Sanjaya Baru |India Has Crucial Stake in West Asia Peace, Stability
Another conflict and another operation to evacuate Indians. The Sindhu operation was launched to bring home more than a thousand Indian students studying in Iran. Today, there are more than eight million people of Indian origin in an increasingly troubled West Asian region.
India’s shares in the peace and stability of the region go far beyond the security of Indians in the region. The Indian economy is critically dependent on oil and gas from the region to certain and uninterrupted access, and is due to 50 percent of India’s energy needs from the Hormuz Strait.
More than half of the $ 129 billion that came last year as foreign exchange transfers from eight million Indians living in the Gulf states. The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain have become the expanded branches of the Indian economy.
Beyond all these important economic and social concerns, it is the fact that India has a strategic share of geopolitical stability in the large neighborhood of India from the Mediterranean to the Malacca Strait.
Given these naked facts, the Narendra Modi government’s equation to the rapidly worsening situation in the region is not in its national interests. Since Israel supports India only in Sindoor operation, we cannot overlook long -term and larger strategic and national thoughts that shape India’s approach to West Asia and especially Iran. India’s policy of Pakistani cannot dictate its approach to Eurasia, as a whole to West Asia.
Sonia Gandhi, the leader of the Congress party, was successful in a well -prepared statement last week to be a well -prepared statement that should be an Indian view. The prime ministers, who followed each other from Jawaharlal to Narendra Modi, often referred to the Republic of India as the “civilization state ve and drew attention to their old roots spread to Asia.
As we know, Indian civilization has existed for thousands of years, such as China and Persian civilizations. Modern Iran is the heir of ancient civilization with all those who burn all religion. Israel was created for atonement for the civilizations of anti-Semitism, which reached its peak in Nazi Holocaust by the Western forces eighty years ago.
England and the United States, which interpreted the narratives in the Old Testament as historical reality, conspired to gain a Western basis in the Oil -rich West Asian region at the end of the Second World War. They created not only Israel, but also the various Arab forces around him. Nation states were created on paper and established with the power of the western arms. Of course, they need to live with history and one with existing facts.
What is the current reality? Under the leadership of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel has been transformed into a Zionist authoritarian state that creates a murder of thousands of innocent life from a modern Jewish majority democratic nation.
In this ongoing conflict, you have very little meaning to seek “original sinner .. Of course, Islamic radicalism has created an efficient ground for Zionism to legitimacy. Hamas’s Dastardly and its wild attack gave Israel the opportunity to react even more inhuman. It can go step by step to find out who is responsible for the situation. It can leave it for historians.
What is needed at this point is mental health and here and now commitment to peace. Washington, starting from DC, was found in many national capitals around the world when requested. Blood is a dehydrated Mr. Netanyahu, a capricious Donald Trump, Pusillanimous European leaders and insecure feudal Potentates caught between our Western neighborhood. In this political leadership gap, China and Russia entered to test their impact on various actors. What about India?
Sonia Gandhi was right to demand the expression of India’s voice. India has an impact on Tel Aviv/Jerusalem and many Arab capitals. Narendra Modi has a long history of good relations with Iran, which has recently been overshadowed by the preface of the Israeli actions.
If India continues to sit on the fence, China can reinforce its effect in the region well. When India refuses to stand up to be counted when it is important, it has no meaning to the loss of Indian influence later.
Observe the speed of China’s triple calls of Asian countries. First, there was China-Pakistan-Afghan trio; Then came a China-Pakistan-Bangladesh trio. Do not put China-Iran-Israel a triple attempt beyond Chinese diplomatic ability. This is something India should try. To do this requires the repair of fences with Iran and talking directly to Israel. All this was done by considering legitimate Indian interests.
Due to its strategic addiction to Russian weapons, the point where India is clearly stated in the Russian-Ukraine conflict. It is now a foreword on the Israeli-Iranian conflict because of an addiction similar to Israeli weapons. So, if the Indian leadership defines our relations with strategic autonomy and weapons, how can a strategic autonomy and independent foreign policy speak? These defense agreements cannot be made to identify India’s relations with other important countries, whether Russia, Israel or the USA. In any case, India has defense cooperation relations with Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain and UAE and Egyptian India is an important market for defense exports.
Even if Indian foreign policy should be defended in terms of external dependencies, it demands both national interests and values to express an Indian voice in the region.
In the new Delhi, domestic political and social thoughts should not be allowed to cloudy diplomatic and strategic thought.
Prime Minister Modi made a bold and logical decision not to fly to Washington DC in response to President Donald Trump’s Cavalier invitation. Modi raised India’s height while conveying his regrets. This brave diplomatic action should be followed by clearly expressing the Indian view of the West Asian conflict. India has always committed to what is called “two states” solution.
That the Palestinian state would be created and that the regions occupied by Israel have been restored to it. India may not be able to shape the course of events, but at least support one principle and stop in the neighborhood for a long time.
Sanjaya Baru is a writer and economist. The latest book is successful: Flight from New India
