Readers’ comments: Israel is a reliable India ally unlike Arab countries and Iran

The fact of the matter is that Israel has helped us when the West and our so-called Arab friends ditched us when we faced security threats from Pakistan throughout history, knowing fully well the consequences of doing so (“India claims to be a leader of the Global South – but its strategic silences subvert that assertion”). Wouldn’t it be fair to take Israel’s side considering how unreliable countries like Palestine or Iran can be? Otherwise, why would organisations like Hamas use hospitals and civilians as shields to hide from the consequences of their cunning and evil attacks. Let us keep in mind that Gaza would not have happened if 1,400 innocent Jews were not killed in the first place. I’m just hoping to get an answer and am very open to being corrected wherever I am wrong. – Adharsh Arjun
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It is unfortunate that Azad Essa dismisses the creation of Pakistan because it was for Indian Muslims and that it did not seek to exclude the minority Hindus and Sikhs (“A new book examines whether Hindu nationalists supported the Zionist project to occupy Palestine”). He also excuses the Pahalgam terror attack and Pakistan terrorist groups in Kashmir. Scroll should criticise the book not for Hindu nationalism but...

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