I dont understand why the Indian government is shying away from condemning Israeli mayhem in Gaza. PM Modi and Sushma Swaraj have failed to stand up to the occasion. The government has rejected calls for a Parliament resolution on the violence in Gaza under a desire to maintain good relations with both Israel and Palestinians. It is ironic to equate the aggressor with the victim. How can you simultaneously main good relations with both? Why are you ignoring the fact that Israel has both the most sophisticated arsenal and the nuclear bomb, while Palestine does not have any. It is not permitted to even have an army, an air force or a navy. Gazas port is blockaded and its air strip closed down. It has no way out of the siege other than underground tunnels. To get at these, the Israelis are mercilessly killing and maiming the innocents who live over-ground. Why is our government blinded to all this? PM Modis statement that we support a negotiated solution fails to recognize that negotiations cannot be restarted until Israel stops its massacre of unarmed, innocent Palestinians. He also fails to recognize that it was not the Palestinians but the Israelis who broke off the negotiations last year just as they seemed about to succeed. Moreover, paragraph 38 of the BRICS Declaration of 2014 clearly states that the BRICS nations oppose the continuous construction and expansion of settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories by the Israeli Government, which violates international law, gravely undermines peace efforts and threatens the viability of the two-State solution. Since the government has already signed up to this statement, what is the hesitation in condemning the Israeli attacks?
Posted on: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 19:06:45 +0000
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