As the death toll in Israel reaches 1000 at the time of penning this article, I am apprehensive that the figure of fatalities will only increase in the days and weeks ahead, taking into account the unprecedented magnitude of terror unleashed by the Hamas terrorists across the length and breadth of Israel, besides the gory picture that is being unfolded especially in the southern part, where unknown number of Israeli citizens have been taken hostage by the Hamas terrorists that have vowed to kill Israeli citizens in their captivity, besides those that have been dragged away to Gaza and elsewhere which are supposed to be their strongholds.
As per media reports, Hamas spokesperson Abu Ubaida issued the threat to kill Israelis from the dozens held captive by the armed group. He said an Israeli hostage would be killed for every Israeli bombing of a civilian house without warning.
Are the Hamas terrorists unaware of the consequences? Absolutely not. This unprecedented act of terror was well planned in coordination with multiple foreign forces with vested interests for months, if not years, and make no mistake, handling of the post-massacre situation has been planned meticulously too.
This is not only an unprecedented situation ongoing but a prevailing sense of absolute insecurity all across Israel as no one seems to have any clue on the actual number of foreign terrorists roaming at large, their positions and the number of Israeli citizens and expatriates under their captivity. Emerging news reports also suggest that an unspecified number of terrorists from Lebanon have intruded into the Israeli hinterland. This certainly increases the danger level for all residing in Israel by manifolds.
Before presenting a synopsis of the current crisis of unimaginable expanse, it is imperative to dig the history in order to not only destroy the disinformation campaign by vested interests on Israel’s creation but also to bring to the fore the truth.
As per the Office of the Historian of the United States of America, the creation of Israel formally took place on May 14, 1948. On that day, David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel. US President Harry S Truman recognised the new nation on the same day.
Although the United States supported the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which favoured the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had assured the Arabs in 1945 that the United States would not intervene without consulting both the Jews and the Arabs in that region.
The British, who held a colonial mandate for Palestine until May 1948, opposed both the creation of a Jewish state and an Arab state in Palestine as well as unlimited immigration of Jewish refugees to the region. Great Britain wanted to preserve good relations with the Arabs to protect its vital political and economic interests in Palestine.
Soon after President Truman took office, he appointed several experts to study the Palestinian issue. In the summer of 1946, Truman established a special cabinet committee under the chairmanship of Dr Henry F. Grady, an Assistant Secretary of State, who entered into negotiations with a parallel British committee to discuss the future of Palestine. In May 1946, Truman announced his approval of a recommendation to admit 100,000 displaced persons into Palestine and in October publicly declared his support for the creation of a Jewish state. Throughout 1947, the United Nations Special Commission on Palestine examined the Palestinian question and recommended the partition of Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state.
On November 29, 1947, the United Nations adopted Resolution 181 (also known as the Partition Resolution) that would divide Great Britain’s former Palestinian mandate into Jewish and Arab states in May 1948 when the British mandate was scheduled to end. Under the resolution, the area of religious significance surrounding Jerusalem would remain a corpus separatum under international control administered by the United Nations.
Although the United States backed Resolution 181, the US Department of State recommended the creation of a United Nations trusteeship with limits on Jewish immigration and a division of Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab provinces but not states.
The State Department, concerned about the possibility of an increasing Soviet role in the Arab world and the potential for restriction by Arab oil-producing nations of oil supplies to the United States, advised against U.S. intervention on behalf of the Jews. Later, as the date for British departure from Palestine drew near, the Department of State grew concerned about the possibility of an all-out war in Palestine as Arab states threatened to attack almost as soon as the UN passed the partition resolution.
Despite the growing conflict between Palestinian Arabs and Palestinian Jews and the Department of State’s endorsement of a trusteeship, Truman ultimately decided to recognise the state of Israel.
The Arab-Israeli War of 1948
The Arab-Israeli War of 1948 broke out when five Arab nations invaded territory in the former Palestinian mandate immediately following the announcement of the independence of the state of Israel on May 14, 1948. In 1947, and again on May 14, 1948, the United States had offered de facto recognition of the Israeli Provisional Government, but during the war, the United States maintained an arms embargo against all belligerents.
On November 29, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 181 (also known as the Partition Resolution) that would divide Great Britain’s former Palestinian mandate into Jewish and Arab states in May 1948. Under the resolution, the area of religious significance surrounding Jerusalem would remain under international control administered by the United Nations. The Palestinian Arabs refused to recognise this arrangement, which they regarded as favourable to the Jews and unfair to the Arab population that would remain in Jewish territory under the partition.
The United States sought a middle way by supporting the United Nations resolution but also encouraging negotiations between Arabs and Jews in the Middle East. The United Nations resolution sparked conflict between Jewish and Arab groups within Palestine. Fighting began with attacks by irregular bands of Palestinian Arabs attached to local units of the Arab Liberation Army composed of volunteers from Palestine and neighbouring Arab countries. These groups launched their attacks against Jewish cities, settlements, and armed forces.
The Jewish forces were composed of the Haganah, the underground militia of the Jewish community in Palestine, and two small irregular groups, the Irgun, and LEHI. The goal of the Arabs was initially to block the Partition Resolution and to prevent the establishment of the Jewish state. The Jews, on the other hand, hoped to gain control over the territory allotted to them under the Partition Plan.
After Israel declared its independence on May 14, 1948, the fighting intensified with other Arab forces joining the Palestinian Arabs in attacking territory in the former Palestinian mandate. On the eve of May 14, the Arabs launched an air attack on Tel Aviv, which the Israelis resisted. This action was followed by the invasion of the former Palestinian mandate by Arab armies from Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Egypt. Saudi Arabia sent a formation that fought under the Egyptian command.
British trained forces from Transjordan eventually intervened in the conflict, but only in areas that had been designated as part of the Arab state under the United Nations Partition Plan and the corpus separatum of Jerusalem. After tense early fighting, Israeli forces, now under joint command, were able to gain the offensive.
Though the United Nations brokered two ceasefires during the conflict, fighting continued into 1949. Israel and the Arab states did not reach any formal armistice agreements until February. Under separate agreements between Israel and the neighbouring states of Egypt, Lebanon, Transjordan, and Syria, these bordering nations agreed to formal armistice lines. Israel gained some territory formerly granted to Palestinian Arabs under the United Nations resolution in 1947.
Egypt and Jordan retained control over the Gaza Strip and the West Bank respectively. These armistice lines were held until 1967. The United States did not become directly involved with the armistice negotiations but hoped that instability in the Middle East would not interfere with the international balance of power between the Soviet Union and the United States.
If one chooses to browse history with neutrality and wisdom, one is expected to find absolutely no fault on Israel’s part that religiously followed every directive of the UN resolution, very much unlike Pakistan in South Asia that daringly and entirely defied the UN Security Council Resolution Number 47 of 1948 to vacate their forcefully occupied portion of Jammu and Kashmir.
Continuation of Armed Conflict Between Israel and the Arabs
The Arab-Israeli War of 1973
As per the Office of The Historian of the United States of America — “On October 6, 1973, Egypt and Syria launched a coordinated surprise attack on Israeli forces in the Sinai and the Golan Heights. Israel ultimately repelled the attack and regained lost ground, but only after the United States made the decision to supply the Israeli military. This war ultimately compelled the Nixon administration to step up its efforts to settle the decades-old dispute.
Following the end of the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, the United States Government worked toward implementing United Nations Resolution 242 which required Israel and its Arab neighbours to conclude peace treaties in exchange for Israeli withdrawal from occupied territory. Initial efforts proved unsuccessful. The Jarring initiatives, begun in November 1967 to broker a peace agreement, collapsed in 1971. The Rogers Plan of 1969 called for a settlement requiring Israel to return to its pre-1967 international borders in return for Arab recognition of Israel. However, Israel and its Arab neighbours were unable to reach a compromise over the occupied territories.
With negotiations stalled, Egyptian and Syrian forces attacked Israeli forces on October 6, 1973, in the Sinai and the Golan Heights in an effort to regain territory they had lost during the 1967 war. These attacks occurred on the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur, and took Israeli forces by surprise as Israeli intelligence had failed to detect the months of secret preparations by Egypt and Syria.
During the first few days of the war, Egypt and Syria secured victories in the Sinai and the Golan. In the south, Egyptian forces crossed the Suez Canal and overran the Israeli military’s extensive fortifications, forcing the Israelis back. The Israelis did not fare better in the Golan Heights. Israeli positions in the eastern Golan fell to the advancing Syrian army. With a lack of tanks and manpower, Israeli troops had to withdraw from many positions in the southern sector of the Golan Heights.
By October 9, Israeli forces were able to contain the threat on both fronts. Because Egypt had consolidated its positions in Western Sinai instead of assisting the Syrians to the east, the Israelis used more of their resources against the Syrian forces in the Golan. Once Syria was put on the defensive, Israel could concentrate more of its forces in the Sinai. Despite these successes, Israel could not take the offensive without the certainty of an adequate supply of military equipment.
In response to Israeli losses and encouraged by Soviet support of Egypt and Syria, the United States, after much deliberation, decided to intervene on behalf of Israel. The United States offered Israel a full-scale airlift of military equipment on October 10. This US assistance served to replenish Israeli forces and Israel launched an offensive that retook most of its territorial losses and even gained some ground against both the Egyptians and Syrians. Arab members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries responded to the US airlift by organising an oil embargo against the United States.
Israel’s refusal to stop fighting after a United Nations ceasefire was in place on October 22 nearly involved the Soviet Union in a military confrontation. On October 25 and 26, the Soviet Union threatened to send troops into Egypt to save the Egyptian Third Army from Israeli encirclement. The United States went on nuclear alert and, fearing that the situation might escalate into global conflict, applied pressure on Israel to obey the ceasefire.
The Arab-Israeli War of 1973 ended the stalemate in peace negotiations that had existed prior to the war.
Following the military confrontation against Syria and Egypt, Israel was more amenable to a peace settlement. The United States also began to re-examine its policy in the Middle East when it faced the Arab oil embargo at the end of the war. Settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict became a top priority for the United States, and US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger embarked on a negotiation mission that became known as ‘shuttle diplomacy’. Although he did not succeed in ending the Arab-Israeli conflict, he did achieve two disengagement agreements signed between Israel and Egypt in January 1974 and September 1975 and a similar agreement between Israel and Syria in May 1994.”
Arab Spring
The Arab Spring (Arabic: الربيع العربي, romanized: ar-rabīʻ al-ʻarabī) or the First Arab Spring was a series of anti-government protests, uprisings and armed rebellions that spread across much of the Arab world in the early 2010s. It began in Tunisia in response to corruption and economic stagnation.
From Tunisia, the protests then spread to five other countries: Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Syria and Bahrain.
Period of Occurrence
17 December 2010-December 2012.
“The Arab Spring is the death certificate of Arab nationalism as we knew it in the Levant, and the rise of more dictatorship-like regimes,” Ehud Yaari, Israeli political commentator and analyst commented via media.
The War that began on October 7, 2023
As the Israelis were merrily wrapping up the seven-day-long Jewish festival of Sukkot on October 7, 2023, a full-fledged surprise attack was being waged from the air, sea and ground by a swarm of Hamas terrorists. This surprise attack caught the 3000-plus strong and spirited global crowd that attended the Supernova festival, a trance music festival celebrating “friends, love, and infinite freedom”. The festival site was in the Negev desert, near Kibbutz Re’im, located in southern Israel, and had three stages, a camping area and bar and food area.
It was only a few kilometres away from the Gaza Strip, from where the Hamas’ specialised armed terrorist wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, crossed over to Israel at dawn via paramotors, also known as Powered Paragliders or PPGs, that combine the easy flying characteristics of a paraglider wing with the autonomy and range of powered flight, post firing more than 5000 rockets that apparently handicapped the most advanced Iron Dome Israeli mobile all-weather air defence system developed by Rafael Advanced Defence Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries and launched their barbaric attack of unbelievable magnitude.
They infiltrated towns and villages, taking an unknown number of people hostage. At the same time, hundreds of armed terrorists, many on motorcycles, followed bulldozers that breached fences separating Israel from Gaza and charged into cities, taking Israeli soldiers off guard and gunning down civilians, abducting soldiers.
While the actual numbers and positions of the intruded Hamas terrorists are still unknown in all practicalities, horrific images and reports of mass slaughtering and beheading, posts beyond barbaric torture are emerging endlessly. This includes the killing of a German young woman who was picked up from the festival spot, her limbs were broken and her naked body was displayed in public as the Hamas terrorists sat and spat on the naked corpse aboard an open mini truck and roamed around with religious war cries. The beyond barbaric killing spree of the Hamas terrorists did not end there. They also went ahead with the most gruesome killing of 40 babies and women, many among them were beheaded. Another young woman was abducted on a motorcycle and her boyfriend was tortured.
As stated already, the bigger threat looms large with many media reports suggesting that the Lebanese terrorists have also made inways into Israel and their actual locations or numbers too are unknown.
The Israeli authorities advised its citizens on Tuesday to store enough food items for the next 72 hours along with other necessary items like flashlights etc. With the Issuance of this advisory, the supermarket shelves wore a deserted look as the civilians rushed to stockpile necessary items.
While penning this synopsis of mine, I came across a post by an eminent Israeli media personality Hananya Naftali on his X handle sharing urgent advisory from the Israeli government.
The Advisory states: Within the next few hours, Hamas terrorists are expected to disseminate photos and videos of hostages and acts of torture across social media platforms. The Government of Israel urgently requests the following actions be taken.
- Do not engage in sharing these images or videos under any circumstances. Doing so contributes to psychological warfare against both the State of Israel and its citizens.
- Shield minors from exposure to this disturbing content. The images and videos are highly graphic and could induce significant emotional distress.
The Israeli authorities asserted that the cooperation of all law abiders in adhering to these directives is critically important.
Back to the synopsis
Probable causes that inflicted a breakdown of the most robust intelligence apparatus in both its human intelligence and Artificial Intelligence segments:
- Israel’s internal political turmoil- While espionage by double agents from any nation’s intelligence units is a regular feature worldwide, this is minimal, if not nil, as far as a cohesive, uncompromising and nationalistic Israel is concerned, that has been and is existing, despite facing unabated inhumane Islamist terrorism 24/7, 365 days since its inception, in all practicalities.
- Too much attention on the prospect of the Saudi Arabia-Israel relationship.
- Israel’s dependence on America on reining in Iran.
- The low profile maintained by the Palestinian leadership alongside Hamas and its armed wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, that launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood from multiple entry points on the pretext of “desecration” of Al Aqsa Mosque owing to the visit to the Temple Mount by a minister in Netanyahu’s cabinet, claimed to be one of the three holiest shrines in Islam.
Al Aqsa mosque is a couple of hundred yards from the Dome of the Rock. Both are situated in a leafy site atop the Temple Mount. Non-Muslims cannot enter the Dome or the mosque but can wander around the Temple Mount site outside the buildings. There are strict opening hours for visiting the Mount.
Israeli tourists reportedly have also paid visits to the site over the recent Sukkot holiday. However, these visits were reportedly considered as a provocation by the Palestinian leadership – both in the West Bank and Gaza.
The irony is, as per the norms, while non-Muslims are sadly not allowed to get inside the Dome of the Rock, or the Al Aqsa Mosque, anyone can visit the Temple Mount complex. Thus, such claims by the Hamas terrorists are not only self-contradictory but also decimate their argument. Pertinently, such myopic and intolerant, unacceptable regulations on religious lines also justifiably revalidate or provide an opportunity, at least to revalidate radical Islam’s religious bigotry.
After all, all places of worship must wholeheartedly be embracing all believers, irrespective of their religious beliefs or tourists. This precisely is the reason why a believer of Islam and a celebrity like Shah Rukh Khan paid multiple visits to the Holy Vaishno Devi Temple, one of the holiest shrines in the Hindu faith and Amitabh Bachchan, Kajol and Ajay Devgn, Sonu Sood et al pay visits to the Holy Ajmer Sharif Dargah.
Hamas’ claim that these visits have led to the desecration of the Al-Aqsa site, was thus a brazen attempt, pre-planned, to justify their beyond barbaric acts inside Israel from October 7, 2023, onwards by its armed unit the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades that reportedly have been training in Gaza since the last conflict in 2021, on occasion conducting drills in plain sight. The exercises involved building a mock Israeli settlement to practice a military landing and training to storm it, as per the statements made to the media by sources close to Hamas. Videos of their training have also been widely published in electronic media.
Three specialised armed units of the Hamas terrorists launched the operation Al Qasa Flood inside Israel on October 7, 2023.
Missile Unit: Launched over 5000 rockets in two phases early in the morning, approximately at 0630 hours Israeli local time.
Airborne Unit: Wearing badges carrying the name Air Force Falcon Squadron, the Hamas’ specialised armed terrorists crossed over to Israel from their bases at dawn via paramotors, also known as Powered Paragliders or PPGs, that combine the easy flying characteristics of a paraglider wing with the autonomy and range of powered flight.
Elite Commando Unit: An estimated 400 or more strong group of terrorists that broke through the fortified Gaza fence using explosives to open up gaps so they could infiltrate to the Israeli side. After some crossed on motorcycles, bulldozers were used to widen the holes so teams could enter Israeli territory in four-wheel drive vehicles as per the media reports.
The commandoes attacked the first Israeli defence lines, raided the sleeping quarters of soldiers and seized bases and the headquarters of Israel’s military operation for southern Gaza, the media reports suggested.
Probable Factors behind this professional military scale blitzkrieg by the ill-equipped terror outfit
- Assassination of Iran’s nuclear scientist suspected to be a handiwork of Israel
The assassination of Iran’s topmost nuclear physicist and scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh on November 27, 2020, at Absard, Damavand, Iran, approximately 60 kilometres away from the Iranian capital, Tehran is suspected by Iran as a handiwork of Israel, by using a remote-controlled machine gun, operated through satellite with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI), considered to have inflicted a major blow to its nuclear programme. Iran has vowed to avenge the killing.
In this context, without validating the Iranian leadership’s narrative, which absolutely has no credibility sans any form of evidence, it is of pertinence to recollect my earlier opinion on the near future warfare being dominated by Directed Energy Weapons that act in synergy with Artificial Intelligence.
A directed-energy weapon is a ranged weapon that damages its target with highly focused energy without a solid projectile, including lasers, microwaves, particle beams, and sound beams. Potential applications of this technology include weapons that target personnel, missiles, vehicles, and optical devices.
- Positive Start to Saudi Arabia-Israel relationship
The State of Israel and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have never had formal diplomatic relations. In 1947, Saudi Arabia voted against the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine, and did not recognise Israeli sovereignty. Thus the prospects related to ushering in a new era would be an unprecedented and delightful development, especially for the West. The first meeting, completely secret and denied by the Saudi foreign minister, between Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, took place in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia sometime in November 2020 when the Israeli PM flew to Saudi Arabia.
September 2023 saw further rays of hope as leaders of the Palestinian Authority held talks with Saudi officials in Riyadh to lay out their demands for a possible deal involving the US, Saudi Arabia and Israel. A global media house claimed to have learned that these included a cash boost of hundreds of millions of dollars and more control of land in the occupied West Bank. But at the same time, in exchange for normalising ties with Israel, Saudi Arabia, which positions itself as a leader in the Middle East and the Islamic world, asked for major military support from the US, cooperation in establishing its own civilian nuclear programme, and significant Israeli concessions to the Palestinian, as per the media reports.
If everything goes well, then the Iran-Saudi Arabia deal would be marred where Chinese interest is of paramount importance as some Chinese experts on the Middle East predicate, the agreement demonstrates China’s role as a promoter of security and stability in the Middle East, a partner of development and prosperity, and a promoter of unity and self-improvement. Essentially, it demonstrates China’s responsibility as a powerful country, a research-based study reported.
The leaders of India, Saudi Arabia, the European Union and the United States launched the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor to facilitate the flow of commerce, energy and data from India across West Asia to Europe at the New Delhi G20 summit. The move was opposed by China which saw it as a direct threat to its own ambitious Belt and Road Initiative. This unexpected and undeniable supremacy of Indian diplomacy has, for certain, jolted the Chinese Communist Party led by Xi Jinping and thus the involvement of Chinese hands, that stretch across the globe, gains significant relevance in sponsoring the October 7, 2023 massacre in Israel in their frustration and intolerant hegemony induced intolerance to attempt to deter India, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Western World from making any further progress on the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor.
In my assessment, no one should be surprised if investigations by Israel at a later point in time reveal that their various Electronic Intelligence Apparatus were hacked by the Chinese, which could have resulted in the breakdown of Israel’s unparalleled Iron Dome Missile Interception Mechanism.
- Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to the Jailed Iranian Activist
Iran has been globally embarrassed with its religious bigotry-induced merciless tortures and killing of its own women citizenry and a Nobel Peace Prize accorded to one of the frontline fighters, Narges Mohammadi against the forceful wearing of the hijab, a dissenting voice that at present is languishing in jail, would appear as nothing else but a tight slap on Iranian regime at the global stage.
Such is the dominance of religious bigotry in Iran that it is not clear whether Mohammadi knows about winning the award. Her friends and family told the media that those detained in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison are not allowed to receive calls on Thursdays and Fridays.
Such religious myopia-induced ill governance is revalidated by Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody in Iran. Amini, a Kurdish-Iranian woman, died three days after she was arrested by the morality police, allegedly for violating the laws that require women to cover their hair in public.
- Supply of Weapons and Incursion Training Provider
While at some quarters it is being discussed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has smuggled NATO weapons via the black market to the Hamas terrorists after NATO arms were found to have been used by Hamas in Israel, in my assessment, Pakistan, the courier that the NATO has preferred in silence under its sole custodian America, with Joe Biden government at the helm, to transport the NATO arms and ammunitions to Ukraine, could be the major player that utilised this opportunity as part of their leverage extended by the Joe Biden administration to ferry the NATO arms and ammunitions to the Hamas terrorists via the Arab world, in specific Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkiye, Jordan and/or Lebanon.
Any one or more than one country, apparently avoidable in favour of the shortest surface movement route, but might have been used only to distract Mossad’s sharp eyes of surveillance.
Notably, both Pakistan and Iran have very recently displayed intent to improve their bilateral relations with a 5-year trade cooperation plan. China, like Iran and Pakistan, has been fuming in all practicalities on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Israel’s developing relationships, under the intent and supervision of America and might have played a key role in sponsoring this pogrom, with the active assistance of the ISI and Special Service Group (SSG) of Pakistan Army for training the Hamas terrorists. The word ‘Falcon’ used on the badges of the Hamas airborne unit could just be a hint that the ISI and SSG of the Pakistan Army could not resist their restlessness to insert a signature in this beyond barbaric-terror mission unleashed against a historically civil Israel. Pakistan is an undisputed leader in the world of Falcon trafficking.
The role of America under the Joe Biden administration in my opinion is the epitome of irresponsibility, that wanted to kill many birds with one stone. While the Joe Biden administration and its horrendously incapable diplomats and bureaucrats repeated the mistake of controlling South Asia and India by arming established terror state Pakistan, it also thought that India would be compelled to adhere to its directives in confronting China. Little would such an inane think tank care to dissect its consequences and that is how today America has no other option than to be actively involved in this mass destruction of unprecedented magnitude in Israel and drag the Western world too.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has sought a significant amount of “concessions” on Palestine from the Israelis that obviously would be unacceptable to Israel. If America did not envisage such demands from the Saudis en route, well in advance, then it should hang its head in shame in public.
The Israeli prime minister has vowed to change the geography of the Middle East for reasons irrefutable. And America and its allies have to obey it too. All sane leaderships outside NATO have to support Israel unequivocally too on humanitarian grounds alone.
As for India, no one should remain under an iota of doubt that with a successful terror mission of this unprecedented magnitude, that was capable of penetrating the world’s most robust defence mechanism and intel apparatus, the hugely inspired ISI, SSG and its plain clothed mercenaries would by now be finalising a massive terror strike inside India at a convenient time of theirs, that could be launched simultaneously or sequentially across our nation. India must learn from the ongoing barbaric massacre in Israel, terminate with immediate effect the inane ceasefire military diplomacy, and prepare its tri forces and special forces suitable for appropriate action, pre-emptive than retaliatory, not only along the IB and LoC but also pan India on war footing.
Pre-emptive actions to decimate the terror infrastructure in PoK, hitting ISI headquarters, SSG Ghazi base, and GHQ Rawalpindi are the needs of the minute, instead of propagating hallucinations like “PoK will reunite with India on its own”.
Make no mistake that America has further jeopardised the already volatile geopolitical conditions around the world by three successive blunders, namely Afghanistan, Ukraine and Israel. India must develop and implement its own aggressive military strategies and postures, including urgent change in our nuclear doctrine, regardless of global opinion. It is a food for thought, especially for our armed forces.
Finally, no Indian revolutionary, including the legendary Subhas Bose who built its own Army unit INA and Bhagat Singh, ever came close to any British child or woman, let alone touching them or taking them hostage. Hamas terrorists that have taken natives and foreign nationals as hostages for burning alive, torturing with other beyond barbaric methods, raping and killing, including the beheading of women and babies can never be shielded as “revolutionaries” by their foot soldiers within the so-called “intelligentsia” globally.
India and Israel, which have been and are eternal victims of Islamist terror, need to decimate such unchangeable enemies. Else India and Israel will be plunging into an existential crisis. Such fight of ours and Israel’s is not against any religion or the sane people of different religious faiths. This fight of ours is against the unchangeable, merciless, beyond barbaric, medieval Islamist terrorists that neither believe in humanity nor give two hoots to war crimes. The other nations that still prefer appeasement before reality can only learn from India and Israel, not only for the safety and security of their own citizenry but also for the large number of sane, secular and erudite expatriates living in such countries that continue to significantly contribute to the growth of those economies with their pluralistic views, talent and tolerance.
Arya Ghosh is a National Safety, Security, Aviation and Avionics Analyst. Views expressed in the above piece are personal and solely that of the author. They do not necessarily reflect News18’s views.
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