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Last week when I was coming back from the city with my father I witnessed a big procession in front of Secretariat. It was a procession organized against Israel for their assault on Gaza and against Indian government for their diplomatic ties with Israel. The protest march was organized by the student’s wing of the communist party here (a bunch of people who derives a strange pleasure in vandalism). Their demand, Israel should stop their attacks on Gaza strip (if they are listening) and India should snap the diplomatic ties with Israel. The newspapers from the day of the assault in Gaza are flooding with editorials condemning Israel’s actions. Some of them giving a strange one-sided view of the whole issue of middle east crisis (maintaining a strange silence about the heroic defence of Israel amongst Arab nations). But my topic is not the Middle East conflict as such. My topic is the double standards that the Marxist party and their cohorts are showing in reacting to tragedies. My regular readers are as I know least interested in politics but I request them to read this because this issue is very close to my heart.

I am not a fanatic. Neither is I a proponent of Hindutva theory. I believe Muslims are part of Indian Diaspora and they are indispensable to the overall prosperity of the nation. But I hate people who pamper them, those who in the name of uplifting them mislead them. The main culprit in this respect is CPM (as a matter of fact the state in which the condition of Muslims is worst in India is not Gujarat or UP, it is West Bengal where CPM has been ruling for 30 years). Whenever they bring in issues like Iran, Iraq or Palestine to the forefront of our society they forget serious issues like development and better job opportunities for the largest minority of the country.

Let me take the issues one by one. As we all know Iran is a country which has consistently supported Pakistan in Kashmir issue in world stages. What moral obligation does India have in supporting them? If it is strategic concern, India should be more worried than US in case Iran becomes a nuclear power.

The stand of CPM in Iraq issue is the most ludicrous one. They recently named a junction near my college ‘Shaheed Saddam Hussein junction’’ comfortably forgetting the 80000 Iraqi communists who were killed by Saddam (at the behest of CIA). How abominable it is to have a junction named after a tyrant amongst Mahatma Gandhi road and Azad road. They make a travesty of truth when they accuse only US for the stalemate in Iraq when they know very well that Saddam is equally responsible for all the bloodshed.

Then comes the funniest part of it all. The two gospels of communist parties across the world
1. Thou shall only condemn those who kill foreigners and keep silent about those who kill his subjects
2. Thou shall turn a blind eye on the crimes of the poor and speak aloud on the crimes of rich (special exemption for Faris Aboobaker and Santiago Martin who are party sympathisers) because Lord Marx have told only the Bourgeoisie can commit sin and the proletariat is always righteous.

CPM always condemns those imperialists who kill poor natives in their pursuit for power (with rare exceptions like the Chinese in Tibet and Russians in Afghanistan). Imperialism is bad and it should be condemned but what about tyrants who kill their own subjects (whom they have a moral obligation to protect). Why CPM does not speak out against the worst tyrants of last century like

Stalin (who killed around 4 million people and another 6 million as a result of famines caused due to collective farms which the party still claims is a one way ticket to prosperity). Thus making him worse than Hitler

Mao who killed more than Stalin and that too for keeping himself in power (not for ideology) in the name of Cultural Revolution. It should also be noted that he desecrated thousands of temples (in Tibet) and mosques (in Xinjiang). For all those who think CPM is committed to Babri Masjid issue please refer-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution_-_China#Destruction_of_antiques.2C_historical_sites_and_culture


Then there are the lesser known tyrants in Darfur (where Arab militia with government forces kills 2 lakh people annually, the most heinous genocide in recent times which China covertly supports by providing arms with an eye on Sudan’s rich oil reserves) are comfortably forgotten with an eye on vote bank. Are those dying in Africa not human beings? The answer is no for CPM because they are not killed by Americans. Innocents die only when Americans (the rich ones) or their friends kill. When Chinese or Russians or Land mafia in nandigram fire at human beings, they are killing terrorists or extremists.

Two interesting thoughts to end the topic
Israel provides the most sophisticated missiles and radars to India (better than those given to Pakistan by China) which helps guard our nation. Israel helped us setup the external intelligence agency RAW as answer to ISI which stopped a lot of terrorists attacks in India and engineered the Bangladesh war to our advantage. So India in no way can snap ties with Israel.

I did not see a single communist party march against Pakistan after 26/11. Is the blood of an Indian not precious?

To end this let me quote Obama the president elect of US when he was in Israel last year ‘’if somebody was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night, I am going to do everything in my power to stop that, I would expect the Israelis to do the same thing’’.