Israeli Ambassador’s Use of Indian Media for Zionist Propaganda is Condemnable!
As the long-awaited US-Iran truce has come into force and, and since Israel is also obliged to follow it, the Israeli Ambassador to India Reuvan Azar’s interview with NDTV amply reveals the Zionist regime’s total frustration regarding the emerging situation in West Asia. In his interview, he questioned the mediator role played by both Pakistan and Qatar along with his Islamophobic claim of expanding Hamas network into both Pakistan and Bangladesh. Obviously, the Israeli Envoy’s allegations are also coming in the context when the Report by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry has exposed the Zionist regime for its most inhuman targeted killing of children as a “key part of Gaza genocide”, which is as dreadful as “Holocaust”.
This unrestricted use of Godi Media in India by the Zionist regime is not at all new. Since the ascendance of Modi regime, earlier too, there were occasions when Israeli ambassador used Indian media, both digital and print, to shape Zionist narratives and even criticise opposition members of Indian parliament who questioned the Zionist war crimes committed on Palestine. Of course, in such situations, Indian parliamentary party leaders have come forward actively condemning those remarks including the envoy’s dictating terms to Indian media, And, they have even characterised envoy’s approach as “unacceptable” and “moral cowardice” by the Indian regime. Even suggestions for reprimanding the ambassador and moving privilege motion over his conduct had been there. Meanwhile, Israeli envoy’s use of Indian media and Indian soil for targeting Pakistan and Qatar together with raising allegations regarding Hamas activity in Pakistan and Bangladesh, has already generated debate in diplomatic circles. On the other hand, a strategic silence is visible in India regarding this issue which will have repercussions in India’s relations with its neighbours too.
At this juncture when the Zionist regime has become the most hated and isolated among world people and the comity of nations, and even as Israeli leaders including prime minister Netanyahu are prohibited from entering many countries following ICC arrest warrants on them as ‘war criminals’, the use of Indian media by Israeli envoy to whitewash the Zionist horrors is a shame for the people of India. Leaders of Indian Independence struggle, especially ‘Father of the Nation’ Mahatma Gandhi, were vehemently opposed to the superimposition of a Zionist settler-colonialist regime on the Palestinian people. As such, till 1990s, Israel could not open its embassy in India and vice versa. However, the total abandonment of Nehruvian policies and embrace of neoliberalism in the beginning of 1990s had its far-right reactionary repercussions in India’s foreign policy too including that towards Israel, as manifested through the opening of Israel embassy in India in 1992. The same period also witnessed the surge in Islamophobic Hindutva leading to the demolition of Babri Masjid on 6 December 1992 by Saffron goons. And, following the ascendance Modi regime, the political tool of RSS in 2014, Modi became the first Indian prime minister to visit Israel in 2017, elevating the bilateral relationship into a strategic partnership.
Today, the Zionist regime, as the Middle East military outpost of US imperialism, is committing hitherto unknown levels of war-crimes and horrors on Palestinian people, including the gruesome targeted and systematic murder of more than 20000 children during the last two years, and together with US, is carrying out aggression on Iran, Lebanon and elsewhere, all the Founding members of BRICS except India are very critical of Israel. However, with Islamophobia/anti-Muslimness as the common ideological basis of neo-Zionism and Hindutva fascism, today the India-Israel bilateral relation has developed into a Special Strategic Partnership with military and industrial collaboration. Now, not only the oppressed peoples of Afro-Asian-Latin American countries, but even well-meaning sections in US and EU are hating the Zionist regime for the holocausts and horrific crimes that it is committing against humanity. In this context, it is the cover of India-Israel Special Strategic Partnership and the backing of underlying Saffron-Zionist ideological alliance that embolden Israeli Ambassador to use Indian media for Zionist propaganda and to spew venom on Palestinian resistance forces like Hamas.
