Patrice Greanville
India takes strong pro-Israel stance under Modi in a departure from the pastWhile previous governments kept dealings with Israel largely quiet, the ruling BJP has different priorities Just a few hours after Hamas launched its assault on Israel, India’s prime minister was among the first world leaders to respond. In a strongly worded statement, Narendra Modi condemned the “terrorist attacks” and said India “stands in solidarity with Israel at this difficult hour”. The Indian foreign minister retweeted the comment almost instantly. Another state minister from Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) warned in a tweet that India “may face the situation that Israel is confronting today if we don’t stand up against politically motivated radicalism”. Though Modi’s words chimed with the messaging of most western governments, for India they marked a departure from the past. It was not until a few days later that the foreign ministry quietly reminded the public of India’s historical commitment to the two-state solution for Israel and Palestine. On Friday, India was among the countries that did not back a UN resolution for a “humanitarian truce” in Gaza, instead choosing to abstain. |
Alignment with the West is what you get when you lead a party, like the BJP, that represents the most fanatically reactionary elements in Indian society, a classical case of uber-nationalism falling naturally in line with US imperialism and the interests of India's hard-right bourgeoisie.
When Tulsi was not a Neocon
Barely 4 years ago, Tulsi sounded like a principled antiwar politician. In this clip, granted, with a hard-right channel like Fox, she strikes a posture of charity and rationality. She clearly strives NOT to sound like a peacenik. And she stays safely within the confines of US ethnocentrism. (US politicians and the presstitutes, always sound like they put the interest of "Americans" above everything and everybody else, nothing really matters but America and Americans, a filthy lie easily debunked, and a repugnant case of massive pandering worthy of low-down hustlers, which is what the US ruling class and its innumerable minions in the political and media spheres really are, whenever we care to look closely).
Do note, therefore, that in presenting her antiwar argument Tulsi's compassion does not extend to the victims of US imperialism—only to its military. This despite the fact that just about everyone halfway informed, let alone properly developed morally, knows that the suffering we inflict and have inflicted on suitably demonised target populations—directly or by proxy, and whether they be Palestinians, Venezuelans, Cubans, Iraqis, Libyans, Syrians, Vietnamese, Congolese, Koreans, etc., etc., the list is very long.—is easily many magnitudes larger than the combined suffering of our soldiers, let alone our home population. That little detail should have alerted us to the severe limitations in Tulsi's character, suggesting opportunism, or her mediocre grasp of the actual power dynamics shaping national and world politics. A little Michael Parenti or Howard Zinn would do a lot of good. Meantime, it would be a marked improvement if Gabbard quit mouthing that old sanctimonious chestnut that American troops are deployed around the globe "in service to the American people." They certainly are not. THAT much she should know.
Below, the iterations of Tulsi Gabbard.
Tulsi peace advocate: May 2019
War with Iran would make Iraq War 'look like a cakewalk'
May 17, 2019
The devastation and the cost of a conflict with Iran would be far greater than anything we've experienced so far in Iraq, says Democratic presidential candidate Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard.
Tulsi Neocon: Nov 2023
Tulsi Gabbard: This is pushing us closer to nuclear war
FOX News contributor Tulsi Gabbard discusses aid for Ukraine and Israel and reports Vice President Kamala Harris' former campaign aides are pushing for a cease-fire in Gaza on 'The Ingraham Angle.' #foxnews #fox #theingrahamangle
ADDENDA
Israel's [Irrefutable] Genocide
See the extended version of this interview on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/extende... Israel’s genocide in Gaza has shocked the conscience of the entire world, with an endless flow of videos and images of Palestinian children cut into pieces by American bombs dropped by Israeli warplanes deliberately intended to destroy a civilian population. Despite the explicitly genocidal rhetoric of Israeli officials, Western leaders continue to proclaim their support for Israel’s right to “defend itself.” But this war on Gaza is different from past wars, not only in the level of Israeli aggression, but in the reaction on the street, from the Middle East to the United States. Israel is losing the narrative war. Most people want to see a ceasefire and tens of thousands have protested across the US to demonstrate their opposition to Biden’s unconditional support for this genocide. To discuss Israel’s genocidal onslaught in Gaza ahead of a looming ground invasion and how it has the potential to snowball into a catastrophic regional war, Rania Khalek was joined by journalist Abby Martin, creator and host of The Empire Files. Watch the extended version of this interview on our Patreon. Become a member at https://www.Patreon.com/BreakthroughNews to access the full episode and other exclusive content. Watch Abby’s documentary “Gaza Fights For Freedom”. (ABOVE)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR / SOURCEPatrice Greanville is founding editor of The Greanville Post.
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Tulsi has always been a questionable character. I did support her in 2016, and encouraged both her and Bernie Sanders to quit the Democrats in an article on the GVP, and start their own party. Of course neither did. In addition, I had to call her campaign out on her website’s call to send weapons to the Ukraine regime. That shows how ignorant she was about the Ukraine situation. When she endorsed Biden, and refused to refund my campaign contribution, that ended any faith I had in her. But most telling is her constant ‘weaponizing’ her military career as a… Read more »
The Gaza story is that of greed and racism. What is even more horrible is that Arab society adores children who are being killed like useless insects.