By TwoCircles.net Staff Reporter,
New Delhi: Popular Front chairman K M Shareef in a statement issued here today has said that the government refusal to a debate in the parliament about Gaza situation amounts to justifying the cruelties of Israel upon the people of Palestine. He further stated that by this act of suppressing even the right of parliamentarians to express their views on any aspect of Israel-Palestine issue, the NDA government has betrayed the traditional Indian policy of supporting the democratic and civil rights of Palestine people.
Many countries have come forward to condemn the indiscriminate airstrikes of Israel which have already taken hundreds of innocent civilians and have left thousands injured including women and children. “By turning a blind eye to their suffering, India is giving a wrong message to the world,” he said, adding, that the government refusal to condemn the cruelties will be viewed as a deviation from our principled foreign policy and tradition which had always stood by the side oppressed people against all kinds of imperialist aggressions.
The Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) while condemning Israel for the outrageous pounding of Palestinians also called upon the Indian Government to forthwith snap diplomatic relations with the Zionist state and put on hold all trade ties till normalcy is restored in the region.
SDPI national president A. Sayeed in a statement expressed his “anguish and agony” over, what he termed as Israel’s “unjust and despicable war” against the innocent people of Palestine wherein even women and children are not being spared.
The silence of the international community is shocking and exposes the duality and hypocrisy in today’s world order in its inequitable approach towards human rights in the world, he added.
Sayeed said that similarly, it is shocking to see BJP ruled Union Government’s double-talk over the West Asia crisis. The hypocrisy of the government has been exposed to the hilt as in both houses of Parliament the government was seen stonewalling the resolution condemning the heavy aerial bombings by Israel killing more than 200 Palestinians mostly women and children up till now.
While Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed concern over the issue in his speech at BRICS 2014 summit in Brazil. Modi reportedly said that remaining mute spectators to countries being torn up, can have grave consequences and expressed concern over “grave instability that is fast seeping across borders” in West Asia and specifically mentioned that India is particularly concerned because this affects the lives of seven million Indian citizens, living in the Gulf region.
Sayeed recalled that since day one India has supported Palestinian cause and their right to statehood. For decades after Israel came into existence, India did not allow it to open its Embassy in New Delhi. India was one of the first countries outside the Arab world to support the Palestinian cause and had boycotted Israel till 1980s. It now, however, enjoys strong strategic and business relations with Israel too, although it maintains to support the Palestine’s right to freedom.
The statement stated that this is the third Israeli war on the people of Gaza Strip since 2006 when it started its illegal blockade after Hamas came to power through a fair election. It is believed that the Israeli onslaught is the reaction to thwart the unity effort between Fatah and Hamas.