The Western Alliance that supports the lethal attacks on helpless and innocent Palestinians are vile and deprived of their humanity. Every killing is a red line crossed. One killing amounts to a violation of human life that no army, however powerful, has the right to take.
Israel has also built up its own defence industry with US help and now ranks as the ninth-largest arms exporter in the world, with a focus on advanced technological products rather than large-scale hardware. In the meantime, it is directly supported by the US (67%), UK (45%), Germany 30%), and Italy (0.9%). Israel is also invested in three major recipients including: India (37%), the Philippines (12%) and the US (8.7%). India has also sold weapons on a scale not as large as the West to bail out Israel. This explains why the Indian government will not easily allow protests against Israel despite that being the right of the Indian peoples.
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At the end of the Cold War, multitudes dreamed wild dreams – that guns would turn into instruments of cultivation, and production that brings in jobs, and overall peace and happiness. The truth is the opposite, powerful western countries, and middle income countries fare not much better.
War brings calamity in ways that strike at the very base of society. To challenge the ‘Merchants of War’, we need merchants of justice in millions around the world..
Ranjan Solomon is a political commentator
