India-Israel Relations on Dangerous Course
There was a time when the
Indian Govt was boasting of being
on the side of Palestinian peoples
just right and struggle for Home
land. But, in the course of time, this
policy has undergone a change.
Step by step it moved towards
developing closer relations with
Israeli rulers. It is already 25 years
since India had established
diplomatic relations with Israel.
The BJP and Sangh Parivar
are known for their admiration for
Israeli Zionists. The BJP led Govt
lost no time to set upon themselves
on the job of further strengthening
ties with Israel. India’s Foreign
Minister as well as the Indian
President has visited Israel. The
Israeli President came to India in
Nov’2016. The visit of Indian Prime
Minister to Israel is already in the
pipeline.
The Israeli President Reuven
Rivlin has landed in Mumbai first.
Addressing the Jewish community
at the Taj Hotel, he said: “Nearly
eight years ago, this wonderful city
was the victim of the one of the
most terrifying, brutal and
murderous terror attacks....” “Let
us be clear, terror is terror is terror,
whatever it likes. And we stand
here, we say it clearly, terror will
never win, terror will never win”.
In Delhi, the Israeli President
was given a ceremonial welcome
by the Indian Govt at the
Rashtrapati Bhavan. After talks the
Indian Prime Minister Modi said:
“Both sides agreed to take
‘practical and specific’ measures
such as cyber-security cooperation and to expand the
defence ties.” “Both sides would
work to counter terrorism,
radicalism and extremism.” (A
month earlier, addressing a
meeting in Himachal Pradesh, Modi
likened the Indian Army’s ‘surgical’
strikes across the LoC as with that
of Israel Army” in a complimentary
December- 2016
reference to Israel’s military actions
in Palestine and Lebanon).
Both gov ernments have
decided to “broad b ase” the
relations between the two
countries. They have signed many
agreements and decided to firm up
co-operation in agriculture and
water resources management.
The Israel deleg ation has
visited Agra, Chandigarh and
Karnal.
The kind of relations the Indian
govt is developing with Israel carry
far reaching consequences for
India as well as Palestinian people.
Firstly, the Palestian question
eludes solution for decades owing
to, basically unjust and untenable
attitude of Israeli rulers. The
essence of Israeli rulers attitude
continues to b e: ‘w hatever I
grabbed from you by force is mine.
Whatever I propose to grab will be
mine. The Palestinian people have
the right only to beg for a place to
liv e, but cannot claim their
Homeland as a right’. All these
years, the Israeli rulers w ere
eng aged in wag ing g enocidal
attacks, physical exterminations,
devastations, small or big wars of
annexations and occupations
against the Palestine people and
their Arab supporters. They sought
to use the talks, cease fires or
interim agreem ents with the
Palestine leaders as a means to
gain time to consolidate the fruits
of their aggression, prepare for
more ferocious attacks and keep
the Palestine people buried in
illusions. In such a critical situation
the growing fraternity of the Indian
rulers tow ards Israel and
developing relations with Israel
leaders can only further embolden
the Israeli rulers and to create more
hurdles in the resolution of
Palestinian problem.
Secondly, the Indian people
are a part of the oppressed people
of the world. They fought against
the colonial rule and are still
continuing the struggle to end the
imperialist plunder and oppression.
Their sympathies, solidarity and
fraternity had always been and
continues to be with the oppressed
people of the world. From Vietnam
to Afghanistan-where ever the
oppressed people rose against the
imp erialist
inv asion
and
occupation, the Indian people
stood by them. It remains the same
with their attitude towards the
Palestine people who are waging
a just struggle against the
imperialist-backed Israeli Zionist
and militarist rulers. By taking
inspiration from the Israeli rulers-a
colossal edifice of terrorism-by
lauding their acts of terrorism,
invasion and genocides against
the Palestine people as a fight
against terrorism and by branding
the victims of Israeli attacks as
“enemies”,
terrorists”
and
“militants”, the Indian rulers and
Narendra Modi are only bringing an
immense shame to the Indian
people and causing a serious harm
to the just cause and struggle of
Palestinian people.
Thirdly, the entire world knows
that the Israeli rulers are the
stooges of imperialism. They are
seemingly strong economically and
militarily. But, in reality, this strength
is a barrowed one. They survive
mainly on the ventilators provided
by the imperialists in general and
the US imperialists in particular. For
imperialists, the Israel is an outpost
in the Middle East and a tool to
impose their domination over the
people of Middle East. So the
moves of Indian govt to expand
defence ties and develop cybersecurity co-operation with Israel
can only be one more window for
imperialists to strengthen their own
control over India’s defence and
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