Is’nt that awfully tragic for a country traditionally championing the cause of the oppressed around the globe. Its conspicuous and noble opposition to the western imperialism, since it had experienced the affliction first hand, non-alligned movement et al. Now its itching to be an all-willing accessory to the neo-imperealism of America’s Christian right.

Abandonment of the India’s traditional support of the Palestinian freedom struggle and the unwavering support of the pogrom carried out against the Palestinians by the extremist right wing elements of both Israel and US administrations cannot be hailed as step in the right direction.

Why don’t the Indians reach out to the equally popular peace movement in Israel and urge the extremist likud gov’t of Sharon, through which its acquiring ever-growing list of weapons systems and currying influence in Washington to be less brutal in its treatment of the Palestinians? The dynamics have truly changed and the Indian foreign policy at least when the BJP was in power seemed to have been driven by the same messianic and biblical dogma that the extremist right wing christians, Bush’s constituents had used to justify its support of the Israel and complete indifference to the suffering of the Palestinians.

One sincerely hopes that Congress would reverse some of the most ill-concieved policies implemented by the BJP, which were rooted in biogtry and blind hatred.

Che India has changed from the old socialist days, socialism never got us anywhere in life, it kept us poor and even today such old school, thought prevents us from growing faster, Indias are westernized, its just the way we are, as far as the Palestinian struggle, we do support thm but i think that its clear that they dont side with us in the end, why should we support them, besides we do support all peaceful resolutions to Palestine and Israel, u can claim that Sharon is this and that, granted he is right wing but come on India should nver ever ever support Yasser Arafat, The Palestinians need to look within and reorganize, then we can talk about support, for now Israel has been a good friend and we value this morethan anything else, nations look after their own interest, Nehru is dead, now let us get back to defence talk.

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I think that the point has been proven, we should restrain from talking about these members, I do not wish to see this thread closed for no reason as well, let it be, AFM is like that onleee.

I say that we should have bought those block 30s for agressor training purposes, but then again I believe that higher block training will be received shortly via Singapore AF and I am sure that we have had a good look at the F-16s of the IAF (Israel)