MALAYSIANS will recall that when Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba visited Kuala Lumpur last month, he selected Malaysia as partner in Japan’s Palestinian state-building initiative known as Cooperation among East Asian Countries for Palestinian Development (Ceapad).
Japan was not alone in international efforts to restore war-torn Palestine. Since the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas in mid-January, France and Germany have made similar proposals at the UN while Turkey and the Arab states also nodded their assent toward reconstruction.
