Malaysia's prime minister for linking the US led war against terrorism to Israel, rather than Islamic states

Malaysia's prime minister Mahateir Muhammad has called for linking the war led by the US against terrorism to Israel, rather than the Islamic states.

News reports said that Mahateir warned on Friday at a conference about terrorism on that this war against terrorism seems increasingly as a war against Islam. He stressed that such an impression can not be eliminated unless deterrent measures are taken against the Israeli occupation forces which terrify the Palestinians people in the occupied territories.

Mahateir, who has been always a supporter for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, added that if the world is not ready to punish Israel for its terrorist practices it has, at least to take measures to protect the Palestinian people against the Israeli terrorism.

Mahateir expressed the concern of the Islamic states from the expansion of the American campaign against Afghanistan to cover other islamic states.