Samajvadi Love for Israel

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Samajvadi Love for Israel

The Yadav family needs to be tutored about the history of Zionism and the creation of the Zionist state of Israel in the Arab land of Palestine by force and fraud. With the active patronage of the imperialist powers Israel has been keeping the pre-1967 Palestinian territories plus the Golan Heights of Syria under its permanent military occupation and gradually implementing its hidden strategy of colonizing the whole of Palestine.

We cannot ignore the national right of the Palestinians to their own homeland and return of the refugees of 1948 and 1967 to their original homes. We are not against Jews or Israel. But economic and strategic relations with Israel must wait till the national rights of the Palestinians are restored.

The policy of the Government of India towards deepening economic and strategic cooperation with Israel an offshoot of its special relationship with the US ever since the days of the NDA regime. This policy bolsters the de facto annexation of the Palestinian territories and confirms US hegemony in this part of the world. 

Hope the Yadav clan will reconsider their moves towards Israel which is not the sole source of technical and commercial cooperation for the mighty state of Uttar Pradesh. There's no dearth of countries which can invest in and provide technical and economic aid to the state.

If they tilt towards American-Israeli imperialism it will be presumed that their samajvad is but sham and merely an ideological camouflage. It will be greatly disappointing to the peace-loving people of India who cannot wash their hands of Palestinians.

Mohammed Mahmood

Aligarh

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Subject: [AligarhNetwork] UP plans project tie-ups Shivpal breaks SP ‘code’ to visit Israel,

 

Defying the unwritten political convention of parties wearing their “secular” credentials on their sleeves particularly on the matter of Israel, senior Samajwadi Party leader and Uttar Pradesh Irrigation Minister Shivpal Yadav recently made a three-day visit to the country.

Next on the cards are two centres of excellence for fruits and vegetables in Uttar Pradesh under an Indo-Israeli project being administered by the Centre. One of these will come up at Kannauj, the Lok Sabha constituency of SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav’s daughter-in-law Dimple Yadav.

The SP has never shied away from voicing its sentiments in support of the Palestinian cause. In 2006, the party had even demanded that the Israeli embassy in New Delhi be shut down in the wake of Tel Aviv’s airstrikes against Palestine and Lebanon.

SP general secretary Mohan Singh said on Monday that Shivpal Yadav’s Israel visit was only to scout for the best irrigation technologies for the state, and was linked to his portfolio. The party, Singh said, would always support the Palestinian cause.

“Several times our party has passed resolutions in support (of Palestine). We continue to maintain our support,” Singh said.

Confirming that talks were on with Israel for the centres coming up in Uttar Pradesh, O N Singh, mission director of the state horticulture mission, told The Indian Express: “We have already had a first round of discussions with representatives from Israel regarding these centres under the Indo-Israeli cooperation programme. While land is already available for another centre proposed at Basti, we need to acquire six hectares in Kannauj as we have only about four hectares available with us so far.”

The SP’s move is a change to say the least from the usual tendency of political parties to raise the Israel bogey to underline their “secular credentials”. Even Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi had succumbed to the temptation, ridiculing the poll promise by some BJP leaders to bring drip irrigation technology from Israel to water-scarce Bundelkhand.

The SP is confident Shivpal Yadav’s trip will not hurt its pro-Muslim image. “He had not gone to Israel on a religious or political tour. It was a visit to understand practices in the field of water resources and irrigation management in Israel, which are supposed to be the best in this sector. This is not going to affect Muslim support to the SP at all. The Muslims of this country are well aware of the SP’s secular beliefs and Mulayam’s secular credentials and the SP, in turn, is always working to address issues of their interests,” the SP Uttar Pradesh unit spokesperson, Rajendra Chaudhary, said.

State government sources said Israeli representatives working in the irrigation sector had called on Shivpal Yadav and urged him to visit the country to know more about the technologies being used there and their potential for UP. The efficiency of water use in irrigation in the state is considerably low.

“We are exploring various professional and technological options to improve the state’s irrigation system, water conservation and water recycling. Firms in Israel, in particular, possess world’s best technology in this sector. So we took a visit to understand the practices and technologies there,” Deepak Singhal, Principal Secretary, UP Irrigation Department, who accompanied Shivpal Yadav on his visit to Israel, said.

Tariq Umar Farooqui

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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