India’s ‘strategic autonomy’ looks more like opportunism, as Modi balances Israel, Iran, and the US while eroding trust in the Global South
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second visit to Tel Aviv, at a time when United States-Iran tensions are high, sends a signal that India has chosen to plant itself firmly in the US-Israeli camp. Modi minced no words in his address to the Knesset, declaring, “India stands with Israel firmly with full conviction in this moment and beyond.”
It is impossible to avoid the perception that Modi has chosen to become a handy prop for Israel, which is isolated globally after its genocidal military campaign against Gaza following the terrorist attack by Hamas on October 7, 2023.
Nor can the mocking references in the emails of Epstein recently released be put out of mind, suggesting that even Modi’s first visit in 2017 was under pressure from the US, as he “took advice and danced and sang in Israel for the benefit of the US President”….
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Natalia Ginzburg: Our Monstrous Ideas
Biblical Archaeology and the Judeo-Christian legends / The Deconstruction of the Walls of Jericho
Gaza and the Death of Conscience
Pankaj Mishra: The Shoah after Gaza
Israel’s War in Gaza Is Nothing but a War of Annihilation
Arab Failures: The Unspoken Complicity in Israel’s Genocide
Chris Hedges: The Gaza Riviera
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