KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia should change its foreign policy on the Middle East and stop supporting the two-state solution for the Israel-Palestine conflict, said former minister Khairy Jamaluddin.
He said Malaysia has consistently said it abided by a two-state solution based on the 1967 borders of Palestine and Israel.
"Meaning that we recognise Israel can exist alongside an independent and sovereign Palestinian state.
"They've continued to build settlements on occupied land in the West Bank (and) continued to throw Palestinians off their homeland within the 1967 borders," he said in an episode of the "Keluar Sekejap" podcast.
Most Muslim countries agreed on a two-state solution. All the while, Israel has done nothing to demonstrate their commitment to it, he said.
Khairy said it was time for Malaysia to drop, saying that it supports a two-state solution.
"All we should say, Malaysia, is that we support a free and sovereign Palestine. Full stop.
"Whatever happens to Israel, I don't give a damn what happens to Israel," he said, adding that it was time for Malaysia to change its foreign policy.
He also expressed disappointment over the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) recent ruling where it issued interim measures in the case against Israel under the Genocide Convention Act 1948 while waiting for the full trial next month.
He said there should be an outright instruction that there's an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
"You cannot say to Israel, by the way, continue with the genocide. Come back in a month and let us know how it's going.
"I think they should have said, there are enough instances where we are concerned, that there are serious violations against international law and that there must be an immediate ceasefire," he said, adding that there is no enforcement mechanism for ICJ's ruling.
He added that the ICJ would have made a serious moral point if it said: "Israel needs to put a stop to genocide now."
It was reported that ICJ on Jan 26 had ordered Israel to prevent acts of genocide against Palestinians and to do more to help civilians.
It, however, stopped short of ordering a ceasefire as requested by the plaintiff, South Africa.