Lebanon-Malaysia-Mahathir
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad called on the international community to halt all transactions in US dollars and pound sterling to pressure Washington and London to end Israeli aggression on Lebanon, Bernama said on Wednesday.
Mahathir, a strong supporter of the Palestinian cause in his 22-year rule before retiring in 2003, said the Israeli aggression would not have been possible without "support and collusion" of United States and Britain.
"I appeal to the world to take this simple action. Reject the dollars and pounds. There will be economic turmoil for the whole world but this is a price we must be prepared to pay , it will be temporary," he said in a statement late Tuesday.
His call comes ahead of an emergency meeting of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) in Malaysia on Thursday.
Mahathir said verbal condemnations are "futile."
"The world is once again forced to watch helplessly Israeli intransigence and brutish ways in Lebanon and Palestine. I do not believe in futile condemnations because they will simply be ignored and it is time for the world to act," he said.
Malaysia is currently holding presidency of the OIC, the world's largest Islamic organization.
El ex primer ministro de Malasia, Mahathir bin Mohamad, ha sugerido, como resultado del apoyo incondicional de Estados Unidos a Israel en el conflicto del Líbano, que el mundo se una en un boicot contra el dólar.

"Llamo al mundo a que tome una acción bastante simple. Rechace los dólares y las libras (esterlinas). Habrá caos económico en todo el mundo pero este es el precio temporal que debemos estar preparados a pagar. Si el mundo es sincero en su ayuda a los libaneses y palestinos, entonces debería rechazar el dólar en el comercio internacional. Cuando la demanda del dólar caiga, los Estados Unidos se debilitarán y perderán la habilidad de actuar como los bravucones de la escena mundial", afirmó bin Mohamad, quien fue primer ministro entre 1981 y 2003.

Mahathir, presidente de la Fundación Perdana del Liderazgo, una organización que propone criminalizar la guerra militar, dijo para referirse al conflicto israelo-libanés que las acusaciones verbales son inútiles, porque van a ser ignoradas.