Ketua Pergerakan Pemuda UMNO, Khairy Jamaluddin yang mendedahkan pembohongan Anwar itu berkata, firma perunding komunikasi global, Apco Worldwide (Apco) yang dikaitkan terlibat dalam pembentukan 1Israel telah pun membuat penafian.
''Apco dalam kenyataan hari ini menafikan dakwaan Anwar itu dan menegaskan bahawa gagasan 1Malaysia telah diilhamkan sendiri oleh Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak sebelum firma perunding berkenaan dilantik untuk memberi sokongan komunikasi kepada kerajaan Malaysia.
''Firma perunding ini juga menafikan bahawa ia mewakili kerajaan Israel atau Perdana Menterinya, Ehud Barak dan turut menjelaskan ia tidak terlibat dengan kempen 1Israel," katanya pada sidang akhbar di lobi Parlimen di sini hari ini.
Pada sidang akhbar yang turut dihadiri Ahli Parlimen Pontian yang juga Ketua Penerangan UMNO, Datuk Ahmad Maslan, Khairy mengedarkan kepada wartawan kenyataan akhbar oleh Apco yang beribu pejabat di Washington, Amerika Syarikat dan mempunyai 29 pejabat cawangan di seluruh dunia.
Apco dilantik oleh kerajaan Malaysia sebagai firma perunding bagi membantunya berkomunikasi menerusi media bentuk baru.
Ketika berucap menyokong usul menjunjung kasih di atas titah ucapan Yang di-Pertuan Agong di Dewan Rakyat semalam, Anwar mendakwa konsep 1Malaysia diilhamkan oleh Apco yang merupakan sebuah firma perunding negara itu yang turut mengutarakan konsep 1Israel.
Khairy yang juga Ahli Parlimen Rembau menegaskan, Anwar perlu menarik balik dakwaannya dan meminta maaf kepada kerajaan Malaysia dan Najib kerana membuat tuduhan melulu.
''Sekiranya beliau masih bertegas dengan dakwaan ini, Anwar tidak harus berselindung di sebalik kekebalan ahli Parlimen dengan mengulang balik retorik politiknya di luar Dewan.
''Ini bagi membolehkan tindakan undang-undang diambil terhadapnya," kata beliau.
Sementara itu, Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Aziz pada sidang akhbar berasingan berkata, hanya Jawatankuasa Pilihan Dewan Rakyat yang boleh menentukan bentuk hukuman terhadap Ketua Pembangkang itu.
''Ini kerana tuduhan ke atas Perdana Menteri adalah serius apatah lagi beliau yang juga seorang Islam dikaitkan dengan satu pertubuhan yang didakwa sebelum ini telah membantu Israel.
''Saya tidak tahu dan tidak mempunyai kuasa dalam hal ini, tetapi anda boleh merujuk kepada kes-kes lalu umpamanya membabitkan Ahli Parlimen Puchong, Gobind Singh Deo," katanya.
One Israel
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For the party formed by Yitzhak Yitzhaky, see One Israel (1980).
| One Israel ישראל אחת | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Ehud Barak |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Dissolved | 15 May 2001 |
| Alliance of | Labor, Gesher and Meimad (1999-2001) Labor and Meimad (2001) |
| Most MKs | 26 (1999-2001) |
| Fewest MKs | 23 (2001) |
| Election symbol | |
| אמת | |
| Politics of Israel Political parties Elections | |
[edit] Background
One Israel was formed by Labor leader Ehud Barak in the run up to the 1999 elections with the aim of making Labor appear more centrist and to reduce its secularist and elitist reputation amongst Mizrahi voters (Gesher was led by prominent Mizrahi politician and former Likud MK David Levy whilst Meimad is a religious party) modelled on Tony Blair's transformation of the British Labour Party into New Labour.[1] The coalition agreement gave Gesher the number three spot on the list (behind Barak and Shimon Peres), two other safe positions and a promise that Levy would get a ministerial position. Meimad were promised one safe spot on the list and a ministerial position for a member who did not make it into the Knesset.In the run-up to the election surveys predicted the party would win 33 seats. However, although One Israel did emerge as the largest faction in the Knesset, its 26 seats was the lowest ever by a winning party (Labor's 34 in the 1996 elections whilst running alone had been the previous low). Of the 26 seats, Labor took 22, Gesher 3 and Meimad one. As per the pre-election agreement, Levy was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Meimad's Michael Melchior was made Minister of Social and Diaspora Affairs.
Barak, who had beaten Binyamin Netanyahu in the election for Prime Minister, had to form an unstable coalition government with six other parties; Shas, Meretz, Yisrael BaAliyah, the Centre Party, the National Religious Party and United Torah Judaism.
Barak's participation in the Camp David Summit with Yasser Arafat in summer 2000 led to Gesher pulling out of the alliance on 7 March 2001. On 7 May the alliance was joined by ths single member New Way faction, but on 15 May 2001 it ceased to exist, as the parliamentary group was renamed Labor-Meimad.
After the party's collapse, Barak was investigated following allegations that the One Israel had broken the party funding law by allowing money from abroad to be directed into campaign funds through non-profit groups in order to get around spending limits. State Comptroller Eliezer Goldberg had already fined the party 13 million shekels for breaking fundraising laws.[2] It later became known as the "Barak Organisation Affair".
[edit] References
- ^ Barak's 'One Israel' The Review, April 1999
- ^ Barak party faces criminal probe BBC News, 27 January 2000
[edit] External links
- One Israel Knesset website
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