1Malaysia; Learn from the best

I was quite surprised to read the star online today that Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim claimed the idea of 1MALAYSIA concept introduced by our Prime Minister was taken from the 1Isreal Concept. More over, he claimed that our Prime Minister has consult APCO WorldWide to design the 1Malaysia concept. According to him, it was obvious that a lot of similarities of between the two concepts. To mention a few, it includes the 1malaysia fund and 1Malaysia Clinic.
From my reading, APCO Worlwide is actually a US-based company, doing business in financial, political and media capitals throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. From the wikipedia it states that;

APCO has distinguished itself over the years by building a senior team that includes former elected officials, ambassadors, business leaders, journalists and government leaders. The firm has largely grown organically, developing its own offices around the world, building relationships with clients over time and offering an integrated, broadly based portfolio of services in support of the full range of corporate affairs activities managed by senior executives of its clients. Some of APCO's senior counselors include:
• A. Elizabeth Jones, former U.S. ambassador to Kazakhstan
• Aleksander Kwaśniewski, former president of Poland
• Darren Murphy, former media adviser to UK prime minister Tony Blair
• Don Bonker, former Democratic congressman from Washington state
• Donald Riegle, former Democratic senator from Michigan
• Itamar Rabinovich, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S.
• John Magaw, founding director of the Transportation Security Administration
• Lalit Mansingh, former foreign secretary of India and former Indian ambassador to the U.S.
• Marc Ginsberg, former U.S. ambassador to Morocco
• Sergio Marchi, former Canadian ambassador to the World Trade Organization

The issue that our opposition leader tried to highlight here was that the APCO worldwide were somehow connected with Isreal because the chairman of the company were top individual from Israel (something to do with army if I m not mistaken). So, the main issues here were the security of our country and the integrity of our leader.
Latest news that I read from The Star Online, Deputy Information, Communication and Culture Minister Datuk Joseph Salang said Apco was not involved at all in the ministry’s affairs.
What I am thinking is that, it is a wise move to learn from others especially if it benefits the peoples, even from our enemy. Like the great leaders says’ Put aside our differences, Lets us make the world a better place to stay.”