Axis
Of
The
Apocalyptic
By Satya
Sagar
As old,
established
global
alliances
break
like
empty
beer
bottles
in a
Bombay
street
brawl-
the War
on
Terror
is
giving
birth to
a
strange
coalition
across
the
continents.
India-Israel-USA.
In their
own
words
they
call
themselves
a Triad
against
Terrorism.
In
reality
they are
nothing
more
than the
curious
progeny
of a
spurious
theory-
Samuel
Huntington’s
Clash of
Civilizations.
The
Hindus,
Jews and
Christians
versus
the
Moslems
of the
world
today
and the
Confucians
of China
tomorrow.
This is
nothing
less
than the
Axis of
the
Apocalyptic.
On May
8,
India’s
National
Security
Adviser
Brajesh
Mishra
formally
announced
its
arrival
at the
97th
annual
dinner
meeting
in
Washington
of the
American
Jewish
Committee,
an
out-and-out
Zionist
outfit.
To quote
Mishra
“ a
core,
consisting
of
democratic
societies”
must
emerge,
“which
can take
on
international
terrorism
in a
holistic
and
focused
manner
---- to
ensure
that
global
terrorism
is
pursued
to its
logical
conclusion”.
The
India-Israel-USA
triad
would
form the
core of
this
‘democratic’
alliance.
(He
could
have
added
that the
‘logical
conclusion’
will be
annihilation
of all
those
defined
as
‘terrorists’).
Topping
up his
irrational
exuberance
over the
viability
of this
axis
Mishra
went to
make a
startling
announcement.
Israeli
Prime
Minister
Ariel
Sharon
will
visit
India
sometime
in the
second
week of
June
this
year.
Before
we get
into
discussing
the life
expectancy
of this
newborn
creature
a little
bit of
background
first.
This is
an axis
that has
been in
the
making
for a
while
now ever
since
the
quasi-fascist
Hindu
chauvinists
came to
power in
India
a few
years
ago. The
Indian
loony
right
have
used
‘Islamic
terrorism’
as the
ostensible
excuse
for
their
assiduous
cultivation
of both
the
US
and
Israel
in
search
of
strategic
partnership.
But for
those
who know
them
well it
is also
obvious
they
harbor
grandiose
illusions
about
the
destiny
of the
nuclear-armed
‘Hindus’
becoming
a great
power in
global
affairs.
While
Israel
responded
warmly
to the
Indian
overtures
right
from the
start,
the
US
was
initially
indifferent.
It
already
had an
old and
trusted
slave in
South
Asia-
Pakistan-
the pet
hate
object
of the
Hindu
chauvinists-
and was
reluctant
to
retire
it
hastily.
The
events
of
September
11
however
have
seen the
US
do
precisely
that-
fire
Pakistan-
and
allow
India
to
qualify
for the
post of
Uncle
Sam’s
favorite
vassal
in the
region.
The
blooming
India-Israel
romance
has
merely
helped
seal
this
dubious
deal
between
three
very
different
countries.
For the
obvious
question
that
arises
is -
what do
the
world’s
only
hyper-power,
a nation
set up
by the
survivors
of the
Nazi
holocaust
and the
world’s
largest
producer
of
masala
movies-
really
have in
common ?
It seems,
their
interests
do
intersect
on
several
themes.
To begin
with-
they are
all
deeply
in love
with
Osama
Bin
Laden.
Seriously,
in Bin
Laden
all
three
governments
have
found
their
perfect
demon- a
demon
with
designer
horns.
He is
Muslim,
suitably
long-bearded,
a
religious
fanatic,
a
confirmed
terrorist
and
likes
living
in
caves.
Even
better
he pops
up once
in a
while on
our
television
screens
speaking
in a
strange
tongue.
Just
like the
odious
villain
in a
James
Bond
flick
threatening
to blow
up the
world if
not
allowed
to take
it over.
(Heck, I
thought
the
Talebs
prohibited
music,
dance
and
photography)
All of
which
makes it
easier
for the
regimes
that run
these
three
countries
to keep
their
citizens
perpetually
scared,
jack up
military
spending
and
justify
whatever
economic/social
policies
their
corporate
masters
want
them to
implement.
Secondly,
since
all
three
nations
pretend
to be
great
democracies
(the
messiest,
the
costliest
and the
loneliest)
the Bin
Laden
bogey
allows
them to
squash
every
semblance
of civil
and
political
rights
from the
lives of
their
citizens-
while
getting
extreme
right
wingers
re-elected
on
ultra-nationalist,
anti-terrorist
platforms.
At a
deeper
level
there is
another
interesting
commonality
emerging
between
these
three
countries.
The
power
elites
ruling
all of
them are
deeply
obsessed
with
manipulating
the
structures
of the
STATE.
The
Hindu
right
wing is
desperately
trying
to
capture
the
Indian
State
and
cleanse
it of
all the
secular,
pluralist,
democratic
elements
inherited
from the
Indian
struggle
against
British
colonialism
(a
struggle
to which
they
contributed
absolutely
nothing).
They
want to
redefine
what it
means to
be an
Indian
completely
in
‘Hindu’
terms
and
define
what it
means to
be a
Hindu
according
to the
Weltenschauung
of a
minority
upper-caste.
And all
this in
a
country
where
there
are
large
non-Hindu
minorities
present.
Sharon’s
‘Likud’ationists
are
ruthlessly
seeking
to
consolidate
and
expand
the
racist
Israeli
State
to
fulfill
an
ultra-nationalist
vision
of
lebensraum
for a
Greater
Israel.
The most
audacious
of all
manipulations
is of
course
the
attempt
by the
US
elites
to
breakdown
existing
international
structures
and
create a
completely
new
State-
at the
global
level.
A State
that
will
serve
their
interests
and
their
interests
alone.
The 100
year
American
Reich.
But is
that all
it is
about-
their
common
grounds
?
I wish
it were.
Really.
Quite
frighteningly,
all
three
regimes
are
today
run by
people
who will
not show
a
moment’s
hesitation
in using
weapons
of mass
destruction
against
anyone
they dub
their
‘enemy’.
The
repeated
pronouncements
in
recent
times by
the
United
States
that it
‘reserves
the
right’
to
exercise
the
nuclear
option,
even for
a first
strike,
is to be
taken
seriously.
Particularly
as it
comes
from a
nation
that is
the only
one on
this
planet
to have
ever
carried
out a
nuclear
attack
anywhere.
Israel,
the
middle-east’s
only
nuclear
power,
has also
repeatedly
threatened
there
will be
‘devastating
consequences’
for
countries
that
dare to
strike
Israel
even
with
conventional
weapons.
Surely a
clear
signal
of their
willingness
to use
WMDs.
The
Indian
Minister
of
Defense
George
‘loose
cannon’
Fernandes,
has in
the past
year
said
publicly
several
times
that if
there is
a
nuclear
exchange
between
India
and
Pakistan
‘ We
will
lose a
few
million
people
but
Pakistan
will be
wiped
out
completely’.
(I want
to know
the
names
and
addresses
of these
few
million
people
he is
willing
to
sacrifice)That
a senior
minister
of any
government
will
even
talk
about
such a
possibility
so
casually
shows
the
material
these
madmen
are made
of.
Wait, it
gets
worse.
What is
even
more
horrific
about
this
emerging
Axis of
the
Apocalyptic
is that
all of
them
today
harbor
elements
who
have
classic
Nazi-like
intentions
towards
Muslims
(in the
abstract).
In the
US
there
are
those
who talk
of
‘nuking
Mecca’
who are
dangerously
close to
the
powers-that-be.
In
Israel
the
extreme
rightwing
would
like to
ethnically
cleanse
the
West
Bank
and
Gaza
of its
Palestinian
people.
In
India
the
state
sponsored
pogrom
against
Muslims
in the
western
Indian
state of
Gujarat
two
years
ago
showed
the
world
the true
face of
Hindu
fascism.
Over
2000
Muslim
men,
women
and
children
were
systematically
killed
by Hindu
mobs
while
state
authorities
looked
on or
even
joined
in. A
clear
attempt
was made
by the
Hindu
fanatics
to push
the
entire
Muslim
community
out of
the
province
by
destroying
their
sources
of
income.
At the
national
level,
echoing
the
practices
of the
Nazis,
the
current
Indian
regime,
has
systematically
rewritten
history
text
books
and
cooked
up
archaeological
evidence
to suit
its
fanciful
theories
about
India’s
past,
persecuted
religious
minorities
and sent
storm
troopers
to
physically
intimidate
its
critics.
In fact,
talking
about
the
Nazis –
the
Rashtriya
Swayamsevak
Sangh (RSS),
a
militarist,
so
called
‘cultural’
organization,
which
mentored
many
senior
leaders
of the
current
Indian
government,
is a
vintage
fascist
organization.
The
Prime
Minister
Atal
Behari
Vajpayee,
considered
a
‘moderate
‘ (and
believe
me he
looks
like one
compared
to the
rest)
among
the
Hindu
Hawks,
has been
a
life-long
member
of the
RSS. And
I do not
use the
term
‘fascist’
as an
abuse
word (I
have
choicer
words
for that
purpose)
but to
refer
specifically
to the
political
ideology
spewed
up by
Mussolini
in Italy
of the
1920s
and
later
‘developed’
so
devastatingly
by Herr
Hitler
in
Germany.
But
there
will be
no irony
at all
when
Ariel
Sharon
shakes
hands
with his
Indian
counterpart
later
this
month.
Unfortunately,
the man
presiding
over a
nation
built to
say
Never
Again to
the Nazi
holocaust
(built
on
somebody
else’s
land of
course)
will be
very
comfortable
in bed
with
this
bunch of
Indian
Nazi-lovers.
Sharon’s
visit to
India
at this
juncture
will be
just one
more
episode
in the
relentless
realpolitik
of the
Zionists
that has
seen
Israel
transform
from a
land of
the 20th
Century’s
greatest
victims
to one
of its
most
reviled
oppressors.
India’s
Hindu
fundamentalists
too will
see no
contradiction
in
admiring
Hitler
and
Sharon
in the
same
breath.
With
their
paranoia
about
‘Muslim
terrorism’
and
their
own
vision
of a
Greater
India
the
proponents
of an
Indian
fascism
are
ardent
fans of
Sharon-
for his
willingness
to use
disproportionate
force to
put down
the
rebellious
Palestinians,
his
contempt
for both
international
and
human
rights
laws and
his
ability
to make
the
monkey
(s) in
the US
White
House
dance to
his
tune.
Coming
back to
how this
new Axis
is
likely
to fare
in the
future
it is
obvious
that
there
are
glaring
contradictions
within
its
fold.
Contradictions,
that
have
to do
with the
sheer
mismatch
in the
abilities
and
ambitions
of
India
and
Israel
on one
hand and
the
United
States
on the
other.
The
simple
fact is
that
while
India
and
Israel
delude
themselves
about
being
invited
to sup
with the
Superpower
for the
latter
they are
both a
highly
dispensable
duo.
Mere
client-states
to be
disposed
off with
when
their
utility
is over.
Israel,
as the
United
State’s
best
bulldog
in the
turbulent
Arab
world,
to keep
an eye
on those
precious
oil
reserves.
India
the
dumb,
short-sighted
elephant
to be
suckered
into
conflict
with the
Chinese
dragon
someday.
And both
to
seek,
hunt and
destroy
subversive
Muslim
militants
on
behalf
of Uncle
Sam. So,
on
closer
observation,
this
Axis of
the
Apocalyptic
turns to
be not a
single
creature
but a
strange
menagerie
of a
bulldog,
elephant
and the
man-eating
tiger
that the
US
has
currently
become.
A tiger
that has
always
had
permanent
interests,
never
permanent
friends.
Together
in the
short
run they
could be
a
terrifying
lot
indeed.
But if
the prey
turns
out to
be
tougher
to get
and the
hunt
gets
longer
than
planned
the
tiger
will
surely
not mind
supping
solo.
All
alone by
itself-
on
elephant
steak
and
bulldog
burger.
SHLURP !
BURP !
SHALOM !
NAMASTE!
Satya
Sagar is
an
Indian
journalist
based in
Thailand.
He can
be
reached
at
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