Israel-India Military Collaboration Flourishes Under Hindutva, But Began Decades Back
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CLICK TO READ FULL ARTICLE ON WASHINGTON REPORT ON MIDDLE EAST AFFAIRS“WHEN MODI COMES IN, he looks at Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and says, ‘This is the guy I want to emulate,’” said journalist Azad Essa about India’s newly re-elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a June 5, 2024 event hosted at The People’s Forum in Manhattan. Essa—author of Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel—continued: “Modi says, ‘This is the kind of country that I want to create. I want a Hindu nationalist, ethno-nationalist state. It’s militaristic, it’s influential, and it’s not going to be pushed around by anyone else. If we have security threats, we are going to deal with it like Israel deals with security threats.’ So that’s a fundamental shift [in India’s relationship to Israel].” It was standing room only at “Ballots, Bulldozers, and Bombs,” a panel co-sponsored by Jewish Currents magazine and Middle East Eye to discuss the history and symbiotic ethno-nationalist underpinnings of the Israel-India alliance. |