The Star Early Edition

Hang your heads in shame: India, Israel

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I WILL laugh hysterical­ly when all this is over.

I will laugh from the Riet River to the waters on the other side of the Bluff when Hindutva and Zionist supporters hang their heads in shame as the world finally recognises that the awful, selfish paths India and Israel’s government­s took were bound to lead to eventual disaster for both their very similar ideologies.

Hang the tales of the Moghuls! Their bodies disintegra­ted aeons ago! Myths of an imagined era. Unproven sagas. Highlighti­ng nothing that is genuinely useful or relevant for the present. Who cares for the shenanigan­s of the (Indian political parties) Congress (past present, future!) or BJP (whose demise only is a 100% certainty, among all the infinite uncertaint­ies outlined by Heisenberg), when the original Indian Constituti­on that once proclaimed citizenshi­p and equal rights to all minorities is being burnt alive in the crematoriu­m of injustice?

The same theme for Israel. Hanging in there with their flimsy, unhistoric­al tales of the exodus into never-never land. Reclassify­ing modern times by rewriting biblical history with a forked pen. Advertisin­g democracy that separates races! That prevents marriage across colour lines? That builds a fabled utopia in the once-dry desert, but only for privileged Zionists who feel they fell from heaven?

A joke of a democracy, too, in the UD, which now festers away, with more and more states of disunity? Where a few bad men rule the roost and keep the majority of the population poor? Exactly like the big boys in New Delhi. One (Indian businessma­n Mukesh) Ambani does not give employment to 60% of youth unemployme­nt. Oh, you lovers of Modiji (Indian PM Narendra Modi) and (Benjamin) Netanyahu! Look to the able parable of Ozymandias ... and start weeping! It could help the soul!

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