explicitly banned under the Geneva Conventions International humanitarian law forbids the use of human shields and it is considered a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions.
Humanity aid is not wrong to help. This is not side to any country whether Israel or Palestine. The truth is Israel is over the rule and law war. (Israel war very far different if Compared to Russia and Ukraine war)
@@chrischow9085 How could it be China's military causing tension when you have US and European warships sailing up and down the South China Sea 10,000 miles away from America?
@@bobafett5757 So you have cleared 100% of the ants and cockroaches in your house? Similar to the T@libans hiding in the mountains, when the troops withdraw, they came running out. There were rumors about the tunnels underground G@Z@ but no one really knows the extend of it [except H@M@S], some even say it goes under Egypt/Israel. Even the UNRWA building contains H@M@S tunnels, but apparently none of the staff knows anything about it, I guess they dig the tunnels really silently. It's a pretty densely packed area and there are so many civilians there, even H@M@S asked the civilians NOT to leave when Israel asked them to. Have you served in the military? Cause it ain't easy to plan and execute such an operation. Urban ops is tough no matter the country doing it. Even in the North of G@ZA, after "clearing" it, there are still cells of H@M@S every now and then [some rockets were shot from there]. Now that there are less place for the terrorist to hide, Israel managed to rescue a few hostages not that long ago. Though I believe Isr@el could still do more to reduce harm to civilians.
So is Hamas decades long bombardment of Israel with rockets going too far? In Singapores view, what would be a reasonable response to this bombardment and Oct 7?
How about the decades-long illegal occupation of Palestine?? Or the indefinite incarceration of thousands of Palestinians? The killing of Palestinians with impunity by Israelis??
The "Two state solution" is dead, Hamas made sure of that. Hamas made sure that everyone got that message. Anyone who doesn't have thier head in the sand can notice it. The "two state solution" has been going on from sometime now, why not try something different, just tell them that there is only a "one state solution" and that the Arab states will have to absorb all the Palestinians from Gaza and West Bank. Just like they expect Europe to absorb all migrants. Once you say that, you will get a response from your "allies" like Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Turkey and Egypt about what they actually think on the subject. Right now they have been speaking from both sides of the mouth. America should learn one thing from the mistakes of the British Empire and *not do things out of scorn*. There is no Two state solution. A "Palestinians State" is a fantasy of really stupid and Naive people. It will become a new Pakistan and a new launch pad for the Hamas,Hezbollah, lions den, and islamic jihad. The governing ideology of countries like Qatar is Muslim brotherhood why don't they absorb the Palestinians rather than using it as a political pawn in thier game against Israel for propaganda purposes.
just wait for the law minister to give his perspective - the same way the law minister did with the sanction singapore imposed on russia. they all knew about the genocide in donbass. - hoping that singaporeans do not.
What will happen if Malaysia and Indonesia close the straits of Malacca to all Israeli ships? Public pressure in this countries might cause this outcome. It's better for the FM to condemn Israel for the Genocide and then recognize Palestine as all ASEAN countries have done. The minister is lost.
@@pearlyung only close to Israeli ships like the red sea. Singapore must decide either break with Israel or recognize the state of Palestine. The latter is a reasonable choice. But why Singapore is NOT following logic but playing mental gymnastics?
Bring back george yeo as fm.not a blindly pro usa fm who dont understand china socioeconomic culture.not good for a small red dot if u blindly antagonise china like lit tau wan just to appease ur godfather usa
@chrischow9085 Who is going to hold the minister accountable? You are not, using FICA, obviously. But, you can demand from him the answer that there is indeed no genocide in Gaza when the Law Minister surfaces soon enough to clarify there is indeed one as per the UN Charter. ... Go Fish. Are NSMans trained to commit the same type of atrocities using SAF doctrine? You wish.
All the global trends, all the international developments are all against West and Israel, and yet Singapore is allied with them. This is a BIG problem.
🤔great, CNA should invite Palestinians representative too in show someday. thank you for enlightens about history which only starts from 7th of October. great sir.
*Wondering if hes well informed about that more than hundred innocent and starving civilians got killed by a heartless regime while waiting at the food truck*
@@chrischow9085 And the Law Minister believes in collective punishment for Singaporeans.All 9 generations removed. Let him speak. And He will soon enough.
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Why is Singapore severing ties with Russia in Russia-Ukraine war.
Are we not suppose to remain impartial?
India in BRICS, India in QUAD. What do you think is the opinion the world has for the Indians.
Singapore image was severely damaged by sanctions on Russia. I think U.S. pressured us on that. Singapore is too dependent on U.S. in finance and military arms. After the sanctions on Russia, Singapore came to be seen as U.S. running dog.
@@ZhenYae India plays both sides. Good for them. Singapore is too small a country to try that.
@@petervote7914 The duplicitous nature of Indians is not lost on the world. Singaporeans included.
@@petervote7914 Duplicitous nature very well understood. No exception there.
I am writing this on 19th of April, after Iran's drone attacks on Israel. Singapore has issued a statement, condemning the Iranian attacks.
I am asking why Singapore was silent when Israel attacked the Iranian consulate in Damascus.
Singapore by default is completely irrelevant on the world stage. Whether they side with this side or that side doesn't affect the parties in conflict. But it can hurt them very much.
So they goes wherever the wind blows, even if it's morally disgusting. That's life.
The problem with calling things as terrorism on oct 7 is the fact that people do not want to look at the ENTIRETY of the events that happened on that day. When Israel made the claims, they were not only questionable but they could not produce evidences to back them up. The media fail to acknowledge on that same day of Israel using helicopters and tanks to attack the Hamas militants which hit their civilians and creating a cross-fire which ultimately kills more civilians as a result. If we want to be objective, then we should see the situation from EVERY ANGLE, and not continuously repeat one side of the story.
Agree with you! same as Palestinians when they made claim of so much thousands😵, they could not produce evidence to back them up. The media fail to acknowledge thousands of FAILED h@m@zz homemade R0kets falled into the poor PA. Not IDF did it.
So on Oct 7th after the event, the only rational thing for Israel to do is to not do anything? LOL
@@chrischow9085 Is that what my comment implies to you? That they shouldn't do anything at all? Do you think what the Singaporean Government said about Israel actions have gone "too far" is true? If not, why?
@@homeblue7667 You are saying that there are military events happening on Oct 7th attack which is suppose to happen right? LOL Or you are expecting nothing on that day? Which is it?
@@chrischow9085 Quote the exact statement in my comment where I said/implied nothing should happen at all on that day. I can wait all day bro
It shows how vulnerable Singapore is and yet wants to voice out her point in terrorism. The biggest tyrant and boogeymen in past 70 years is USA waging endless wars on lies yet I doubt we can ever see Singapore government calling America out on their behavior.
Singapore can't even survive 24hours attack and yet want to guve opinions on world subjects, this PAP think with their ass,just stop embarrassing singapore
Plus in this region too.
Were those who stood up against the Japanese freedom fighters or terrorist?
According to Israel, US and Vivian, definitely terrorist, because there's no justification whatsoever, as long as you attack, you are terrorist. But I know Vivian and SG gov have no better stance in this intense political conflict. US military base is right here...
Those people who stood up didn't commit Oct 7th to Japan did they?
@@chrischow9085 It would be understandable even if they did since armed resistance is enshrined in international law as a legitimate right of oppressed people under military occupation. Then again, you have Chris in your name so evidently a Christian with Zionist sympathies cannot empathize with the plight of Palestinians and the oppression they faced even before October 7.
@@aero.l yeah normal people with a brain don't sympathise with kidnappers. This self deluding oppression narrative can only make sense to those who do not know a single bit of history from that region. Israel is a nation which works as a nation should be. Palestinians has never wanted a nation or land for that matter. The only reason for these Palestinians to exist is to oppose a state in the middle east which isn't under Muslim rule. Which is rather pathetic if your nation's motto is based solely on that and never once on it's citizens.
As usual, they always trying to cover up after a stupid statements they have made
Politicians like to use a lot of feel-good words like constructive, consensus, pragmatic, win-win solution...
perhaps u would like to live in an unconstructive, dictarotorial, dogmatic, lose-lose situation Singapore
@@jun9256 what kltan said is fact, accept it or not.
Do Palestinians who are defending their own land is being called terrorist?
Every oppressor will call their colony who are not obeying them...against them as terrorist,militant,resistance,etc
Fully agree with his views/opinions. Singapore has a 1st class Foreign Minister.
Acting Award...😊
Did the attack on Oct 7 happen in a vacuum? I expected the Americans and Europeans to ignore 75 years of oppression and brutal treatments of Palestinians by the israeli, but Singapore? Expected more empathy.
Whatever that happened in the past 75 years does not make the Oct 7 attack correct. I think Singapore took this stance months ago. Were you following?
What about foreign interference from Western countries? 😂
Precisely. The so-called "Singapore is not and does not take sides" is intellectual dishonesty. What it meant is, don't disbelieve the US, don't distrust the US so we aren't taking the side of ANTI-US. On the other hand, cannot speak the truth regarding China as that will mean we are taking the side of China. Unfortunately LKY wasn't able to live till 100 unlike his friend Kissinger. Else he would have slapped the current Cabinet, maybe including his son, for making the wrong judgement on the international scene.
they are not even a fraction of the wide spread Chinese influence right now.
China have put spies in Singapore. Singapore have caught 1 already
@@keithng5249 usual response from a brainwashed person.
Could not agree more. @@KQ0909. IT could also be an American CIA operation to use the Chinese identity to divide Singapore. - Very soon, being Chinese is crime. CECANS are more likely the agents of the collective west.
Think CECA
Think FTs
Think can you trust this Govt
The USA, the collective west, have found their agents in Singapore. - No Chinese will work for the West to undermine Singapore.
PAP have deviate from its beginning, or just they remodel
@@aloyd6157 Woke..DEI is killing the West under Western Dictatorship. Singapore has been infiltrated.
@@aloyd6157 LET HIM SPEAK vis is vis the Genocide in Xinjiang alleged by the West vs those at Gaza. WHAT A KLOWN.
@@ZhenYae So you not agreeing with him must make you a klown too right?
hamas knew this was the expected outcome, so why did they continue the terror attacks?
were they expecting israel to serve tea and give back their land?
ok ok im gonna be real here. Both leaderships are in the wrong.
Yep, ur right, hamas should not have attacked in the first place. They used extreme means to take back their land in the wrong way and now the people (most who btw don't vote for them as more than half of the population are children)
However, Israel is also in the wrong for a few things. Number 1, they knew that an attack by Hamas was gonna happen. They received warnings from countries like Egypt that Hamas was preparing to strike, but they chose to ignore it.
Number 2, Israel CONTROLS who enters and exits Palestine by heavily monitoring the border, which makes u wonder, how tf was Hamas even able to enter Israel?
Number 3, Israel messed up big time with their treatment of the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank, cutting off food, water, and electricity. Moreover, they have been setting up illegal settlements and chasing more Palestinians out of their homeland. Lastly, the brutality and cruelty of the IDF has been broadcast worldwide, countless videos of the IDF brutally treating the people of Palestine.
Israel has been harassing Palestinians (to put it mildly) since 1948, and suddenly acts surprised when Palestinians retaliated.
Where has my earlier comment gone? So much for free speech.
Let me rephrase my earlier comment: Isr**l has been harrasing P**** (to put it mildly) since 1948, and suddenly acts surprised when P**** retaliated.
Wow the oppressor is talking...remember only the 7th Oct chapter but forgot about the first chapter in 1948....
1 man's missionary school is another man's re-education centre. Newspapers and traditional media are mostly a loss-making business yet we have Anglo and small hat oligarchs pumping money into it. Hmm..
29-2-2023 104 people died and 760 people were injured of Palestinians were reported this morning by Israeli forces at an aid distribution point in northern Gaza.
A military source confirmed Israeli soldiers opened fire and claimed the group was a "threat" as they approached.
I disagree with minister Vivian Balakrishnan that the Palestinian uprising on 7 October 2023 was terrorism. It was a military operation with military objectives, and the Hamas fighters headed for military targets.
The Palestinians have every right to free themselves from 75 years of brutal Israeli oppression, occupation, colonialism, apartheid, land grab, calorie restriction; and other crimes against humanity.
Why isn't Hamas concern about this all?
It’s not about importing foreign issues.
We should stand with the suffering, and speak up against atrocities against women and children.
Genocide should be strongly condemned.
As a non Muslim, Chinese Christian I will not hesitate to Condemn Israel ‘s occupation and continued theft of lands and houses of inhabitants of the Middle East who were there long before the Poles the Germans and the white Anglo Saxon immigrants from USA Australia UK Canada and Europe migrated there in droves.
FREE PALESTINE!!
You got no clue about UN Resolution-181 in 1947... you just echo whatever you hear. Go do some research what was happening first.
Israel does have a right of self defense against any other state (like USA or UK or Iran) but they cannot do so on a threat that is emerging from a territory that is under illegal occupation of Israel (in this case Palestinian territories) - Article 51 charter of the United Nations
Self defence don't apply to colonisers. That's like saying the Japanese imperial forces have the right to self defence when they are under attack by angry locals.
United nation areas corrupted as PAP
@@finnhauser The Chinese, Russians, the Singaporeans have their rights to self defence AGAINST WHITE COLONIAL RULES BASED HUBRIS.N
@@finnhauserdoesn’t matter. Israel are not colonizers
Since Palestinian has never accepted land, it wouldn't be considered as an occupation.
Don't bring other countries issues to Sg
Why sanction Russia when the btrd Americans and Europeans have done far worse and this clown FM does not call them out. - out of national interest.
I beg to differ from the Minister's labelling Oct 7 as an act of terrorism. GAZA is OCCUPIED territory by Israel.
Gazans have every right to defend their territory and to reclaim their land from the terrorists occupying it.
The minister should think about the situation that should his family home be occupied by intruders leaving him and his family holed up in only one small room. Would he call his fighting back to reclaim his home an act of terrorism?
You can only claim Intrusion when you have land to start with.
Exactly
Oct 7 was an act of terrorism as the entire operation was well planned by Hamas to target Civilians.
If the Singapore FM condemn Hamas for October 7 then it's alright for him to condemn Israel for ongoing Gaza Genocide. Instead he used the phrase Israel has gone 'too far'. He should put sanctions on Israel like he put on Russia.
@@Majeed54713 So we should condemn Japan's bombing of Singapore and also USA dropping of two atom bomb that ended WWII?
"National Interest" is the ultimate excuse. I wont call it the wild card. But i asked A.I. who determines its definition
❤❤❤🫡🫡🫡 your allegiance is to Singapore, as a Singaporean
Why is Singapore not using Huawei when it's the best? It's going against Singapore's national interest. Iswaran rejected Huawei without any explanation.
SG will align what the US views or direction is heading. I think US navy ship can dock at Singapore, right?
Their US warships usually dock at sembawang there. If taxi uncle got a booking along Deptford road means they fetching these navals to orchard towers. 😅
*Indeed we all are living in this dangerous world so dont worry be happy ok*
Simpleton lectures again..
Sure we drink our milk and sleep well every nite..No worries..LOL
@@tonykiang9052 And stare on Blank Space 😁
Enough playing politics when people are dying.. Remember those who stood & fought even with their bare hands without firearms against atrocities of killing or burying villages alive etc. regardless of race forcing them to join their political ideology during the 60's in the jungles of Malaya.. just saying no offence meant anyway..
6:43 Question was not answered. 🙄🙄
He says Israel has gone too far and he calls himself a Christian. God says He will bless those who blessed Israel and will curse those who cursed Israel.
Everyone who thinks it all start on 7th oct, forget about 1948, go a deep dive on the deir yassen mass acre, the tan tura mass acre, etc etc.
U have no idea what r u talking about.
Arabs started the war on 48😂
Dont forget Hebron massacare in 1929
Whenever it started, it does not make the 7 Oct attack correct. This stance of Singapore was taken months ago. Please follow with the developments
Just say singapore is against apartheid as well as against terrorism.
When Singapore ministers - be they full ministers or ministers of state (senior or not) use the phrase "rule-based international order", they know that they clearly meant it in the same meaning as what US politicians such as Antony Blinken says. Which is, this "international order" is, if it's the US winning, it's THE ORDER. If it's the US losing, then it's NOT in compliance with the "international order"
Rules based order. F.THEM. More like Whyte colonial rules. All the International Organizations are designed to maintain Whyte Western Dominance.
So instead we should based it on Saudi or China?
@@chrischow9085 Hahaha, loaded question (as usual from such people).
To be based on present international order, which was built by the US and also currently unrecognised by the US themselves because they can no longer compete within those rules. So the US wants to rewrite those rules.
When number of gold medals at Olympics cannot be used to declare the US is number 1 (almost happened, didn't happen on the final day), the US will change the rules to use "total number of medals won).
I can cite an example each time you try to rebuke
@@KQ0909 So you admit to them making the international laws which means that they are the super power now. And you think Singapore should not take their side? So whose side should Singapore take instead? The Saudis or China? Enlighten me.
Put Singapore first. This is a problem even before 1965.
The crux in cross borders loyalties can be found in religion. Catholic , Islamic, Jewish , are key groups.
Some mentions are needed.
Another hypocrite who doesn't even know geography. He didn't know that part of Russia is in Europe and some part is in Asia.
Clown Act...The Americans are dumbed down. -Singaporeans are no different.
It's completely dishonest to consider only 2% of history.
Frustrated by confusing & contradictory information, I researched the history of the land we call Israel and Palestine today. Who lived on it first?
Israelites lived in this land 1,658 years before the ancestors of Palestinians. Palestinian ancestral land is the Arabian Peninsula. ‘Palestinian’ is a modern word from the 20th century.
"Syria Palaestina” was the name given by the Romans to Judea after the Bar Kochba revolt, although the name's origins go back even further, being based on the term 'Philistine', the name for a land that at the time belonged to a people who were no longer extant, not as a people nor a political entity
Only the Canaanites and Philistine predate the Israelites. The descendants of Canaanites and Philistine is complex and not entirely resolved
The Israelites arrived C1300 BCE and established the Israelite Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. The Kingdom of Israel fell to the Assyrians in 722 BC, while the Kingdom of Judah was conquered by the Babylonians in 586 BCE.
Next the land changed hands many times, until Arab Muslims conquered it in 638 CE and established an Islamic Caliphate. The Arab population, increasingly identifying as Palestinian particularly in the 20th century, has been a significant part of the social and cultural fabric of the area, especially during the periods of Islamic rule and the Ottoman Empire.
A timeline:
Canaanite Period (c. 3000 - 1200 BCE): The earliest known inhabitants were Canaanites, a Semitic-speaking people.
Philistine Period (c. 1175 - 604 BCE): Philistines settled along the coastal areas, mostly in the Gaza Strip.
Israelite Kingdoms (c. 1020 - 586 BCE): The Israelites, also a Semitic-speaking people, established the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
Assyrian and Babylonian Periods (722 - 539 BCE): Assyrians and Babylonians conquered the region.
Persian Period (539 - 332 BCE): Persia conquered the Babylonian empire, including this area. The Persians later reinstated Israel as a country.
Hellenistic Period (332 - 167 BCE): Conquest by Alexander the Great, followed by the Ptolemaic and Seleucid rules.
Hasmonean Kingdom (167 - 37 BCE): Jewish rule restored after the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucids.
Roman Period (63 BCE - 324 CE): The area became a part of the Roman Empire, with Israel remaining a kingdom within that empire, with Rome appointing the king, until AD 44.
Bar Kochba Period (132 CE - 136 CE): Simon bar Kochba let a Jewish revolt and for a short time revived Jewish sovereignty over land, until it was brutally crushed by the Roman Emperor Hadrian, who renamed Judea as Syria Palaestina to remove any trace of Jewish connection to the land.
Byzantine Period (324 - 638 CE): Christian rule under the Byzantine Empire.
Islamic Caliphate Era (638 CE - 1099 CE): Arab Muslims conquered Jerusalem in 638 CE, introducing Arab rule and Islamic culture to the region. Arabic gradually replaced Aramaic and Greek as the dominant language.
Crusader Period (1099 - 1187 CE): European Christians captured Jerusalem and established the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Ayyubid and Mamluk Periods (1187 - 1516 CE): Saladin, a Kurdish Muslim leader, defeated the Crusaders. The Mamluks, who were of various ethnicities including Turkic and Circassian, succeeded the Ayyubids.
Ottoman Period (1516 - 1917 CE): The Ottoman Turks controlled the region, and the Arab populace lived under Ottoman rule.
British Mandate (1917 - 1948 CE): British control after World War I. Increased Jewish immigration leads to tensions between Jews and Arabs.
State of Israel (1948 - Present): Established in 1948, leading to ongoing conflicts with Arab Palestinians.
The ‘West Bank' is in fact ancient Judea, the land of the Jews. The 'Philistines' lived along the southwest coastline, nowhere near the Judean hills.
But with all this, there has never been a Palestinian state.
No wonder, he keep repeating the phrase calling a spade a spade. Indeed it is a SPADE!
Shovel, same same. Singaporeans never had the privilege of having a Chinese FM.
@@ZhenYae Is it because I am a Chinese? LOL
@@chrischow9085 That is how C.A. want it to happen. The Yellow Peril is a threat to the Chinese...Your endorsement is not missed.
The 'West Bank' is Judea, the ancient land of the Jews.
The Jews are from Judea, where the Judean mountains runs along the spine of Israel, where the tribe of Judah had its tribal allotment. The Jews are the native people of the Holy Land. The ‘Philistines’ came from the Greek Isles, originally; these modern ‘Palestinians’ have no relation to them at all. They are Persian, Egyptian, Bedouin, Turkish, Syrian, & Arabian, mostly.
The term 'West Bank' is a modern term with no historical significance. There was never a country called 'Jordan' before the modern state of Jordan was created out of whole cloth by Great Britain using 75% of the 'mandate for Palestine'.
No choice here, Israel had helped Singapore alot and Singapore have to pay back with unconditional support like U.S and U.K.
You know why INDIA is in BRICS and QUAD....what do you think is the world's opinion on that?! How handy it must be for the collective west to have cecan in Singapore to divide and rule Singapore. Chinese in Singapore will do no such thing.
It's not about India, Brics or Quad here
We can state our stand till the cows come home but the key to resolution still lies between Israel and the Palestinians. Neither party will budge, both want all or none. If the conflict continues without an end in sight, for how long should we send aid? If both sides decide to annihilate each other, will we be forced to take sides and if we do not, do we stop sending aid when neither side refuse to take responsibility for their own peoples? Aren’t we being drawn into this external quarrel? Sure, we can help while it remains a humanitarian crisis, but when the dust settles, aid has to come with conditions. I think the key in all this rhetoric is how our actions serve our own interests.
Thanks for telling us what we all know
America and Britain have huge influence in Singapore.
Singapore is also tied to America through it's military industrial complex.
Singapore cannot have an independent foreign policy even if it wants to.
But, there are demographics realities as well, most Singapore trace thier heritage back to China, 75 percent identity as Chinese and feel kinship to it.
When China Grows and outpaces the united states and becomes the number 1 and the most dominant economy of the world, the political reality, the geographical reality and the demographic reality will kick in Singapore politics and they'll have to make a choice and move away from the west and align itself with Regional powers in the East.
Not to mention China is slowly creating a Monroe doctrine of it's own.
The only curious case is Japan and world war 2 legacy seem to weigh heavy on them.
I think they will stay with the West powers and try to act as a western bulwark in the East, much like the way Israel acts as a western bulwark in the middle East.
Go write a book....somewhere else
I bet that would bother you even more.
Singapore 🇸🇬 needs to *distance* itself from the regime in Beijing🇨🇳.
- It's for national security and economy growth.
@ArabicReja also calling himself lastChang. Don't talk cock.
Yes Your Highness, self-appointed King of Singapore 🤡
Computer Generated Comment.
Follow the law of the country.
Promote Bystander effect (ie Ga.za) as the Collective West persists with their national interest to demonize the Chinese, to halt the rise of a multipolar world. How will FICA apply to Singaporeans, all SINGAPOREANS spewing the Western Rules Based Order narratives? 😊
Self Defence my foot! Occupied Land. What's u expected from Mama Minister. DOUBLE tongue 😊
If Israel is occupied land so is Lebanon, Syria and Jordon.
@@chrischow9085
Where was Israel state before 1948???...😂😂😂
@@ritadonita144 Where was Palestine before 1948? LOL
@@chrischow9085
It was there...another person who never learn the historical facts!!..🤣🤣🤣
@@chrischow9085
Before 1948, PALESTINE was home to a diverse population of Arabs, Jews, and Christians, as all groups had religious ties to the area, especially the city of Jerusalem. The land itself was under the control of various empires, such as the Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, and eventually the Islamic Caliphate and the Ottoman Empire.
On MAY 14, 1948, the STATE of ISRAEL was established, marking the end of British rule in Palestine. This event triggered the first Arab-Israeli War, involving neighboring Arab countries, which ultimately led to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs.
READ THE HISTORICAL FACTS!!...👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻
He nailed it. Hope all get the message crystal clear.
Singapore identity first but the pap puts foreign identity first in singapore as ysual to gain votes .
Which foreign identity did PAP put up as?
@@chrischow9085, example endia and all foreign entities , even our secretive endia minister mentor are number 1 singaporeans last .
@@chrischow9085 ceca entity are first .
Then why did Singapore sanction Russia? Didn't they act out on self-defense as well?
Russia is the aggressor. 😂
Have the right to defend itself against civilians
Always start by breathing as loud as possible, through your mouth.
I am not interest to be sponsorship for singaporean.
singapore is the most tolerance of diversity in race and religious ❤
Except for the way Russian protects its self-interest Singapore must sanction the Russian people. That is WHAT sanction does. To cause hardship and cause the Balkanization of Russia. Utter BS.
Conversation should not be lsrael and Hamas but lsrael & Palestine.
@@mohamedkamalabdulrahim7223 Got to follow the Western Narrative. Seeds of doubt planted. West BANK Palestinians are no better under their so-called American, Xreal led rules based international order. It gives the FM opportunity to FRAME the debacle as one fighting terrorists and collaborators.
@@mohamedkamalabdulrahim7223 To mention HAMAS in the same sentence will give all the lackeys justification of genocide against terrorists although it is a legitimate government.
@@ZhenYaeso we should side with the invaders?
What is the rules based order? what rules are you talking about? complete nonsense.
Hello! Did you hear the UN chief saying that the October 7 Hamas attack did not occur in a vacuum? Did you?
That is the truth if you ponder on the history of the Middle East for the last 75 years. So you said you had to
call it out? Now that Israel has killed more than 30,000 civilians, will you not call out also - instead of
just saying mildly that "Israel has gone too far".
IF THAT IS SO then why h@m@zz keelled/keednap FOREIGN NAITONALS (Thais, Filipinos, Nepalese, Tanzanian, Argentinian, etc) whose countries got nothing to do with middle east last 75 years conflict?
Since you want to talk about historical context, why limit it to 75 years?
Want to talk about who should own that piece of land from antiquity instead?
The Muslim faith was founded in Arabia, and it expanded via military conquest since 7th Century. No shortage of deaths and killings along the way. More than 30,000 to say the least.
What justifies that? Why are Muslims and Arabs allowed to occupy land outside of the Arabian peninsula, if we think of all wars and occupations as unjust?
Maybe resurrect & ask the Byzantines & Sassanid Persians who were invaded by them, see if they want to acknowledge Judea/Israel/Palestine (whatever you want to call that piece of land) as Muslim territory.
The issue is much deeper and complex - frankly in all likelihood we'd have settled on other planets before this issue is resolved. Why make it our problem here in Singapore when those people there have been fighting for thousands of years, not just 75 as you so claim.
I see lack of justice in Singapore governance.
Have the right to defend itself against woman
2 state solution with freedom to sovereignty is ideal... but let's not forget that there are people still today in the region and our nearby neighbours who still want a total abolishment of Israel as a nation... so how?
Big brother of Israel in south east Asia....So Palestine hv no rights to self defend ?
It's not self defense if Palestine is the aggressor.
Please continue to support the Palestinian people. Especially people in the Gaza Strip.
WHAT "DIVERSITY"???
here theres only 2 groups!
"RICH AND CONNECTED",
or "poor and exploited"!!!
Singapore has always idolizes Israel.
sitting on the fence means sitting the fence dear minister.
Which part of Singapore does not take sides don't you understand?
Samuel P. Huntington wrote a book titles, "The Clash of Civilizations and The Remaking of World Order". Henry Kissingger kssed Huntinton and his book with love which is hatred to non-Judeo-Christian.
Is Singapore scared of the US? Yeah... Why?
Rom.8:28 ; 11: 25-28. Zec. 12:3. All scriptures must and will be fulfilled. There is no peace in this, accept in Jn. 16:33. Peace only ' In Christ '.
Rubbish talks.
Give proof that IDF gone too far.
@@1968gadgetyo IT IS FROM THE UN.
@@ZhenYae UN that hires HAMAS ? Oh please...Oh wait. UN did not say anything. What ever the IDF 'gone too far', the IDF spokesperson said they will look into it and punished if they found anything.
@@1968gadgetyo What are you smoking? Is it legal in Singapore.
@ZhenYae Unfortunately, what I smoke is totally illegal. The drug I smoke is called 'Truth'. Where I think you are taking the government approved 'prop-per-gender'.
Judeo-Christians are not superior to Humankind. We are equal.
Well said minister ❤
Just love this fella's charm and story telling skills and hand gestures. He's the man! Let's just focus on ourselves SGreans. Yes it is unfair, the world is unfair depending on if you are at the receiving end, unless Allah or God appears and end everything. If not, life goes on.
The rule based international order made our foreign policy absolutely foreign.
Which means that your support of the Palestinians must also be considered a foreign order as well.
Send him abroad...😊😊
Poda...... Are you going to condemn the attack by Israeli soldiers on Palestinians waiting to collect food?
You mean hamas trying to steal aid from their own people.
Why does a Minister talk about Morality, when he himself is having none of it -- Remember Ridout ?...
We are Singapoeean & Asian ....
Good answer ❤
Have the right to defend itself against children
Singapore is wise enough and mature .
Someone has to lead good change and break free from the unchangeable past.
The bible tells the story of David and Goliath, David was made king by Samuel because of his courage, faith and righteous cause. But it upset Saul as he felt he was better than David. Saul was plagued with jealousy and wanted to kill David. Goliath’s pride led to his fall.
The word ‘devil’ in the scriptures is the opposite of god, the personification of evil, it has nothing. The devil in moral philosophy are the negative traits like jealousy, hatred, greed, sloth etc.
The historical Pythagoras “ created a cult-like following that advocated that the universe was made up of numbers” and was not in support of democracy.
Plato, a student of Socrates said, the “physical world is not really the real world” but illusion.
Aristotle searched to define function, classification and hierarchy.
Socrates promoted the question and answer method to validate democracy but he was put on trial and death.
We live on this unchangeable past of good, evil, right and wrong.
But, there is opportunity for each individual in this era , like David to choose what is right.
Pythagoras’s dislike for words too needs change. The Tamils have an idiom, “Yennum elithum kann yena thaghum” it means numbers and words are like the two eyes that allows a single vision.
Words through discussion and dialogue must balance numbers to set free from the walls that had been built.
Are we at the crossroads of civilisation? The world perhaps has gone through this multiple times and life is still pursued.
Your stance was: let's wait for the dust to settle, and then wait for investigation, in the meantime, our condolences. That was 20,000 lives ago.
Ridout
Yes,while you sit inside a big bungalow , it's easy for you to say that!try to put yr place in there! how will be yr reaction then?
Again with the 7th October bs!! 7th October vs 75yrs... u do the maths da deiii!!!!
Like how Israel was continuously attacked by her neighbours for the last 75years?
@@chrischow9085
Ilan Pappe
I'm so disappointed to here this .
He doesn't represent all Singaporeans and definitely not me
I don't think Singapore foreign policy is supported by majority of Singaporeans at all. We are allied with Islamophohic and Sinophobic powers. How to gain support by majority Singaporeans? It is a joke.
Self defence it's OK but y killed the innocent!
Do you know what it means by W@R? Self Defence IS NOT sitting🦆. It means Offensive and defeating your enemy. Capturing their land. Occupying their land.
@@2589003 there is a geneva convention. Israel commit war crimes not war
@@yusufbest4475 because of bias against Israel. Just ask yourself
1. WHY none of them spending time condemning h@m@zzz for their terror act and keednaping their citizens like Filipinos, Thais, Germans, French, Brazilian, Argentinian, Russian, Nepalese…
2. WHAT those Geneva members will do IF their neighboring countries do “0kto07” to them plus taken 200+ h0stages and go back to hide.
You mean they will just do nothing if their militaries are stronger.
They will do the same!
@@yusufbest4475 Geneva convention refuse to condemn h@m@zzz atrocities
1)even though h@m@zz promised Israel more 0kt07.
2)H@m@zz keelled/keednaped foreign nationals whose countries got nothing to do wth 1947 conflict!
Yet no w@r crime for H@m@zzz.
w@r crime 0nly Israel!
Something wr00ng wth the Genev@
@@yusufbest4475
Hostage-taking, murder and torture are explicitly banned under the Geneva Conventions
International humanitarian law forbids the use of human shields and it is considered a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions.
Singapore is like little Israel surrounded by Muslim countries. The enemy is always frm the north but now it is also frm the south
Singapore is not a genocidal country. SAF troops don't kill women and children.
???????????
FEED YOUR HUNGRY????????
Humanity aid is not wrong to help. This is not side to any country whether Israel or Palestine. The truth is Israel is over the rule and law war. (Israel war very far different if Compared to Russia and Ukraine war)
*Honestly we have to be more worried about SCS tension cos that will affect us more*
SCS tension caused by US military activity in South China Sea?
@@ssss8162 China military.
@@chrischow9085
Yep, US aircraft carrier sailing there 24/7. Does US located in SCS?
Hey at least drink more Anlene so your brain will be healthier.
@@chrischow9085 How could it be China's military causing tension when you have US and European warships sailing up and down the South China Sea 10,000 miles away from America?
@@ssss8162 And China warships travelling into Philippines and Vietnam waters doesn't cause any tension right?
*Hope hes aware that is the Palestinians who are suffering from this conflict*
Have you forgotten the hostages and those who have died on both side?
@@user-yb1wt2mq8c Tell me why hostages left stranded for months in Gaza until now hundreds not rescued so why so inefficient ?
@@bobafett5757 So you have cleared 100% of the ants and cockroaches in your house?
Similar to the T@libans hiding in the mountains, when the troops withdraw, they came running out.
There were rumors about the tunnels underground G@Z@ but no one really knows the extend of it [except H@M@S], some even say it goes under Egypt/Israel.
Even the UNRWA building contains H@M@S tunnels, but apparently none of the staff knows anything about it, I guess they dig the tunnels really silently.
It's a pretty densely packed area and there are so many civilians there, even H@M@S asked the civilians NOT to leave when Israel asked them to.
Have you served in the military? Cause it ain't easy to plan and execute such an operation. Urban ops is tough no matter the country doing it. Even in the North of G@ZA, after "clearing" it, there are still cells of H@M@S every now and then [some rockets were shot from there].
Now that there are less place for the terrorist to hide, Israel managed to rescue a few hostages not that long ago. Though I believe Isr@el could still do more to reduce harm to civilians.
@@bobafett5757
Tell me why your friend occupied the land which is not belong to them in the first place??
@@ritadonita144 Then the land belongs to who ?
So is Hamas decades long bombardment of Israel with rockets going too far? In Singapores view, what would be a reasonable response to this bombardment and Oct 7?
How about the decades-long illegal occupation of Palestine?? Or the indefinite incarceration of thousands of Palestinians? The killing of Palestinians with impunity by Israelis??
You came from Mars?
@@redbeansg nope, Pluto
The "Two state solution" is dead, Hamas made sure of that. Hamas made sure that everyone got that message. Anyone who doesn't have thier head in the sand can notice it.
The "two state solution" has been going on from sometime now, why not try something different, just tell them that there is only a "one state solution" and that the Arab states will have to absorb all the Palestinians from Gaza and West Bank. Just like they expect Europe to absorb all migrants.
Once you say that, you will get a response from your "allies" like Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Turkey and Egypt about what they actually think on the subject. Right now they have been speaking from both sides of the mouth.
America should learn one thing from the mistakes of the British Empire and *not do things out of scorn*.
There is no Two state solution.
A "Palestinians State" is a fantasy of really stupid and Naive people.
It will become a new Pakistan and a new launch pad for the Hamas,Hezbollah, lions den, and islamic jihad.
The governing ideology of countries like Qatar is Muslim brotherhood why don't they absorb the Palestinians rather than using it as a political pawn in thier game against Israel for propaganda purposes.
@@redbeansgYou came from Mars? Never knew there were people there.
He is worried
Singapore needs to protect rules of laws and have higher morale.
Yes Your Highness, self-appointed King of Singapore 🤡
What took him so long to come to the conclusion that it went too far? Was it the death toll?
just wait for the law minister to give his perspective - the same way the law minister did with the sanction singapore imposed on russia. they all knew about the genocide in donbass. - hoping that singaporeans do not.
Free trade and international rule base financial center based on USD is Singapore's rice bowl. Follow the rice bowl.
What will happen if Malaysia and Indonesia close the straits of Malacca to all Israeli ships? Public pressure in this countries might cause this outcome. It's better for the FM to condemn Israel for the Genocide and then recognize Palestine as all ASEAN countries have done. The minister is lost.
@@Majeed54713 close it then. Singapore will not be blackmail by anyone.
@@pearlyung only close to Israeli ships like the red sea. Singapore must decide either break with Israel or recognize the state of Palestine. The latter is a reasonable choice. But why Singapore is NOT following logic but playing mental gymnastics?
@@Majeed54713 MFA already explained.
What a load of garbage.
Absolutely..😊😊
Bring back george yeo as fm.not a blindly pro usa fm who dont understand china socioeconomic culture.not good for a small red dot if u blindly antagonise china like lit tau wan just to appease ur godfather usa
So we should instead kiss the behind of China?
Spewing foreign narratives but it is not foreign interference. Who watches the watcher.
@@ZhenYae like you guys spewing foreign narratives?
@chrischow9085 Who is going to hold the minister accountable? You are not, using FICA, obviously. But, you can demand from him the answer that there is indeed no genocide in Gaza when the Law Minister surfaces soon enough to clarify there is indeed one as per the UN Charter. ... Go Fish. Are NSMans trained to commit the same type of atrocities using SAF doctrine? You wish.
@@ZhenYae so you want him to spew your kind of foreign narrative if not he would be wrong. Lol that is again not much of a point is it?
Scared of Jewish money leaving Singapore, right?
Ha ha ha!
Wow...sraight to the point....other reason is to show support to their long friendship since 1965...🫢🫢🫢
@@ritadonita144 Ah long must be happy. What problem does the Law have with them. His runners are well taken care of.
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All the global trends, all the international developments are all against West and Israel, and yet Singapore is allied with them. This is a BIG problem.
🤔great, CNA should invite Palestinians representative too in show someday. thank you for enlightens about history which only starts from 7th of October. great sir.
Yeah it is bias...they are only discussing the 7th Oct incident but forgot the 1948 incident....
What a hypocrisy...🫢🫢🫢
Invite Russians from the Donbass too. CNA went to Ukraine, ForF.
@@ritadonita144 it is the CIA directive. !!!
@@ZhenYae
Hmmm...🤔
@@ritadonita144 Singaporeans are not told of the indiscriminate shooting of Palestinians by settlers out to claim land at will in the West bank.
Hamas must stop terror attack before commenting. Support Isreal.
You must start learning historical facts then
@@ritadonita144You ought to take your advice as well.
@@KelvinSG
I DID...DID U?
When you know that your girlfriend is so evil, it is time to break off or be seen as equally evil.
Singapore doesn't have any relationship with Palestine on that level. If anything, we have a closer friendship with Israel. 😂
*Wondering if hes well informed about that more than hundred innocent and starving civilians got killed by a heartless regime while waiting at the food truck*
Or the family of six gunned down by an XREAL tank and had their vehicle crushed under the weight of the tank. What are Singaporeans defending..?!
@@ZhenYae Notorious Xreal so scarry
@@ZhenYaepoor family, should have think through when they voted in hamas.
@@chrischow9085 Keep reeling in the Red Herring.That is what Western Dominance demand of Singaporeans, their toy poodles.
@@chrischow9085 And the Law Minister believes in collective punishment for Singaporeans.All 9 generations removed. Let him speak. And He will soon enough.
Singapore leaders, stop denying the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestinians. Your silence is deafening.
The ethnic cleansing of Russians in Ukraine and many other European countries too. - The Five Eyes Hatred for Russians is also real.
They think no benefits for Singapore...they merely see friends with benefits...🫢🫢🫢
@@ritadonita144 Promoting the Bystander Effect out of Self Interest. Abetting a Crime in Some Legal Circles.
@@ZhenYae
Hmm...🧐🧐🧐
@@ritadonita144 Section 424 CPC.