In Malaysia's shifting political terrain, a quiet but consequential debate is unfolding over what unity truly means. PAS deputy president Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man has urged Umno to resist the temptation of a closed bilateral alliance, warning that a two-party framework risks becoming a wall rather than a bridge. His appeal, made in the wake of Umno's apparent preference for direct PAS cooperation over the broader Perikatan Nasional coalition, reflects an older and harder question: whether political power gathered in the name of community can ever truly serve that community if it excludes those at