It is not the age of genocide, and yet...

That apathy and inaction can make for deadly weapons is horribly evident by the free pass Israel has received from the international community, India included, to continue with their genocidal land-clearing mission in Gaza. While administrations argue over what constitutes 'genocide' and the extent to which 'antisemitism' can be extended to cover any critique of the Israeli state, famine conditions in Gaza have deepened, with at least 18 people dying of hunger over the weekend. Israeli military operations, which have killed at least 115 Palestinians, and wounded more than 200 people as children are dying of state-imposed starvation, has reached Biblical proportions.

The failure of geopolitics to intervene and make the Benjamin Netanyahu regime cease its mission of Lebensraum is proof of the triumph of realpolitik over basic human empathy. Netanyahu's mission to oust Palestinians from Gaza is a Herodian massacre of the innocents, where starving people by cutting off aid, including baby food, is part of 'strong state' tactics of 'burning down the forest to flush out bandits'. The strategy to make for 'living space' is strikingly familiar. Descendants of European Jews are now perpetrating it on Israel's Palestinians, making it a psychopathological act by which victims have given themselves a licence to become perpetrators of the same crimes committed on them.

Agencies like UN seem defunct, while powers like the US and China are keener to leverage a tragedy than to end it. India, if it wants to stand up and be counted for the right thing, must intervene - pick up the phone and speak to 'friendly' Tel Aviv, if need be. It is not the age of war, yet wars are happening. It is certainly not the age of genocide and holocaust, and yet...