An earlier version of this article was completed a day before the joint Israeli-American war against Iran. The gist of it examined the likely scenarios surrounding the effort to neutralize Iran, and Israel’s incessant obsession to draw the U.S. into yet another Israeli-designed foreign war. Since 1948, Israel has proven itself to be a destructive agent in the Middle East, leveraging American military, economic, and political power to reduce countries to failed states from Iraq and Syria to Libya and Sudan. Iran was simply next in that sequence. The next Israeli “fail state” target may hinge on the emerging Israeli-Indian axis, an alignment that could trigger seismic geopolitical shifts redrawing the map of the Arabian Peninsula.

Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Indira Gandhi were political giants who led India out of the long night of colonial domination and positioned it as a principled force in the Non-Aligned Movement. They built the modern Indian state from the ground up, investing in mass education, public health, scientific capacity, and domestic manufacturing, with sovereignty understood as something that must be built on strong foundations. 

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Under Narendra Modi, current prime minister, India has undergone a profound transformation. Generations of top-tier students and scientists owe their education to the leaders of independence and decades of secular governance. Today, the Bharatiya Janata Party brazenly hijacks that legacy, claiming structural progress as a gift of Hindu centric nationalism while systematically gutting out the old policies that educated poor Indians.

Watching Modi address the Israeli Knesset, describing Israel as the “father” and India as the “mother,” was deeply jarring, a version of India unrecognizable to the........

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