India's Strikes on Pakistan and Their Adoption of "Israel's" Dirty Tactics

Adopting the Coloniser's Playbook

India has declared war on Pakistan “in response” to a terror attack in Indian-administered Kashmir back in April. It launched missile and air-strikes on nine sites across Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir overnight.

In an echoing of “Israel’s” tactics in Gaza, it has offered no evidence for its claim that the April attack was carried out by Pakistani terror groups. America and China have called for restraint, in the light of both parties nuclear capability, however “Israel” have declared that they stand with India, since the enemy of the enemy is always a friend – especially when said enemy is a Muslim.

The strikes come not long after Modi’s speech at a space-tech meeting where he discussed science and India’s ambitions – and although the strikes fulfil his vision of Hindutva supremacy and yearning to wipe out Muslims, this sudden unpredictable resort to military force will arguably do very little for India’s economic ambitions. In a country where slums inhabit every major city and 60% of the almost 1.3 billion people live on less than $3.10 dollars a day, expenditure on a military campaign and possibility of nuclear confrontation is not going to help India’s economy.

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Caste System and Copying the Colonial Playbook

India today has morphed into an ethnocracy, where the dominant ethnic group, Hindu, maintains political control. Ever since Modi’s rapid ascent to power in 2014, and the rise of the violent right-wing Hindutva ideology, the 200 million plus Muslims of India have faced increasing persecution with Hindu vigilante mobs enacting violence on Muslims, a surge in anti-Muslim hate speech and online petitions against mosques.

These politically instigated divisions have filtered down into mainstream Indian society, and found their way into the classroom, with incidents reported of Muslim children being abused by their peers and Muslims overall facing increasing hostility, marginalisation and expulsion from the mainstream.

India has always faced a problem of discrimination with its intrinsic caste system, but also the fact that the vast majority of jobs and resources have traditionally been in the hands of the privileged castes.

Additionally, India may have achieved independence, but in terms of independence of thought, sadly, many of their modern cultural productions – films, TV shows – are derivative and copied from the West, whom they seem to have always had an irrational hankering to emulate.

The recent alignment with “Israel” where plane loads of Indian men eagerly arrived in “Israel” to be conscripted into the “IDF” and were instead made to clean toilets, does not speak well of “Israel’s” inherent racism and its own tiered society where white Ashkenazi Jews are seen as superior and Arabs occupy the lowest rung of society.

India, in its desire to always emulate its British colonizers and build relations with any entity that is anti-Muslim, rather than being seen as progressive, appears just backward and even oftentimes comical.

However, its recent military moves are no laughing matter. In stating that it is retaliating for a “terrorist” attack by launching strikes at various locations around the country, and importing 2.9 billion of military hardware from “Israel” over the last decade, including 1.1 billion worth of advanced airborne early-warning aircraft; and also exporting weapons and military equipment to “Israel” for use in Gaza; India has proclaimed its toxic allegiance in no uncertain terms, and with tactics straight from the Hasbara playbook of the illegitimate state that it grovelingly fawns over, demonstrated its disregard for International Law - a precedent set by “Israel”.

“I for I. Which means India for Israel and Israel for India,” tweeted Modi lovingly in 2017

India may have just begun its strikes on Pakistan, but it has been fully co-operating with the slaughter of the Palestinian people in Gaza for over a year – hence India is complicit in “Israel’s” violations of international law. “Israel” also provided India with military supplies during its war with Pakistan in 1999.

The love affair between the two countries, unequal though it may be, is not just military but ideological. The era of Indian leaders with integrity such as Gandhi (who supported the Palestinians right to their land) and Nehru who recognized the struggle of Palestine against imperialist control, is over, and the world’s growing polarization since October 2023 has now been widened even further.