The home affairs minister said he was approached some time ago by former minister Yaacob Ibrahim and Nanyang Technological University’s Associate Professor Walid Jumblatt, for the government’s support of PSI.
“I said ‘of course’. We support a free Palestine, and they are good students. We’ll be happy to have them here, and they can go back and contribute, because we all want to see a free Palestinian state, and that’s going to need administrators, it’s going to need people who can help run the place,” said Mr Shanmugam.
He added that he told the trio to “imbibe as much as you can, study hard and also absorb what Singapore has to offer”.
“When they go back, they have a bridge between Singapore and Palestine, and we wish them the best, and hopefully they can, when they go back, they’re able to contribute back to their society in very significant ways,” he said.
