Articles
Israel and Gaza
Dt: 30/7/14
Israel and Gaza
Dr T.H.Chowdary*
The demand of a number of non-NDA MPs in the Parliament that India should denounce Israel for its actions in Gaza is unreasonable, unwarranted and is not in the interest of India. Hamas is a terrorist organisation, publicly and proudly announcing its determination to destroy Israel and throw out the Jews out of Israel and bring that land under Palestinian dominion. The position of Hamas vis-a-vs Israel is exactly like that of various secessionist jihadi outfits in J&K in relation to India . India has been having to keep several divisions of its armed forces to control the secessionist, jihadi terrorist actions is Kashmir. Armed F Forces Special Powers act to deal with this inhuman jihadi activities in Kashmir.
2. Further almost every year the Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) denounces India for suppressing human rights of the Kashmiris by our armed forces, despite the decades- long support of India for the Palestinians. Israel has been and is a very strong and sincere friend of India, helping us in the development of our defence strength.
3. It is strange that the BJP unit in J&K has joined the anti-Indian secessionists in their denunciation of Israel. No amount of appeasement will get the sworn enemies of India to support India’s integrity and sovereignty. The NDA government should firmly reject the demands of the minority’s votes -seeking parties to denounce Israel. Hamas is using civilians as human shield and their homes for launching missiles. It is thereby courting martyrdom in order to evoke sympathy from other nations. This deception should not mislead us.
4. Hamas is a militant, non-state terrorist Palestinian organisation vowing destruction of Israel. It has broken away from the PLO which has made some sort of peace with Israel . Hamas has turned civilian homes, hospitals and educational institutions into missile launching sites and armouries in Gaza. From these apparently civilian buildings it has fired over 18000 missiles into populated towns and even Dimona the nuclear facility in Israel.
But since Israel has an iron shield over its air space, ( an electromagnetic shield) all these missiles are being destroyed in the air itself but Israel is having to have severe restrictive measures for normal work to go on . In sheer self defence Israel is compelled to take out those buildings in Gaza which are used for launching missiles. Obviously the civilians living and working in those buildings will be hurt and killed. This destruction is deliberately invited by the Hamas in order to get worldwide sympathy by accusing Israel of wanton destruction of civilians. Hamas constructed a network of tunnels into Israel to sneak terrorists and tunnels into Egypt to smuggle war material into Gaza. It would be wrong for the world to condemn Israel for the death of civilians in Gaza as the Hamas is inviting this destruction. Hamas once boasted that (women’s) wombs will be used as bombs, meaning that Hamans/ Hizbullah mothers would produce suicide bombers. The world should condemn Hamas and not Israel. Israel has been showing all possible restraint but if its civilians are in peril then Dharma dictates it should defend itself by every possible means and evil doers should be put an end to. In fact this is the lesson that Mahabharata teaches us and the world.
5. The NDA government should be complimented for resolutely refusing to take sides in the conflict between Israel and the terrorist Hamas which is running a government parallel to that of the Palestinian Authority . Hamas is a non-state terrorist outfit which has taken over Gaza just as ISIL is taking over territories in the Middle East. We should not go out of the way to embarrass and discomfit our staunch allies like Israel. Secularism in India has come to mean dancing to the likes of a particular community and their kin elsewhere
6. The UN Relief and Work Agency (UNRWA) has been sheltering and feeding tens of thousands of Palestinians since 1967. India is one of the countries which is also contributing to the expense of the UNRWA. In the entire history of mankind, there never was a time and place when so many people were so long held to be refugees and fed at the cost of the rest of the world. This is in contrast to 400,00 Hindu Pandits expelled from Kashmir by jihadi Muslim terrorists living in camps in Jammu without care by the UN or even by the Government of India for 25 years.
7. Obviously, in India politics is Muslim -centric all the while and by almost all the parties save to some extent, the BJP. But it is surprising that the J&K unit of the BJP is demonstrating against Israel notwithstanding the humiliating fact of four lakh Hindu pundits staying and suffering as refugees in their own country.
8. Indian government should just keep quiet and allow the problem to be sorted out between Israel and Hamas. (821 words)
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