‘India should play bigger role in Middle East’
September 22nd, 2010 - 11:26 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Sep 22 (IANS) India should play a bigger role in the Middle East Asia for a just peace for the Palestinians, activists at a conference on the troubled region said here Wednesday.
“Ironically, as India is becoming a greater geo-political player, it is suffering from geo-political laryngitis⦠It should be playing a bigger role,” said Richard Falk, Princeton University professor emeritus of international law.
He was speaking at a two-day conference on a “Just Peace for Palestine” that began here Wednesday.
According to Jawaharlal Nehru University’s Aijaz Ahmed, there has been a total u-turn in the thinking of the Indian security establishment.
“The whole mindset of Indian security establishment has changed a lot, becoming an admirer of Israel and its tactics,” he said, making a contrast from previous decades when the Indian polity was a vocal supporter of the Palestine freedom movement.
Ilan Pappe, professor of history at Exeter University said that the current international negotiations was not taking into aspect the historical injustice of the expelling of Palestinian people in 1948.
“If a case of murder is treated as a dispute between neighbours, then the peace will not be just. None of the solutions are going to work as they are ignoring what Israel has done and doing on the ground,” he said.
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