Is India's Modi Rewarding Israel's Netanyahu: For His Slow-motion Holocaust Against The Palestinians?
20 January 2018By Khalid Amayreh
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, received a
cordial welcome upon their arrival in New Delhi Sunday.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to welcome them in person, even
though the foreign minister is normally the one greeting dignitaries to the
country.
India has been widely lauded for voting at the United Nations last month in
favor of a UNGA resolution considering President Trump's recognition of
Jerusalem as capital of the apartheid state of Israel as null and void. That
is what all people of moral conscience had expected India to do. And,
thankfully, India didn't betray them.
Now, however, India is giving a red-carpet welcome to a repugnant symbol of
fascism and racism that shamelessly enjoys watching his trigger-happy soldiers
showering school children and peaceful protesters with bullets.
I do realize that nation-states have political and economic interests that
must be promoted and maintained. But, India, the de facto leader of non-allied
nations, has moral principles that should be maintained as well, even at the
risk of losing some economic and other benefits.
Netanyahu is seeking to sell India Israeli weapons and military technology.
However, Indian leaders, especially those still valuing human rights and
dignity ought to understand that every dollar paid to Israel means more
Palestinian blood will be spilled, more Palestinian homes demolished, and more
Palestinian land stolen by Israel. India, a country of a thousand million
people, should never allow its basic moral stance against racism and apartheid
to compromise by a cold-blooded criminal who carries on his hands the blood of
thousands, of children and other innocent people. We have their names and
pictures, so let no one assume me I am making a hyperbole.
True, Modi is no Mahatma Gandhi, or Jawaharlal Nehru or even Indira Gandhi,
who would internalize and act upon a moral appeal. However, India is not Modi
and Modi is not India. This is why the ultimate target of my appeal is by no
means the current Prime Minister of India, who is very much part of the
problem than part of the solution, but the collective conscience of all
Indians, irrespective of their religions and sects.
Netanyahu is the Prime Minister of an insidious apartheid regime that
torments, persecutes and discriminates against millions of people because of
their different ethnicity and religion. Don't allow him to defile your
country's moral integrity.
- Khalid Amayreh is a veteran journalist and writer living in the West Bank
under the Israeli occupation
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