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By Mihar Dias October 2025
Once upon a desert, a Pharaoh refused to free a people. He hardened his heart, ignored reason, and clung to his throne. We all know how that ended: plagues, ruin, and a Red Sea swallowing the mightiest chariots.
Fast forward to today: Israel, draped in the language of democracy, now plays the part of Pharaoh with startling enthusiasm.
At Ketziot Camp, 23 Malaysians are detained for the crime of bringing food and medicine across the sea. Not guns. Not rockets. Sardines, syringes, solidarity. The Sun Daily
Alas, for that, they sit in desert cages while the self-proclaimed “only democracy in the Middle East” lectures the world about freedom.
Their lawyers have already filed the paperwork. The rules are clear: release within three days. The Sun Daily
Instead, Israel toys with bureaucracy as though signatures are shackles.
Pharaoh, too, was fond of delays. But as Moses reminded him — the longer you stall, the worse it gets.
Also let us not forget the drama here. Israel, born of a history of persecution, now jails singers, influencers, and preachers whose only mission was to keep Gaza’s children from starving.
Heliza Helmi didn’t board a flotilla to conquer; she boarded to care. PU Rahmat didn’t raise his voice to spread war; he raised it to spread hope. The Sun Daily
Yet here they are — locked up in the desert while Tel Aviv congratulates itself for being a “light unto nations.” A light, perhaps, but one powered by the dimmest of bulbs.The Sun Daily
So let us repeat the ancient words: Let my people go. Not because it’s charity, but because it’s the law. Not because it is convenient, but because it is right.
Release them to Jordan. Release them to Egypt. Release them before Ketziot becomes Israel’s own Valley of Shame.
Pharaoh once thought he could outlast the cries of the oppressed. He was wrong. Israel today risks learning the same lesson: history has no patience for hypocrisy dressed in holy robes. The sea is always waiting.
But here’s the other truth: the cry of “Let my people go” must not come only from activists or lawyers. It must come from Putrajaya too. Malaysia cannot thunder about Palestine in the comfort of parliament yet whisper when her own citizens are chained abroad.
Our leaders cannot just pound the table at home while bowing politely abroad.
So let this be said plainly: if Pharaoh does not release the Malaysians within seventy-two hours, then Malaysia must rattle the gates of every international forum, summon every ambassador, and remind Israel that our people are not pawns in its desert games.
Silence, in this hour, would be cowardice.
The clock is ticking. Seventy-two hours. Free them — or be remembered not as liberators, but as Pharaoh’s clumsy heirs.
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