Many nations, including India, but with the exception of the US, have promptly been against Israel for their recent ongoing war against the Hamas in Gaza.
While the stand of India against Israel has it's own narrow perceptives, one must not forget the following:
From time immemorial, and from much before Christ, the Jews were an oppressed people. Opressed by everybody. And their land was taken away through history.
More recently, in World War II, Adolf Hitler's third Reich had mercilessly annhilated six million Jews after putting them in horrific concentration camps where they were tortured, starved and put into hard labour. They were then stripped naked (men, women & children); even the gold in their teeth was mercilessly rooted out, and then gassed to death. The bodies were then burnt enmass in furnaces.
After Hitler's fall, and at the end of the second world war, the allies (meaning the US, UK, France in particular), decided enough was enough, and they gave back the Jews more or less their original piece of territory, which is present day Israel. But there were people in Palestine who did not like this happening.
Today Israel is a militarily strong nation who will take no nonsense from anyone. For them it is self preservation for their people. When prodded they will react, as it is in the present ongoing conflict. Brutal? War is brutal; and for centuries they have been brutalised! They have a hair trigger reaction, and have the capability to fight back on many fronts simultaneously.
It is perhaps better not to prod them (the Israelis) further; be it the Hamas or any other nation. Let peace resume.
While the stand of India against Israel has it's own narrow perceptives, one must not forget the following:
From time immemorial, and from much before Christ, the Jews were an oppressed people. Opressed by everybody. And their land was taken away through history.
More recently, in World War II, Adolf Hitler's third Reich had mercilessly annhilated six million Jews after putting them in horrific concentration camps where they were tortured, starved and put into hard labour. They were then stripped naked (men, women & children); even the gold in their teeth was mercilessly rooted out, and then gassed to death. The bodies were then burnt enmass in furnaces.
After Hitler's fall, and at the end of the second world war, the allies (meaning the US, UK, France in particular), decided enough was enough, and they gave back the Jews more or less their original piece of territory, which is present day Israel. But there were people in Palestine who did not like this happening.
Today Israel is a militarily strong nation who will take no nonsense from anyone. For them it is self preservation for their people. When prodded they will react, as it is in the present ongoing conflict. Brutal? War is brutal; and for centuries they have been brutalised! They have a hair trigger reaction, and have the capability to fight back on many fronts simultaneously.
It is perhaps better not to prod them (the Israelis) further; be it the Hamas or any other nation. Let peace resume.
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