by
P.S. Sahni
It speaks volumes for the total
political bankruptcy of this prosperous, enterprising, educated and powerful
community spread across the globe in not being able to provide the necessary
impetus for replacing this one man. This man – insanity personified – is
presiding over the state of affairs supervising killings of thousands of Palestinian
children; murdering women; bombing patients; pointedly assassinating
journalists; eliminating medical personnel and supporting staff; blasting
hospitals; demolishing schools. And now arresting doctors and the Head of
Al-Shifa hospital on trumped up fictitious charges. These very doctors – who
were providing medical relief and care to the needy under the most difficult
conditions with risks to their own lives – deserve the highest civilian awards.
The noble profession worldwide is proud of such doctors who have been true to
the Hippocratic Oath.
I write this in distress. Till the other
day the Jewish community was seen world over to have been at the receiving end
of Holocaust during Nazi regime. The world had empathy for these victimised
people. Netanyahu’s brutalities and
atrocities have the potential to make a significant dent in this goodwill and a
shift in the perception about this persecuted community. Silence and inaction
constitute the very ingredients of criminality. Members of this community would
get to be seen with suspicion worldwide henceforth. Israel became a Nation-State
of the Jewish people in 2018. This law was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2021.
The law further downgrades the status of Israel’s Palestinian minority (21%
population). Any Jew anywhere in the world automatically becomes its citizen.
Why can’t prosperous Jews from all over the world descend on Tel Aviv for some
time, peacefully protest and pressurize the political establishment for
changing the incumbent PM? Sensitive Jews could bombard the PM with emails
suggesting that he step down immediately.
Netanyahu – to escape enquiry and a jail
sentence for the total failure on the part of the political establishment and
defence and security set-up for the 7th October fiasco – is
embarking on a long-drawn one-sided war on the Palestinians. He hopes to escape
incarceration by continuing with the Holocaust-II on the Palestinians.
I reside in New Delhi, India; am 73 of
age; from Sikh faith deemed to be part of Hindus as per Indian constitution. I
have seen around 50 years back Palestinian students studying in universities in
our country and participating in protest marches organized by the left forces
at Parliament Street. The Indian government all along has been a supporter of
Palestinian people. India was one of the first countries outside the Arab world
to recognize Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and permit them to open an
office in 1974-75. When Yasser Arafat visited India in 1980 he was given a warm
welcome. He addressed the then Indian PM, Indira Gandhi as his sister. His
Keffiyeh depicting the outlines of the territory claimed by Palestine endeared
Indians to the cause of Palestinian homeland.
True the present Indian government has
shifted its stance. But even now if a referendum were to be held, the vast
majority of 1400 million Indians would be in solidarity with Palestinians. The
Indian Home Ministry has not proscribed Hamas as a terror group. How can it?
The politics of India’s freedom fighters against the British colonial rulers –
represented by Bhagat Singh, Chandra Shekhar Azad, Udham Singh and Subhas
Chandra Bose is etched in the minds of every Indian.
At the U.N. level too barring a handful
of countries (USA, UK, France, Germany) the vast majority stand by
Palestinians.
And finally an appeal to Noam Chomsky.
We know about your health-status and advanced age, but a word from you at this
point of time could act as a healing touch to the Palestinians particularly so
as Netanyahu has bombed hospitals, murdered medical staff, arrested doctors and
stopped medical supplies. It is inconceivable that you have not commented, but
could anyone close to you provide the links.
[P.S. Sahni is a qualified orthopaedic surgeon. He has worked
extensively with the victims of Sikh Genocide in 1984; amongst victims of 1992
anti-Muslim violence; and at the India-Bangladesh border during the Bangladesh Liberation
War resulting in 1971 Bangladesh Genocide of Bengali Hindus.
Blog: https://pilwatchgroup.blogspot.com/ ]
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