Society & Cultures

INDIAN VOTE ONLY STRENGTHENS WESTERN NUCLEAR APARTHEID 
 
"The West does not seek the elimination of nuclear weapons, but rather the establishment of nuclear monopoly..." 
 
India’s vote against Iran in Vienna supporting another US orchestrated Western crusade , now against Iran, surprised most observers as it would further buttress Western nuclear apartheid against developing nations, thus undermining India’s own stated long term policy , its future hydrocarbon energy and raw material security and overall strategic interests in and around the region. It unwittingly encourages Israel with its reported arsenal of over 100 nuclear bombs whose irresponsible, immoral and illegal unilateral policies have injected instability and chaos into the Middle East, the storehouse of world’s energy resources for the foreseeable future.
 
India has diminished its standing as an upholder of international law, opponent of unjust treaties and its image in the third world .It needs support from African and other developing nations, as their representative for its legitimate place in UNSC. Without India, Security Council would become a standing joke, if a third rate power UK retained its member ship, an obedient poodle of US, which alone can represent Anglo-Saxon theology and ideology. France does represent a different facet of western world and philosophy. India could have bent itself by abstaining like many others, including USA’s non-NATO ally Pakistan did, but instead it came out crawling.

It was a sad spectacle for all and sundry to see the result of bullying and blackmail with an abusive tirade against India, led by the likes of Tom Lantos, who attacked Indian relations with Iran at the hearing on the US-India nuclear cooperation agreement in early September.  Ridiculing Indian External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh as “dense he “warned that if India doesn't change its policy toward Iran in sync with US policy, the relationship would 'go down the tubes' "My concern does not relate to the Administration. My concern relates to the insensitive thinking that I see coming out of New Delhi."

Lantos found it incomprehensible [naturally] “that people as sophisticated and as knowledgeable as our Indian counterparts should not be aware of how significant their position, vis-à-vis Iran is to this Congress, and, I hope that this hearing will make them aware at least tangentially that this may be destroying far more significant relationships than they are having with Tehran unless they become sensitive to our view on that subject.” It was an orchestrated show by the White House.

Lantos, a Jew, perhaps joined the Indo-US Caucus only to promote Israeli interests by leveraging Non-Resident Indian’s financial clout .He would be granted immediate Israeli citizenship under the Law of the Return, if he so wished, while millions of Palestinians rot in refugee camps in occupied Palestine and neighboring Arab states, and when they protest, are bombed by US supplied bombers, gun ships, tanks and other heavy arms. Lantos and his kind support verily a military ruled Israel, where military officers become prime ministers and political leaders, as soon as they relinquish their military uniform .Many including its Prime minister are wanted as war criminals in the world. A retired general just escaped arrest on arrival in England. Nevertheless, Israelis and pro-Israeli Jews have the US man lawmakers by the boots and the women lawmakers by their bracelets.
 
Western powers or IAEA have not said a word against Israel's nuclear arsenal. On the contrary, since 1952 these very countries have reportedly, clandestinely, aided and abetted Tel Aviv in developing its nuclear muscle.  It was on October 5, 1986, the Sunday Times of London sensationally reported that Israel was a nuclear power. A disaffected Israeli nuclear technician, Mordechai Vanunu, who worked at Dimona for ten years, gave compelling and incontrovertible evidence that Israel had “at least 100 and as many as 200 nuclear weapons.” He was jailed and remains confined to his house.

In a letter submitted to the IAEA on behalf of Arab member states, Oman asked that member states consider a statement strongly criticizing Israel at the agency's General Conference. Arab countries have submitted similar statements to the IAEA's general conference every year, but have failed to win any action since 1991. The statement adjoined to the Arab letter said: "Israel's possession of nuclear weapons is likely to lead to a destructive nuclear arms race in the region, especially if Israel's nuclear installations remain outside any international control."

While rejecting the letter Israel said, "There is no basis for this agenda item, whose sponsors are motivated by extraneous considerations, which are also evident in their efforts to challenge Israel's credentials," the head of Israel's Atomic Energy Commission, Gideon Frank, said in a statement to the General Conference." Both actions are politically and cynically motivated and have little to do with the IAEA's objective or mandate. They inevitably cast a serious doubt on the sincerity of its sponsors," he added.

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Ai-PAC), Washington's pro-Israel lobby, has made sanctions on Iran its number-one priority in recent months. "Iran is rapidly approaching the point of no return, and in order to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons, concerted diplomatic and economic pressure must be imposed," Ai-PAC spokesman Josh Block said. "Stopping Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon should be a priority for anyone who is concerned about stability in the Middle East." {mosgoogle right}

Pro-Israel activists in Washington are pressing Congress to tighten American sanctions on Iran. On the margins of the United Nations General Assembly, Jewish community leaders in New York urged world leaders, including Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and Russian Foreign Minister to act against Tehran. Reportedly, U.S. Secretary of State Condeleeza Rice who met Manmohan Singh at the behest of Israeli supporters expressed frustration with India's refusal to support American and European policy on Iran.

The appeal to Singh — to support American and European efforts to bring the issue of anti-Iran sanctions before the United Nations Security Council — came after a meeting earlier this month between Jewish community leaders and Condeleeza Rice. At the meeting, Rice expressed frustration with India's refusal to support American and European policy on Iran. The assistant national director of the Anti-Defamation League, Kenneth Jacobson, who attended the meeting, reported that the result of the meeting with the Indian leader was disappointing. Singh "expressed a reluctance to rush towards the Security Council," Jacobson told the media. Therefore, what happened, when and how?
 
India’s cave in was hailed by Lantos and other Lawmakers who had insulted India. Crowed Lantos ,"India's support this past weekend and next November, when Iran should finally be referred to the UN Security Council for action, will go a long way to cementing our new partnership." "These actions will certainly promote positive consideration in Congress of the new US-India agreement to expand peaceful nuclear cooperation between our two countries," he added. Watch out India would be under scrutiny.

The US Congressmen were shown up what they are by the British labor MP, George Galloway, who was falsely accused by the US subcommittee of benefiting from UNSC controlled Food for Oil Program in Iraq, in which USA and UK played a decisive role .Galloway blasted his accusers to their face in the” lion’s den “, from where most, instead of questioning him, escaped like jackals. Then also, because UN Secretary General Kofi Annan had described the US led invasion of Iraq as illegal, a set of US lawmakers and corporate media hounds were let lose against him. If any thing an investigation should be made against death of half a million Iraqi children as estimated by UN agency’s own reports , making its administrators resign in disgust , because of inhuman implementation of the UN sanctions against Iraq under US and UK’s behest .USA had even declared that what ever Iraq did It would not relent on sanctions .

Now one after another reports have leaked out as, not all Americans have lost sense of justice and legality about open loot of billions of dollars of Iraqi oil revenues, property of the Iraqi people. There has been little sense of justice and fair play left in recent US administrations. Some cheek they have to lecture India and others.
 
But then equality and equity for Black and other non- WASP ( white Anglo-Saxon Protestants ) folks is not US polity’s  strong suit as is being exposed daily in New Orleans, Mississippi and Louisiana, where things have changed little over centuries. Much before English buccaneers across the seas helped evolve a colonial mentality (which still rules Tony Blair’s psyche) or Jews had extended their stranglehold over the Anglo-Saxons, as has been made painfully evident since a century, the greatest English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare had laid bare Shylock’s demand for his pound of flesh in the play “Merchant of Venice.”
 
And what about non-resident Indians (NRIs) in the United States, a highly educated ,wealthy, influential and well organized community by now.  There was a deafening silence when USA announced supply of F-16s and other military aid to Pakistan or Lantos tore into India to forsake its dignity and national interests.  Do not expect much from the NRIs, although majority of them have left India only a generation or two ago, unlike the Jews who left Palestine many millennium ago but remain loyal.  The Hindu mind believes in self-salvation and not in the salvation of the community as a whole, unlike the Buddhists, Muslims and Sikhs.  The education of most of the NRIs was subsidized by poor Indian taxpayers, as it is almost free in its top rate educational institutes .It would have cost USA hundreds of billions of dollars to educate the same number of Americans, provided they could find such high-quality brains in science and technology .The majority belong to India’s middle-class families, who saved and endured privations  so that the select few could be educated in India's elite institutions.
 
Such an investment in US jargon would be called seed money or venture capitalism and normally bring back to the investor returns hundreds of time of investment. The author remembers petty and other businessmen of Indian origin in Middle East and Africa, during 1960s and 1970s, who when approached for any symbolic contribution to India's cause after a war or other calamity, on seeing an Indian embassy personal, would close their shops and vanish. Mostly with two or three nationality passports, they would badger the Indian missions to get them out from some patently illegal transactions. Higher level of education is not likely to change self-interest Hindu syndrome...