[lbo-talk] India toes the line on Lebanon

[ravi]

At around 12/8/06 6:39 am, Colin Brace wrote:
> Behind India's near-total silence on the Israeli assault on Lebanon
> 
> By Arun Kumar and Keith Jones
> 12 August 2006
> 
> India has pretensions to be a world power, professes to be a spokesman
> for the underdeveloped countries in world affairs, considers west Asia
> to be part of its "extended neighbourhood," and has hundreds of
> soldiers deployed in Lebanon as United Nations peace-keepers. Yet it
> has remained all but completely silent on the four-week-old Israeli
> aggression against Lebanon—an aggression that has cost more than a
> thousand Lebanese civilians their lives, forced a million Lebanese to
> flee their homes, destroyed much of the country's infrastructure and
> threatens, due to the blockading of vital food and medical supplies,
> to cause an even greater humanitarian crisis.
> 

Colin,

thanks for forwarding this. I too had sent something a while ago to the
list, which noted that the response against Israeli action coming out of
India is motivated by the CPI:


> The issue came into purview when Basudeb Acharia, the leader of
> Communist Party of India, criticized the Congress led government for not
> recating [sic] to Israel's bombardments on Lebanon. He described it as
> "a full-scale assault [in] brazen violation of international law and the
> Geneva Conventions."

India seems to have learnt the fine art of what is, I believe, called
triangulation:


> The Indian Foreign Ministry had earlier called on Israel and Lebanon and
> had stated that India condemns the actions of both countries and
> requested them to "eschew violence, de-escalate the situation, and
> return to the path of negotiations."

http://www.siliconindia.com/shownewsdata.asp?newsno=32617&newscat=Top

But hey there is always the alternative view from the Hindutva freaks.

	--ravi

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