Another resolution

The Senate condemns Israel especially after Modi visits it 

The Senate resolution condemning Israel had a double timing. First was the fact that the resolution was passed just after the government had attended the inaugural meeting of the Gaza Board of Peace. Second. It came the day before Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi embarked on an official visit to Israel, including an address to the Knesset. It also condemned specifically attempts by India and Israel to form an anti- Muslim axis. Though there was no mention of it, the impending US attack on Iran was also at the back of Senators' minds.

It is worth noting that the actions it asked for were not going to happen any time soon. Like its call on the international community to stop supporting Israeli actions. Led by the USA, the international community is only too ready to let Israel get away with such actions as the recent genocide in the Gaza Strip. The call for the swift vacation of Israeli-occupied lands and a return to the pre-1967 borders is in accordance with Security Council resolutions, ones which Israel has been ignoring for the last half a century. Again, its impunity was because of US support. Therefore, within this context, its support is not ending anytime soon, and the joining of Pakistan of the Gaza Board does not seem to be serving any positive purpose. Because of this, the Senate resolution had better be seen as aimed at the Pakistan government, rather than at Israel. However, that merely means that it once again has identified the problem, which is Israel, without proposing a solution. It has refused to even name the USA, though even if it did, the only result would have been to make it give the USA loud explanations of how it wished to return relations with the USA to an even keel.

At this stage, all the government can do is avoid any actions that give aid and succor to the Israeli cause. However, the policy of support needs to be revisited, because it does not seem to have worked. During the Reagan years, it used to be said that the USA was willing to fight the USA down to the last Afghan. Is Pakistan now willing to fight Israel down to the last Palestinian? Is the Palestinian genocide being used as a means of getting into the USA’s good books? The government must ponder.