KUALA LUMPUR - MORE than 2,000 Muslim restaurants in Malaysia will remove Coca-Cola from their menus as part of a boycott of American products in protest against Israel's bombardment of Gaza, officials said on Wednesday.
American companies are being targeted becuase of the US government's support of Israel, which is carrying out a military offensive on Gaza that is says is aimed at stopping rocket attacks from the Hamas-controlled territory.

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and stop watching american idol, survivor, amazing race??

Hahaha...only Coke? There are many other things made in and from America lah! So childish! Typical kampong attitude! Like "don't talk to that neighbor because they refused to go out with us the other day!"

Boycotting coke will not hurt Coca-Cola company at all!! LOL. What is 2,000 restaurants compared to 60,000,000 million others out there?

Apa dah!!

Until 2007, Malaysian Ringgit was still pegged to US Dollars. The pegging of currency was decided during Mahathir time.

Their idiots, coke isn't even that great. Oh wow 2000 are going to boycott what is that like a 100(a Random guess) dollar drop from the original amount of money they make....

MaMor Osman should also know the details of the war in Gaza, or he was told to do so by higher authority? Hidden agendas again. Consumers are consumers. Politicians are politicians. Not all consumers are politicians, but all politicians are consumers. When one is confused, how can one be a leader of any organisation? Malaysia masih bolih ? ya, Malaysia memang bolih, ketuaan Melayu dalam Malaysia bolih lah, di luar Malaysia, mana bolih?


UN School: Media Absolves Hamas

Dear HonestReporting Subscriber,

With Hamas using the civilian population of Gaza as a human shield, we warned in our last communique of the imminent danger of a future mass casualty event and the increased pressure on Israel from media reaction.

With Hamas losing on the battlefield, we posited that the terrorist group would hit back by cynically causing civilian casualties to achieve what it could not do on the battlefield - bringing about intense pressure on Israel to halt its military operation.

Tragically, Palestinian civilians lost their lives on Tuesday as an Israeli tank shell hit a UN school where they were sheltering.

In the past, journalists have complained that Israel has been too slow to present its side of the story to make the print deadlines. This time, the media has no such excuse. With righteous indignation, many media outlets have condemned Israel, choosing to ignore the responsibility that Hamas bears for this tragedy, which becomes clear following an initial IDF investigation into the incident:

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Hamas terrorists fired mortar bombs from the area of the school towards Israeli forces, who returned fire towards the source of the shooting. The Israeli return fire landed outside the school, yet a series of explosions followed, indicating the probable presence of munitions and explosives in the building. Intelligence indicates that among those killed were Immad Abu Iskar and Hassan Abu Iskar, two known Hamas mortar crewmen.
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While the investigation of the incident continues, one crucial detail is already apparent: this tragedy occurred because Hamas consistently uses its own population as human shields. While betting that Israel will hesitate to strike back at areas with civilians present, Hamas covers its bet with the knowledge that should civilians be harmed, Hamas still wins since Israel will be censured by the world's media.

According to the Associated Press, two Palestinian residents said "they saw a small group of militants firing mortar rounds from a street near the school, where 350 people had gathered to get away from the shelling. They spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal."

Make sure that your local media outlet covers this tragic incident fairly and from both sides of the story.

This is not the first time that Palestinian terrorists have abused UN school facilities. Click here or on the button below to see archive footage of Hamas mortar fire from the UN school in Beit Hanoun from October 2007.

Hamas Exploitation of Civilians as Human Shields

This study (completed during the first week of Operation Cast Lead) provides many examples of how Gazan civilians are used as human shields during terrorist attacks against Israel and combat against the IDF.

YNet News also reports that:

civilians are simply used as cannon fodder or human shields. Reports out of Gaza say residents who attempted to flee their homes in the northern area of the Strip were forced to go back at gunpoint, by Hamas men....

Other civilian complaints state that Hamas gunmen pull children along with them "by the ears" from place to place, fearing that if they don't have a child with them they will be fair game to the IDF. Others hide in civilian homes and stairwells, UNRWA ambulances, and mosques.

In other reported cases Hamas gunmen hold civilians hostage in alleyways in order to provide themselves with a living barricade to ward off IDF forces.

Click on the image below to see video footage of an armed Hamas terrorist grabbing an innocent young boy off the street to use as a human shield to save his own life.

Muslims who are spectators and sitting cushy to the conflict are doing absolutely no favour to their fellow Palestinian muslims. Do a boycott like this will only result in making them a laughing stock when it is them (the Palestinians) who are suffering. Honestly! Boycott coke. Okay. So easy. Suss up all the american products that is in their house, computer games, programes, music, car, ipods and burn it all out in protest then!

one word: childish...

Citizens of the world must see the conflict between Hamas and Israel in its right context. Basically it is a battle over a disputed territory and has nothing to do with religion.

Yes we should and must be concern that innocent lives are devastated and this is where our emotion should be confined. Boycott and buring of flags and efigies will not bring reliefs to victims in the war zone thousands of kilometers away. Protesters shouting slogans and marching down their own backyard will not bring the warring parties to the negotiating table. Such behaviours will only distract governmental focus from more important and pressing economic issues.

Religion which is a vital backbone to the civilisation of mankind, personified, hope, love, peace and salvation . But since time immemorial countless wars had been waged in its name. Countless were killed, all in vain. The blood shed will continue as long as the fervent followers steeped in their regliouse beliefs are exposed to exploitation and manipulation..

If only we are able not to let the differences in our religious belief divide us; if only we give ourselves a chance to be bonded by the universal creed of hope, love and salvation, only then will there be world peace.

Boycott coke?

How childish !!! Who cares??? You can boycott anything and everything and the world still goes round !!!