Let us cut through the disingenuous hogwash: India is now unabashedly in the Zionist camp.

It is best to acknowledge that Modi’s recent two-day trip to Netanyahu land must by hindsight seem intriguing in its timing.

Some 48 hours before the criminal assassination of Iran’s head of state (about which no statement has come from India’s prime minister), Shri Modi expressed full support for Israel in his address to the Knesset, calling it a “partner”.

That he condemned the Hamas attack of October 7, making “terror” his common theme, but did not make mention of the genocide in Gaza, rubbing in the insult by praising the mercenary Board of Peace initiative lorded exclusively by Trump, clearly marked India’s shift in its West Asia policy.

Curiously, the Israeli envoy in India has made what reads like an exculpatory statement with regard to the timing of the Modi visit and the attack that followed within hours after he left.

One cannot but wonder why he thought it necessary to do so.

One may also note the speculation that the dead Epstein’s live-wire files are engendering bonds that may otherwise have seemed unlikely, such as, for example, Trump’s acquiescence with Netanyahu’s plan to invade Iran in conjunction.

Nor is it inconceivable that Netanyahu has had the coming Israeli elections in mind, which he must win to stay out of jail.

The old right-wing position on the Israel/Palestine imbroglio ended with Vajpayee, who stood firmly with the Palestine cause.

The new is fully expressive of the Savarkarite theorisation on cultural/historical issues.

In his seminal Six Great Epochs of Indian History Savarkar wrote that ‘we become Hindus only through acts of violence’ (add, supremacist violence, as he counted the ‘colonisation’ of the ‘tribals’ (read Adivasis) as the first great episode of how we became Hindus – see here.

His militarist nationalism (“Hinduise the military,........

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