Walau siapapun penasihat Timbalan Menteri Perdagangan Dalam Negeri, Koperasi dan Kepenggunaan Datuk Ahmad Bashah Md Hanipah ini.. nasihat yang diterima dan disuarakan olehnya ada persamaan dengan kekejaman Regim Yahudi terhadap rakyat Palestin.
Beliau yang juga Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri Bakar Bata di dalam Sidang Dewan Undangan Negeri Kedah semalam,telah mencadangkan agar Kerajaan Kedah menyekat laluan air ke Pulau Pinang.
Kekejaman Israel sememangnya diketahui umum.. antara kekejaman mereka terhadap rakyat Palestine menyekat berbagai bantuan yang disalurkan dari seluruh dunia kepada rakyat Palestin.
Selain itu Amnesty International pernah melaporkan kebiadaban Israel bukan sahaja dengan merampas tanah, malah kini mengawal serta menyekat penggunaan air bersih di bumi Palestin.
Alasan mereka ialah, mereka juga mengalamai masalah yang sama iaitu kekurangan air..
Amnesty International has accused Israel of denying Palestinians the right to access adequate water by maintaining total control over the shared water resources and pursuing discriminatory policies.
These unreasonably restrict the availability of water in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) and prevent the Palestinians developing an effective water infrastructure there.
“Israel allows the Palestinians access to only a fraction of the shared water resources, which lie mostly in the occupied West Bank, while the unlawful Israeli settlements there receive virtually unlimited supplies. In Gaza the Israeli blockade has made an already dire situation worse,” said Donatella Rovera, Amnesty International’s researcher on Israel and the OPT.
In a new extensive report, Amnesty International revealed the extent to which Israel’s discriminatory water policies and practices are denying Palestinians their right to access to water.
Israel uses more than 80 per cent of the water from the Mountain Aquifer, the main source of underground water in Israel and the OPT, while restricting Palestinian access to a mere 20 per cent ~ full report HERE
Sama dengan tujuan Ahmad Bashah untuk menyekat aliran sungai yang membekalkan sumber air bersih buat rakyat Pulau Pinang..
Maka tak hairanlah jika Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang juga menganggap tindakan Ahmad Bashah itu sama dengan tindakan Regime Israel..
GEORGE TOWN, Aug 27 — Penang today saw parallels of “Israel’s cruelty against Palestinians” in a Kedah assemblyman’s proposal to close the tap on water supply from Sungai Muda to the neighbouring state.
Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said the suggestion was “un-Malaysian” and that it was ethically wrong for Kedah to block the natural river flow from going into the state’s land over Penang’s refusal to pay for using raw water from the river.
“The river flows naturally through Penang’s land so we do not have to pay for taking water that flows through our land, but for Kedah to suggest blocking it from flowing to us is cruel just like the Israel’s cruelty against the Palestinians,” he said.
He said the river flow is a God-given resource that Kedah has no right to block. Lim was responding to a proposal made by Bakar Bata State Assemblyman Datuk Ahmad Bashah Md Hanipah in his debate during the state legislative assembly.
Ahmad Bashah had proposed that the Kedah state government stop the river from flowing into Penang if Penang continues to refuse to discuss paying for taking raw water from the river.
Lim said he is still waiting for Kedah Mentri Besar Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir to make an appointment to meet him regarding this issue.
“I have already said that I am willing to meet with Mukhriz any time to discuss this,” he said.
He pointed out that for the past 56 years, there was no issue about Penang taking raw water from the Penang-side of the river that flows down from Kedah but now suddenly Kedah is making an issue out of it.
“The river flows naturally into our state and we are taking it from our side so there should not be an issue at all,” he said ~ Source from HERE
Cadangan bodoh seorang Timbalan Menteri yang dilantik oleh Najib itu juga dibidas oleh Ketua AMK Pulau Pinang, Amir Ghazali melalui satu kenyataan media, katanya..
Saya ingin menarik perhatian berkenaan kenyataan Timbalan Menteri Perdagangan Dalam Negeri, Koperasi dan Kepenggunaan YB Datuk Ahmad Bashah Md Hanipah yang juga Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri Bakar Bata di dalam Sidang Dewan Undangan Negeri Kedah semalam.
Beliau mencadangkan Kerajaan Kedah menyekat laluan air ke Pulau Pinang. Kenyataan YB Datuk Ahmad Bashah adalah satu kenyataan yang dangkal, tetapi turut sama mencerminkan rupa sebenar pemimpin UMNO.
Mereka rela untuk menghukum rakya semata - mata kepentingan politik sempit mereka.
Sebagai seorang Timbalan Menteri beliau bukan sahaja mewakili kepentingan kawasan Bakar Bata sahaja tetapi beliau sepatutnya mewakili seluruh rakyat Malaysia.
Rakyat Pulau Pinang dan Kedah hakikatnya mempunyai mempunyai hak yang sama terhadap air Sungai Muda.
Tidak pernah dalam sejarah penubuhan negara Malaysia semenjak merdeka, hak milik dan soal pembekalan air dari sumber air ini menjadi pertikaian.
Namun menjadi tugas pertama, Menteri Besar baru Kedah adalah untuk menuntut sesuatu yang sangat penting untuk kebajikan rakyat Pulau Pinang, seolah - olah cuba untuk menghukum rakyat Pulau Pinang kerana tidak memilih Barisan Nasional.
Demi kepentingan kesejahteraan rakyat dan kebajikan kedua - dua negeri, saya menggesa agar Menteri Besar Kedah menarik saja balik tuntutan beliau yang tidak berasas, zalim dan tidak berperikemanusiaan ini.
Amir Ghazali
Ketua Angkatan Muda Keadilan
Pulau Pinang
Hang pakai Najib punya penasihat ka Mad Bashah??